Germany Program Director (gn)

Germany Program Director (gn)

• Full Time

Join us to lead the rollout of a powerful viral tool that catalyses courageous conversations about the climate and mobilises people to act. We've already engaged more than 7,000 participants in homes, companies, and community-based organisations.

This is a key role on our team that we seek to hire immediately.

We hope this job description provides sufficient detail and information for you to make a decisive, informed choice to join us!

We are now looking for a person to join the Activation team, spearheaded by Leila and Pauline who will help roll out The Week in Germany over the next two years.

Strategy work

• 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 and support the climate movement
• Continuously improve our programming, and adjust our objectives and priorities based on the local context as well as the feedback and opportunities we receive

Activation work

> Outreach

• Reach out to a diverse array of organisations (companies, sports associations, faith groups, universities, student groups, neighbourhood groups, parent groups...) to spread The Week
• Collaborate with existing climate and environment programs, tools, and processes

> Provide tools and resources

• Continuously improve and adapt the toolkits provided to The Week ambassadors

> Continuous Support

• Support and develop the community of The Week ambassadors through content production, regular training, and progress updates
• Animate the community to encourage and facilitate peer-to-peer support, co-creation, and sharing of best practices

> Communications (with the support of dedicated comms resources)

• Send regular newsletters
• Share and collect stories and build case studies
• Manage social media (light touch)

> Knowledge Management

• Document challenges and best practices to share with the rest of the team
• Keep databases updated and organised

• You have 6+ years of work experience, at least 4 in Germany
• Fluent in English
• You have a recent experience in community mobilisation; keeping people motivated, bringing the relevant support, building a sense of community, providing training, and adapting tools to specific audiences and their needs
• You are a person who can easily discuss and engage with a large variety of groups, and build trustworthy relationships – you are an eager intermediary
• You have a good or very good understanding of the climate German ecosystem
• You have 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
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset: you recognize opportunities and take initiative, and you work with a “test and learn” approach
• You have worked with a variety of organisations (particularly businesses and citizen groups)
• You have done account management and partnership building
• You have experience adapting a tool, an experience, or a narrative to a specific context when being loyal to its core DNA
• You are comfortable creating and working with databases and online tools such as a CRM and Slack. You understand the importance of an efficient digital infrastructure in this work
• You are comfortable working autonomously and in inter-dependence, with a digital team

• You are demanding when it comes to impact and our contribution to the existing climate field. As a consequence, you are excited to bring The Week to unusual (and more challenging) places.
• You are not bound to one way of doing things. You are ready to shift your views after a constructive conversation and adapt how you can best contribute to the project and teamwork when needed. 
• You are comfortable when emotions surface in conversations and are part of the work.
• You are comfortable dealing with a high volume of requests and contacts, and constantly prioritising. 
• You don’t mind doing nitty-gritty little tasks alongside strategic work (because it is a small team and we all have to do it).
• You come with a suitcase of robust experiences and skills in partnership building and community building, ready to roll out after an in-depth onboarding.
• You want to join a project with a healthy start-up culture with a strong test and learn approach.

Benefits @The Week:

• 35 days vacation for a full time contract, flexible working hours, 100% remote with a monthly allowance of 100 Euro. Team retreat every quarter to spend time with each other and work!

Culture @The Week:

• Healthy and care-minded work culture, great onboarding process, short decision-making processes, a lot of personal responsibility, collegial cooperation. 

Life @The Week:

• Be part of the global activation time, with currently 3 other people in the USA, one in each following country (France, the UK and now Germany) with Leila & Pauline managing the Team. 
• A team in a low ego environment where each of us is on a journey to become better people and better allies @work.  
• We welcome learning from a diverse array of life experiences, cultures, and backgrounds.

Sustainability is the Week:

• You want to participate into a massive shift in climate action, to mobilise the broad middle, The Week is for you!