Chief Partnership & Growth Officer

Role Overview

The Chief Partnership & Growth Officer will lead the Play Equity Fund’s strategy to build, nurture, align and expand relationships, capital, influence, and institutional assets around the Play Equity Fund mission. The leader will serve as the organization’s chief relationship architect, managing a team of three, connecting philanthropy, corporations, government, sports institutions, and civic leaders around a shared vision.

What You Will Do

Develop and execute an organization-wide partnership strategy to secure financial and non-financial resources for the Play Equity Fund. Build, maintain, and continuously expand robust pipeline across philanthropy, corporate social impact, professional sports, government, health, education, media, and civic institutions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

A passion for youth development, sport, education, philanthropy, or community impact is highly desirable. The successful candidate is a highly collaborative leader who builds trusted relationships both internally and externally, excels at communicating across diverse stakeholder groups, and is able to align organizational priorities, resources, and partners around a shared vision for Play Equity.

Requirements

• Senior experience in partnerships, business development, institutional advancement, corporate social impact, sports philanthropy, or external affairs.
• Demonstrated success in developing and closing complex, multiyear partnerships.
• Experience working within and alongside professional sports league, team, governing body, major sporting event, media company, or sport agency.
• Ability to translate organizational assets into customized partnership platforms
• Demonstrated success identifying, cultivating, and converting previously untapped partnership opportunities into sustainable organizational relationships and partnerships.
• Experience managing major corporate or institutional accounts from cultivation to renewal.
• Familiarity with philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, community impact, public policy and systems change work.
• Evidence building partnerships that generated both financial resources and measurable social value.
• Experience navigating brand, legal, reputational and mission aligned considerations.
• Strong relationships across sports, business and philanthropy, government and civic institutions.
• Ability to operate in a highly dynamic and visible environment while maintaining trust with community-based partners.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Learning budget
• Parental leave
• Wellness program
• Remote flexibility
• Stipends
• Bonus/commission
• Paid holidays