Grant Services Associate

Overview

We’re Echidna Giving, a vibrant, international team united in our mission to transform girls' education worldwide. We’re excited to find TWO Grants Services Associates who will play a crucial role in helping us make an impact by managing grants, supporting our grantees, analyzing data, honing our processes, improving our systems, and ensuring everything runs smoothly.

Are you passionate about supporting grantees and helping them to succeed? Do you thrive on building strong relationships and solving challenges to deliver value within a team? Do you get satisfaction from organizing and making sense of data? Do you like making processes and systems work seamlessly and efficiently? If so, read on. We’d love to hear from you!

At Echidna Giving, our mission is clear: getting more girls into better schools to create brighter futures. We believe investing in girls  education transforms lives and communities, making the world more equitable. As a leading private funder in international education, we re in a phase of exciting growth, expanding our annual grant budget from $50M to $200M over the next 5-7 years.

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Join our dynamic team of thirteen, and help us shape the future of girls  education. We take pride in our principles, teamwork, relationships, and ability to move quickly.

We’re on the lookout for TWO dynamic Grants Services Associates to join our global team. Reporting to the Grants Services Manager, you ll play a key role in grants administration, database design and management, and provide technical support. You’ll work closely with program staff and our grantees around the globe. Enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid role with 2-3 days in our San Francisco office and the rest remotely.

Target

Start Date:

April 30, 2026 (or sooner if available)

• Champion grantee needs by adopting a grantee-centered approach and ensuring their success
• Dive into grant submissions, verifying completeness and accuracy, flagging any issues or concerns, and identify the best fund partners or channels for each grant
• Be the go-to expert for technical, operational, and compliance support, working closely with the primary program officer
• Oversee all post-award activities, from managing amendments and tracking reports to initiating payments
• Ensure proposals, reports, and budgets meet our fund partners  compliance standards
• Process grants efficiently and manage agreements and payments in collaboration with our fund partners
• Keep our grant database up-to-date with precise, timely data
• Create and improve grants administration resources to boost team communication and efficiency especially as we scale our grantmaking
• Co-facilitate New Grantee Orientations, setting the stage for successful partnerships

• Spot and bridge data gaps with precision, ensuring top-notch quality control
• Offer hands-on education and/or technical support to staff and grantees, keeping our grant database and grantmaking process running smoothly
• Dive into grant data to generate insightful reports for program and grants teams, as well as leadership
• Play a key role in visioning and driving enhancements in our grantmaking process and grants database
• Support design updates, monitor and propose modifications, and routine upkeep for our grant database system

• Manage shared inboxes with efficiency, ensuring timely responses and support
• Streamline processes to keep things efficient and agile, avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy
• Document and organize procedures to ensure consistent results
• Play a key role in training and supporting staff on grants administration and database best practices
• Offer essential administrative support to keep everything running smoothly
• Dive into special projects that drive innovation and impact
• Support preparation of board and leadership materials related to grantmaking, including compiling data, summaries, and timelines, and coordinating inputs across program and grant teams

• 3+ Years Relevant
  
  Experience:
  
  This role is well-suited for someone who has already built a strong foundation in grants administration and…