Senior Program Associate, Global Land, Environment, and Climate (LEC) at Namati

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Program Support


Manage coordination and logistics for virtual and in-person convenings, including team retreats, learning exchanges, and global conferences (e.g., COP, London Climate Week).
Own scheduling and cross-team coordination, proactively managing team calendars and follow ups on action items.
Support online course production for the Grassroots Justice Network Academy (GJNA) by overseeing translation workflows, liaising with video editors, and tracking deliverables to ensure timely completion.
Collect M&E data on member engagement to support ongoing learning about our impact and effective strategies
Monitor media sources and databases for relevant updates and to provide light research support for programmatic focus areas
Maintain clear, structured meeting notes capturing key decisions, and action items to ensure clarity across the team.


Program Finance and Operations


Manage team expenses, including requests for expense approval, managing invoices, and tracking payments.
Support the drafting of consultant and vendor contracts with guidance from the Senior Operations Manager and the Global Finance team.
Oversee expense tracking and reporting for the Managing Director, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.
Support budget management by maintaining up-to-date tracking tools and monitoring expenditures against approved budget.


Publications and External Deliverables


Provide line-by-line proofreading of funding proposals, donor reports, and program publications to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with approved language and messaging.
Support proposal development processes by tracking deadlines and coordinating input from multiple team members.


Here's what you might have tackled in the past week:


Helped coordinate with a video editor to ensure learning videos for a new online course are produced on time for our launch date.
Took detailed meeting notes during a team planning call for the carbon justice campaign and circulated clear action items to ensure follow-through across the team.
Coordinated and managed logistics for a global convening in Sierra Leone, including reviewing participant visa and flight procurement status and booking venues.
Organized a virtual meeting of 20+ environmental justice advocates by sharing materials in advance, arranging interpretation, managing the Zoom chat during the meeting, and sharing notes and the recording in a follow-up email.
Updated tracker for budgets and expenses (consultants, travel, etc.) and prepared clear spending updates for the Senior Operations Manager and Managing Director.
Organized data on completion rates and quiz scores for our online Carbon Justice 101 course and shared statistics with the team to improve engagement.