Program Manager, Organizer Support

Work on Climate (WoCl) is a leading non-profit focused on mobilizing humanity’s talent to build a regenerative, climate-positive economy.

You probably know us for our online community — the world’s largest climate career and action community — which has helped thousands of people find climate jobs, start companies, and build impactful networks. We’ve been featured in Fast Company, the New York Times, Wired, and more.

But our work is entering a new chapter beyond helping individuals find climate jobs.

We’re now supporting professionals to engage in climate leadership — organizing, mobilizing, and transforming whole sectors and regions toward regenerative futures, through regional chapters of issue-focused work. (Read more about this transition in our announcement post).

About the team

The Organizer Support team makes chapter-based coordination scalable; this team will support the organizers by getting to know them, learning what their needs are, and figuring out the best ways to meet them. This team is integral to helping organisers learn from each other’s challenges and successes, identifying patterns across chapters that build and sustain collective power, and ensuring that organising knowledge compounds and transfers across sectors to other chapters.

Our team meets weekly on Wednesdays at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm BST

Role summary

You’ll provide direct support to chapter organizers in the community through regular check-ins, resource development, and pattern identification. This role directly impacts the success and scalability of chapters by creating conditions where community leaders feel connected and supported.

In collaboration with the team and organizers on the ground, we’ll develop toolkits and other resources that will become scalable frameworks to support the climate work movement.

We’re building an organizer support infrastructure to help chapter leads and program coordinators succeed in their volunteer roles. This position is open as we scale from supporting individual organizers to coordinating multi-chapter best practices. During your term, we need you to create support resources, conduct 1:1 check-ins with organizers, and identify patterns that inform systemic improvements to volunteer infrastructure.

Time commitment

This role is highly impactful and rewarding, but we want to be upfront that our most successful volunteers dedicate:

• 5 hours/week consistently and consider this a long-term volunteer position
• ~1 hour of that time in weekly team meetings to build team connections and keep work on-track (see “about the team” section above for time)

Why volunteer with Work on Climate?

Our most impactful volunteers are internally motivated, and contribute to this work because they believe in our mission and see how their work makes a difference. However, if you are choosing between several impactful opportunities, consider that you’ll get to:

• Learn organizational development practices in a real-world context
• Work with community organizers on the ground to solve immediate problems
• Build a strong climate network across multiple regions and sectors
• Collaborate with top-notch teammates passionate about climate

What will I do?

The following are some of the responsibilities of the role; you may lean into some more than others, depending on your interest, skill set, and current team needs.

• Building and sustaining relationships with chapter leaders, including managing contact and accountability.
• Identifying and documenting patterns across organizers, flagging common needs, blockers, and emerging successes that should inform program development
• Bringing organizers’ needs and context back to the Organizer Support team so we can problem-solve together and coordinate support
• Fostering engagement, trust, and mutual support in the organizer community
• Working alongside the team to develop tools and systems based on organizer needs, then deconstructing them into replicable templates for chapter deployment
• Using our tools to document and manage organizer relationships and resources
• Creating comprehensive documentation, training, and toolkits that enable chapters to rebuild and adapt systems (onboarding workflows, meeting coordination processes, member outreach frameworks)
• Contributing to shared documentation and infrastructure design

What skills and commitment do I need?

You will need to be highly self-motivated and capable of breaking down large tasks into smaller components, prioritizing your work, and identifying when you need help (and asking for it!).

You will need to be highly self-motivated and capable of breaking down large tasks into smaller components, prioritizing your work, and identifying when you need help (and asking for it!).

• Experience facilitating 1:1 conversations or coaching (peer mentoring, management, teaching, facilitation)
• Strong documentation skills – ability to synthesize conversations into clear takeaways
• Systems thinking – can identify patterns across multiple conversations
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication tools (Slack, Loom)
• Project management experience or ability to track multiple organizers’ needs simultaneously
• Emotional intelligence and active listening skills
• Experience with community organizing is a plus but not required

Common Challenges

• Organizers often surface needs during high-stress periods, requiring you to triage between immediate support and longer-term infrastructure development.
• As the program matures, you’ll need to identify when chapters are strong enough for us to step back versus when to provide hands-on support.
• We’ll be co-creating with organizers from different regions and sectors – you’ll be designing infrastructure whilst simultaneously deploying it, which means systems may need rapid iteration based on live feedback.

I’m interested! What do I do?

Yay! We’re excited to learn more about you. Please fill out this application form to tell us about your skills and interests in volunteering with our awesome team. We strive to reach out to applicants within 1 to 2 weeks. Generally, our recruitment process includes a 30-minute screening with a recruiter and a 30-minute interview with members from the existing team.