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 social innovators 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 Managing Director, Programs, we are looking for a Senior Director, Capital to drive the strategic vision for our Fellow selection and capital disbursement processes, along with directing the year-round implementation of those processes.

What You’ll Do

As the Senior Director of Capital, you will oversee key workstreams that include:

New Fellow Selection Strategy & Oversight

• Center a globally resonant definition of racial equity and a leader-forward definition of innovation in Fellow selection tools (e.g. applications, rubrics and scoring guidance) and assessment processes (e.g. diligence and slate review decision-making)
• Design training materials and facilitate interactive sessions that support internal and external evaluators to: (1) root out evaluator bias; and (2) norm scores across a large range of evaluator perspectives
• Lead strategic iteration of selection tools and processes through recurring post-cycle analysis of diverse stakeholder feedback (i.e. internal staff, funder partners, social innovation experts, board members, Fellow alums)
• Streamline current selection tools and processes to ensure an increasingly efficient approach to identifying social changemakers on a global scale
• Oversee the ongoing codification of each phase of the selection process, with clear documentation of both manual / high-touch and automatic / low-touch elements
• Develop and maintain relationships across the social innovation sector and across the Echoing Green community to identify best practices for strategic iteration of selection tools and processes

Capital Disbursement Strategy & Oversight

• Center trust-based practices (e.g. unrestricted funding, simplified reporting, participatory grantmaking) in capital disbursement for Fellows
• Oversee proactive Fellow support that leverages ongoing outreach, relevant counsel, and timely resource-matching (i.e. fiscal sponsorship partners) for new Fellow stipends
• Streamline current tools and processes to ensure an increasingly efficient approach to disbursing new Fellow stipends, making follow-on investment decisions for alums, monitoring fiscal sponsorships, managing recoverable grants, and distributing small grants
• Design training materials and facilitate interactive sessions that drive a “for Fellows, by Fellows” approach to follow-on investment decisions for alumni Fellows
• Oversee the ongoing codification of each disbursement process, with clear documentation of both manual / high-touch and automatic / low-touch elements
• Lead strategic iteration of disbursement processes through recurring collection and analysis of staff and Fellow feedback
• Develop and maintain relationships across the social innovation sector and across the Echoing Green community to inform strategic iteration of disbursement tools and processes to position Echoing Green as a leader in trust-based philanthropy

Departmental Leadership

• Manage consultants, contractors, and internal departmental staff toward data-driven selection and capital disbursement goals
• Supervise Programs staff responsible for cross-functional project management and implementation of the multi-phased new Fellow selection process and the multi-faceted disbursement strategy
• Drive staff professional development and performance through ongoing, direct, positive and constructive feedback and coaching
• Collaborate with cross-functional senior leaders to align development requests, communications support, executive leadership perspective, and operational feasibility of selection process and capital disbursement strategy
• Manage departmental budget and budget planning process for new Fellow stipends, capital disbursements to alumni, travel expenses, consultant fees, and other selections-, disbursement-, and team culture-related costs