Zero Gravity runs a charitable fund alongside its core organisation - one that’s already put real money behind disadvantaged young people, and is now looking for someone to take it from “well-run” to “genuinely ambitious.” That’s this role.
You’ll set strategy directly with the CEO and the trustee board, then go and build the funding relationships - banks, consultancies, foundations, major donors - that make that strategy fundable. You’ll also design what the impact actually looks like on the ground, including new AI-enabled delivery models for under-resourced schools. And underneath all of it, you’re the person keeping governance and the books airtight enough that none of the above is at risk.
It’s an unusual mix: part strategist, part fundraiser, part governance lead, and - because the Fund’s delivery model increasingly runs through the organisation’s own AI-tutoring technology - part product collaborator too. Most people are strong at one of those. This role needs someone credible across all of them.
Mission comes before everything else here. Zero Gravity doesn’t treat “passionate about impact” as a nice-to-have line on a CV - they’re looking for someone who’s genuinely bought into closing the gap between where a young person starts and what they’re capable of, and who’d be doing something in this space even if this exact job didn’t exist. That conviction has to be real enough to survive a hard trustee conversation or a funder who says no, not just a values-fit answer in an interview.