System-Change Contract Lead

About the Position

We are seeking a System-Change Contract Lead to manage systemic change contracts, negotiate with high-net-worth individuals and foundations.

Responsibilities

• Own the continuous inflow of system-change contracts: identify, scout, hunt, farm, negotiate, close - end to end, deal by deal
• Sell a complex, consultancy-grade service: take our research units' contract dossiers into private processes with foundations, HNWIs, and system-change funders
• Run a competitive bidding process per dossier and structure stage-gated, milestone-paid €2–10M agreements - including negotiating the reporting structure
• Manage funder relationships through delivery, milestone reporting, payment claims, renewal, and expansion
• Network across the system-change funder landscape, with both hunter and farmer abilities

Requirements

• Deal experience with milestone-gated, stage-paid contracts in the range €2–10M+
• Track record working for or with high-net-worth individuals, foundations, and system-change funders etc
• Understanding of catalytic impact investing
• Proven ability to sell complex service/consultancy engagements, who are large, multi-stakeholder, long-cycle
• Deep domain expertise in systemic change for the higher end of human development - able to communicate on the topic in detail and hold credibility with expert funders

Nice to Have

• An own network with direct access to this funder class
• Strong negotiation craft
• Natural networker and socializer

We Offer

• 20 h/week · remote · €75K FTE benchmark · purpose-driven work · autonomous, high-agency team with the resources of our network department

About the Company

An AI-native, community-powered venture studio: radically cheaper startup creation, aimed at the systemic problems institutions pay to solve.

We build startups at roughly a tenth of what a traditional venture studio spends, and point that capacity at problems institutions are already paying to solve.

Two connected offers:

1. A venture-creation platform. Founders move from problem to validated, fundable company through an AI-assisted ideation pipeline plus a matched network of services, tools, programmes and operators. The orchestration - matching the right person to the right resource at the right moment - is the product, not the advice.

2. Systemic-change mandates. We identify the stakeholder with the highest willingness to pay for a given societal problem to be moved, contract with them over a multi-year horizon, and deliver by creating and boosting a portfolio of ventures against that problem.

Revenue comes from those contracts, from licensing the engine to other ecosystems, and from equity in the ventures created in-house and across the community.