Associate, Capital

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.

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 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)

Requirements

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

Benefits

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,