Program Manager - Sunrise Organising Labs (SOL)

• Oversee budgets, grants, and operations to support SOL's climate impact
• Leverage your program leadership expertise to drive operational effectiveness
• Remote in Europe or Asia Pacific, flexible working, work rights required

The Organisation

The Sunrise Project is a global network of independent organisations, which has adopted a unique model of combined strategic grant-making and campaigning, with a common mission to scale social movements to drive the energy transition beyond fossil fuels.

The Sunrise Organising Labs (SOL) is Sunrise's movement-building engine, powering all global programs to scale power in service of our goals while also nurturing long-term ecosystem development. SOL equips our teams and partners to map power, recruit influential constituencies, and build organising capability. SOL also informs and strengthens partnerships and grantmaking: analysing ecosystem capacity and designing targeted interventions to strengthen it. By investing in recruitment, leadership, collaboration, and learning, SOL ensures our movement is equipped, connected, and resourced to win systemic reforms.

Benefits & Culture

Sunrise has a dynamic and nimble organizational culture that supports its people to thrive, believing that diversity of experiences and perspectives builds stronger strategies, teams, and movements. The following benefits are in place to help achieve that;

• Generous package in line with experience & with international expectations
• Liberal annual, parental, birthday, solidarity, & cultural leave
• Commitment to professional development planning
• Coaching, performance reviews & management feedback
• Intermittent travel with advance notice may be required

Indicative salary ranges, up to: UK, £79,230, NL, €89,399, Japan, JPY 11,105,435, Singapore, SGD 135,825, Australia AUD 131,261.

The Role

Working closely with the Program Director, you'll adapt and manage the SOL program to ensure the global team delivers on its objectives and goals. You will provide high-level coordination and support across the international team and programs, leading SOL's grant portfolio management, reporting and analysis, and program operations while closely managing multi-million dollar budgets and forecasting.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Budget & Grant Management: Manage a multi-million dollar campaign budget, track spending, report to donors, and oversee the entire program's grant portfolio including processing, monitoring, and administrative management.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the Program Director to develop robust planning, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation processes that foster a culture of learning and impact measurement.
• Team Support & Development: Foster a collaborative, supportive, healthy team environment that maximizes program effectiveness and supports professional development of team members.
• Cross-Program Coordination: Lead global grants portfolio compilation, working across all programs to compile data, produce templates, and provide reporting and analysis.
• Operations Management: Oversee contracts, hiring processes, and administrative operations while maintaining risk, security, and compliance standards.
• Communication: Contribute to internal and external communications, drafting presentations, briefings, and representing the program in organizational initiatives.

Skills Required

You are a lateral thinker, a problem-solver, and super-organized professional who thrives on supporting and enabling dynamic, inclusive teams to succeed. You enjoy digging into operational details and budget management, developing and improving systems and processes for greater efficiency, whilst remaining nimble and agile. You're excited by project management, reporting, data, and analysis, and passionate about supporting teams to deliver real-world impact. Importantly, you relish the international and multicultural collaboration this role offers.

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrated ability managing and tracking large, multifaceted budgets and grant plans.
• Proven success managing complex projects and programs, including risk, security and compliance oversight.
• Experience developing team systems, processes, and culture for maximum efficiency and impact.
• Strong background in reporting, data analysis, narrative development, and CRM management.
• High emotional intelligence; excellent interpersonal communication and group facilitation skills.
• Experience managing across cultures and geographies, creating inclusive, healthy work environments.
• Understanding of how social movements drive change, global fossil fuel mechanisms, and energy transition preferred.
• Passion for climate action and commitment to social justice, equity, and diversity.
• Full working rights in your location; CRM skills, plus Google, Asana, Slack a plus.

If you are an operations or program leader who would like to join SOL in driving the energy transition beyond fossil fuels, please submit an expression of interest, responding to the skills required above, and a resume. The Sunrise Project values diversity and recognizes lived experience. Please submit your application to cv@ngorecruitment.com. Alternatively, contact Lois Freeke from NGO Recruitment in Melbourne, Australia, to request a full information pack at: officeadministrator@ngorecruitment.com (no applications here please).

Applications will be reviewed and processed on a rolling basis and we encourage you to apply ASAP.

NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.