Associate, Capital

Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown steadily into a 35+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive quests of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. As a $15M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans, we're expanding our venture-building work globally, organizing around the major issues of our time, and building media and more to activate the redemptive potential of Christians around the world.

We see our team as the first carriers of the mission, building an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances as well as its programs.

This role is a strategic enabler for Praxis's next season of serving our capital community, strengthening development and capital program operations that allow our team to steward funder relationships. By bridging fundraising operations and program execution, the Associate for Capital will ensure that the experiences we create for funders translate into deeper partnership and sustained engagement in our community. Half the role is spent on the operational backbone of Praxis's fundraising work, including donor stewardship, grants management, and funder communications.

The other half of the role is spent running the day-to-day of the Capital Fellowship, our signature cohort-based program for investors and philanthropists. This role will report directly to the Principal for Praxis Capital, with a growing scope of independent ownership over time in building fluency with both development operations and program execution.

Development Operations (50%)

• Manage grant reporting workflows, including draft grant proposals and progress reports
• Support reporting and analysis of our fundraising activities (e.g., building out development pipeline interfaces to inform Development Working Group meetings)
• Manage recurring updates for all funding presentations that our team uses when speaking with potential partners
• Perform weekly logging of gifts and update pipeline records based on call notes and Slack requests from Community Managers
• Support Founder Circle experience operations (e.g., quarterly Partner Update communications execution, year-end thank-you, and Vision & Strategy communications and event execution)
• Manage weekly and monthly donor operations tasks (e.g., gift receipts, drafting gift reminders and thank-you notes for Community Managers to send)
• Conduct prospect research to develop a deeper understanding of the philanthropic priorities of our capital community

Capital Program Operations (50%)

• Manage recruiting and onboarding for the Capital Fellowship cohort, in partnership with the Capital Fellowship Venture Partner and Principal for Praxis Capital
• Draft, prepare, and send communications for the Capital Fellowship fellows and mentors (e.g., sending attendee prep emails, responding to mentor and fellow pre-event questions)
• Own program content and agenda details (e.g., event book, scripts, run of show, onsite mentor pairing), while also coordinating with the events team for a clean handoff of onsite logistics
• Manage up effectively with the Capital Fellowship Venture Partner, bringing judgment and initiative to ensure review things at key milestones (e.g., agenda decisions, plenary assignments, breakout assignments)
• Support Principal for Capital in offering portfolio services to Capital Fellows in previous years’ cohorts (e.g., introduction requests, annual gathering at Summit of Capital Fellow alumni)
• Support with planning and execution for other programs that serve our capital community (e.g., add-on programming at regional gatherings, half-day capital workshops, design sessions for funders)
• Donor Stewardship:
  Passion for building and maintaining systems that cultivate funder relationships with gratitude, consistency, and care
• Grants Management:
  Ability to manage grant proposals and progress report on schedule with multiple team members’ input
• Program Management:
  Strong ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder program logistics from pre-event prep through execution
• Relational Intelligence:
  Natural ability to build trust with fellows, mentors, and vendors
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent written and verbal communication, including comfort drafting donor- and fellow-facing communications
• 2-3+ years in fundraising operations or program management, ideally within a capital-forward environment
• Experience managing complex…