Director, Onramps
Echoing Green, United States

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.

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 Vice President, Programs, the Director of Onramps will lead our recruitment and pipeline development, overseeing a team including a Manager and an Assistant. This role is critical for fostering a diverse pool of applicants and partners through year-round recruitment activities and programming.

As the Director of our Onramps strategy, you will lead key workstreams that include:

(1) Racial Equity Centered Partnership Management

• Build and create meaningful relationships with a range of outreach partners, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), global innovation hubs and ambassadors in multiple target geographies (e.g. Northeast Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America), and sourcing partners (e.g. Enactus / The Resolution Project)
• Design initiatives to increase diversity in our applicant pipeline by cultivating partnerships with U.S.-based and international organizations
• Develop and manage relationships with volunteers, corporate partners, and other key external stakeholders
• Represent Echoing Green at meetings / events with key external stakeholders including university partners, funder partners, and other social innovation spaces relevant to pipeline-building

(2) Culturally Relevant Program Design amp; Facilitation

• Curate and develop culturally inclusive curriculum and key messages (including guidance materials, workshops, and trainings) to support Black, Indigenous, and other People of the Global Majority in their social entrepreneurship journey
• Facilitate pipeline-building workshops and culminating showcases that engage potential applicants, funders, and the broader Echoing Green community
• Project manage collaborative design processes and co-facilitation of workshops and showcases

(3) Department Leadership

• Build, manage, and supervise consultants, contractors, and internal departmental staff toward data-driven program implementation goals
• Drive staff professional development and performance through ongoing, direct, positive and constructive feedback and coaching
• Manage departmental budget and budget planning process for travel, consultants, and other partnership-related and program development costs
• Travel at least every two months, including key meetings in Echoing Green’s NYC office, site visits to HBCU partners, and/or convenings to represent Echoing Green at a Fellow convening (both national and international locations)
• Assist in the screening, decision-making, and due diligence review of Fellowship applications and follow-on investment decisions

Requirements

• Global Racial Equity Leadership: Facility with discussing, leading discussions around, and developing programs that center issues of racial equity on a global scale
• Social Innovation Expertise: Lived experience leading an organization or department dedicated to systems change for social good
• Strategic Thinking: A knack for drafting short-, medium-, and long-term proposals with accompanying contingency considerations for changing talent, budget, and field landscape
• Sharp Prioritization: Unyielding solution orientation to juggling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, global organization
• Impact-Driven Decision-Making: Rigor around leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to drive programmatic design and impact
• Dynamic Storytelling: Facilitation and writing prowess that uses stories and creative entry points to design interactive presentations and learning experiences for in-person and virtual audiences
• Human-Centered Approach: Commitment to collaboration, laughter, and candor for oneself and others in the workplace

Benefits

• Base Salary: $130,000 annually.

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