Open Philanthropy is seeking a Partnerships Associate to join our growing Global Health & Wellbeing Partnerships (GHWP) team. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of our efforts to expand philanthropic impact by connecting donors with high-impact giving opportunities. You’ll support donor relationships, develop compelling materials, and help execute partnership initiatives that direct millions of dollars to causes aimed at doing the most good.
About Open Philanthropy
Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic advisor and funder; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. Our current giving areas include potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, global health and development, scientific research, global public health policy, farm animal welfare, and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. In 2024, we directed $650 million to high-impact causes, and we’ve directed over $4 billion in grants since our formation.
About the GHW Partnerships team
Open Philanthropy spent our first decade laying the groundwork for Good Ventures to scale its giving to meet its founders’ goal of spending down in their lifetimes. With that work on track, and drawing on the infrastructure and expertise we’ve built to deliver impact at scale, in 2024, we accelerated our work to support other donors in earnest, bringing their financial resources to high-impact Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) causes. This work is central to Open Philanthropy’s strategy and goals for 2025 and beyond.
The GHW Partnerships team drives that work. We offer bespoke support to philanthropists interested in giving at scale, working with our program, research, and operations teams to offer a unique experience to donors and prospective donors. In the past year, we have raised over $150M from new partners, launched two major collaborative funds, and are looking to expand further. You will be joining a team at the ground floor of this major strategic shift, helping us to grow and deliver significant impact.
Day to day, the team works on the key strategic partnerships questions facing Open Philanthropy:
- Which cause areas should we prioritize trying to raise additional funding for?
- Which partnership models should we pursue for each of those cause areas?
- Which partners should we work with to try to achieve impact in those cause areas?
In addressing these questions, we translate and shape our internal research and grantmaking expertise for a wide audience of potential partners.
About the role
As a Partnerships Associate, you will play a crucial role in supporting our work with donors and prospects. You will execute a range of partnerships tasks, develop donor-facing materials, manage donor communications, and help maintain our relationship management systems. You will also serve as a relationship manager for a defined set of relationships, ensuring that all touchpoints happen on a timely basis and that we’re providing high-quality donor service. This role will report to Olivia Larsen, Strategy Fellow on the Global Health & Wellbeing Partnerships team.
The majority of donors we work with are making a significant investment in philanthropy with gifts at the $1 million level or even larger. Your writing will enable us to communicate effectively with this high-value audience, while your organizational skills will ensure consistent follow-through and excellent donor stewardship.
Why we’re hiring now: Building new partnerships is one of Open Philanthropy’s core strategic priorities in the coming years. We want to build on some of our early successes in 2024 and 2025 — such as launching the Lead Exposure Action Fund and the Abundance and Growth Fund — and scale up these efforts.
In this role, you will:
- Create donor-facing content, including updates, briefing documents, and learning materials.
- Draft emails, conduct basic donor research, maintain our Salesforce database, prepare donor materials, and handle other administrative tasks.
- Serve as relationship manager for specific donor relationships, developing donor strategies and coordinating communications.
- Review and check donor-facing materials and analysis for accuracy.
- Support the team in preparing for donor meetings and follow-up appropriately.
- Work with Open Phil’s grants, legal, and Salesforce teams.
- Help to evaluate grant/fund opportunities for external partners.
- Assist with the execution of partnership initiatives such as the Lead Exposure Action Fund, including, e.g., working with internal teams or external contractors to build a website or arrange events.
- Work closely with program teams to accurately represent their work in donor communications.
- Help track financial goals and progress, including money moved to high-impact causes.
This is a fast-growing area of work with a fluid and developing strategy; your workflow will include tasks and opportunities not specified here. Depending on the successful candidate’s experience and fit, there are a variety of growth paths available.
Who might be a good fit
You might be a great fit for this work if you:
- Are an excellent writer who can communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely, and tailor content to specific audiences.
- Have strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize effectively.
- Are detail-oriented and can maintain accurate records in relationship management systems.
- Can build and maintain professional relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Have good judgment around when to take initiative and when to seek guidance
- Are excited about working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’ll need to learn quickly.
- Care deeply about maximizing positive impact and are aligned with Open Philanthropy’s mission and approach.
The ideal candidate for this position will possess many of the skills and experiences described above. However, there is no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. If you are on the fence about applying because you are unsure whether you are qualified, we would strongly encourage you to apply. Above all, we are looking for people motivated to contribute to our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us.
Process and timeline
Our application process will include:
- An initial application that consists of answering a series of questions along with a short exercise.
- A paid written work test.
- An initial interview with Olivia Larsen, who this role will report to.
- A series of final interviews with several Open Philanthropy team members, followed by reference checks.
We expect to make offers by late June, and strongly encourage candidates to let us know if they need to hear back from us sooner at any point during the process.
Please note that due to time constraints, we cannot give feedback during the early stages of the process, including on work tests. Thank you for your understanding.
Role details & benefits
- Compensation: The baseline compensation for this role is $126,233.59, which would be distributed as a base salary of $109,768.34 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $16,465.25 for U.S. hires. All compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally based hires.
- These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C.
- Time zones and location: We offer remote work in many countries. While we are not able to sponsor visas for this role, we are largely flexible with work timings and are open to hires outside the U.S. willing to overlap for 5-10 hours per week with U.S. Pacific Time business hours.
- Benefits: Our benefits package includes:
- Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. 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 — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive.
- A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered.
- Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open Phil coworking hub in your city.
- We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country).
- Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer — ideally by July/August.
We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@openphilanthropy.org.
Please apply by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, 25 April 2025 to be considered.
US-based Partnerships staff are typically employed by Open Philanthropy Project LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, this role is unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.