Senior Project Manager, Global Dividend Fund

Role Description

As Senior Project Manager, Global Dividend Fund , you will help stand up a new institution from a standing start. The Fund is currently a research and design project. Over the next eighteen months, it needs to become an operating entity with:

• a legal structure
• a governing board
• a founding coalition
• an endowment
• a first distribution

Your job is to make that happen: holding the plan, sequencing the workstreams, driving the external relationships, and making sure the pieces arrive in the right order.

This is not a delivery role inside an established program. Much of what you manage will not exist yet when you start, and a significant share of your work will be deciding what needs to exist and then building it. You will work directly with the CEO, with external counsel in multiple jurisdictions, with delivery and coalition partners, and with prospective funders including AI companies and major foundations.

Responsibilities

• Own the Fund's build plan, sequencing legal, governance, partnership, fundraising and pilot workstreams against external milestones and funder commitments.
• Manage external counsel across jurisdictions, including US tax-exempt organization counsel and Swiss foundation counsel, translating legal advice into decisions the team can act on.
• Drive partnership development with delivery organizations, coalition members and endorsers, including preparing term sheets and memoranda of understanding and managing them through to signature.
• Support fundraising end to end: building materials, preparing the CEO for funder conversations, responding to diligence requests, and maintaining the pipeline and reporting obligations to existing funders.
• Support the design and stand-up of the Fund's governance, including board formation, charter development and committee structures.
• Prepare the Fund's first distribution pilot in partnership with delivery organizations, from design through operational readiness.
• Build the Fund's internal operating infrastructure, including planning, reporting, decision records and the systems a new institution needs to be credible to counsel, funders and auditors.
• Represent the Fund with external stakeholders where the CEO cannot, with judgment about what can be said and what remains undecided.

Qualifications

• Ideally based in the Bay Area and immersed in the emerging AI conversation.
• Fast moving and good at structuring ambiguity.
• Credibility with sophisticated counterparties.
• Exercise discretion and good judgement.
• Not expected to be an expert in AI economics, development finance or nonprofit law, but must engage seriously with the substance.

Experience

• 5+ years in a role requiring end-to-end ownership of complex projects with external stakeholders.
• Direct experience standing up something new, whether an organization, fund, program or major partnership.
• Track record managing external advisers, particularly legal counsel, and converting their advice into decisions.
• Excellent writing and synthesis skills.
• Experience with partnership or contract negotiation.
• Familiarity with philanthropy, global development, nonprofit governance, institutional investment, or AI policy.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, remote, international team.
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Experience in cash transfer programs, social protection, or the nonprofit legal and governance space is a strong advantage but not a requirement.

Process

• Application review: We review applications on a rolling basis, prioritizing those submitted before August 15th.
• Screening interview: 20 minutes.
• Live exercise interview: approximately 45 minutes. You will receive a prompt 48 hours in advance covering a real problem the Fund is working through.
• Final interview: approximately 45 minutes.
• Reference Check.

The starting date will be determined together with the successful applicant.

Not sure if you’re qualified? Apply anyway. We actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.