Business Partnerships Fellow

• Skill-building workshops to improve your understanding of international development, technology startups, social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, disaster response, and crowdfunding.
• In-depth research and analysis projects around a particular issue area.
• Training on experimentation, workflow, and querying tools such as Salesforce, Optimizely, MySQL, Metabase, and Zendesk.
• Career preparation and professional development, including mock interviews and resume review. Previous fellows have used their professional development funds to take coding classes and even learn French!

• Scan media for opportunities to engage or provide content to corporate philanthropy and corporate social media discussions; assist in developing content for marketing and visibility purposes.
• Support new and existing business partnerships by conducting research and completing corporate partner screening documents, preparing proposals, assisting with outreach, building web pages, generating gift cards, and creating impact reports.
• Support corporate giving portfolios through ongoing communication with employees, generating reports and invoices on programmatic activity, and conducting nonprofit research, as necessary.
• Assist with the identification of nonprofit partners for corporate campaigns and disaster recovery efforts.
• Attend webinars and conferences concerning corporate responsibility, employee engagement, grantmaking, and volunteering.
• Research and write articles about best practices in global corporate philanthropy with an eye toward new opportunities for GlobalGiving.
• Serve as the first point of contact for companies and provide exceptional customer service to companies looking to partner with GlobalGiving.
• Use customer relationship management tools to track communications with companies, send invoices, and discover outreach opportunities.
• Apply creative and critical thinking to contribute to team learning, improvement, and innovation.

• Always Open: Believing that great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time; approachable and humble, demonstrating sincere appreciation for others and their ideas.
• Never Settle: Questioning the status quo wisely, and challenging yourself to achieve high goals and expectations.
• Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat: Demonstrating curiosity about the world around us, and bringing that curiosity into GlobalGiving; experimenting fruitfully, utilizing both success and failure productively; leveraging data and feedback to make better decisions.
• Committed to WOW: Embodying a spirit of service with customers (internal and external), and delighting in opportunities to interact with them.

• Be in the game. You are passionate about international development and onboard with GlobalGiving’s mission.
• Be an achiever. You can demonstrate standout achievement among your peers.
• Be adaptable. You perform well in changing environments, with a clear desire to do what it takes to improve and develop your skills.
• Be an effective collaborator. You proactively maintain relationships in ways that are mutually beneficial.
• Be able to execute. You set, track, and complete goals without the need for last-minute heroics. You anticipate possible delays and plan around them to maintain ownership and accountability for meeting objectives with high quality and timeliness.

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