FutureKind Strategic Catalyst

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience

• 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.