AI Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain relationships with practitioners, researchers, funders, government agencies, and technology organizations aligned with AIR’s AI priorities.
• Lead or co-lead outreach to potential partners, collaborators, and sector experts across multiple domains with the goal of advancing relationships toward defined collaboration or funding opportunities.
• Develop and deliver materials for partnership meetings and external engagements that reflect partner needs, market context, and potential pathways to collaboration or funding, including concept notes, briefings, and proposals.

Communications and Thought Leadership:

• Draft and develop high-quality external communications, including white papers, blog posts, research briefs, and presentations tied to AIR’s AI work.
• Support AIR’s AI communications plan, including conference preparation, publications pipeline, and social media engagement.
• Contribute to early-stage concept design and proposal shaping, helping position AIR for mission-aligned funding opportunities based on partner needs, market signals, and competitive context.

Market Analysis and Strategy:

• Monitor the AI landscape across social sectors, and translate insights into strategic recommendations that inform AIR’s external positioning and engagement priorities.
• Identify emerging opportunities, risks, and market signals, including opportunities for partnership development, funding, and strategic collaboration.
• Conduct partner profiling and competitive intelligence to inform AIR’s approach to sector engagement and positioning and support opportunity prioritization and capture planning.