Development & Philanthropic Partnerships Lead

Core Responsibilities

• Lead donor cultivation, philanthropic partnerships, grants, and high-touch engagement initiatives
• Partner on donor strategy and execution, ensuring disciplined stewardship across the entire pipeline
• Coordinate all grants work, from identifying opportunities to shaping strategy, drafting proposals, and driving reporting timelines
• Play a central role in three major-donor engagement initiatives: The 2026 EO Capital Roadmap Roadshow, The Leadership Circle, and donor/investor learning trips

This role creates positive change by building a movement for economic transformation through employee ownership, helping donors see themselves as essential co-creators in transforming ownership in America and expanding capital investment to grow employee ownership.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in fundraising, donor relations, philanthropic partnerships and grant development
• Experience with donor meetings, events, and high-touch relational cultivation
• Exceptional written communication skills; able to write persuasively, including in the voice(s) of Lab leadership
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, creative and adept at creating high-impact engagement with modest resources
• Strong project management and deadline discipline with clear-structure-building skills
• Experience managing grants calendars and developing proposals and/or overseeing grantwriter(s)
• Passion for impact investing, systems change and economic justice

The role starts part-time and will be scoped appropriately, with potential to grow into full-time. No salary or specific benefits mentioned in the posting.

Ownership Capital Lab (the Lab) is focused on economic transformation through employee ownership, building a bold movement for economic justice and systems change.