Manager, Onramps (Global Applicant Outreach, HBCU Partnerships)

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 GirlTrek, Good Call, Last Mile Health, Neighborhood Benches, Shining Hope for Communities, SKS Microfinance, Tala, Village of Wisdom, and hundreds of others.

In June 2020, Echoing Green launched a $50 million Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund (REPF) and has since increased that fundraising goal to $75 million. With this fund, Echoing Green furthers a 35-year commitment to bold, strategic investments in racial equity work. Echoing Green's Programs Team is responsible for selecting and supporting the Fellows who are selected as part of the REPF, offering funding and capacity-building for the incredible leaders working on the frontlines of racial equity and justice.

For more information on Echoing Green, please visit www.echoinggreen.org.

Who You'll Work With

At Echoing Green, we have a front row seat to the brightest leaders 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 Director, Onramps, we are looking for a Manager, Onramps to project manage the year-round implementation of pipeline-building programming for social innovation changemakers around the world.

Applications for this role must be received by March 15, 2023.

As the Manager, Onramps, you will lead key workstreams that include:

• Equity-Centered Process Management
  • Manage applicant outreach processes, university partnership coordination, and Social Innovation Challenge operations through two lenses - equity-centered talent-spotting for early-stage social innovators and critical consciousness (e.g. building agency and collective action) for youth innovators seeking to solve social issues
  • Build and manage accessible project plans that outline clear roles, milestones for deliverables, and status of process elements across diverse, cross-functional stakeholders
  • Manage the development of user-friendly, jargon-free manuals, training materials, and other documents to enable successful implementation of Onramps processes across internal and external stakeholders (e.g. campus administrator partnership guide, Masterclass volunteer training materials, applicant outreach webinar process slides, Social Innovation Challenge pitch guidance)
  • Draft and send external communications and deliverables that are reliably culturally responsive, jargon-free, clear, and free of typographical errors
  • Prepare and present ongoing process updates and end-of-project proposals for changes by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing qualitative and quantitative data from internal and external stakeholders (e.g. staff, HBCU administrators and students, partner organizations)
  • Design and facilitate efficient post-process debrief meetings that capture strengths and opportunities for growth in our pipeline-building programs
• Inclusive People Management & Departmental Support
  • Supervise Assistant-level staff toward data-driven program implementation goals, leveraging equitable people management tools and approaches
  • Drive Assistant-level staff professional development and performance through ongoing, direct, positive and constructive feedback and coaching
  • Travel likely 1-3 times annually to represent Echoing Green (national and international locations)

Requirements

What You'll Bring

• 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 equity-centered talent spotting and critical consciousness
• 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, HBCU affiliates, social innovators, partner organizations, and peers)
• Human-Centered Approach: Commitment to collaboration, laughter, and candor for oneself and others in the workplace

Applications for this role must be received by March 15, 2023.

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: $84,000/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.

While our office is located in New York City this role can be fully remote.

Employees of Echoing Green are required to 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.

As an equal opportunity employer, Echoing Green encourages applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability or any other legally protected basis.