Fellowship Manager, Anywhere

Position Summary 

The Fellowship Manager, Anywhere serves as the program lead for the hybrid Activate Anywhere community, which supports fellows located across the United States. In this role, you will work closely with deep-tech science entrepreneurs throughout their two-year Activate fellowship journey, as they build world-changing technologies in fields like climate tech, biomanufacturing, and aerospace.

The Fellowship Manager, Anywhere, is responsible for the Anywhere community’s fellowship experience—designing virtual programming and directing quarterly in-person gatherings—while overseeing operational excellence, including fellow recruitment & selection, benefits management, and program evaluation.

Each Activate community supports about 20 fellows and is run by a three-person team. 

• The Fellowship Manager (this role) leads the local community, and reports to the Fellowship Director, who oversees all five US communities.
• The Fellowship Associate reports to the Fellowship Manager and is responsible for the community’s daily operations.
• The Managing Director is an experienced entrepreneur who mentors the community’s fellows and leads external ecosystem efforts.

All three roles sit within the Fellowship team, and benefit from being on a team of peers performing similar work in other communities. This role is one of 5 Fellowship Managers at Activate, each responsible for one of our US communities. 

Primary 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.

Ideal Candidate

• 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.
• Experience 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
• 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

About the Role

This is a full-time position with a competitive annual salary of $95,000 and a generous benefits package that includes professional development, $2,000 in annual wellness funds, flexible paid time off, healthcare coverage for employees and dependents, with 90–100% of premiums covered, and the opportunity to join a retirement plan with a 3% match beginning after 3 months at Activate. 

This role is open to US-based candidates. While we welcome applicants from all locations, we are particularly excited about candidates near any of our hubs; Bay Area (CA), Boston (MA), New York (NY), or Houston (TX).

This role requires up to 20% travel for team gatherings and program events.