Associate, Communications

About Echoing Green

For 37 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. Through our Fellowship and other programs, we find emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and set them on a path to lifelong impact. We provide them with funding, professional development, and a Fellow community that includes founders of organizations like Teach for America, One Acre Fund, Tala, and Last Mile Health. 

For more information on Echoing Green, please visit www.echoinggreen.org.

Who You’ll Work With

The Communications team strengthens and leverages the Echoing Green brand to support Fellows, attract new talent, and elevate the broader social innovation field. To do this, we make the most of our team’s multidisciplinary talents spanning writing, design, digital communications, and video. In addition to stewarding Echoing Green’s overarching brand and communications channels, we serve as thought partners to our colleagues across other teams as they provide consistent, timely, and compelling communications directly to our Fellows, funders, and field partners.

Although this position will be based at the Echoing Green office in New York, they will join a hybrid team with two Communications colleagues on the West Coast and two based in New York.

What You’ll Do

As the Associate, Communications, you’ll play an integral role in our team’s success as a project manager, content creator, and individual contributor. Reporting to the Manager, Communications, and working closely with the Senior Associate, Digital Communications, you’ll have a line of sight to everything that goes into our communications work – from high level strategy to tactical execution. 

In this role, you will:

• Draft and edit content for blog posts, email newsletters, social media, reports, and event materials.
• Help keep the team’s content calendar and project trackers organized and up-to-date.
• Support email campaigns by drafting copy, updating contact lists, scheduling sends, and tracking results.
• Assist with social media by drafting posts, scheduling content, and responding to comments or messages.
• Make updates to the website and communication materials, working with designers or developers when needed.
• Monitor news and updates from Fellows and the social impact space to share with the team and inform content.
• Help coordinate communications for events, outreach efforts, and Fellow-related activities in partnership with other teams.
• Maintain shared tools like writing guides, brand templates, and other resources used across the organization.
• Participate in meetings by helping with agenda prep, note-taking, and tracking follow-up items.  

What You’ll Bring

• A Foundation to Build Upon: Relevant internship or professional experience in a communications role, ideally in a non-profit, agency, or mission-driven organization. 
• A Way with Words: Demonstrated experience writing and editing content that distills complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with varied audiences. 
• Adaptable Project Management: Comfort juggling competing priorities and, equally important, helping others do the same to keep projects on track.
• Digital Literacy: Comfort with digital communications channels, including social media, email marketing, and website content.
• Global Perspective and Commitment to Justice: Genuine interest in Echoing Green’s mission and the people it serves. Comfortable and thoughtful when helping shape communications that reflect a wide range of life experiences, including those shaped by race, gender, identity, and economic background, in communities around the world..
• Eagerness to Learn: Willingness to learn from others, receive feedback, and embrace opportunities for growth.
• Effective Collaboration: A collaborative approach to work that coordinates and motivates stakeholders through clear communications.
• People-First Approach: Dedication to promoting teamwork, positivity, and open communication for oneself and colleagues within the professional environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience using Campaign Monitor, WordPress, and/or Sprout Social
• Familiarity with the social innovation, impact investing, or philanthropic fields
• Basic graphic editing skills using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar platforms

Base Salary: $64,350/year

Echoing Green offers a comprehensive benefits package to support your well-being and growth, including:

• Up to 27 paid days off annually, plus 9 holidays and a 10-day winter break
• Top-tier health coverage for medical, dental, and vision
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• 12 weeks of fully paid personal sick leave
• $100 monthly well-being stipend
• $100 monthly wireless/internet stipend
• $1,350 annual professional development fund
• 403(b) retirement plan with up to 7% employer match after one year

This position will also require the employee to work from our office in New York City 2 days/week, and remotely 3 days/week.

The position also requires the employee to travel for work approximately 1-2 times per year, including international travel. 

We are unable to sponsor those individuals who require visas to work in the United States at this time.

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.