Partnerships Manager

Summary

Join Open Philanthropy as a Partnerships Manager and play a crucial role in directing funding towards high-impact philanthropic opportunities within the Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) ecosystem, focusing primarily on advanced AI. You will be responsible for developing and executing a strategy to engage funders, cultivate relationships, and manage workflows to increase funding for impactful causes. This involves communicating funding opportunities, maintaining relationships with potential funders, and prioritizing opportunities based on cost-effectiveness and urgency. The role also includes improving internal processes and cultivating interest in GCR cause areas among new donors. The position offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and a comprehensive benefits package. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication, relationship management, and operational skills, along with a passion for catastrophic risk mitigation.

Requirements

• Are passionate about catastrophic risk mitigation. You're familiar with and excited to support the ecosystem of organizations and individuals working to secure the benefits and mitigate the risks of transformative technology
• Excel at high-stakes strategic conversations. You have a track record of engaging with accomplished leaders in substantive discussions about complex topics. You're able to provide thoughtful, candid advice that adds value to their decision-making process
• Can effectively communicate AI risk concepts. You have a strong grasp of the key arguments around AI safety and can present them persuasively to different audiences
• Have excellent relationship management skills. You understand how to build and maintain long-term professional relationships with sophistication and judgment. You can adapt your engagement approach to match different stakeholders' needs and expectations
• Demonstrate exceptional communication abilities. You express yourself clearly and professionally across all mediums, both in person and in writing
• Bring strong operational capabilities. You can manage multiple complex workflows while maintaining high standards of accuracy and efficiency
• Take initiative and ownership. You're comfortable working independently and taking full responsibility for projects and processes

Responsibilities

• Communicate funding opportunities to potentially interested funders, including writing emails, taking calls, and producing customized one-pagers and slide decks to promote and explain the opportunities
• Maintain and proactively grow relationships with interested funders, including fielding calls to learn more about the preferences, goals, and constraints of potential funders
• Work closely with GCR program staff to maintain a database of opportunities that would benefit from more diversified funding, prioritizing the opportunities by cost-effectiveness, urgency, and the value of additional funding diversification
• Oversee the improvement of behind-the-scenes processes (e.g., database management, metric tracking, impact reporting, and communication workflows) to increase the efficiency, volume, and success rate of recommendations to funders
• Cultivate interest in GCR cause areas among individuals and foundations early in their “donor journey” (i.e., individuals who aren’t yet convinced they should be spending their money on GCR-targeted philanthropy)
• Contribute to (or manage) other fundraising activities, on an ad hoc basis. This might include building a fundraising dashboard to capture key statistics, commenting on strategy memos, desk research on specific donors, and/or coordination with other philanthropic foundations and donor advisories

Preferred Qualifications

Previous fundraising experience is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents)
• Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family
• Four weeks of PTO recommended per year
• Four months of fully paid family leave
• A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive
• Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open Phil coworking hub in your city
• The starting compensation will be $210,393.72, which will include a base salary of $187,393.72 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $23,000.00
• This assumes a remote location; compensation would be adjusted slightly upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington D.C
• This is a full-time, permanent position with flexible work hours and location