Full-time Business Development, Luminate

01ABOUT LUMINATE

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing. Founded by The Omidyar Group in 2018 and funded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, we are a US foundation with an independent board of directors, operating through entities in the US, the UK, and Kenya. We ask who benefits from a technology, and who is harmed by it.

02ROLE

As Manager, Partnerships you will oversee relationships, collaborative initiatives and outreach activities to drive more resources to the global tech justice field, managing convenings, participating in external events, driving the current community of funders already engaged, bringing in new partners and leading the work to move the cause further.

03Primary System Focus

Global funder ecosystems – identifying, cultivating, and coordinating relationships with funders to better serve and increase funding to the tech justice field, leading FABI work and Data Centres focused initiatives.

04Secondary Systems Focus

Internal partnership capacity

system – working with funding teams to support their engagement with donors;

Luminate’s internal operating system - the interaction of people, money, processes, technology, legal, and risk in enabling mission delivery.

05Employment type: Full Time

Team: Policy & Partnerships

06Location: London, United Kingdom

Reports to: Associate Director, Partnerships

Manages: No line management responsibilities.

Works closely with: Policy & Partnerships team, Programmatic Funding Lead Teams and Operations Team

Salary Range: The recruiting range for this role represents the entry point into the salary band (not the full range). Actual salary will be determined based on skills and experience.

07UK: GBP 59,591.84 -GBP 73,000.00

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08HOW YOU CREATE CHANGE: LEVERAGE POINTS

• Your role shifts systems through:
• Identifying and cultivating new funding relationships across sectors
• Supporting donor coordination and shared learning across the ecosystem
• Creating tools and strategies that make partnership engagement easier and more strategic
• Event delivery and logistics systems.
• Internal coordination across partnerships and programme teams.
• MENTAL MODELS WE VALUE
• The following mental models will enable high performance in this role:

Shared power and inclusion: You seek out the people closest to the problem and give their views real weight, bringing diverse views into routine work as a matter of course.

Integrity and stewardship: You treat Luminate's money, data and trust as held on behalf of others owning commitments and escalating ethical issues.

Systems thinking: You see how your work connects to wider effects across Luminate and the field weighing knock-on effects before deciding within own remit.

Evidence over assumption: You test what you believe against data and lived experience before acting basing your routine decisions on evidence frequently having explanations for them.

Learning and adaptation: You treat plans as hypotheses and change course when the evidence says so, changing your own practice and communicating what changed.

Lont-term field view: You look beyond single grants, observing how the field as a whole gets stronger, linking your own portfolio to field-level outcomes.

Honest Influence: You practice evidence-based persuasion and keep claims accurate, with donors, media and partners alike, tailoring evidence-based messages and checking claims.

Influence Through Enablement: you see influence not as persuasion but as making it easier for others to succeed. You create tools, framing, and relationships that helps programmatic colleagues and donors to see their role clearly and act more effectively

Signals Shape Systems: you understand that small signals – consistency, clarity, curiosity – accumulate to build trust and shift perception. You approach every interaction as a chance to reinforce values and inten

Pattern recognition: you pay attention to where energy, interest, and funding converge – and see opportunities in the patterns. You’re tuned into the rhythms of donors and help the organisation move with them, not against them