Funds Program Manager

Founders Pledge•New York, NY

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Founders Pledge is seeking a dedicated Funds Program Manager to be the central operational hub for their Fund Managers. This role is crucial for managing the operational weight of fundraising execution, improving data workflows, and ensuring seamless information flow across teams. The successful candidate will report to the Research Operations Lead and will be responsible for building, implementing, and improving robust systems to support the organization's global ambition in deploying capital effectively. This role also involves providing operational and administrative support to Fund Managers and the research team to enhance their impact. Founders Pledge is a community of over 2,300 members who have pledged nearly $13.6B and donated over $1.9B to charitable causes in more than 45 countries. They provide giving infrastructure, research, and a network of experts to help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. The organization focuses on deploying capital for maximum impact through evidence-based analysis and long-term thinking.

Requirements

Significant experience managing complex operations, multi-stakeholder projects, or data pipelines, ideally in grantmaking, consulting, or a fast-moving nonprofit environment.
Direct experience working with philanthropic Funds, in grantmaking operations, philanthropic services, or a foundation/donor-advised fund context.
Understanding of how capital moves within the philanthropic ecosystem.
High fluency with tools such as Salesforce, Notion, Asana, or Google Workspace.
High attention to detail and pride in flawless accuracy.
Clear, proactive communication skills, with the ability to translate messy pipeline data into clean insights.
Ability to proactively surface risks to leadership before they become bottlenecks.
Comfort operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
Ability to handle multiple projects/stakeholders simultaneously and manage directional changes with ease.
Initiative to help without being told.

Nice To Haves

Operations experience ideally in the field of philanthropy or non-profits.
A love for optimization and making things run smoothly.
Confidence to implement new systems rather than just maintaining the status quo.

Responsibilities

Build and scale centralized, robust tracking systems for quantitative and qualitative fund data (commitments, capital inflows/outflows, fund performance).
Identify strategic or operational bottlenecks and recommend improvements for fund scalability.
Map and balance the donor pipeline against the research pipeline of High-Impact Funding Opportunities (HIFOs).
Co-own the end-to-end coordination of Fund operations, including grant tracking, timelines, committee coordination, approvals, and disbursements.
Proactively surface risks to senior leadership, such as delays in research sign-off, capital shortfalls, or execution constraints.
Manage one-off donor and funder requests, including tailored reporting, special conditions, or agreement-related obligations.
Act as the operational connective tissue to ensure fund materials, external posts, internal memos, and impact reports are accurate, timely, and aligned.
Coordinate with the Impact Analytics team for external reporting and manage donor requests and special conditions.
Coordinate internal functional areas to execute fund launches and reopenings.
Provide administrative support, including email drafting and management, scheduling meetings, preparing for meetings, conferences, and follow-ups, and booking travel and accommodations.
Provide operational support by taking on repeatable, process-driven work for the Research Operations Lead.