Cooperative Development Manager

Classification: Full-time, Exempt, Regular, At Will

Apply by: June 19, 2026

Prospera believes communities already hold the wisdom, resilience, and leadership needed to create systems rooted in dignity, cooperation, and collective wellbeing. Through entrepreneurship, cooperative development, leadership cultivation, immigrant justice, and culturally rooted education, Prospera co-creates community wealth with Latina entrepreneurs.

The Cooperative Development Manager will lead and strengthen Prospera’s cooperative entrepreneurship strategy by designing, implementing, and scaling cooperative development initiatives that support Latina and immigrant entrepreneurs in building worker-owned businesses and cooperative economic pathways.

This role bridges program management, cooperative technical assistance, ecosystem building, strategic partnerships, education, and market development to expand Prospera’s impact and strengthen pathways toward collective ownership and economic mobility.

The Cooperative Development Manager will collaborate across internal teams and external partners to advance cooperative education, incubation, technical assistance systems, leadership development, and cooperative ecosystem growth.

• Lead cooperative incubation and business development initiatives from exploration through launch and early operational stages.
• Provide technical assistance on cooperative governance, ownership structures, operational systems, and business readiness.
• Support entrepreneurs evaluating cooperative conversion or worker-owned business development pathways.
• Develop tools, frameworks, templates, and systems to strengthen cooperative success.
• Support business planning, commercialization strategies, operational planning, and sustainability models.
• Support participants in building the leadership skills and governance knowledge needed for cooperative ownership.

• Implement the cooperative program strategy in alignment with Prospera’s mission and long-term vision.
• Develop implementation plans and milestones; contribute to evaluation frameworks and track progress against established KPIs.
• Track program budgets and expenditures; manage timelines, deliverables, and grant reporting requirements.
• Coordinate consultants, facilitators, and program partners.
• Document program learnings and surface recommendations for program improvement to program leadership.

• Cultivate relationships with ecosystem partners, nonprofits, funders, technical assistance providers, public agencies, educational institutions, and cooperative networks.
• Identify strategic partnership opportunities that strengthen cooperative pathways.
• Represent Prospera in coalitions, convenings, and regional ecosystem initiatives.
• Provide programmatic content, data, and storytelling to support grant proposals and funding reports.

• Support curriculum development and adaptation of cooperative education programming.
• Facilitate training, workshops, and educational experiences rooted in culturally responsive and liberatory approaches.
• Contribute to cooperative knowledge sharing across teams and with program partners.
• Contribute to cooperative leadership development efforts.

• Document cooperative development practices, program learnings, and participant stories into case studies, briefs, and ecosystem learning materials that contribute to the broader cooperative field.
• Represent Prospera’s cooperative work at convenings, panels, and sector events by sharing program insights, models, and outcomes.
• Contribute cooperative expertise to reports,…