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.
Echoing Green’s Programs Team aims to find and fund visionary leaders working to combat systemic inequity, and aims to support and connect our growing network of ~1000 social leaders through both community and capacity building.
The Capital Vertical has direct responsibility for designing and implementing an equitable and disruptive Fellow selection process, building follow-on investment programs to support the continued capital requirements of our alumni Fellows, and managing a fellow-centric payment disbursement process.
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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 a Manager, Capital to project manage the year-round implementation of Selections / Disbursements processes for the Programs team.
What You’ll Do
As the Manager, Capital, you will lead key workstreams that include:
Follow-on Funding Grant Program Management
- Oversee Echoing Green’s Follow-on Funding Program, supporting Alumni social innovators in transitioning from pilot to scaling stages by providing unrestricted grant funding to validate their models and expand their impact.
- Refine program offerings and selection criteria using qualitative and quantitative data, aligning with Fellow needs, ecosystem gaps, and Echoing Green’s strategic plan.
- Prepare and present process updates and proposals based on feedback from internal and external stakeholders (e.g., staff, reviewers, Fellows).
- Design application forms, scoring rubrics, and evaluation methodologies that reflect program goals and Trust-Based Philanthropy best practices.
- Manage accessible project plans with clear roles, deliverables, and milestones.
- Lead cross-functional teams through up to two grant cycles per year, covering recruitment, screening, decision-making, and due diligence.
- Facilitate post-process debriefs to identify strengths and opportunities for growth, ensuring an equity-centered approach.
Messaging and Communication
- Create user-friendly, jargon-free manuals, training materials, and documents for stakeholders (e.g., process overviews, reviewer training materials, fiscal sponsorship process maps).
- Draft culturally responsive, clear, and error-free communications for external audiences.
Grant Management and Payment Processing
- Maintain accurate systems for Fellow information, design processes for timely payments, and track special offerings like fiscal sponsorships and recoverable grants.
- Oversee systems for collecting Fellow banking, tax, and other required information.
- Collaborate with the finance team to ensure timely payments of grants, stipends, and honoraria.
- Troubleshoot and resolve payment issues for Fellows.
- Develop and enhance processes for managing special financial offerings like fiscal sponsorships and recoverable grants.
- Create communication materials to explain offerings and address Fellows’ questions.
Inclusive People Management & Departmental Support
- Guide a cross-functional team, including Associate-level staff, toward achieving data-driven program goals using equitable people management tools.
- Represent Echoing Green nationally or internationally through occasional travel (1–3 times per year).
- Global Social Justice Orientation: Facility with discussing, managing processes, and continuous learning that roots out identity biases in a globally resonant way
- Innovative Process Management: Faithfully documents, manages, and iterates on processes with an eye for advancing the team’s goals and the fields of trust-based philanthropy, equitable selection, and participatory grantmaking
- Sharp Prioritization: Unyielding solution orientation to juggling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, global organization
- Systematized Data Collection and Analysis: Rigorous system builder around collecting and analyzing patterns in qualitative and quantitative data to inform systems design and impact
- 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
Annual salary starting at $84,000/year
At Echoing Green, we prioritize employee wellness with a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Generous Time Off: Up to 27 days of paid time off annually.
- Premium Health Coverage: Best-in-class medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid leave to support new parents.
- Monthly Stipends: $100 for well-being and $100 for wireless expenses.
- Professional Growth Support: A $1,350 annual professional development stipend.
- Retirement Savings Plan: 403(b) with up to 7% employer match after one year of employment.
Echoing Green, headquartered in New York City, offers the flexibility of a fully remote role, with a strong preference for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
At Echoing Green, we celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ, gender non-conforming & non-binary, women, veteran, multilingual, and other underrepresented persons in senior leadership to apply, even if they may not meet every listed qualification. Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and we are dedicated to building a team that reflects the richness of the global community.
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.
