Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Activate is a nonprofit dedicated to turning scientific discoveries into real-world impact. The Fellowship Manager, Anywhere serves as the program lead for the hybrid Activate Anywhere community, overseeing the fellowship experience and ensuring operational excellence for fellows across the United States.
Responsibilities
- Direct Anywhere community programming, including bi-weekly virtual programming and quarterly in-person trips
- Manage local program operations, including fellow selection, fellow onboarding, fellow data, and fellow benefits
- Cultivate a supportive, tight-knit community experience for Anywhere fellows, building strong individual relationships to coordinate necessary support and resources
- Manage the Fellowship Associate to ensure high-performance execution of local community operations and support their professional development
- Oversee community budgeting, strategy, team meetings, and team-wide coordination
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate fellowship insights and stories into strategies that amplify organizational impact
- Contribute to broader Fellowship team-wide initiatives, operations, and cross-functional working groups
- Represent Activate at virtual recruitment events and engage Anywhere alumni to strengthen community connections
- Champion a positive, welcoming environment while contributing to the wider Activate culture
Skills
- Has 3-5 years of experience in fellowship management, program management or related experience
- Has a passion for and experience with community building in a virtual environment
- Is experienced with facilitating personal connections, collaborations, and mutual support within a community
- Gets the details right and takes pride in being organized and prepared
- Can smoothly manage a complex program through changing external circumstances
- Proactively collects and analyzes the data needed to drive continuous improvement and be two steps ahead of any problem
- Is eager and capable of gathering the shared challenges of entrepreneurs and translating that into programming
- Communicates nuanced information clearly in any context including on a stage, in a heartfelt conversation, or with a graph-filled presentation
- Is excited to grow their skill as a manager and help others reach their full potential
- Switches smoothly between collaboration and individual work, between words and numbers, and between strategic and nitty-gritty tasks
- Can commit to supporting our fellows relentlessly because the technologies needed to solve global challenges depend on them
- Loves science and is ready to learn a lot of it!
Benefits
- Generous benefits package that includes professional development
- $2,000 in annual wellness funds
- Flexible paid time off
- Healthcare coverage for employees and dependents
- 90–100% of premiums covered
- Opportunity to join a retirement plan with a 3% match beginning after 3 months at Activate
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