Project Development Lead

This would be a good role for you if you:

• Are good at orienting to new spaces, and performing research to understand the status quo, unaddressed needs, and opportunities to engage with existing initiatives
• Want to scope plans to achieve ambitious, high-level goals
• Would equally enjoy executing on others’ at FLF’s plans to achieve these goals as well as figuring out yourself what should happen next with an initiative
• Like driving things forward and are outcome-oriented
• Enjoy working on both “moonshots” and concrete MVPs and are happy to work across multiple unrelated projects
• Are comfortable outsourcing and managing contractors to increase productivity

Questions you would ask in this role:

• What products / tools / technologies might be feasible to build and deploy? Given the relative difficulty of product/tool/tech adoption, and the tradeoffs with regard to impact, which should we prioritize?
• How can we get those built? Is this a company? A non-profit? Something we build internally?
• Do we have a clear enough idea of what to build that we can scope it out and commission the work? Or do we need to try building it ourselves first, or solicit ideas from the public via RFPs or find new people to explore work here via a fellowship?
• Which parts of this agenda will the market likely take care of?

Actions you would often be taking:

• Sync with other FLF team members to understand our vision and theory of change for the area
• Brainstorm / generate / solicit and research ideas for technologies / products / tools that could deliver on those visions
• Analyze the market, feasibility of ideas, and scope of work required to implement
• Sync with the team to share and refine thinking
• Depending on what products / tools / technologies seem most promising (if any), and how well-scoped the work is, make a plan to build in-house / recruit a team / post an RFP / run a fellowship, etc.
• Write two-pagers to keep the team informed and track the provenance of your beliefs

Outcomes you would be responsible for:

• Exact outcomes dependent on what we discover as we explore these areas, but could include:
• A conclusion that the area is not currently feasible to make progress on, along with an explanation as to why
• A fleshed-out spec for a product to address one of these areas
• A sketch of the kind of organization we want to create to tackle one of these areas, along with a plan for recruiting and funding the team
• A well-run program chosen to address these areas