Position:
Manager, Capital
Location:
San Francisco, California
Website:
Job Category:
Application Deadline:
Monday, February 3, 2025
Key Responsibilities
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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.
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Refine program offerings and selection criteria using qualitative and quantitative data, aligning with Fellow needs, ecosystem gaps, and Echoing Green’s strategic plan.
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Prepare and present process updates and proposals based on feedback from internal and external stakeholders (e.g., staff, reviewers, Fellows).
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Design application forms, scoring rubrics, and evaluation methodologies that reflect program goals and Trust-Based Philanthropy best practices.
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Manage accessible project plans with clear roles, deliverables, and milestones.
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Lead cross-functional teams through up to two grant cycles per year, covering recruitment, screening, decision-making, and due diligence.
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Facilitate post-process debriefs to identify strengths and opportunities for growth, ensuring an equity-centered approach.
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Create user-friendly, jargon-free manuals, training materials, and documents for stakeholders (e.g., process overviews, reviewer training materials, fiscal sponsorship process maps).
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Draft culturally responsive, clear, and error-free communications for external audiences.
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Maintain accurate systems for Fellow information, design processes for timely payments, and track special offerings like fiscal sponsorships and recoverable grants.
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Oversee systems for collecting Fellow banking, tax, and other required information.
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Collaborate with the finance team to ensure timely payments of grants, stipends, and honoraria.
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Troubleshoot and resolve payment issues for Fellows.
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Develop and enhance processes for managing special financial offerings like fiscal sponsorships and recoverable grants.
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Create communication materials to explain offerings and address Fellows’ questions.
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Guide a cross-functional team, including Associate-level staff, toward achieving data-driven program goals using equitable people management tools.
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Represent Echoing Green nationally or internationally through occasional travel (1–3 times per year).
Qualifications
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Global Social Justice Orientation: Facility with discussing, managing processes, and continuous learning that roots out identity biases in a globally resonant way
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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
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Sharp Prioritization: Unyielding solution orientation to juggling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, global organization
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Systematized Data Collection and Analysis: Rigorous system builder around collecting and analyzing patterns in qualitative and quantitative data to inform systems design and impact
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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)
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Human-Centered Approach: Commitment to collaboration, laughter, and candor for oneself and others in the workplace