Partnerships Associate

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all. 

As a Partnerships Associate, you'll join a team that provides data-driven insights aiding the identification and engagement of partners across Stand Together community.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Research prospective and current donor and strategic partners utilizing open-source sources and subscription research databases and resources.
• Organize and analyze collected information that helps build more valuable and mutually beneficial partnerships with donors and strategic partners.
• Evaluate professional backgrounds, philanthropic activity, public presence, and other relevant evidence against Stand Together’s principles, vision, and strategies.
• Build, develop, and maintain highly collaborative working relationships with colleagues to drive effective knowledge sharing.
• Experiment and innovate to enhance knowledge systems, improve processes, and strengthen research products.

Knowledge And Skills You Bring To The Organization:

• Research curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and excellent attention to detail
• Reliable written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, exhibiting self-reliance, dependability, trustworthiness, good listening skills, and an ability to collaborate successfully with colleagues and across departments
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities, meeting challenging and evolving deadlines
• High degree of professionalism, ethics, confidentiality, and discretion; proven ability to apply good judgment and responsible decision-making
• Commitment to the Stand Together’s vision

Standout Candidates May Also Bring:

• Degree or commensurate research experience, especially with advancement research, development, fundraising, market research, applied marketing research, marketing and/or financial analysis, liberal arts, library science, journalism, economics, and business communications
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems
• Development or fundraising research experience
• Demonstrated interest in social change, philanthropy, politics, policy, business, political philosophy
• Proven research and analytical techniques, emphasizing the ability to gather, evaluate, and synthesize complex data from various sources and present information in a clear and cohesive manner

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.   

Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.    

We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.