Vice President, Global Impact

What You'll Do

The Vice President, Global Impact will be a senior leader responsible for owning and advancing Echoing Green's core programmatic strategy and relationships, with particular focus on Fellows, capital alignment, and executive partnerships. Grounded in our strategic five-year vision and informed by Echoing Green's Impact Measurement & Management (IMM) strategy, which centers Fellow voice, participatory learning, and data used to guide strategic decisions, this role will serve as a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, ensuring alignment across programs, capital strategy, and external engagement. This role requires comfort navigating power, difference, and accountability with humility, clarity, and consistency - particularly in relationships with Fellows, staff, and external partners. The successful candidate will ensure Echoing Green's work with Fellows is impactful, sustainable, and grounded in transparency and care, supporting alignment across teams and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Fellows, Community, and Relationship Stewardship

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with Fellows across cohorts, serving as a visible, credible senior leader within the Echoing Green community
• Partner with the Programs team to evolve offerings that support Fellow impact while strengthening clarity, sustainability
• Support consistent, transparent communication with Fellows that reinforces trust and mutual accountability
• Translate Fellow and staff insights into inputs that inform leadership decision-making and organizational alignment

Strategic Program Leadership

• Refine and steward program strategy in alignment with Echoing Green's broader strategic plan
• Support strong alignment between Programs and the broader organization, as well as external engagement, recognizing that internal collaboration and relationship-building are essential to impact, particularly within a geographically distributed organization
• Balance refinement of existing approaches with thoughtful innovation, informed by lived experience, learning, and evolving context

Impact Measurement, Learning, and Adaptation

• Partner with internal teams to use IMM insights to inform strategic choices and program evolution
• Engage in shared sense-making processes that integrate quantitative data, qualitative insight, and lived experience, with attention to whose voices are centered and how insights are applied
• Support a culture of reflection and learning that enables course correction and adaptation over time

Executive Leadership and Decision-Making

• Act as a strategic thought partner to Executive Team members, contributing to organization-wide prioritization and decision-making
• Bring forward insights related to program capacity, sequencing, and tradeoffs to support clear, informed leadership choices
• Contribute to shared understanding and alignment across leadership, particularly where program realities intersect with organizational priorities

Team Leadership and Management

• Supervise the Managing Director, Programs, with accountability for strategy execution, people leadership, and outcomes
• Lead, coach, and support a team of approximately 12 direct and indirect reports
• Demonstrate ownership of a full programmatic function, including people, priorities, and performance

External Representation and Fundraising Support

• Represent Echoing Green externally with funders, donors, partners, and field leaders
• Support fundraising initiatives by clearly and compellingly articulating Echoing Green's work, impact model, and approach to supporting Fellows
• Elevate the leadership and work of Fellows through external engagement and partnerships

Who You'll Work With

You will report to the President.

You will supervise the Managing Director of Programs, Senior Director, Community, and an overall team of 12.

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in social impact, program leadership, or related fields
• Demonstrated experience leading a full programmatic function, with direct responsibility for strategy, people leadership, and results
• Managed teams of 10 or more direct and indirect reports, with clear accountability for development and performance
• Demonstrated experience leading in contexts where power, difference, and resource constraints are present, and where trust is built through action rather than rhetoric or proximity
• Direct lived experience starting or leading a social enterprise strongly preferred

Skills & Competencies:

• Strategic Vision & Innovation: Ability to translate high-level strategic goals into actionable program initiatives
• Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build and support high-performing, values-aligned teams, with a people-first approach
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Proficiency in analyzing quantitative and qualitative feedback to drive continuous program improvement
• Collaborative Leadership: Experience working cross-functionally and building strong relationships with diverse stakeholders, including Fellows, staff, funders, and field partners
• Change Management: Aptitude for leading organizational change, with a focus on operational efficiency and fostering a culture of innovation
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to inspire and engage both internal and external audiences and demonstrated experience amplifying the work and voices of underrepresented communities
• Commitment to Equity: Deep commitment to advancing racial equity, inclusion, and global perspectives in program design and delivery
• Multilingual / Cross Cultural Competence: Fluency in English and any other language; while direct international work experience is not required, experience navigating global contexts or diverse teams is strongly preferred

• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.
• Can be based anywhere in the U.S., but must be available to work full-time on Eastern Time (New York business hours).
• Position will require U.S. and global travel (potentially 30-40%).

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.