Stand Together Ventures Lead (Development & Fundraising)

@ Stand Together

Stand Together Ventures Lead (Development & Fundraising)

Posted 27 months ago

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About the job

Stand Together is a philanthropy that supports social changemakers through funding, resources, and collaboration. The Ventures Lead will grow and manage a network of high-impact partners, fostering engagement and strategic initiatives to drive systemic change.

Requirements

Strong relationship skills
Strategic thinking ability
Experience in community engagement
Operational planning skills
Network development expertise

Qualifications

Passion for social change
Entrepreneurial mindset
Ability to work cross-functionally
Relationship building skills
Results-oriented approach

Full job description

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

We are building a community of entrepreneurial donor partners - founders, investors, and builders - who are accelerating Stand Together's boldest strategies through their time, talent, and resources. These are not passive donors. They are partners in transformation.

The Stand Together Ventures Lead will guide and grow this network, someone with the experience and instincts to work cross-functionally with Stand Together's strategic leaders, matching our social change priorities to the Ventures community's comparative advantages and interests on a year-round basis. You'll help this network meet its potential and play a catalytic roles in driving meaningful, lasting change.

How You Will Contribute

Build the Community
Design and execute an investor identification and recruitment strategy that targets high-potential business leaders and investors aligned with Stand Together's philanthropic and business network.
Build and manage a structured onboarding process, including orientation materials, first-90-days touchpoints, and success benchmarks for new members.
Develop a referral program with clear asks, talking points, and incentive structures that equip existing investors to introduce qualified prospects from their networks.
Track and report investor pipeline metrics — recruitment source, conversion rate, time-to-onboard — to inform strategy adjustments.

Drive Investor Engagement

Build and maintain an engagement model that maps individual investor partners to Stand Together's active philanthropic strategies based on interest, expertise, and capacity.
Facilitate investor participation in strategy co-creation sessions, initiative launches, and planning discussions.
Design and implement feedback loops (surveys, structured check-ins, engagement scoring) that surface investor/partner activity and sentiment on an ongoing basis.
Maintain investor records and engagement history in the CRM system to ensure continuity across the team.

Enable Peer Leadership

Plan and execute the annual calendar of member events, salons, and working groups, including budget management, logistics, and speaker/content curation.
Facilitate working group sessions on priorities, ensuring outcomes translate into action items or engagement opportunities.
Evaluate event and program effectiveness using attendance, investor feedback, and follow-on engagement data, and adjust programming accordingly.

Collaborate Across Stand Together

Serve as the primary liaison between the Ventures community and the Development, Strategy, Policy, and Program teams.
Coordinate hand-offs of partner relationships and opportunities to the appropriate internal team, with documented context and next steps.
Represent Ventures priorities in cross-functional planning meetings and ensure Ventures member activity is reflected in broader organizational reporting.

Performance & Accountability

Develop 12-to-24-month growth strategy and annual revenue goals for the Ventures platform, in coordination with senior leadership.
Build and manage the annual programmatic and events, including forecasting and variance tracking.
Establish and maintain recurring meeting cadences with internal teams and external partners, with documented follow-through and accountability owners.
Partner with the Development team on referral-based and networking-based investor acquisition, tracking pipeline contribution from Ventures-sourced leads.
Define and document success metrics for the Ventures platform across financial contribution, investor engagement, and co-creation activity.
Build and maintain a reporting framework (dashboards, quarterly reviews) that gives leadership visibility into platform performance against goals.
Present performance results and recommendations to senior leadership on a regular cadence.

What You Will Bring

Deep alignment with the Principles of Human Progress—especially self-actualization, mutual benefit, and bottom-up change.
Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
Bachelor's degree in business, nonprofit management, political science, communications, or a related field
At least 5 years of experience in investor relations, venture capital, private equity, management, business development, or a comparable client-facing role
Experience designing and managing recruitment, referral, or growth strategies
Experience planning and executing events or programs, including budget ownership
Experience working cross-functionally across multiple internal teams or departments
Experience with CRM systems and using data to track engagement or pipeline performance
Experience managing multiple concurrent relationships or projects in a fast-paced environment
A builder’s mindset: entrepreneurial, strategic, and biased toward action.
Strong operational acumen coupled with a history of fostering accountability and ownership.
Ability to connect vision to execution, with a track record of delivering results through networks and partnerships.

What We Offer

Competitive benefits:Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.

Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.

We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.

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