Chief Partnerships Officer

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Key Information

Role: The Chief Partnerships Officer will run our Advising Department, overseeing our partnerships, content, and events work. They’ll report to the CEO, Simran Dhaliwal.

Location: Open to US (remote) working. Otherwise located in London, UK (working full-time from Longview’s East London office). We may be able to sponsor a UK work visa for this position.

Compensation package: competitive salary based on the successful candidate’s experience and skills. 

Benefits: 10% employer pension contribution (up to $23k), private healthcare including vision and dental, 25 days vacation & 8 federal holidays, £5,000 (~$6,500)/year wellbeing budget, £2,400 (~$3,200)/year professional development budget, and a well-stocked office fridge. 

Start date: As soon as possible.

How to apply: Please submit your application to the role here.

About Longview Philanthropy

Longview Philanthropy’s mission and activities
Longview Philanthropy is a non-profit based in the UK and US. We design and execute bespoke giving strategies for major donors. Our grant recommendations are driven by the conviction that we can use evidence and reason to find the highest-impact donation opportunities. We focus on global challenges that could transform our future for many generations to come, including AI safety and governance, biosecurity, and nuclear weapons policy. Everything we offer is free-of-charge and independent. We currently advise donors worldwide. 

Impact in this role

As the inaugural Chief Partnerships Officer (CPO) at Longview Philanthropy, you will play a crucial role in advancing our mission to move hundreds of millions of dollars to the most impactful philanthropic opportunities. In this role, you will be a leader at Longview — leading one of our three departments (Advisory; the others being Grantmaking and Operations). You will shape our donor engagement strategy, oversee all donor-related teams, and ensure that Longview is successful in its mission to unlock resources for critical philanthropic opportunities, namely in AI risk, biosecurity, and nuclear security.

Longview Philanthropy’s team culture
We are a collaborative, dedicated, and positive team. See our operating values here. We are all deeply motivated by the work that we do and the impact we can have. We are an ambitious organisation with a culture of clear communication, commitment to excellence, direct feedback, ownership over our work, kindness and a strong focus on outcomes. The UK team works from our London office and the US team works remotely from various locations. 

About the Role

The Chief Partnerships Officer will lead the Advising Department and strategically manage and expand our donor relationships and key partnerships. They will work closely with the CEO (Simran), President (Natalie), Programme Directors (Page, Carl), and other senior staff to ensure that our approach to donor engagement is effective and aligned with our organisational goals. This role will be pivotal in shaping our overall strategy for donor interactions and philanthropic partnerships.

Unlike traditional development work, Longview’s mission centres on increasing the amount of funding going to the excellent organisations working on some of the world’s most pressing issues (nuclear security, catastrophic risks from advanced AI, pandemic preparedness). We measure our success through the new funds we unlock and direct to these consequential issues. We work with philanthropists to help them understand these spaces, and advise their giving by bringing promising funding opportunities to them (e.g. specific grant recommendations; portfolios of grants; our in-house discretionary funds).

Your role would be to lead a core function of this work: expanding and cultivating the network of philanthropists we advise and work with. Your success in this role would be measured by the new donors brought in, capital unlocked, and the relationships deepened within our existing network, as well as your success as the head of the Advising department.

Right now is an exciting and pivotal time for Longview. We’ve run several major events, and have incredibly promising leads and connections. We want to ensure we make the most of this:

  • We ran two summits in 2024 (Napa in April and Stockholm in September) that were attended by several dozen UHNW donors, advisors, and foundation leads who collectively have the potential to give hundreds of millions of dollars to impactful non-profit work over the next few years.
    • These retreats were incredibly well received, and events are a tool of the Advising department to expand and deepen our network, educate donors, and provide community for the philanthropist we advise.
    • Confidentially, for 2025, we are planning a multi-day residential nuclear summit in collaboration with a wonderful UHNW philanthropist we work with. 
  • We’ve deepened relationships with some key donors who have connected us to their networks. There are several relationships we could work on cultivating with more advising capacity. We can share specific names with you, under strict confidentiality, as we progress through this process. 

To act on the incredible opportunities available to Longview, we need to bring on new leadership to oversee our advising work. The CPO will be a leader at Longview in a critical period of growth and we consider this hire to be the most important we’ll make in 2025.

You would report to the CEO, Simran Dhaliwal. You would manage the three teams in the Advisory department: (1) development: staff who track engagements, assist with project management, and manage our donor CRM, (2) events, and (3) content: staff who develop our donor-facing materials.

Responsibilities

The core responsibilities of the CPO include:

  • Overseeing and improving upon our donor engagement strategy, including by rigorously prioritising across opportunities.
    • Advise the CEO, President, Programme Directors, and other donor-facing staff on the donor journeys for the relationships they manage.
    • (Optional) Steward individuals and advance relationships, as relationship manager, to increase the amount of funding going to impactful projects vetted by Longview. 
  • Manage the Advising Department to advance a core program of our work: building relationships and educating new philanthropists and foundations.
    • Manage our Development team; an incoming Development Coordinator/Officer 
      • To ensure that donor relationships are properly project-managed and that our CRM is utilised effectively and kept up to date.
    • Manage our Events team; currently one Event Director.
      • Oversee our events calendar to ensure it serves the donors we advise and hope to advise.
      • Ensure that our events are high-quality, and advance our mission.
    • Manage our Content team; hiring for a Head of Content; have a Content Director.  
      • Oversee and review all high-stakes content, including the content of day-long events, multi-day retreats, and learning series, as well as written materials including emails, grant recommendations, fund prospectuses, impact reporting, and more.
    • Liaise with the Office of the CEO to decide which additional hires (e.g. additional development/events/content staff) are needed in the Advisory department.
  • Represent Longview at relevant professional conferences in the effective philanthropy and philanthropic advisory spaces.
  • Stay up to date with Longview’s grantmaking work, to be able to effectively communicate the impactful and exciting work we’re doing with partners. 
  • As a leader at Longview, be a culture carrier, ensuring you demonstrate our operating values.

Who Should Apply for This Role?

We expect exceptional candidates to have many of the following attributes:

  • Extensive experience in UHNW fundraising 
    • Strong strategic thinking and donor journey intuition
    • Proven track record in creating and reviewing written materials for UHNWIs
    • Proficiency with CRM systems and donor data management
    • Established network of UHNW contacts (preferred)
    • Discretion and commitment to maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality
  • Motivated by Longview's mission, and excited to join Longview, and quickly get up to speed on Longview’s programmes and focus areas
    • (Note we will offer extensive support in upskilling in our cause areas, including dedicated time with our expert Programme Directors) 
  • Experience overseeing events as a development tool
  • Exceptional leadership and team management skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, direct feedback environment
  • Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal
  • A strong ability to work autonomously
  • Very high attention to detail

Application Process

  • First stage: Submit an application
  • Second stage: Screening call (30 minutes)
  • Third stage: Paid work tasks compensated at $150/hr
  • Fourth stage: Final interviews and reference checks 
  • Fifth stage: An opportunity for paid coworking or an additional chance to meet and work with the team, to help you and Longview assess mutual fit.