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Help transform individuals, families, and communities

Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation.

Through our four-pronged approach, we catalyze long-term change through our community development, revolutionary training and employment program, an innovative financing model, and sustained career support.

Our team is at the heart of everything we do—and if our work speaks to you, we encourage you to apply! We are building a world-class team full of dynamic, ambitious, hard workers who genuinely care about economic opportunity.

Make a direct impact on our Fellows, their families, and our community.

Backed by the Best

Life at Pur­suit

Benefits & Perks
  • Mission-Driven Team
    Our team comes to us from a range of different professional backgrounds. You'll get to work alongside experts in workforce development, tech, impact, policy, operations, and many other fields. The one thing we all have in common? A shared passion for creating transformation.

  • Impact
    Your work will make a direct impact on our Fellows, their families, and our community. You will help create greater change by tackling systemic issues preventing low-income Americans from gaining meaningful jobs.

  • Pursuit Values Diversity
    We prioritize the richness of diversity across all categories. We welcome new perspectives and make employment decisions without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Pursuit is an equal-opportunity employer.

  • Premium Health Benefits
    We offer premium health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family. Our comprehensive health package offers different plans to match your needs. We also offer memberships for virtual care and mental health platforms, as well as health clubs and fitness classes.

  • Financial Wellness and 401k
    We support you in planning for your future and retirement. Our 401k plan has a robust employer matching program. Additionally, we provide pre-tax commuter benefits, flexible spending, and health savings accounts.

  • Flexible Vacation, PTO,
and Parental Leave
    We work hard at Pursuit, and we believe it’s important for everyone to have time to rest and recharge as needed. Our unlimited PTO policy will help you take that time so that you can do your best work. We also offer flexible parental leave for the new parents on our team.

  • Best-in-class partners
    Working at Pursuit will elevate your network and accelerate your career growth. You'll meet and work with some of the best companies, funders, and employers in the industry.

  • Where We Work
    Our One Big Team is operating with a hybrid work approach in our office space in Long Island City. We’ve made updates to our office to provide maximum comfort, flexibility, and safety. On days that staff works in the office, we do group lunches, host happy hours, and get together for game nights.

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Cur­rent Op­por­tu­ni­ties

Pursuit Fellowship
Head of Bond Platform Operations
As the Head of Bond Platform Operations, you’ll play a pivotal role in building a category-defining financial product: A great opportunity to build the value proposition for different end users including Pursuit Fellows, investors, employers, and public institutions; and drive outcomes.
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Partnerships & Business Development
Strategic Investments Manager
We are in search of an energetic and thoughtful Strategic Investments Manager who will assume a broad range of product and investment management responsibilities across our impact investment products, investor management, and capital projects for a spectrum of blended capital raises including forgivable grants, recoverable grants, impact debt and equity, and market-rate debt and equity. In this role, you will be an integral part of the Impact Investments team managing relationships with existing and new investors, lenders and funding partners. The right candidate must be comfortable building complex financial models and developing thoughtful presentations with minimal guidance that can promote and close new capital commitments. This person will be a superior team player internally and externally, providing critical analysis and engaging investors to help close meaningful deals, manage large multi-year contracts, and build the future of the impact investments business. The candidate will work closely with the Managing Director (MD) of Impact Investments and be part of a high-performance team that will scale Pursuit’s fundraising, investment management, and diligence capabilities to meet their goals over the next 3 years.
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Strategic Proposal Manager
The Strategic Proposal Manager will be responsible for creating high-quality proposals, impact reports, and additional partner-facing materials focused on direct revenue solicitation. Critical to the proposal process, this role will develop positioning and framing of products, programs, projects, budgets, and outcomes to fit each partner and opportunity. In collaboration with relationship managers—who are primarily responsible for stewarding and communicating with partners—this role will help identify connections for them to make and build coalitions of supporters for cross-sector partnerships. This role sits on the Partnerships and Business Development team, working alongside the External Affairs, Employer Services, and Impact Investment teams to advance existing partnerships and qualify, strategize, and propose new ones. All efforts will be designed to enable Pursuit to meet its revenue goals for 2025 and beyond. This role will be responsible for securing at least $2M in annual revenue, primarily through strategic grants and philanthropic funding.
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