JOB DESCRIPTION
Full-Time
Location: The position can be remote anywhere within the continental United States.
Travel Requirements: up to 5-8 trips within the U.S.; and up to 1-2 trips overseas per year.
Position Title: Network Manager and Learning Lead, Strengthening Human Infrastructure Project
AGCI is seeking up to three innovative, collaborative professionals to provide strategic leadership over a diverse portfolio of work supported by the Strengthening Human Infrastructure Project (SHIP). Each Lead will take primary responsibility for one of three distinct areas of SHIP’s work, while collaborating closely with the SHIP Executive Director and the rest of the team to set direction, coordinate partners, and deliver impact:
- Network Manager and Learning: Designs SHIP’s community and learning ecosystem, convenes practitioners across institutions and sectors, and builds synthesis products that turn on-the-ground insights into actionable knowledge. Makes SHIP more than a fellowship network by building a lasting community of practice capable of accelerating impact far beyond any single placement.
- Advancement and External Relations: Leads donor stewardship, advancement, reporting, and aligned funding coordination with external partners. Supports partners in co-creating strategic communications. Positions SHIP as one of the most compelling climate infrastructure investments of this decade — shaping the narrative, securing funding, and cultivating the relationships that sustain SHIP’s talent and coordination engine.
- Portfolio and Strategy: Building on foundational responsibilities of grantmaking strategy and placement design, this role stewards the big-picture direction of SHIP’s portfolio: identifying high-leverage opportunities, supporting partners, and ensuring SHIP’s placements and grants serve as catalytic capacity for coordinated and scaled climate ambitions.
Together, the three Program Leads will complement one another to cover SHIP’s full portfolio. Leads report to the SHIP Executive Director. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in program development, grant-making portfolios, and a broad understanding of climate mitigation, adaptation, and environmental justice opportunities across the science-to-action spectrum.
Network Manager and Learning:
This role turns SHIP’s 250+ distributed placements into a connected, learning climate workforce — building the community, insights, and shared infrastructure that transform individual roles into a coordinated engine for climate action. It designs SHIP’s community and learning architecture, convenes practitioners across institutions and sectors, and builds synthesis products that turn on-the-ground insights into actionable knowledge. This role is central to making SHIP more than a fellowship network, it ensures SHIP becomes a lasting community of practice capable of accelerating impact far beyond any single placement.
This is an ideal role for a connector and sense-maker who loves building community, translating insights into strategy, and designing collaborative systems that help people work smarter and faster together.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Core responsibilities (common across all levels)
- Coordinate or lead the planning, execution, and delivery of SHIP-related programs or projects.
- Support cross-functional collaboration by managing SHIP Coalition working groups and external relationships with partners and grantees.
- Track progress, manage timelines and budgets, and ensure alignment with SHIP’s strategic goals.
- Monitor developments in the field to identify emerging needs, gaps, and opportunities to better inform climate action.
- Contribute to SHIP’s collaborative and inclusive culture by leading through partnership, inside and outside the organization.
- Leverage former public service and/or federal government expertise to advance SHIP’s mission.
Network Manager and Learning Lead
- Design and oversee the strategy for supporting and connecting SHIP-funded talent—fellows, mentors, apprentices, and full-time placements—into a vibrant, well-coordinated community.
- Build programs that foster shared learning, professional development, and collaboration across SHIP’s diverse host institutions.
- Create pathways for cross-institutional collaboration that bridge climate science, policy, data, community organizations, and implementation partners.
- Develop inclusive, user-friendly approaches for measuring progress, capturing learning, and sharing insights across SHIP’s portfolio.
- Strengthen SHIP’s internal learning culture by supporting grantees in developing clear goals and metrics via OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
- Build trusted relationships across SHIP’s talent network and coalition partners to ensure people feel supported, connected, and able to thrive.
- Help the coalition reflect on progress and weave equity and justice perspectives throughout SHIP’s placements and learning activities.
- Lead the SHIP Learning & Knowledge Sharing coalition working group and integrate recommendations into talent support and coalition-wide learning.
Ideal for candidates with 7–10 years of experience in organizational learning, community building, talent development, or cross-sector coordination— particularly those who love building thriving networks and cultures of shared purpose.
Requirements
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Experience and Background
- Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree preferred for senior roles and may substitute for up to 3 years of professional experience.
- Experience informing and advancing climate action as a public good (e.g. through public service, granted or contracted work, etc.) is strongly valued.
- Familiarity with multiple climate action domains (e.g., mitigation, adaptation, environmental justice, science policy, climate science).
- 7–10 years in cross-institutional coordination, organizational learning, monitoring and evaluation.
Technical Competencies
- Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple talent-focused workstreams and maintain clarity across a diverse network of fellows, mentors, and partner institutions.
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills, including distilling complex learning into actionable insights; excellent written and verbal communication.
- Proficient with digital collaboration tools (Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Slack, Salesforce or similar) and enthusiastic about learning new platforms to streamline coordination.
- Proven ability to design inclusive learning environments—such as cohort models, peer-learning structures, and cross-institutional collaboration—and to build systems that support reflection, iteration, and continuous improvement.
Relational Competencies
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with diverse partners.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to inclusive teams and integrate equity perspectives into programs and partnerships.
- Skilled facilitator with strong relationship management skills across diverse constituencies.
Mindset and Attributes
- Commitment to the public value of climate knowledge and accelerating climate action.
- Adaptability, curiosity, and a growth mindset.
- Strong sense of self- and situational awareness.
- Ability and willingness to travel, US and internationally.
- Ability to thrive in a small, supportive team that values situational awareness, humility, humor, and curiosity.
- Equity-driven, collaborative, and comfortable working across complex, multi-stakeholder systems.
Benefits
WORK SCHEDULE & COMPENSATION
The start date could begin as early as February 28th and no later than April 30th. AGCI operates a physical, primary office in Basalt, Colorado, with staff working from other states as part of its “Institute Without Walls” approach. Remote work within the United States is permitted in this role.
Compensation: Anticipated salary range is $130,000-165,000. AGCI offers a generous benefits package, including organization-paid employee and dependent medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability, 401(k) with up to 10% employer contributions, PTO, paid parental leave, flexible scheduling, wellness benefits, and professional development opportunities.
TO APPLY
Be sure to include a cover letter (no more than 2 pages) describing the following:
- Your relevant background and perspective, including ways you’ve been impacted by shifts in federal funding and how your experience (e.g. in community building, organizational learning, and building thriving networks and cultures of shared purpose) shapes what you bring to this role.
- How you would approach turning SHIP’s 250+ distributed placements into a connected, learning climate community.
Applications received before December 19th may receive priority consideration, and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Additional applications may be reviewed thereafter until a candidate is appointed.
Aspen Global Change Institute is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all applicants and to ensuring a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We welcome people of all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you feel you do not meet all the listed qualifications but are capable of accomplishing the aims of this position, we encourage your application. You will have the opportunity to share additional details about your work experience that are not reflected in a traditional resume. Our employment decisions are based on our organizational needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, family or parental status, disability, age, national origin, or any other protected status.
