Job description
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, that bets early on exceptional people making the world better. We knit talent into networks, bet on the most promising ideas through diverse forms of competition and support, and equip people to scale through partners and modern tools. To realize this vision, Schmidt Futures uses a broad set of tools — including gifts, grants, investments, and startup activity — for charitable, educational, and commercial efforts with a public purpose. Our initiative brings together the efforts of various charitable and non-charitable entities to improve our potential impact by making diverse types of capital available to the efforts we support.
The Partnerships function at Schmidt Futures focuses on equipping our programs, grantees, and network with the scaling capital to deliver on their ambitious goals. The function achieves this through three key activities: developing new communities of funders, including high-net-worth individuals, foundations, corporations, and family offices aligned to our work in science and society; brokering high-quality and long-term relationships and shared resources within these communities; and supporting grantees and programs to create and cultivate high-impact partnership strategies.
The Role
The Associate, Partnerships will be responsible for critical operations of the Partnerships team. In this role you will report to the Manager, Partnerships, and be tasked with building systems and processes that enable us to manage and cultivate a larger number of partnerships. In addition to this, you will source new partners and support grantees and programs to tackle priority partnership needs. The Associate, Partnership’s role, will include:
- Building systems, processes, and tools to surface partnership’s needs and to manage existing partnerships.
- Liaising with grantees and programs to surface and tackle priority partnership needs.
- Mapping existing funders in our network and identifying clusters of potential partners.
Key Responsibilities
Create and maintain a systematic, process-driven approach to partner management
- Develop databases and systems to track engagement with existing partners and new leads.
- Launch initiatives to create regular touch points between existing partners and programs.
- Identify and source partnership opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound outreach.
Liaise with grantees and program leads to surface and solve live partnership needs
- Liaise with grantees and program leads to identify and track live partnership needs.
- Perform landscape analyses to identify potential opportunities for partnership as well as lessons learned from existing efforts in the field.
- Support the Manager, Partnerships to prioritize and solve partnership needs across the organization.
Identify and map existing funders in our network and identify clusters of potential partners
- Engage with grantees to map existing co-funders in our network.
- Identify funder groups aligned to our programs.
- Map networks of potential partners and clusters of funding partners such as family offices and foundations.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Entrepreneurial ability to develop and execute self-designed initiatives.
- Ability to coordinate and triage numerous efforts across multiple stakeholders, partners, and portfolio teams.
- Demonstrated leadership ability and proven record of impact in high-intensity, team-based environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to tailor communication to a wide range of stakeholders, and reasonable ability to use common software tools for word processing, presentation, and spreadsheets (especially Google Docs and Sheets).
- Strong relationship management skills.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, for both conceptual and analytical problems.
- Values-based, collaborative working style with demonstrated commitment to the highest standards of ethics and confidentiality.
Requirements
- Have 4 or more years of experience in business, government, consulting, project management, philanthropy, graduate school, or the military.
- Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited institution.
- Be based at the Schmidt Futures offices in New York and be able to travel within the U.S. and internationally on a regular basis as needed following company policy and permitting circumstances.
At Schmidt Futures we are committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation. The target base salary range for this role is $110,000 to $150,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will be informed by the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies and experience
Futures Action Network, LLC, which operates Schmidt Futures, is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. We strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.
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