Senior Director of Learning & Impact

About this role

Senior Director of Learning & Impact
Position: Full Time
Team: Learning Global Programs Team
Location: Remote, Global
Salary: $152,000 USD
Reports to: Vice President of Global Probrams
Supervises: Data and Knowledge Manager
Travel: Up to 10% annually

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted through August 31, 2026, and reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as the position may close before the deadline if a strong candidate pool emerges.
WHO WE ARE
At Thousand Currents, we believe the people most affected by injustice are the ones already building the solutions. Around the world, peasant farmers, Indigenous communities, women's collectives, and grassroots movements are organizing across borders to transform food, energy, and the commons as well as the underlying economic systems. Our role is to back them with flexible funding, with the relationships and platforms that amplify their leadership, and with the long-term solidarity that movement-building requires.
Thousand Currents funds, connects, and supports visionary grassroots groups and movements leading solutions in food, climate, and the economy. We support our movement partners in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific with core, flexible, long-term grants and value-added services.
OUR VALUES
We envision a future where community-led movements have transformed the way we grow food, generate energy, and build economies, creating a world where people and planet thrive together. To realize this vision, we embrace and practice a clear set of values:

• Courage - We confront injustice and inequality with love, strength, conviction, and integrity.

• Humility - We are part of a greater whole. We are one among many currents. We recognize our place among many forces for good and change that exist in the world.

• Experimentation - In order to take principled actions together, we prioritize learning, commit to self-reflection, embrace trial and error, and honor multiple ways of knowing.

• Creative collaboration - We share power, practices, and resources to reimagine new ways of living.

• Interdependence - With our futures intertwined, we respect all beings and build authentic relationships to move forward together.

POSITION OVERVIEW
In late 2025, following extensive consultation with our partners, Thousand Currents embarked on a new strategy. In turn, the organization has been revamping its Learning Framework to guide strategy implementation and adaptation over the coming years.
The Senior Director of Learning & Impact partners with the Executive Team to lead the ongoing work of building the systems, culture, and practices to foster learning across the organization and demonstrate our impact.
As the steward of the Organizational Learning framework, this role provides teams with technical support, and advises on refinements to Learning systems, tools, and processes. While the role has an organization-wide scope, it is positioned in the Global Programs Team, reporting to the VP of Global Programs and with a dotted line to the VP of Operations.
Key Responsibilities:
Functional Leadership & Strategy (30%)

• Serve as internal (and external) champion of Thousand Currents’ values aligned approach to learning, ensuring its clear articulation and supporting embeddedness in practice

• Oversee implementation and on-going refinement of Thousand Currents’ organizational learning framework and related systems in service of the organizational strategy

• Closely collaborate with the Executive Team to ensure shared ownership and accountability for learning across the organization and continuous improvement in organizational learning practices and systems

• Leverage “birds eye view” on organizational learning data and practices to lift up significant cross-team patterns and themes for Executive Team discussion

• Build and regularly refresh staff understanding of the learning framework, including its purpose, logic, connection to their work and their role in the learning process

• Oversee further development of online Learning Platform that integrates existing systems and serves as a “one stop shop” to access accurate learning framework data

• Consult to the VP of Operations to ensure alignment of organization-wide processes and tools for planning, learning and evaluation

• Define annual priorities and budget for the Learning & Impact function, ensuring regular budget monitoring

• Engage peers and maintain knowledge of sector trends and best practices, incorporating relevant insights to inform Thousand Currents’ internal approach

• Represent Thousand Currents in priority learning and evaluation spaces, where engagement will strengthen our practices

Data and Knowledge Production and Dissemination (40%)

• Collaboratively, with relevant staff across teams, develop and/or refine values-aligned organisational methodology, standards, processes and tools to collect and review key data, support analysis and collective sensemaking to inform adaptation

• Ensure integration of data and learning practices and systems across different teams so that they are well aligned and working together to support organizational learning

• In collaboration with the Data & Knowledge Manager, maintain annual rhythms, systems and processes to aggregate information and insights from TC teams to inform collective organizational learning and evaluation

• Closely coordinate with Global Programs team members to support data gathering from grantee partners and lead quality control and analysis efforts

• Ensure that data systems are meeting reporting needs, actively facilitating collective and cross team sense-making as appropriate for aligned data interpretation and analysis

• Steward responsible data practices across the organization including with regard to how data is collected, stored, accessed and used

• In collaboration with the Communications Team, guide the crafting of…