7+ years of experience identifying opportunities, cultivating relationships and turning ideas into partnerships or funding outcomes; experience in social impact, CBOs, for-profit for-good spaces, or related preferred.
Track record of successfully identifying opportunities, cultivating relationships, and converting ideas into tangible partnerships or funding outcomes.
Experience successfully cultivating and growing relationships with donors, partners, and senior leaders
Proven experience and ability facilitating workshops, leading meetings, conducting customer or community interivews.
Success creating proposals, fundraising materials, business cases, strategic communications, or thought leadership content that influence decision-making, secure resources, or strengthen stakeholder engagement.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Adept at listening deeply, exploring with curiosity, ability connect ideas and help foster individual and organizational learning
Ability to establish, nurture, and expand relationships across sectors, communities, and professional networks.
Skilled at designing and leading collaborative discussions, workshops, and stakeholder engagement processes that generate ideas and align diverse perspectives.
Ability to craft compelling narratives and tailor messages for varied audiences, including donors, partners, customers, community members, and senior executives.
Ability to identify emerging opportunities
Comfortable pursuing new connections, testing ideas, and taking initiative in ambiguous or evolving environments.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, persuade, and build trust with individuals from diverse backgrounds and levels of influence.
Ability to synthesize complex information and bridge perspectives across sectors, functions, cultures, or stakeholder groups, turning insights into practical action
Demonstrated experience putting customers at the center of solutions
Demonstrated experience thriving in cross-functional initiatives and working with diverse teams and stakeholders.
Comfortable traveling to refugee settlements, engaging with sensitivity and respect

Job Duties

Opportunity Discovery & Idea Generation – 30%

Identify emerging needs, uncover opportunities, and generate new ideas through engagement and collaboration.

Facilitate co-creation workshops.
Listen deeply to customers, host communities, governments, and partners to identify emerging needs and opportunities.

Contribute to Narrative Development & Thought Leadership – 30%

Help shape ideas into compelling stories, concepts, and opportunities that inspire action and investment.

Under the leadership of the Director, FutureKind Strategy, support building narrative and thought leadership, spreading the FutureKind POV far, near and wide
Turn complex ideas and insights into compelling concepts, presentations, proposals, and funding opportunities.
Tell stories that inspire action, from refugee settlements to boardrooms, stages, and dinner tables.

Partnership Building, Movement Mobilization & Learning – 40%

Mobilize people, resources, and evidence to advance ideas and build lasting impact.

Scout opportunities and build ecosystems - finding meaningful ways to convene and develop relationships with others across philanthropy, government, business, academia, design, technology, and media.
Originate, cultivate, and act as the key relationship-holder ofcatalytic philanthropic relationships and strategic partners for FutureKind
Design and host convenings that build community and attract new collaborators.
Represent Alight and FutureKind with external audiences
Help build a global movement around FutureKind.
Capture learning across the portfolio and strengthen FutureKind's evidence and impact.

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