Relationships Manager

• Understanding partner needs and developing plans to grow existing partnerships
• Identifying new partnership opportunities, researching key staff in potential partner organisations and reaching out to form new relationships
• Securing new business partnerships between Earthly and aligned organisations
• Reliably tracking tasks, requests, and deadlines, ensuring communication is timely and commitments are carried through
• Independently and proactively checking in to make sure projects are on track
• Developing and maintaining internal processes for managing relationships
• Supporting the founders in building and maintaining funder relationships
• Building relationships with aligned voices and activists within the climate, nature and justice movements

This role helps Earthly Education challenge the forces driving climate and ecological collapse, mobilize communities with knowledge and tangible action, and build a world beyond destruction rooted in care, regeneration, and liberation.

• Strong communication skills, including fluent spoken English and polished written grammar
• A strategic thinker with an analytical mind and strong problem-solving skills
• Confident bridging external partners and internal workflows
• Comfortable following up when responses are slow or things stall
• Able to hold multiple moving pieces without dropping details
• Sound judgement and ability to prioritise when to push or pause relationships
• Excited by finding new opportunities for working with existing or new partners
• Aligned with Earthly's values and ways of working
• Confident working with a large, ever-growing network (100+ people)

• Flexible hours
• Remote working with an international team
• Mission-driven team
• As an early stage organisation, potential to help shape the organisation's goals and direction
• Currently engaged as independent contractors with potential to transition to employee roles if future funding allows
• Hourly rate: AUD 35/hour (approx. USD 23.25)

Earthly Education envisions a world where liberated people thrive in balance with nature, systems empower the collective, returning autonomy to all living things, and building a safe, equitable and just world for future generations. They challenge the forces driving climate and ecological collapse, mobilise communities with knowledge and tangible action, and build a world beyond destruction rooted in care, regeneration, and liberation.