Careers
The Eleanor Crook Foundation employs a team of leading experts in research, public policy, advocacy, and communications who work to identify bold, catalytic, scalable, and sustainable solutions for global malnutrition. We ask all candidates to make yourself familiar with the issue and our strategic approach before submitting your application.
ECF Staff Benefits
Flexible Work
Policies
Competitive
Salaries
Excellent
Benefits
Although every member of our team brings unique skills and backgrounds to the Foundation, we are united by a “sick-of-business-as-usual” attitude and a desire to have a meaningful impact on global malnutrition.
Current Openings
The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) seeks a Senior Director of Advocacy to oversee the Foundation’s advocacy efforts and investments in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The Senior Director will develop and execute an ambitious advocacy strategy to drive attention, awareness, and action on the issue of malnutrition in the multiple donor countries. They will engage directly with policymakers, including through regular meetings and by funding and attending frequent parliamentarian learning trips. The Senior Director will oversee a multi-million dollar portfolio of grants to the most renowned foreign assistance advocacy organizations in each priority market, and will build close relationships with senior leadership at these organizations. The Senior Director will also have the opportunity to grow the Foundation’s in-house advocacy teams in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
ECF seeks an Advocacy Director to oversee the Foundation’s advocacy efforts and investments in the United Kingdom. The Director will be the main strategist and spokesperson for the Foundation in the U.K. The U.K. Advocacy Director will develop and execute an ambitious advocacy strategy to drive attention, awareness, and action on the issue of global malnutrition. They will engage directly with policymakers, including through regular meetings and by funding and attending frequent parliamentarian learning trips. The U.K. Director will oversee a multi-million dollar portfolio of grants to the most renowned foreign assistance advocacy organizations in the U.K., and will build close relationships with senior leadership at these organizations. The U.K. Advocacy Director will build momentum by hosting high profile events and building relationships with MPs, senior Government officials, and leaders from across business and civil society.
The Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) seeks an Associate Director for Advocacy to help advance ECF’s advocacy strategy in the U.S. and beyond. The Associate Director will work across the Eleanor Crook Foundation’s program teams and partners to develop and implement world-class strategies to drive attention, awareness, and action on the issue of global malnutrition. The Associate Director for Advocacy will be responsible for direct engagement with and education of policymakers; research of complex issues and distillation of those topics into written thought pieces/advocacy briefs; and day-to-day management of the Foundation’s U.S. advocacy grantmaking, ensuring sound stewardship of ECF funds.
The Eleanor Crook Foundation is hiring an Associate Director of Communications to develop, coordinate, and execute a world-class communications strategy on the issue of global malnutrition. The Associate Director will be expected to lead communications efforts, including corporate communications, media relations, and digital strategy activities, to tell the story of global malnutrition and the Eleanor Crook Foundation’s role.
The Eleanor Crook Foundation seeks a full-time Administrative Assistant to support our Georgetown, Washington, DC office, and to provide administrative support to our teams and operationally.
The Eleanor Crook Foundation is recruiting for experts to help advance our priorities in the year ahead. Current open positions are listed on our careers page, and additional positions will be posted in the coming months. Don’t see an exact fit but still think you have something to contribute? Please send a general expression of interest.
We take diversity seriously
The Eleanor Crook Foundation is committed to fostering and celebrating diversity and inclusion, both within our Foundation and across our global community of partners. We seek out and welcome differences in experience, thought, and perspective. We believe that a world in which every child receives the nutrition they need to thrive can only exist by fostering the inclusion of a wide range of voices across our work. We hold our policies, our practices, and ourselves accountable to this commitment in everything that we do.
We hope you will join us in this commitment by signing our Diversity and Inclusion pledge.
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