Giving What We Can (GWWC) is seeking a Partnerships Associate to support and expand our global network of partner organisations promoting the 🔸10% Pledge and 🔹Trial Pledge.
As a key point of contact for our fast growing network of ~40 partners, you will support our partners to better promote giving pledges and increase pledge signups, as well as build new successful partnerships.
By ensuring that partners are set up for success, your work will grow the global community of pledgers meaning more people giving effectively to the world’s most pressing problems. If successful, you will directly cause at least hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in additional donations to go towards fighting extreme poverty, ending factory farming, and reducing global catastrophic risks affecting current and future generations.
Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making giving effectively and significantly a norm.
Founded in 2009, we are best known for the 🔸10% Pledge, where over 10,000 people have committed to donating at least 10% of their lifetime income to highly effective charities. Our larger community of pledgers and donors currently gives ~$80M USD annually, of which GWWC processes and grants ~$40M through our own donation platform.
We've set ourselves the audacious goal of reaching 1 million pledgers donating $3B USD annually to high-impact charities, and we’re currently growing at ~40% every year. The current ~17 FTE global team is mission-focused, with strong commitment to our team and community values.
Launched in 2024, our partnerships programme supports partner-led pledge growth. In 2025, with 0.5 FTE, we doubled both the size of our partner network (to ~40) and partner-inspired pledges (to ~400). You’ll drive the next growth stage, aiming to double partner-inspired pledge sign-ups again in 2026 (to ~800). You will work closely with Lucas Moore to meet these ambitious targets by scaling a well-defined programme (with existing insights and playbooks). We expect that these additional ~800 pledgers will go on to give ~$40M over the lifetime of their pledges.
Maintain strong partner relationships (20%)
Drive pledge growth with existing partners (50%)
Identify and onboard new partners (30%)
You start the day by reviewing new 🔸10% and 🔹Trial Pledge sign-ups that came in through partner organisations overnight, reading pledgers’ motivations and seeing the direct impact of your work. You spend some time planning your day and prioritising what you want to get done today before joining a daily team stand-up to say hi to the team, unblock anything urgent, and share your priorities for the day.
You then spend the first couple of hours preparing for and running a discovery call with a current partner you’re supporting through a two-week sprint. You meet with their leadership team and work together to deeply understand their organisation, audiences, and typical user journey. Drawing on insights from other partnerships and from across the GWWC team, you help them think through how to meaningfully upgrade their pledge promotion in a way that feels authentic and achievable.
After the call, you refine a practical implementation plan for the partner. Building on the conversation, as well as desk research you’ve previously done, you identify four approaches that have worked well for other partners that you think could translate effectively with some adaptations. You sketch out concrete next steps: tweaks to their landing page, new pledge touchpoints in their programmes, and a draft email written in their voice for review and approval.
After lunch, you review the attendee list for an upcoming conference and do some shallow research to assess whether partnerships with any of the attending organisations could be valuable. You draft tailored outreach emails that clearly explain the partnership opportunity and what’s in it for them and their audience.
Later in the afternoon, you prepare for and have a 1-1 check-in with your manager to touch base, report on progress against key metrics, discuss goals for the week, give and receive feedback for continuous improvement, and flag anything that needs attention. In this meeting you outline a potential new approach to further increase partner pledge growth on the basis of something you’ve noticed working with two new partners.
You end the day responding to partner queries on Slack. You notice that one question could have implications for other partners and may require input from our research team. You let the partner know you’ve seen their message and coordinate with the research team to get a research-backed and thoughtful answer.
We know that confidence can sometimes hold people back from applying. There’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. If you’re excited about this role and think you could be a great fit, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Essential skills and experience
Beneficial skills and experience
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, budgets for mental health and wellbeing and professional development, flexible working arrangements, parental leave and support, and pension.
GWWC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our organization. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to ensure an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
See below for the preliminary stages and timeline of this hiring process (please note these are subject to change):
*Candidates will be compensated at a rate of 30 USD per hour for time spent on work tests.