Partnerships Associate

Coefficient Giving • San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Coefficient Giving is hiring a Partnerships Associate to support work with our growing list of donors. We believe the next few years represent a unique opportunity to significantly scale philanthropic funding across our cause areas, and the Partnerships Associate will play a vital role in making that happen. This is a generalist role — you will support donor outreach, run events, and create materials that help philanthropists connect with our highest-impact funding opportunities.
This role requires you to work at least two days a week from our San Francisco office. We’ll support candidates who are not already based in this area with relocation costs.
We’re also looking for a Partnerships Operations Lead. If that sounds more like you, we encourage you to take a look at the job description.
About Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $5 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more. In 2025, we recommended more than $1 billion to high-impact causes.
About the Partnerships team
Our Partnerships function launched in 2024, leveraging our internal research and grantmaking expertise to direct donors to the highest-impact funding opportunities available. In 2025, Partnerships helped direct more than $200 million to high-impact causes outside our core relationship with Good Ventures. We see the coming years as a unique opportunity to be even more ambitious in scaling this work.
The Partnerships team builds relationships with philanthropists interested in cost-effective giving within global health, global catastrophic risks, and/or farm animal welfare. In addition to matching donors with the most promising funding opportunities across our portfolios, we are building an advisory practice to offer bespoke support to emerging philanthropists seeking a more comprehensive strategy.
Day to day, the team manages many workstreams at once: it cultivates relationships with ultra-high-net-worth donors, develops proposals and reports, plans events, coordinates with expert program teams to launch new funds, and works with grants and legal to structure how money moves.
About this role
Your job is to help the Partnerships team connect with donors and communicate our work. You’ll provide direct support to senior team members with donor outreach, serve as the Partnerships lead and coordinate with Operations to produce donor events, and collaborate with Communications on donor-facing materials. This role sits at the center of how we engage with donors and, because we are a small, growing team, you’ll get to shape how that work evolves. This team moves quickly and prioritizes speed and responsiveness. On any given day, your priorities may shift without warning. We're looking for someone who finds that energizing, not destabilizing.
This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who wants to build skills in donor engagement and philanthropic communications while contributing to high-impact work. You will have a wide portfolio that provides an inside view of the front lines of sophisticated donor cultivation and stewardship. The role reports to Liz Givens, Director of Partnerships.

Requirements

• Strong communication. You write clearly and professionally. You can adapt your style for different audiences, from busy executives to external partners.
• Organization and follow-through. You manage multiple workstreams quickly and efficiently without dropping details. You keep systems clean and follow through on commitments.
• Attention to detail. You enjoy planning and executing events that bring our community together and creating communications that our donors will appreciate.
• Relationship-oriented. You have good instincts for stakeholder management. You stay organized across multiple workstreams, keep the right people in the loop, and bring structure to projects that might otherwise drift.
• Collaborative mindset. You work well within and across teams — partnering with Communications, Operations, and other functions to get things done.
• Ownership and initiative. You take responsibility for your work and proactively look for ways to improve. You're comfortable making judgment calls with incomplete information and don't need to escalate every decision. You know when to act and when to check in.
• Comfort with AI tools. You don’t need to be a developer, but you should be interested in using LLMs and automation to reduce manual work.
• Mission alignment. You’re excited about Coefficient Giving’s mission and approach. You want to help direct more resources toward high-impact causes.

Nice To Haves

• Development, fundraising, or donor relations in nonprofit organizations
• Policy, research, or program roles, especially within Coefficient Giving cause areas
• Event planning, coordination, or production in nonprofit, corporate, or political contexts
• Communications, marketing, or content creation, especially for external audiences
• Executive assistant, chief of staff, or operations roles supporting senior leaders

Responsibilities

• Support relationship building. Help cultivate new donor relationships by supporting outreach, preparing briefing materials, and ensuring timely follow-up. Research prospective donors and run regular portfolio reviews to assess the status of donor relationships and identify next steps.
• Deliver donor events. Coordinate with the Operations team to plan and execute events that bring together donors and Coefficient Giving team members. Articulate event goals, design outreach strategy, maintain invitation lists, ensure internal stakeholders are well-prepared, and coordinate timely follow-up. Create a Partnerships event playbook to document best practices.
• Create donor-facing materials. Work with the Communications team to produce content that helps donors understand our work and funding opportunities — impact reports, proposals, presentations, and other collateral tailored to donor audiences.
• Support senior leaders. Support senior team members in their donor engagement. Help them prepare for meetings, coordinate follow-up, and stay on top of their donor portfolios.
• Triage central communications. Manage the Partnerships inboxes to ensure all messages are routed and actioned appropriately.
• Pitch in where needed. Contribute to team priorities as they emerge. In a small, growing team, flexibility is essential.

Benefits

• Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses
• Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family
• Four weeks of PTO recommended per year
• Four months of fully paid family leave
• A generous and flexible expense policy
• Support for remote work

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed