| Salary | $120,000 annually at full time, prorated during the part-time start, with growth potential |
| Benefits | Strong, competitive package: health insurance stipend, 5% employer contribution to 401(k), generous paid time off |
| Reports to | Felipe Witchger, Executive Director |
| Location | Remote (U.S.-based; Raleigh/Durham proximity a strong plus; DC, VA, NY, Chicago also a plus) |
| Start | Part-time (5–10 hours/week) in November or December 2026, with a flexible transition to full-time in early 2027 |
Why This Role
This is a rare kind of job. You’ll work closely with a founder who thinks big, builds trust quickly, and loves gathering and facilitating — but who needs a partner in nurturing relationships and realizing the full potential of each one.
Right now we have more genuine interest than we can carry. Investors find us, ask real questions, and want to go deeper. Fund managers doing extraordinary work want our help reaching institutional capital. The bottleneck is not demand. It is the sustained, patient, relational follow-through that turns interest into conviction and conviction into committed capital.
That is this job. Not development. Not new program design. Relationships with investors and with the fund managers and entrepreneurs building a prophetic economy — held with enough care and enough savvy weaving that things actually move.
You’ll have real ownership from day one. You won’t be managing up through three layers of hierarchy — you’ll be making judgment calls, building relationships, and representing the organization externally. You’ll sharpen your instincts for how institutional capital actually moves, how impact funds get built and scaled, and how a spiritually-energized movement can lead change at the national and international levels.
You’ll be reinforced by an Associate Director with incredible systems acumen, phenomenal marketing and culture-change colleagues, and an exceptional executive admin team. This position has the support to complement the gifts you bring.
About Us
Even the most talented changemakers — with real traction and real impact — often can’t close an investment after they’ve met the people who manage institutional capital. The meetings happen. The interest is genuine. What breaks down is the part that comes after: the consultant who doesn’t have the mandate to add funds to their approved list, the advisor who doesn’t have a landscape of similar opportunities to compare it to, the investment committee that is risk averse and wants more track record, the board member whose investment beliefs don’t have a category for this kind of opportunity.
Francesco Collaborative (FC) exists to work on the beliefs, frameworks, logics, and relationship infrastructure that determine whether capital actually moves.
That means curating peer insights from investors who have already made the shifts and are building repeatable processes that turn one-off wins into sustained investment practice. We’re building culture, community, and market intelligence. FC’s convenings build the kind of trust between peers and institutions that gives them the confidence to drive the change they’re seeking.
We stand on a 50+ year foundation. Decades ago, pioneering congregations of Catholic sisters made a bold decision to use their capital as a transformative force for good — pioneering community development finance and shareholder advocacy long before “impact investing” was a category. We are the grateful inheritors of that vision. The governance transitions those congregations are navigating right now — and the next generation of Catholic families, foundations, and institutional investors stepping into leadership — are a cornerstone to what we believe will define the next fifty years of this Catholic Social Teaching and investing movement.
Francesco Collaborative is a community gathered and grounded by conviction — organizing investors, philanthropists, and faith leaders around Catholic Social Teaching and the project of economic transformation. Through workshops, peer learning communities, and summits, we build the companionship, capacity, and confidence that move institutions from interest to action.
Livable Future Impact (LFI) is our affiliated placement agent initiative — connecting values-aligned institutional capital to exceptional impact funds working at the frontier of employee ownership, climate investing, community wealth building, and beyond.
Together, FC and LFI form a small, high-trust, entrepreneurial platform doing work that didn’t exist in this form before we built it. Our team is small by design.
We believe in doing fewer things with more depth — and we’re hiring to go further.
About this Role
This role is for someone who sees a big ask as a gift — an invitation into a partner’s most important work, extended from a foundation of mutual respect and spiritual alignment. You can identify the barriers between the ask, the commitment, and the follow-through, and then build the supports necessary to catalyze change within individuals, their institutions, and our network.
The Executive Director, Felipe, is a visionary and an activator. He generates ideas quickly, builds relationships instinctively, and moves between fundraising, fund placement, workshop facilitation, and movement-building — often in the same day. What we need is someone who can step into strategic relationships and carry them forward: accompanying people in their most important work, watching for the ripple effects, and creating the gathering spaces that make those ripples possible.
We have scoped this role deliberately narrowly. Institutional development, university partnerships, and new program design are real needs, and they are not this job. This person has two priorities:
Priority 1 — Nurture Our Investor Community and Welcome New Investors (60%)
Francesco Collaborative’s power is relational. This priority is about going deeper with the investors already in our community, welcoming new ones in, and accompanying each of them on the journey toward a fuller embodiment of Catholic Social Teaching in how they steward capital.
- Deepen existing relationships. Add real strategic value to 20 existing investors each quarter through one-on-ones, small groups, and in-person meetings — understanding where each person is in their journey and what would actually help them take the courageous next step.
- Welcome new investors in. Reach out proactively to 20 and successfully welcome 12 new institutional investors each quarter — responding to inbound interest quickly and warmly, and initiating outbound conversations with the allocators most likely to move.
- Accompany investors toward deeper CST embodiment. Support 6+ institutional investors each quarter in making concrete moves on investment beliefs, asset allocation, investment policy statements, and liquidity — through drop-in sessions, sustained cohort workshops, and one-on-one coaching.
- Identify and accompany the leaders most ready to move. Each quarter, find the 8 leaders most likely to drive significant change toward our North Stars, and collaborate with Felipe to help them lead that change inside their institutions.
- Coach senior leaders at endowments, foundations, religious congregations, banks, and consulting firms as they run internal change initiatives — parsing their institutional constraints and helping them build a path that works.
- Create the gatherings where relationships form. Work with local FC leaders in 6–12 cities to organize in-person gatherings, and build the relational infrastructure of our annual CST & Investing Summit by inviting and clinching top notch speakers, sponsors, and VIP guests.
- Steward the relationship data. Keep our CRM and network databases current so that what you learn in a conversation becomes something the whole team (and our partners) can track the patterns on. We can build new insights and programming from what we’re learning.
Priority 2 — Support Fund Managers and Prophetic Economy Leaders in Their Fundraising (40%)
Our fund manager relationships are where conviction becomes capital. This priority is about offering the managers and entrepreneurs building a prophetic economy something more comprehensive than anyone else offers them — and building the programming that sustains them.
- Lead engagement with our core fund manager relationships. Project manage across Felipe and the Associate Director to deliver consistently exceptional service: preparation, regular meetings, follow-up, and monthly reporting for our 5–10 top relationships.
- Coach & Support growth of thoughtful fundraising infrastructure for these managers so their capital-raising process – materials, data rooms, group meetings, initial and follow-up interactions – are organized, tracked, and credible to institutional allocators.
- Build their fundraising capacity. Sharpen their narrative, their materials, and their understanding of how institutional allocators actually decide (developing thoughtful comparables / benchmarks to help investors quickly frame how they evaluate, which bucket they’re considering, and what they’re comparing against) — the specific gap that keeps good funds from closing good capital.
- Lead trainings and cohort-based learning that support the growth and development of peer fund managers and entrepreneurs, building the companionship that makes this work sustainable.
- Manage the inbound pipeline of fund managers, entrepreneurs, and capital seekers: take short meetings, understand strategy and background, and assess fit with our framework, community, and priorities.
- Build high-value content that serves the additional impact funds we want to support but can’t engage in sustained relationships.
- Contribute qualitative and quantitative data to our network and deal-sharing databases.
Have Questions? Want to Learn More?
We’ll review applications on a rolling basis, with first interviews starting around September 14, 2026.
We will hold a Q&A on Monday, August 31st at 1:15pm ET and on September 11th at 1:30pm ET for prospective applicants to meet Felipe, ask questions, and learn more. RSVP via the links above. Recordings will be posted here.