Manager, Community (New Fellow Experience)

About Echoing Green

Echoing Green builds a movement of leaders innovating today to transform tomorrow. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact. Over 35 years, Echoing Green’s global community of emerging leaders 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, Community, we are looking for a Manager, Community (New Fellow Experience) to project manage the year-round implementation of programming for virtual and in-person gatherings to connect Fellows around the world.

What You’ll Do

As the Manager, Community (New Fellow Experience), you will lead key work streams that include: 

Equity-Centered Process Management

• Manage New Fellow Experience and All Fellows Convening processes through a lens of culturally relevant, sustaining pedagogy (e.g. validating and affirming Fellows’ global diversity and individuality)
• 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 in-person and virtual new Fellow gatherings across internal and external stakeholders (e.g. New Fellow Experience slides, guides, and support materials, All Fellow Convening planning documents)
• 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, reviewers, Fellows, other gathering participants)
• Design and facilitate efficient post-process debrief meetings that capture strengths and opportunities for growth in culturally relevant, sustaining design processes (e.g. validating and affirming Fellows’ global diversity and individuality) 

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 3-5 times annually to represent Echoing Green (both 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 field of culturally sustaining pedagogy.
• 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 gathering participants, peers) 
• Human-Centered Approach: Commitment to collaboration, laughter, and candor for oneself and others in the workplace

Benefits

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, a best-in-class health insurance which covers medical, dental, and vision needs, fully paid parental leave, a monthly well-being stipend of $100/month, a monthly wireless stipend of $100/month, professional development stipend of $1350 per fiscal year,  and a 403(b)-retirement savings plan with an employer match up to 7% of annual salary after first year.

The Manager, Community role is designed for remote work on a permanent basis. The role is available to candidates residing anywhere based in the United States, though travel will be expected to be for Engagements and team development etc.

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.

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.