Are you interested in supporting and learning from young people working to avert the climate crisis?

The Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF) is seeking a talented and passionate Learning Manager to join our team. As the Learning Manager, you will play a crucial role in collecting, analyzing and implementing best practices to refine and communicate our overall impact. This is a key role within the YCJF to document new learnings and champion best practices internally and externally.

This is a great opportunity for someone willing to lead and learn, with a keen interest in building a career in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in the civil society and philanthropic sector, and who is committed to leveraging data to advance and advocate for climate justice globally.

BACKGROUND 

The Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF) supports youth climate justice movements with trust-based funding, resources and youth-to-youth capacity development. The YCJF was publicly launched during New York Climate Week 2023. In July 2023, we also launched our first grantmaking call, receiving more than 1,800 applications from all over the world. In July 2024, we closed our second open call with over 2,500 applications. So far we committed funding to 90+ groups in about 45+ countries.

LOCATION

Remote, preferably in a Global Majority country. Please note that applicants must be located within +/- 4 hours of PST, GMT-8 Time Zone.

COMPENSATION

230 per day – full time (35hrs/week) + benefits.

CONTRACT TYPE 

Renewable consultancy contract. The contract will be made by our Fiscal Sponsor based in the United-States, on behalf of the Youth Climate Justice Fund. We offer compensated vacation time and benefits.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Measuring Impact 

• Leading and designing YCJF’s approach to gathering and sharing evidence of impact by developing clear indicators and tools like surveys, case studies and interviews. This includes analyzing findings to build a compelling case for increased philanthropic investment in youth-led funds
• Design an intentional, value-aligned “evidence agenda” with strategic qualitative and quantitative metrics based on the YCJF’s Theory of Change.
• Develop and implement an efficient system to simplify grantee partners’ reporting, create feedback processes to support learning and improvement within the YCJF community, and strengthen donor engagement and knowledge-sharing.

Evaluation and Learning 

• Review and implement best practices to support grantee partners to track and learn from their strategies and cultivate learning for the YCJF and the philanthropic ecosystem.
• Actively participate in relevant peer and field monitoring and evaluation forums, sharing insights and bringing back knowledge to YCJF to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement (i.e. identifying and maintaining a repository of learning resources, such as reports, research papers, toolkits).
• Build a robust knowledge management system to centralize and archive learnings for easy access and reference.
• Identifying learning and development needs of the YCJF community through peer and field monitoring
• Lead the design of a collaboratively built strategic framework for duty of care and safeguarding policies for grantee partners.
• Lead the coordination of our annual report and additional learning outputs.

Research 

• Lead the development of research and learning outputs for external audiences (i.e. support consultants to develop our 2025 scan of funding landscape for youth climate solutions, organize interviews about specific processes…) 
• Collect insights and perspectives for philanthropic audiences with the Development team (i.e. work with regional committees to gather insights about specific issues pertaining to youth-led solutions for climate, filter and analyze grantee partners reports to identify learnings and trends, etc…).
• Facilitate cross-team efforts to refine, re-design and implement new strategic key performance indicators for the organization especially to prepare our 2026-2030 framework.

PROFILE 

Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in working for a non-profit with some experience in facilitation, training, impact measurement, and learning practices. Experience within social justice and climate justice spaces are a plus. 
• Proven track record of developing and leading qualitative research, organizing interviews with all sorts of stakeholders to collect insights.
• Experience managing teams and consultants to deliver impactful results in dynamic, globally distributed environments.
• Proven track record in communication and facilitation of both virtual and in-person events.
• Quick thinking, flexibility, and compassion in supporting communities facing challenging organizing conditions.
• Demonstrated commitment to supporting social justice movements and uplifting historically marginalized groups, including BIPOC, women, queer individuals, and local communities.
• Dedicated to climate justice, with a focus on tackling systemic marginalization, exploitation, and oppression while championing equity and justice.
• Experience in working with grassroot communities and young people is an asset.

Skills

• Kindness and caring for others are core values of team working spirit.
• Solid skills in excel and quantitative data management and analysis is a must. Experience with data analysis and management such as dedoose, tableau and others are a plus.
• Ability to work with different cultures.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Sound organisational skills and initiative to proactively manage work – especially around time management.
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
• Ability to work independently and in a team, and with strong coordination skills.
• Superb attention to detail and deadline-driven.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively via phone (i.e. Whatsapp…) and email with a range of stakeholders.

Additional valued skills

• Experience in speaking in one or more of the YCJF working languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Arabic, Hindi, French) or any additional local or indigenous languages.

As a Learning Manager at the YCJF, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in the way philanthropic organizations can better monitor, evaluate and learn from their impact. If you are a strategic facilitator, a creative qualitative researcher, and a passionate communicator who is committed to advancing equity and justice, we encourage you to apply.

We are committed to build a workplace and team where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply.

If interested, please upload your CV and a cover letter ➡️ in this form ⬅️. We will be receiving applications up to 5:00 PM EST, 5th of January 2025. 🌸🌼

Please note that during this time, our team will be on end of year leave and will not be able to respond to queries. We appreciate your understanding in this matter!