Giving Green is looking to grow our team with an Operations Associate or Senior Associate.
We are also open to offering a Manager / Associate Director / Chief of Staff role to an exceptional candidate.
You might be a good fit if you have experience in one or more of: finance and accounting, nonprofit compliance, HR or people operations, project management, administrative work.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications received by December 7 will receive priority, and we may or may not review applications after this date. We are aiming for a start date in January 2026.
Who is Giving Green?
At Giving Green, our mission is to make high-impact climate giving easier for everyone.
If you’re reading this, you know climate change is an all-hands-on-deck crisis. Yet, only 2% of global philanthropy goes to climate mitigation, and plenty of funds go to projects that don’t actually move the needle. Why? One reason is that the most promising climate solutions are often the hardest to understand. We need solutions that don’t just win the race against time, but change entire systems. But, these solutions are often deeply complex or technical; they’re big bets with uncertain outcomes and need early and patient support.
For donors, reliable and clear information on where to give in climate must be easy to find, understand, and support. That’s why we focus on cutting through the noise and confusion to make climate giving decisions easy and, ultimately, more impactful.
Giving Green distills the complex landscape of systems change into actionable advice for donors. We find under-the-radar donation opportunities with the potential to make outsized impact, and our Giving Green Fund makes it easy for anyone to support a portfolio of high-impact opportunities. In the last five years, Giving Green has raised over $55 million for climate action and landed press mentions in Vox, the Atlantic, Time, and more. With a recently expanded team, greater grantmaking capacity, and our upcoming launch as a standalone nonprofit, we now need to lay a strong operational foundation for the work to come.
Who are we looking for?
Above all, we’re looking for a generalist. If you see some of your strengths in the list below, we encourage you to apply, even if you have no experience in several other areas.
No matter what your background is, we’ll need you to be comfortable independently managing and executing on a wide variety of projects in the operations space, some of which will probably be new to you. If you’re excited about leaning into your growth edges and diving headfirst into every part of what makes a small nonprofit run, you might be a good fit!
As an Operations Associate, your responsibilities may include:
- Finance: In collaboration with our outsourced backoffice team, ensure gifts and expenses are properly recorded and allocated, prepare and analyze budgets, make payments to vendors and grantees, and help manage our books.
- Grants management: Support our grants diligence and reporting processes from the operational side, both by liaising with grantees and by managing the overall pipeline alongside our backoffice team.
- Legal & compliance: Track contracts and reporting obligations, oversee our insurance, and manage compliance with state and federal registrations and reporting.
- People & culture: Liaise with payroll/benefits providers. Manage efficient and bias-aware recruitment processes and lightweight onboarding, performance management, and offboarding. Plan and facilitate team meetings and twice-yearly in-person retreats.
- IT & systems: Maintain our website (built in Webflow) and our internal systems (Gsuite, slack, etc) so that our team can do our best work.
- Development operations: Maintain our CRM and broader donor data pipeline through data entry, setting up syncing processes, and encouraging team-wide adoption.
For a Manager / Associate Director / Chief of Staff, while we still expect to hire a generalist, we’d be looking for someone with the experience to own at least one of the below functions:
- Finance and grants: Develop and maintain financial procedures, enabling better decisionmaking and responsible stewardship of funds. In conjunction with our outsourced backoffice team and our research team, formalize a lightweight grant management process for the Giving Green Fund, from application to disbursement to final reports.
- Executive & organizational strategy: Manage and improve our impact-tracking processes to keep us focused on our north star. Serve as a thought partner to the ED on organizational strategy, hiring and growth, fundraising, and liaising to the Board and key funders. Manage cross-functional special projects as needed.
Across all areas of responsibility, we are looking for someone who will proactively identify areas of growth in our systems and strategy, propose experiments, and iterate with new tactics as needed.
Required qualifications:
- Entrepreneurial spirit; ability to work independently and take initiative on a small team; problem-solving orientation
- Ability to develop your own work timelines and products; strong time management
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Clear internal communication skills, especially with experience on remote teams
- Passion for taking action on climate change and strong alignment with Giving Green’s values
- Basic familiarity with US-specific laws and systems, e.g. employment/HR, finance, and charitable regulations. (Low bar: in practice, we think this is likely to be gained by either direct experience working in operations for a US entity, or through living/working in the US.)
- 1+ years of full-time work experience in a nonprofit operations role or similar function
Desired qualifications: We are especially interested in candidates who bring some subset of the following experiences. We know that strong candidates may not check all boxes, but we are looking for strength in some areas and a willingness to grow in others.
- Experience in operations/finance at a grantmaking nonprofit (public charity or private foundation)
- Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Proficiency with Sage Intacct accounting software
- Experience overseeing compliance for a US-based, multi-state nonprofit organization
- Knowledge of analytics tools like Google Analytics or Google Search Console
- Experience managing systems like GSuite, Airtable, Slack, and Asana for small teams
- Experience with people & culture functions on a quickly-growing small team (e.g. events, policies, hiring, performance management, change management, internal comms)
- Experience with benefits administration in the US
- (for Chief of Staff roles) Deep experience in the climate and/or philanthropy ecosystem
What is it like to work here?
Our culture:
- We have a nonprofit-startup mentality: we’re a small team with lean operations, where everyone is wearing several hats. We strive to do more with less, whether it’s using LLM tools to quickly iterate on marketing copy or finding free event venues through friends and colleagues.
- We value transparency and nuance. We publish our research and methods—and even our mistakes! We’re open about our uncertainties, biases, and constructive feedback.
- We’re fully remote. Because our team currently spans 11 timezones, you may be expected to take calls outside of your standard working hours, with advance notice. Otherwise, you will have a lot of autonomy in how you structure your workday. We value work-life balance and respect your offline time, whether it’s daily childcare or a summer vacation.
- We stay connected through all-hands meetings, a regular reading group, and a Slack channel full of memes. And we meet in person twice a year for a 3-day retreat!
Nuts and bolts:
- Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the country in which they will be based.
- This is an exempt position.
- Compensation is competitive for the non-profit sector, and will be tailored to the location and experience of the applicant. As a benchmark, for a full-time (5-day week), US-based Associate or Senior Associate hire, we are targeting $60,000-$90,000. If you have a salary requirement, please indicate this in your application.
- Benefits are competitive for the non-profit sector: for US candidates, this includes fully covered health, dental, and vision; a 4% unconditional 401(k) contribution; 20+ days of PTO plus public holidays and an org-wide end-of-year closure; productivity and professional development stipends; and more.
- Our team members can choose to work 4 or 5-day work weeks, with salary and some benefits adjusted accordingly. (Most of us are on a 4-day week!: this is 0.8 FTE, not a “4/10” setup of four 10-hour workdays.)
Our application process
- Apply here: https://airtable.com/appTGSQc9jaWGoOBe/pagGLvWheGVuoL9Ps/form. The application asks for a 1-2 page resume and for your responses to a few short-answer questions. We do not require a cover letter, and won’t read one if you submit it!
- Initial interview (1 hour)
- (Possible) Work task (2 hours)
- Final interview (45 minutes) and reference checks (3 references)
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications received by December 7 will receive priority, and we may or may not review applications after this date. We are aiming for a start date in January 2026. If you have questions about this role, reach out to us here.
