About Echoing Green
Echoing Green identifies tomorrow’s transformational leaders today. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact, and has established a global community of emerging leaders who have launched , , , , , , , and hundreds of others.
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Who You’ll Work With
At Echoing Green, we have a front row seat to the with the most innovative ideas driving social progress across the world. We are fired up about our Fellows; we are their advocates and their biggest champions.
Reporting to the Senior Director, Capital, we are looking for an Associate, Capital to implement efficient and effective systems that center a supportive, equity-centered experience for Echoing Green Fellows and alum.
What You’ll Do
As the Associate, Capital, you will lead key workstreams that include:
1. Supporting the Capital Department
- Support the development of training materials, emails, and other documents that are user-friendly, accessible, and free of typographical errors
- Improve on and maintain a system to organize departmental files, documents, and processes with uniform file-naming conventions
- Create, process, and track payment requests and contracts for Fellows, staff, and contractors
- Schedule and maintain calendar invites for internal and external team meetings
- Monitor Capital Department email inboxes and triage requests to the appropriate staff member, following up to ensure timely resolution
- Compile, verify accuracy and sort information to prepare data for entry in Salesforce CRM database
- Assist in creation and dissemination of surveys using FormAssembly to collect qualitative and quantitative feedback on programs
- Assist with the maintenance of online application review systems, including SurveyMonkey Apply, FormAssembly, and Salesforce
2. Supporting the Programs Team and Broader Organization
- Support virtual and in-person team meetings and events, including booking meeting room and Zoom spaces, taking meeting notes, sharing action items, prepping supplies for meeting attendees, keeping time, etc.
- Support efficient and effective operations across the Programs team as needed/directed, including materials and meeting prep
- Travel likely 1-3 times annually to represent Echoing Green (both national and international locations)
What You’ll Bring
●Global Social Justice Focus: Thoughtful and open to learning about incorporating a global social justice lens into processes
●Tech Savvy and Organization: Skilled at organization and documentation of processes especially in using Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Google Suite (Docs, Sheets); experience with or dedication to learning new tools (Salesforce, SurveyMonkey Apply)
●Sharp Prioritization: Adept at juggling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, global organization
●Detail-Oriented Communication: Attention to detail in written and verbal communication across internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels (e.g. senior staff, Fellows, external judges, peers)
●Human-Centered Approach: Commitment to collaboration, laughter, and candor for oneself and others in the workplace
Salary: $60,000/year
Echoing Green offers a full benefits package designed to support employee wellness. This includes:
●Up to 27 days off per year
●Best-in-class health insurance which covers medical, dental, and vision needs
●16 weeks of parental leave (fully paid)
●12 weeks of personal sick leave (fully paid)
●Monthly well-being stipend of $100/month
●Monthly wireless stipend of $100/month
●Professional development stipend of $1000 per fiscal year
●403(b)-retirement savings plan with an employer match up to 7% of annual salary after a year of employment.
This position will also require the employee to work from our office in New York City 2 days/a week and remotely 3 days/a week.
Echoing Green employees must show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable law.
Echoing Green provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age,
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What We Do
For more than 30 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo.
We find emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible, and set them on a path to lifelong impact. We are the best at what we do, and have the trust, experience, and results to prove it. Our community of almost 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows like first lady Michelle Obama, the founders of organizations like Teach for America and One Acre Fund, and major public figures like Van Jones. Built and refined over 30 years, our process discovers tomorrow’s leaders, today.
We find, fund, connect, and support a new generation of social impact leaders. The work we do has the power to change communities for the better around the world.
Echoing Green has been ahead of the curve for more than 30 years, supporting visionaries around the world who are transforming economies, and pursuing racial and gender equity, environmental sustainability, and more. Echoing Green’s unparalleled community of talent consists of nearly 800 innovators who have launched Teach For America, City Year, One Acre Fund, SKS Microfinance, Public Allies, and more. The organization provides seed-funding and leadership development to a new class of Fellows every year and welcomes them into its lifelong community of leaders.
Echoing Green accelerates talent that will change the world for the better.
