LegacyWorks Group Associate, Fellow, and Intern Roles
LegacyWorks Introduction
We are a nonprofit organization that enables communities to address complex challenges and meet critical needs through highly collaborative initiatives. Each initiative uncovers new impact opportunities and builds capacity and takes on bigger things. Over time our evolving projects create pathways to larger scale outcomes and new collaborative opportunities. We illustrate this process as a widening spiral, with each initiative serving as a stepping stone on the path to systemic change.
LegacyWorks Group is a community consultancy that brings transformative impact initiatives to life. We steward a network of place-based, community-driven initiatives, with primary programs in the Greater Yellowstone, Central Coast California and Baja California Sur. We launch, facilitate, and incubate initiatives and enterprises with deep potential to advance the wellbeing and resilience of our communities and landscapes. Ultimately we are the work home for a community of catalytic change makers, 30+ strong and growing.
Being Part of the LegacyWorks Group Team
Our team is open-hearted, entrepreneurial, collaborative and constantly learning. We have a variety of leadership, facilitation and project management experience as well as a diversity of cultural and educational backgrounds. We value different perspectives and foster a culture that appreciates the voices of all team members. We seek curious candidates with sharp minds who learn fast. We are comfortable with complex challenges that require curiosity, collaboration, innovation, diplomacy, relationship building, leadership and high levels of partner and community engagement. We approach new ideas and challenges with optimism and show up open, curious and committed to learning. The way we work requires a commitment to exploring the edges of what is possible and thus requires continuous personal and professional growth.
We seek out high impact opportunities that often will not move forward unless we play one or more catalytic roles including facilitation, project management, process design, strategy development, planning, collective resourcing, leadership development, community engagement, data dashboard development and more (and more!). We continuously strive to improve the ways we work together and the tools we use to enable community driven action.
Team members must be comfortable working across and moving between domains while cultivating networks, trust-based relationships and partnerships. We are a team of entrepreneurial leaders excited to grow our programs and our regional team, build on our track record of success, and extend our impact in new ways.
Regional Initiatives, Enterprises and Organizational Work
Your work will span Regional Initiatives, Enterprises and Organizational projects and initiatives. Our Regional Initiatives have a wide range of grant-funded and fee-for-service programming that span community resilience, land, water and wildlife conservation, agriculture and the food system, climate action, critical social services, conservation finance, community wellbeing dashboarding, and market-based solutions. Our Enterprises have an array of fee-for-service engagements and grant funded initiatives. Finally, we have a variety of operational needs and opportunities at the organizational level for LegacyWorks Group.
When supporting regional initiatives, the enterprises or the organization at large, Associates, Fellows and Interns will report to and work closely with Regional Initiative and Enterprise team members as well as other members of the LegacyWorks Group team depending on the project. You may have a variety of different team members that you work with and report to on different matters. You will work with and have the chance to learn from team members who play various roles and bring a diversity of expertise in project management, facilitation, planning, communications, operations, development, strategy and topical knowledge in our array of programmatic areas. We operate within a distributed leadership model which encourages new team members to take on leadership roles at a pace and scale appropriate to each person and project.
Key roles include:
Play supporting roles on projects other team members are leading, including the development, adaptation and execution of work plans and budgets
Grow your skill set and capacity by learning on the job, asking questions when you don’t know, making the most of mentorship and training opportunities
Steward and deepen relationships with partners and funders
Support fundraising efforts with the regional, enterprise and platform teams by identifying and developing grant opportunities, stewarding donor relationships, identifying and cultivating new donors
Support regional business development and new project identification
Support communications and storytelling to gather and share stories of our work with community members, partners, and funders
Cultivate a growing network of friends, allies, partners and funders in Bloomerang
Key organizational roles include:
Contribute to the ongoing evolution of our collaborative impact model and our shared planning systems and operating platform
Embody and contribute to the evolution of our conscious leadership culture
Cross-pollinate with other regions through learning, experimenting, and sharing
Support LWG general and restricted fundraising and enterprise development
Undertake tasks and projects as directed at the organization level
Structure: LegacyWorks cultivates extraordinary leaders within our team in ways that work for them. This position could be part time or full, and employees are allowed to work remotely and with potential for flexible scheduling depending on the role and current assignments.
Diversity: LegacyWorks Group is committed to increasing the diversity of the team, including board and staff, and improving compensation and benefits. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and value life experience and achievements.
How to Apply: If you have questions, please direct inquiries to Jessica and Carl at jessica@legacyworksgroup.com and carl@legacyworksgroup.com. To apply, please submit a cover letter explaining your interest in the position and fit with the opportunity along with a resume if you have one. In support of candidates submitting their best application, helpful resources can be found within Purdue Writing Lab’s Cover Letter and Resume Workshops.