350.org is looking for someone to help design, provide high quality training, coaching and support to 350’s flagship training around the world. A major task will be supporting delivery of a large hybrid training event.
About 350.org
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.
350.org is an equal-opportunity employer. 350.org strives to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a safe workplace where everyone is treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out our work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, marital or parental status, and genetic information. We also strive to include team members in communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
About the Global Trainings Coordinator (Consultancy)
The Global Trainings Coordinator is a temporary contractor position of the Global Trainings Team, within the Global Movement Support Directorate.
This role focuses on supporting the delivery and quality of one of 350.org’s key tactics in our theory of change, our belief in the power of growing the climate movement through training local groups and offering open-source training for the movement. We centre equity in our approach to this work by supporting efforts of growing leadership, building power and taking action with the communities hit hardest by climate and other, connected crises.
Success in the role would look like: Supporting delivery of a large hybrid training event; Conceiving high-quality campaign/organising training events, help develop curriculums and resources linked to our strategy; assist coaching trainers, training of trainers for campaigners and organisers through the 350 network.
This role would include support in three major training areas:
- Our Own Power (ourownpower.org) — a toolkit and network to support people developing community-led renewable energy projects;
- Global Mass Trainings — a mass training (250+ people) in Brazil in April 2025 to both support the Our Own Power toolkit rollout and also feed into another project called the Road to Brazil, where we are gearing up for a movement-wide approach to COP30 in Brasil in Dec 2025.
- Support local and regional teams with requests they have.
The role will collaborate closely across the organisation to achieve these successes, particularly with regional campaigners and organisers.
Required Qualifications
- At least 4 years experience developing training strategies for building communities, movements, and people powered actions, as part of global and regional social justice campaigns, whether as part of an NGO or grassroots network.
- Experience with providing support for coaching or developing groups to build renewable energy projects (or other familiarity with the practical steps of installing/maintaining RE systems).
- Strong facilitation skills and success in providing assistance in supporting non-trainers to grow their training skills.
- Deep understanding and interest in effective practices and history of movement building, organizing, campaigning, mobilization, and direct action, and ability to express, share and coach that knowledge with other coworkers.
- Strong experience building safe and accessible trainings, for participants from diverse geographic (preferably global south), racial, ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.
- Experience working collaboratively across cultures and time zones, and a demonstrated understanding of and commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), anti-racism or anti-oppression work.
- Strong working written and spoken English.
- Respond positively to changing circumstances and readily engage and adapt behavior to maintain effective performance.
- Acts reliably and honestly even under pressure.
Desired (but not required) skills and experiences
- Experience developing training designs and resources offline in at least 2 different continents - and experience designing participatory and transformative training experiences online.
- Competence in any of other languages in 350 (Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili…)
- A global network of training contacts.
We are looking for someone who is comfortable working independently on complex tasks, demonstrated ability to identify good opportunities, innovation, improved ways of working, and creatively and proactively problem-solving.
Position Type: Consultancy. The consultant will set their own hours to fulfill the brief but we suggest that equivalent to around 30 hours a week may be needed to fulfill the brief.
Application Deadline: Although we hope to begin interviews during the week of Sept 16th, this job is open until filled.
Start and Date: Sept 2024 - May 2025, with the possibility of extension to Mar 2026.
Compensation: Consultancy Fee is up to $400 per day for 16 days a month.
Location: Remote, anywhere in the world, but with the ability to work on time zones compatible with Brazil.
Travel: One international trip to Brazil in April 2026 for 2 weeks required.
What We Do
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world.
350.org is a growing global organization incorporated and based in the United States, with staff currently working in 23 countries around the globe. 350.org is on a rapid growth trajectory, having grown our budget 400% since we incorporated in 2011. We seek ever more opportunities to galvanize the public to respond to the threat of climate change. This is due to two factors: scientific evidence of the threat of the problem and severity of impacts, and the success we have had in mobilization, creative communications, and organizing. Looking to the future, we believe aggressive political action on climate change can happen, but creating the political space for that change will push us to work more creatively, smartly, and quickly than ever before.
Our organisation is comprised of energetic, passionate, and disciplined change-makers. We are known for our sophisticated use of technology and our distributed organizing, mass mobilization, and connections to other social movements. We love Skype emoticons, customized Spotify playlists, open-office formats with newspaper clippings on the walls, and marching in the streets.
