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.
In our work with technical talent, we aim to bridge the gap between exceptional technical talent raising their hand to get involved in the social impact space and targeted impact opportunities. Our main efforts include (1) supporting existing impact talent communities to further scale, diversify and engage their members and (2) building out a common application and talent matchmaking platform to match technical talent to jobs, volunteering and other part-time opportunities in the social impact space.
The Role
As an Associate, Tech Talent with Schmidt Futures you will have the opportunity to do meaningful work with the potential for broad impact. In this visible role, you’ll navigate ambiguity and analyze real world problems using exceptional quantitative skills and judgment to produce well formulated insights and ideas. You will work alongside leadership that has experience across many sectors. Your efforts will help scale the impact of our work and ensure that we can help others better overtime.
Associates are often hired as part of a cohort and rotate across different areas of the organization with the intention that we increase your professional development. This is not only to make you even more effective inside Schmidt Futures but also to help you grow your leadership ability for roles serving others inside and out. If you are someone that loves a fast pace, working on lean teams and using your project management and analytical skill sets to solve critical problems, this role has the potential to be a great match.
Associates work directly with other members of the Schmidt Futures team to help manage, and perform research and analysis relevant to:
Partnerships support.
Program Development, Management & Operations.
Community Building.
Grants, Gifts, Investments Development, Stewardship, and Monitoring & Evaluation.
Outreach & Communication.
Platform Project Management.
Development of Schmidt Futures’ planning efforts for strategy, budget, organizational design, and talent management.
Key Responsibilities:
Program and Gift/Grant/Investment Development
- Conduct research and analysis designed to outline potential opportunities for impact, understand relative effectiveness of alternative models, and quantify likely results of programs overall and/or individual gifts, grants, or investments.
- Explore new avenues for supportive fellowship programming.
- Support management of multi-city convenings including, but not limited to, organizing a convening for Tech for Impact partners to discuss and brainstorm ways to get more technical talent in the impact space.
- Lead knowledge management efforts for research and analysis performed – communicating results to team members and codifying results for future use and/or revision.
- Work closely with other members of the team to develop and manage program updates and proposals.
Partnerships
- Assist with external outreach to universities, communities, and organizations to increase the usage and effectiveness of tools and platforms for technical talent to have public impact.
- Perform landscape analyses to identify potential partnership opportunities, as well as lessons learned from existing efforts to help technical talent to have impact.
- Recommend strategies for how the program engages with outside groups.
- Build internal & external partnerships in support of the programs.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Working closely with others on the team, perform independent research to help verify outcomes of Schmidt Futures’ programs and/or individual gifts, grants, or investments.
- Identify opportunities to improve the work based on an understanding of current trends and/or lessons learned from others’ work.
- Recommend approaches to make data collection on outcome easier and better so as to facilitate more productive monitoring and evaluation.
Strategic and Operational Planning Support
- Conduct benchmarking and other analyses (either directly or by review of third-party work) to facilitate more effective planning for Schmidt Futures’ strategy, budget, talent management, and organizational development.
- Identify important issues to be resolved through organizational planning processes, and propose alternatives based on research of potential scale and scope on criteria to be defined.
- Prepare relevant communications for organizational leadership and/or outside partners.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Demonstrated analytical skills, including quantitative modeling.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with reasonable ability to use common software tools for word processing, presentation, and spreadsheets (especially Google Docs and Sheets).
- Project management skills, including entrepreneurial drive to develop and execute self-designed initiatives.
- Experience with CRM databases and email marketing platforms.
- Ability to coordinate efforts across multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated leadership ability and record of impact in high-intensity, team-based environments.
- 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 at least 4 or more years of experience in a programmatic role, ideally in a social impact organization.
- Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited institution.
- Be based at the Schmidt Futures offices in New York, NY, or Washington, D.C., and be able to travel within the U.S. and internationally on a regular basis as needed following company policy and permitting circumstances.
What We Offer:
- Make a direct and positive impact in the world.
- Work alongside exceptional talent and leaders in their respective fields.
- Be a part of an inclusive organization that values unique backgrounds and perspectives.
- Enjoy a culture of learning and an organization that supports your personal growth and development.
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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