Program Director

Join us to lead the rollout of a powerful virtual tool that catalyzes courageous climate conversations and mobilizes people to act.

About “The Week”

To solve the climate crisis, we need mass mobilization- millions of people who transform their workplace and communities from within and who join together to consume differently and to create political pressure that affects change.

The classic playbook “Give people the facts and they will wake up and act” has failed to achieve mass mobilization. The Week offers a powerful playbook, deeply informed by recent insights on the psychology of climate change and by research on past movements that successfully broke through the status quo.

The heart of The Week is a 3-session experience over the course of one week (hence the name) in a small group–coworkers, friends, family, schoolmates, or worshippers. During each session, the group watches an episode of a powerful documentary together, carefully scripted to unlock emotional reckoning and spark vulnerable and profound group conversation (for which we provide extensive guides).

Our goal is to ignite the "broad middle” - the majority who are aware, concerned, and maybe even alarmed, but they are not yet engaged, because they don't know how or what to do.

The Role

Reports to: C.O.O.

Classification: Fulltime, Exempt. Renewable annual contract through a fiscal sponsor.

Location: Remote - located in Eastern Time Zone or Central Time Zone. Flexibility to work a 4- or 5-day week. Team retreats every quarter, 3 times a year at a regional level + 1 annual retreat with the global team.

Salary and Benefits: Salary is $95,000–$110,000 depending on experience. The Week offers a comprehensive benefits package, including employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurances.

The Program Director is responsible for developing and building a network of allies and partners while collaborating with our established global team.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Based on the specific strategy of The Week, build an ecosystem of allies and partners that will help us reach out to our targeted audiences
• Continuously improve our programming, and adjust our objectives and priorities based on the feedback and opportunities we receive
• Reach out to a diverse array companies and corporate networks to introduce The Week
• Collaborate with existing climate and environment programs, tools, and processes
• Support and develop the community of TheWeek@Work ambassadors through active recruiting, regular training, and progress updates
• Animate the community to facilitate peer-to-peer support, co-creation and sharing of best practices
• Spear head our US communication program through regular newsletters, sharing and collecting stories and building case studies. Manage social media (light touch)
• Document challenges and best practices to share with the rest of the team
• Maintain databases, and team communication channels

Qualifications

As a great fit for this Program Director’s role, you have…

• 8+ years of professional experience; a graduate degree in a relevant field is preferred
• Worked on corporate engagement programs, or you’ve experienced one as an employee
• Several years of experience in community organizing- outreach, engagement, motivation, through network weaving, training, and adapting tools to audiences and their needs.
• Engage easily with a variety of people — across the spectrum of political affiliations, across socio-economic groups, and geographic regions
• At ease when speaking in front of a group and a large audience.
• Managed and led projects, worked closely with people and partners, and fostered and facilitated collaboration
• Enjoy building bridges across ideological differences and value building trustworthy relationships.
• A strategic mindset: you know how to set up a step-by-step plan to reach your goal as well as defining priorities based on impact and objectives.
• An entrepreneurial mindset: you recognize opportunities and take initiative, and you work with a test and learn approach.
• Adapted a tool or an experience to a specific context when being loyal to its core DNA
• Created and worked with databases and online tools such as Airtable and Slack
• Currently or recently involved in climate work involving companies
• Worked autonomously, within a digital team.
• Been looking for a dynamic, inclusive team where we actively name and address oppression dynamics that might show up in the project and in the team–where each of us is on a journey to become better people and better allies..

OR
You might have very different experiences and you’re the surprise we’ve been waiting for! We want to hear from YOU!

Our Values

Our new team members will be part of the final process to define our core values. For now, these values animate our work culture:

JOY • CELEBRATION • GRATITUDE • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY • TRANSPARENCY • PRECISION

How to apply

Submit your resume and the answers to the prompted questions. Only complete applications will be considered. Position open until filled. No phone calls please. Applicants must be legally authorized to work full time in the U.S. and should not require employment sponsorship now or in the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Week encourages applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability, or any other legally protected basis.

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