The Context
Founded in 2021, Edge Collaborative (“Edge”) is a civic incubator that partners with public, private, and nonprofit organizations to tackle systemic economic challenges in Stockton, CA. With a focus on three key areas – jobs and workforce, climate, and community wealth – Edge seeds and supports partner-led initiatives with a range of tools. These tools include access to capital, talent, policy support, and coalition-building.
Position Overviews
Our portfolio is currently place-based, and wide ranging. As we grow in 2025, we'll be looking to expand our team. From February to May 2025, Edge will be planning to hire roles across the following areas. As we scope out those roles, we welcome your interest -- so that we can share them specifically with you, when they go live.
1. Operations - to strengthen internal operations and infrastructure
2. Partnerships development - across strategic collaborations and philanthropy
3. Impact evaluation - across the grant making in our portfolio
4. Communications - to advance creative storytelling across our organization and those of our partners
5. Organizational models - across nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid models
6. Civic prototyping - to help develop a prototype with a range of outside collaborators
If you have prospective interest in these areas, please feel free to share your interest in a paragraph or two (no more - keep it short!) with either your expertise or your interest - and we'll be sure to share the role with you (by email).
Team Values
Beginner’s mindset - we love asking the ‘stupid questions’ to understand what is possible. Our greatest asset is our curiosity as beginners (not experts). We want to discover how and why particular systems and people have been historically neglected by the public and private sectors.
Undaunted - we believe that bold solutions emerge from the margins (or edges, as we might say). The first answer is usually never right, but we’re not afraid of being wrong. We bring a passionate persistence to breaking through the stalemates and road blocks.
Boundless creativity - we thrive as a team. We take inspiration from “keystone species” in ecology - modeling our work after the resourcefulness of penguins and the vibrancy of bees. We cross-pollinate ideas, sectors, and institutions to help manifest the untapped potential of the people we serve.
Humility in service of community - we care deeply about the communities in which we work, and endeavor to put their needs at the center of how we design and incubate new initiatives. We strive to balance the boldness of our imagination with the recognition that slow, sustained trust building with partners is critical to the long-term viability of the work.
Sheer whimsy - we believe that serious work calls for a playful attitude, as we imagine what is possible. Play is derived from a place of joy and speaks to how we aspire to brighten our days. Plus, what’s life without a lil bit of whimsy?
