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About the Role

WhyHunger seeks a visionary and experienced Director to lead and deepen the organization's international work at a pivotal moment for global food justice. The Director will serve as a senior leader, strategic thinker, and movement ally, stewarding WhyHunger's long-standing relationships with global social movements and grassroots organizations, while deepening and expanding the organization’s global programs strategy. This role sits at the intersection of movement building, philanthropy, advocacy, and program design and facilitation.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multi-year strategy for WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program.
Identify emerging opportunities, challenges, and trends within global food sovereignty, anti-hunger, agroecology, Indigenous food pathways, climate justice and resilience, economic justice, human rights and ancillary movement-building spaces.
Monitor and evaluate program impact, adapt strategies based on research, learning and feedback, and report on impact data.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with grassroots organizations, social movement leaders, networks, and coalitions advancing food sovereignty.
Design innovative programs that respond to partner needs and strengthen movement capacity.
Develop and manage a portfolio of strategic grants that advance food sovereignty and movement-building objectives.
Lead due diligence, proposal review, funding recommendations, grant monitoring, and partner stewardship processes.
Identify and cultivate new partnerships with movement leaders, grassroots organizations, and global networks.
Ensure WhyHunger’s partnership development and grantmaking practices are strategic, impactful, efficient and reflect our values of solidarity and mutual accountability.
Identify, cultivate, and deepen partnerships with global, regional and national coalitions that are aligned with our work.
Develop and advance WhyHunger's international advocacy agenda.
Convene and facilitate exchanges, gatherings, learning communities, and collaborative initiatives among partners and allies that advance shared policy goals.
Serve as an internal expert, regularly sharing insights, developments and strategies to inform advocacy and narrative change strategies.
Partner closely with the development team to identify, cultivate, secure, and steward institutional and major individual funding opportunities supporting WhyHunger's global portfolio.
Represent WhyHunger in meetings with institutional funders, philanthropic partners, donor prospects, and site visits.
Contribute to grant proposals, donor reports, concept notes, and funding strategies.
Cultivate relationships with aligned philanthropic partners and movement funders.
Partner with the communications team to create opportunities for strategic storytelling and amplification of partner communication efforts and calls to action.
Contribute to organizational messaging, content creation, thought leadership, public education campaigns, and opinion pieces.
Serve as a public spokesperson on relevant topics through media interviews, speaking engagements and multimedia content.
Supervise and support the Global Movements Program Manager.
Manage consultants and contractors, as needed.
Develop, manage and monitor the global programs budget.
Ensure effective planning, reporting, compliance, and cross-functional coordination of global programs projects.
Contribute to organizational initiatives and leadership discussions as a member of the Program Leadership Team.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in food sovereignty, food systems, international development, philanthropy, social movement building, human rights, or related fields.
Deep understanding of global food systems, food sovereignty frameworks, agroecology, climate justice and/or Indigenous food pathways, including the structural drivers of hunger.
Established credibility and existing relationships within food sovereignty or adjacent movements.
Significant experience developing and managing strategic partnerships with social movements, community organizers, grassroots organizations or community-based networks in the Global South.
Experience developing program strategies with clear outcomes and aligned activities that have demonstrated measurable impact.
Experience developing and managing grantmaking portfolios.
Demonstrated success designing and leading complex projects and multi-stakeholder initiatives, with the ability to create effective deliverables and outcomes on time and within budget.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking.
Comfort engaging with diverse audiences.
Experience managing diverse staff and consultants.
Ability to work and represent WhyHunger at evening or weekend events.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

Skills

Food sovereignty
Food systems
International development
Philanthropy
Social movement building
Human rights
Agroecology
Climate justice
Indigenous food pathways
Grantmaking
Public speaking
Strategic planning
Program development
Partnership management
Advocacy
Coalition building
Budget management
Team leadership
Cross-functional coordination
Storytelling
Public relations

Location

Domestic
International

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of progressive experience

Salary/Compensations

$105,000-115,000

Benefits

Medical insurance coverage for the employee and family
30 days of paid vacation
Office closure for a week in the summer
Office closure for a week at the end of the year
5-hour Fridays
403(b) retirement plan with discretionary employer contribution

About the Company

WhyHunger believes a world without hunger is possible.
We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial and economic justice.
We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.
Founded in 1975, WhyHunger has been at the forefront of the movement to address the root causes of hunger and build a more just and equitable food system for 50 years.
Our approach is intersectional, partnering with social movements, artists, philanthropy, and grassroots leaders to drive systemic, lasting change.

Equal Opportunity

WhyHunger is committed to creating a workplace that respects and promotes diversity, fairness, inclusion, and belonging.
It is the organization's policy to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practices and to adhere to all federal, state, and local laws on the basis of any protected characteristic.
It is our intent that all employment policies, procedures and actions be applied in a manner to prevent any unlawful discrimination so that no employee or applicant for employment will be unlawfully discriminated against because of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, transgender status, citizenship, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, domestic partnership status, military status, ancestry, veteran status, union membership, socioeconomic status or any other protected category under federal, state or local law.