About the Role
beWirken is seeking an individual to build and lead a new funding pillar focused on entrepreneurial philanthropy. This role offers the opportunity to create systemic impact in education, work with a new generation of funders, and utilize AI for innovative outreach and showcase creation.
Responsibilities
- Win over people and organizations for systemic educational change, especially family offices, wealthy individuals, and entrepreneurial funders.
- Build and sustain these relationships over years.
- Develop new approaches, such as through venture philanthropy, impact investing, and the startup ecosystem.
- Convert contacts into binding, long-term financing.
- Strategically develop our impact financing.
- Create compelling pitches and interactive showcases, supported by AI.
- Operationally support curated formats like our Impact Dinner.
Requirements
- Think entrepreneurially and have experience from the for-profit, startup, VC or venture philanthropy, banking, or wealth management sectors.
- Have the drive to work on a major societal task.
- Enjoy meeting people at eye level and building trust.
- Desire to shape independently and get started quickly.
- Possess a feel for affluent target groups and their decision-making logic.
- Proximity to a metropolitan region like Hamburg, Berlin, or Frankfurt is a plus, but not a requirement.
Skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking
- Relationship building
- Venture Philanthropy
- Impact Investing
- Startup ecosystem knowledge
- AI utilization
- Pitching
- Communication
Location
- Remote
- Hamburg
- Berlin
- Lüneburg
Work Type
- Part-time (approx. 20 hours per week)
- Flexible
- Remote
- Contract (18 months initially)
Experience Level
- Not specified, but implies experience in relevant sectors
Education Level
- Not specified
Salary/Compensations
- Compensation based on a transparent salary model, discussed in the first interview.
Benefits
- Opportunity for systemic impact
- Entrepreneurial freedom
- AI-native work environment
- Flexible working hours
- Location-independent work
- High degree of personal responsibility and creative freedom
- Supportive team with a 'du' culture
About the Company
- beWirken is a Germany-wide social enterprise dedicated to transforming the education system.
- We support schools and educators in shaping future-oriented learning environments and concepts to enable the potential development of young people.
- We develop innovative offers for qualification, consulting, and inspiration.
- We are in an exciting development phase, professionalizing our offerings and collaborating with other actors and foundations for piloting and scaling.
Equal Opportunity
- We are looking for people who also have other commitments and want to grow into this exciting task with a part of their time.
- Don't have every point? Apply anyway.
