Program Manager

About UndauntedK12

UndauntedK12 is a national nonprofit working to support America's K-12 public schools to  make an equitable transition to zero carbon emissions while preparing our youth to build a sustainable future in a rapidly changing climate. We are united by a desire to activate the potential of America’s K-12 public school sector to respond to the challenge of climate change and are undaunted by the scale of the challenge. We believe the current moment offers opportunities to address long standing inequities, stimulate the economy, enhance critical public infrastructure, and position America to lead the world in the transition to clean energy-driven commerce and community. We envision a day when every dollar spent on K-12 infrastructure is aligned with building an equitable, zero-carbon future; when every education leader recognizes and acts upon the threat of rapidly changing climate to their core mission; and when every student is prepared to build a sustainable future.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated Program Manager to help our team advance our programs and campaigns in California, and to help engage state and local leaders to act on climate. This Manager will play a crucial role in shaping programming, creating communications, and developing tools and data that allow UndauntedK12 to grow our impact and expand our reach within California, and across new states. This role is an opportunity to advance key content and messaging, high-impact programming, and project management skills at an early-stage organization operating at the intersection of climate and education.

The Program Manager will accelerate our California state campaigns and programs by managing targeted strategies to influence state-level policy, budgets, and implementation to realize healthy, sustainable, decarbonized, climate-resilient California schools. Our ideal candidate will have experience with climate or education policy, building decarbonization, climate resilience and adaptation, and / or environmental justice, enjoy engaging in the details, and be a quick learner. They will have strong writing skills and demonstrated success tailoring communications to reach and motivate diverse audiences. They will be a partner to other Undaunted team members and organizations in devising effective approaches to monitor, track, and analyze relevant efforts associated with our campaigns and programming. We’re a small, start-up team of eight where everyone pitches in and works across projects as team players. This is a great learning and leadership opportunity for someone who wants to be a part of a dynamic organization and who thrives when working on multiple projects at once.

Our state work is always evolving. Take a look at our UndauntedK12 California and Climate Ready Schools Coalition websites to see our current California campaigns, projects, and programs.

Responsibilities

Campaigns and Programs ~50%

• Advance ongoing state campaigns to advance equitable access to healthy, resilient, decarbonized school buildings and grounds. Includes collaborating with partners and stakeholders, mobilizing grassroots groups, engaging district leaders, connecting with organizations, and monitoring campaign metrics.
• Advance the Climate Ready Schools Coalition’s (CRSC)’s advocacy, initiatives, and operations, and help marshal the network’s resources for impact.
• Develop state-specific advocacy materials including policy briefs, toolkits for advancing climate action, youth leadership programming, and assets to support our campaigns.
• Conduct policy research, landscape scans, informational conversations, and synthesize external reports to support the development of campaigns and strategies
• Serve as an ambassador of Undaunted and steward relationships with select partners (advocacy allies, elected officials and staff, government agencies, district stakeholders, other coalitions, and prospective partners) at the local, state, and national level.
• Develop and maintain data-related products for public consumption, likely in partnership with aligned organizations.
• Help the Undaunted team efficiently engage new partnerships, allies, school districts, and communities by providing support, resources, and tools as needed.
• Create, maintain, and improve systems for managing Undaunted’s state specific contact database, distribution lists, and listservs.
• Identify, collect, and manage performance indicators related to our campaigns and broader impact metrics, and develop practices that enable the organization to utilize collected data to inform decision making and communicate with donors and partners.
• Manage logistics for webinars and other virtual and in-person events.

Communications ~30%

Contribute to shaping a healthy, thriving UndauntedK12 ~20%

Requirements

Skills and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Benefits

Location, Benefits and Salary

Diversity Statement

We believe that having staff with diverse personal and professional backgrounds and lived experiences make our work stronger as we seek to engage all those who can contribute to this effort. We encourage candidates who bring diverse perspectives, identities, professional and lived experiences to apply. UndauntedK12 seeks individuals of all backgrounds without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, marital status, genetics, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination to apply for this position.

Application Guidance

We are moving to quickly fill this position with priority given to applications received by October 31, 2025. Candidate review and interviews begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search process. Given limited capacity, we may not be able to respond to all applicants. We appreciate your interest in UndauntedK12.