Senior Associate, Communications and Programs

Center for Effective Philanthropy • SF or Cambridge, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

CEP seeks a skilled Senior Associate to join its Communications and Programs team, which designs and delivers programming to help funders integrate data-backed changes into their work. The team’s CEP Learning Institute offers peer cohorts, workshops, and learning opportunities for foundation staff and leaders. The Senior Associate works closely with the team to design, market, and deliver workshops, trainings, and peer learning cohorts, collaborating on strategy and content design, communicating with participants, co-managing technical needs, and representing CEP in speaking engagements. The role reports to the Senior Manager and can be based in CEP’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, or San Francisco, California, office. It is not available as a fully remote position.

The position offers an opportunity to shape and build CEP’s learning offerings. The Senior Associate contributes to program design and delivery, adapts CEP research for funder learning, facilitates sessions, manages participant feedback, and helps improve the team’s processes and operations. The role requires strong project management, communication, collaboration, and attention to detail, along with a commitment to equity and inclusion. Travel of up to 10–20% annually is required.

Staff are expected to work in the office two days per week and may work fully remotely from anywhere for four weeks per year. CEP offers competitive compensation and benefits. Annual salary is $97,000 in Cambridge and $106,700 in San Francisco, with eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation.

Requirements

• Three years of work experience.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Excitement about improving the effectiveness of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Google Suite, Excel, Zoom, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• High personal integrity and commitment to excellence.
• A bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) or equivalent, with subsequent relevant experience.
• Authorization to work for any employer in the United States; CEP is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Nice To Haves

• Previous consulting, foundation, and/or nonprofit experience.
• Familiarity with adult learning.
• Experience developing and delivering curricula and learning tools, such as reflection exercises and facilitation guides, and facilitating workshops or trainings.
• Familiarity with Salesforce.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the design and delivery of polished remote and in-person sessions for foundation staff and leaders, including peer learning cohorts and custom workshops.
• Co-facilitate remote and in-person learning sessions.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of CEP research, client context, and trends in philanthropy, and apply this knowledge across CEP Learning Institute offerings.
• Adapt CEP research and contextual knowledge into learning materials, including PowerPoint presentations, session outlines, discussion prompts, guest speaker interview questions, and participant activities.
• Apply an equity and inclusion lens to content design.
• Collaborate on external communications, including registration and ongoing participant communications, with an enthusiastic customer-service orientation.
• Lead the design, execution, and analysis of participant feedback systems.
• Co-manage processes and innovation in Communications and Programs offerings.
• Participate in team discussions, collaborate on cross-team projects, and help develop the team’s internal knowledge base and operations.
• Collaborate with the Administrative Coordinator on participant registration and maintaining curriculum content on online course platforms.
• Manage in-session Zoom logistics, including testing technical and logistical needs and setting up breakouts, slides for small-group note-taking, and polls.
• Support other Communications and Programs team needs as needed.
• Contribute to CEP’s culture and mission, including its commitment to using good data to improve decision-making and building equity and inclusion into its work.

Benefits

• Commitment to pay parity and salary equity.
• Competitive performance-based incentive compensation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and pet insurance plans.
• Generous paid time off, including three weeks of annually accrued vacation, up to 15 holidays, and an end-of-year break.
• Flexible working schedule options.
• 401(k) plan with a 1:1 employer match up to 5% of total compensation.
• Annual personal professional development allowance.
• Flexible spending and dependent care tax-free savings plans.
• Life insurance covered 100% by the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior