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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.

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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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Pursuit Fellowship
Partnerships & Business Development

Pursuit Fellowship

Director of Technical Instruction

We are seeking an exceptional technical leader to drive software engineering excellence across Pursuit's pre-job programming and serve as a key partner in developing our technical curriculum and assessment strategies. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, educational expertise, and strategic input to prepare our Fellows for successful careers in technology. This role presents an unparalleled opportunity to directly impact the trajectories of Pursuit Fellows, their families, and their communities. In this role, you will directly influence the technical readiness of hundreds of Fellows entering the technology industry. Your work will shape how we prepare the next generation of software engineers and help create more inclusive pathways into tech careers.

Employment Manager

Pursuit is hiring an Employment Manager to support our program participants, Fellows, and aid them to successfully navigate the job search process and get their first jobs as software engineers. The majority of this role will be delivering workshops and providing coaching and feedback to Fellows on their personal branding, job applications, and networking. This role will also be instrumental in helping to design and implement a scalable and replicable career coaching function that enables Pursuit to meet our five-year strategy.

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.

Instructor (Technical Coach)

As the Technical Coach (Instructor), you’ll share your vast software engineering knowledge and deliver technical instruction to a class of adult learners. You’ll teach Fellows the necessary coding skills for their future as software engineers and foster a broad understanding of the practical applications of technology. Most importantly, you’ll instill confidence and re-enforce the persistence they will need to embark on this new career path.

Strategy and Operations Manager

Pursuit’s Employment team is looking to hire a focused and dedicated Strategy and Operations Manager who will develop and implement supply-side initiatives and manage day-to-day operations and analytics. Our Employment function is responsible for the success of Pursuit’s open market jobs strategy, one of the two organizational strategies to drive employment outcomes for Pursuit Fellows: 1) open market jobs 2) committed jobs (enterprise sales contracts with employer customers). Open market jobs have historically represented ~70% of Pursuit jobs. Reporting to the VP of Employment, the Strategy & Operations manager will lead the effort to redefine the way that Pursuit collects and leverages our Fellows’ application & employment data. Likewise, working cross-functionally and alongside members of the team, they will help determine how the function defines and measures success. With the overarching goal of "Everyone Drives Jobs" as the top company-wide priority for 2024, the Strategy & Operations manager will have a critical impact on Pursuit’s mission.

Partnerships & Business Development

Individual Giving Manager

As the Individual Giving Manager, you will oversee the strategy, communications, and ongoing engagement of Pursuit’s network of high net worth individuals and influential leaders in business and technology. Reporting to the VP of Development & Partnerships, you will create, own and drive a dynamic engagement strategy to retain and acquire net new gifts from Pursuit champions and other individuals. You will lead the planning and execution of events and develop exceptional experiences that promote, diversify, expand, and educate our funders and potential funders.

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.

Strategic Partnerships Manager, Philanthropy

As the Strategic Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for establishing new partnerships with philanthropic entities and other partners to fund strategic initiatives. While others on the team will be focused on raising funds specifically to support workforce development, this role will lead partnerships and fundraising for strategic, systems-level initiatives that may sit outside of or adjacent to workforce development and be focused more broadly on economic transformation through impact investment and capital mobilization, wealth gap and inequality, research and policy, or capacity building. Examples include Randomized Controlled Trial, a new Queens Tech Hub, a Tech Apprenticeship implementation plan for the city, or an employment strategy with Venture Capital firms.

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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