Deputy Director, Global Partnerships and Network

Job Description

350.org is looking for a Deputy Director, Global Partnerships and Network who will lead 350.org's global network strategy and manage a distributed team responsible for building powerful, politically effective networks of local groups, volunteers, and partners across regions.

350's mission is to keep carbon in our atmosphere to a safe level, below 350 parts per million. We do this by mobilizing ordinary people to campaign for universal access to clean energy and an end to fossil fuels. Our campaigns are rooted in local organizing, so that while achieving measurable reductions in fossil fuel emissions, we also build the power and potential of the climate movement for yet more impact to come. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

350.org is an equal opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We're committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work - including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.

About the Deputy Director, Global Partnerships and Network role

The Deputy Director, Partnerships and Networks leads 350.org's global network strategy and manages a distributed team responsible for building powerful, politically effective networks of local groups, volunteers, and partners across regions. The role is accountable for setting direction, driving delivery, and ensuring that partnerships and network-building work contributes directly to campaign outcomes, organisational priorities, and movement power.

This position ensures that strong systems, structures, and leadership are in place across regional networks so that teams can operate with clarity, cohesion, and accountability while adapting to local contexts. The Deputy Director, Partnerships and Networks is also a senior contributor to 350.org's broader campaigning strategy, bringing movement and network insight into organisational decision-making and ensuring that networks strengthen the organisation's work to phase out fossil fuels and accelerate a just energy transition.

The role has three core priorities: first, to lead and manage Regional Network Coordinators with clear expectations, strong coaching and rigorous accountability; second, to build the systems, processes and cross-regional ways of working required for healthy, resilient and strategically focused networks; and third, to act as the bridge between regional network organising and global strategy, ensuring that networks both shape and deliver 350.org's campaigns, partnerships and fundraising priorities.

Key Result Areas

• Campaign Strategy: Contribute to the design of winning global campaigns that break out of the climate "bubble" and engage and expand our global network
• Campaign and Program Delivery: Improve the quality, discipline and impact of network engagement plans so they are realistic, well-managed, delivered on time and within budget, and measured clearly in partnership with MEL.
• Global Network: Strengthen and steward a high-impact global network of local groups, volunteers and partners, and ensure it is effectively mobilised in cross-regional and international campaigns.
• Technology and Data: Strengthen a culture of data-informed decision-making, network health tracking and effective use of technology across the team.
• Partnerships: Build and steward strategic movement and programmatic partnerships that strengthen political impact, resource mobilisation and long-term collaboration.
• Spokesperson & Thought Leadership: Act as a senior external representative and spokesperson for 350.org, raising the organisation's profile with media, allies and funders through public speaking, relationship-building and strategic communications.

Responsibilities

Management and Leadership

• Lead, Line-manager and develop a strategic oversight to a team of Regional Network Coordinators, setting a high bar for performance, judgement and collaboration.
• Lead on our work and relationships with existing and new 350 affiliates which include strategic thinking and collaboration with high-level relationship management.
• Set clear goals, provide strong coaching, and hold staff accountable to ambitious and measurable outcomes.
• Build strong cross-regional collaboration and ensure lessons, tactics and political insight are shared across regions and with relevant teams.
• Ensure regional network work is fully aligned with 350.org's global strategy, campaign priorities and organisational standards.
• Guide Regional Network Coordinators in making sound strategic choices about partnerships, leadership development and engagement in key campaign moments.
• Oversee delivery of cross-country network mobilisation projects, ensuring clear ownership, disciplined follow-through and strong execution.

Network Development and Strategy

• Lead the development of network strategies for local groups, partners and volunteers that are tailored to context and linked to campaign outcomes.
• Ensure systems are in place to track, evaluate, and report on network health, volunteer engagement, and leadership development.
• Bring regional insight into global campaign and mobilisation planning, ensuring networks are not an afterthought but a core delivery mechanism.
• Strengthen pathways for recruiting, onboarding and developing volunteers and emerging leaders so networks become more durable and effective over time.
• Contribute to fundraising and donor engagement in collaboration with Fundraising staff, ensuring network strategy is well-articulated, credible and aligned with funder priorities.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships across movements and institutions, from frontline and Indigenous partners to senior external stakeholders, with sound political judgement and integrity.

Systems, Communications and Infrastructure

• Oversee use of CRM and digital tools for network development, ensuring data is consistent, accurate, and actionable.
• Ensure effective communication channels are in place between local groups, Network Coordinators, national organisers, and the global team.
• Develop and strengthen mechanisms for sharing learnings, best practices, and innovations across networks and with global teams.
• Ensure JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) principles are embedded into network organising, training, and campaigning.

Organisational and Team Initiatives

• Work with the Campaigns and Networks Director and other senior managers to ensure cross-team alignment.
• Represent 350.org in key internal and external spaces, bringing perspectives from regional networks.
• Contribute substantively to strategy development, organisational planning and global campaign design.
• Contribute to 350.org's mission outside standard responsibilities, when organisational needs require it.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• 8 -10+ years' senior-level experience in campaigning, organising, or movement-building, including management of staff across multiple countries or regions.
• 4+ year of managing diverse and remote teams
• Proven track record of building, strengthening, and scaling volunteer-led or grassroots networks in the majority world / Global South.
• Strong experience managing and coaching staff from diverse backgrounds.
• Experience in organising in the majority world.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement organising and campaigning strategies that deliver measurable impact.
• Knowledge and experience applying justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) principles in campaigning and organising contexts.
• Strong understanding of digital organising and CRM systems, with experience using data to inform strategy.
• Excellent project management, facilitation, communication, and intercultural skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and work independently in a remote, international team.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in additional languages strongly preferred

Desired (but not required) skills and experiences

• Experience working with 350.org local groups or partners.
• Experience organising creative demonstrations, nonviolent direct action, or large-scale mobilisations.
• Experience working in coalitions, particularly with frontline and justice-focused partners.

Position Type: Full-time, 36 hours per week

Compensation: This position is at 350's salary grade level 3.3 with a set, non-negotiable salary. Country-specific salaries for this level can be found here.

Benefits: In addition to a fully remote, 36-hour work week and two all-staff breaks per year, we offer a suite of comprehensive benefits - details depend on the location of the role, but we generally aim for employees to receive high-quality health insurance and retirement planning benefits in their respective location. In the United States, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, our employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.

Work Environment: This role is home-based. The role requires working across multiple time zones, managing remote staff, and participating in global meetings and planning spaces.

Location: Remote, within the countries 350 operates in. Current countries are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Fiji, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Philippines, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Within the United States, in the following states: CT, IL, MD, MA, ME, NJ, NY, NC, PA, VT, VA, WI, WA, and Washington, DC.

Preference will be given to candidates based in African, Asian, and Latin American time zones.

Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at [email protected] with the subject line 'Hiring Feedback'.