Partnerships Operations Associate Acumen America
Partnerships Operations Associate Acumen America
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$ 80000 - 100000
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Job Description
Acumen America is looking for a Partnerships and Operations Associate to join our San Francisco based team. Were looking for someone with a minimum of 3 years of experience to support fundraising fundraising ops and internal operations. The right candidate is bold creative has a natural ability to multitask is a selfstarter and can excel in a fastpaced startup environment. This role is in San Francisco The team currently operates a hybrid work schedule and works from the office two days a week.
About Acumen America
In the U.S. inequality and poverty are persistent barriers to progress across the economic and social landscape. Launched in 2015 Acumen America catalyzes innovations tackling poverty through highimpact investing and systems change initiatives. By filling the capital gap for the earlieststage innovations supporting underrepresented founders and taking a multisector approach we aim to scale highimpact innovations across the country that serve lowincome communities. The entrepreneurs we back are building marketbased technologyenabled solutions to increase access to highquality products services and opportunities for economic mobility. Through our work with our portfolio companies we aim to be a laboratory for entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in America. Since our launch we have invested in 44 companies reaching over 85 million lowincome Americans directly impacting over 6.5 million Americans.
We believe in the power of a diverse portfolio and 63 of our companies have a founder of color and 44 have a female founder. The team is responsible for finding vetting structuring and managing investments in companies that serve lowincome Americans in our three interconnected portfolio sectors: health financial inclusion and workforce development. Beyond investing were driving systems change by facilitating partnerships and action including with our Medicaid Innovation Collaborative program. Acumen America is a small and growing team based in San Francisco.
Acumen America is the U.S. subsidiary of Acumen Fund the global nonprofit organization founded in 2001 with the mission of investing in businesses whose products and services address challenges faced by lowincome populations around the world. To date Acumen has invested approximately $260 million in 215 companies that have impacted over 648 million lives.
About the Role
The Partnerships and Operations Associate will join a growing team building a portfolio of gamechanging companies focused on tackling poverty in the United States. In addition to our direct investing we provide strategic support and resources to accelerate the impact of our portfolio. This includes fundraising communications partnerships events management financial operations and other special projects that convene entrepreneurs funders corporations policymakers and others addressing inequity. Acumen America is building a leading portfolio of earlystage entrepreneurs tackling poverty in the US. The organization is scaling quickly and this position is entrepreneurial; preferred candidates will be excited by a startup environment.
The Partnerships & Operations Associate will be a versatile and highly organized individual responsible for a broad range of tasks from helping draft concept notes and grant proposals to supporting the organizations operations and event planning and management. The Associate will work closely with the VP of Partnerships and Operations and collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders.
Accountabilities
This role will cover many facets across the funding partnerships and operations of an impact venture firm. Some of the responsibilities will include:
Partnerships/Development Support:
- Assist in identifying and researching philanthropic prospects aligned with our investing areas using publicly available sources databases information from staff supporters and contacts and any other sources as appropriate
- Assist leadbuilding process by identifying and creating reports on sectorwide fundraising trends and local philanthropic events
- Help prepare donor pitch materials including sample case studies draft grant proposals and grant reporting.
- Track fundraising pipeline and maintain funder database
- Manage grant reporting timelines and submission processes
- Support donor relations and communications
Donor Management & CRM
- Manage Salesforce and Airtable administration and additional CRM systems
- Maintain and update donor profiles with key information interactions and giving history
- Create and pull necessary reports for fundraising analysis
- Draft necessary grant processing and reporting documents
- Craft agendas/briefings for key donor meetings
- Manage donor stewardship touchpoint tracking and reminders
- Manage and execute grant reports
Operations:
- Support on daytoday administrative operations of the organization
- Support with review and reconciliation of endofmonth financial reporting
- Track philanthropic contributions and liaise with finance team on payment processing and documentation
- Coordinate internal meetings and team communications
- Identify opportunities to leverage technology to streamline fundraising and operational processes
Events Management & Communications
- Support with internal and external event planning and management including logistics vendor selection and budgeting
- Support internal and external communications including social media and branded content; maintain outreach lists; coordinate with external vendors on select projects
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in fundraising or sales support operations project management investment platform or similar roles
- Operational skills including problemsolving and project management including the ability to work and deliver projects independently proactively and within deadlines.Experience with or strong interest in implementing technology solutions to improve operational efficiency; Familiarity with AIpowered productivity tools is a plus
- Capable multitasker: Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong attention to detail and deadlines.
- Vendor & Stakeholder Management:Comfortable sourcing negotiating and managing external partners for events or firm needs.
- High Level of Organization:Able to bring structure to ambiguity prioritize effectively and track progress.
- Highly collaborativeand able to effectively work crossfunctionally
- Motivated selfstarterwith the ability to proactively anticipate needs and take action; notices opportunities to create new systems and procedures when necessary
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;ability to be a storyteller of our work
- Excellent relationship and interpersonal skillscourtesy tact empathy patience and strong teamwork
- Commitment to and enthusiasm for the organizations mission and business model and respect for our core values: generosity accountability humility audacity listening leadership integrity respect
- Curiosity proactive and continuous learner; always questioning researching and testing ideas and assumptions
- Selfdirected: works with team members takes initiative independently can follow through can deliver on a deadline
- Selfreflective and aligned with Acumen values
- Permanently authorized to work in the U.S must be based in San Francisco
Location
San Francisco CA
Deadline
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis through May 7 2025.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is $80000 to $100000 USD plus a performancebased bonus. This range represents the present low and high end of pay range for our Associate band. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience.
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Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full Time
