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About Builders Vision

Builders Vision is an impact platform that aims to shift markets and minds for good in pursuit of our vision for a humane and healthy planet. We work to help address some of the most difficult environmental and sustainability challenges across three focus areas: oceans, food & agriculture , and energy .

Builders Vision has deployed more than $3 billion across our focus areas and worked alongside nearly 450 partners to drive societal and environmental change. To date, we have helped mitigate, sequester, or avoid over 4 million metric tons of CO2e, generated more than 42,000 jobs, and supported the development of more than 170 sustainable products, technologies, or solutions. While we are seeing progress, we know that we can’t do this alone. The truth is these are trillion-dollar sectors that need a number of markets to scale and multiply significantly if we are to ensure a sustainable and secure future.

Our Builders Vision team includes more than 70 impassioned individuals who activate our platform using three primary approaches to influence stakeholders and drive impact across our focus areas:

  • Deploying Capital : We use a versatile set of tools, including grants, direct investments, and fund investments to support non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and fund managers. Given Builders Vision’s different capital tools and investment vehicles, we have the flexibility to operate across the capital spectrum. We deploy capital into programs and solutions with a focus on how our efforts will lead to the catalyzation of additional investments into the sectors.
  • Supporting Partners : We are committed to helping our partners by providing critical resources including technical assistance, networking, learning opportunities, support with impact measurement and management (IMM), and strategic advice to help enhance their success and outcomes.
  • Advocating for Change : We leverage communications and engage with influential audiences to accelerate the solutions we pursue. This includes strategic communications, thought leadership, hosting and attending convenings, and industry-wide initiatives and coalitions.

Our commitment to people and the planet extends to our workplace policies and benefits. In 2023, Builders Vision was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and in 2023 and 2024 it was voted one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work by Crain’s Chicago Business. We are headquartered in the West Loop, one of Chicago’s most thriving and dynamic neighborhoods, and our offices have achieved Gold-level certifications from both the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and the International WELL Building Institute. We also offer fun social team events and offsite retreats to help our people feel refreshed and connected to nature, each other, and our mission.

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Our Commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) are at the core of our mission to shift markets and minds for good. We know that a humane and healthy planet starts with us. We commit ourselves to learning from others and doing the work to become a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization, and we will seek to promote those same values in the world around us. We actively seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool and create an inclusive culture that centers equitable practices and policies. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome people from all experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.

Position Summary

Builders Vision is hiring a strategic thinker with a passion for climate solutions to support business planning related to a new initiative to launch an investor fellowship program. We are currently exploring feasibility, business planning, partnership models, and market landscape – to build out a clear go to market strategy. The purpose of this role is to support a small group of executives who are championing this concept and need implementation assistance. This internship is a fall-based role, beginning in September 2025 and extending through the end of the year.

This intern role will interface with a diverse cross-section of sector and functional experts at Builders Vision and externally, including investors, grant makers, impact measurement, legal, and communications teams. This is an incredible opportunity to how to use investment influence to drive real world change.

The ideal candidate is an MBA student with career experience in investments, management consulting or strategy. Comfort with a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, collaborative in-person environment is important. How you engage is just as important as what you have done: we are looking for someone who is selfdirected, authentic, empathic, humble and curious.

Primary Responsibilities

Conduct research : Perform research to help answer open questions related to the project's scoping, such as identifying potential partner organizations to house or fund the fellowship. The intern should also research and validate characteristics of the target asset class – growth stage private equity.

Business Plan : Contribute to refining the project's proposal for the next phase by outlining necessary timing, budget, and resources to align with 2026 objectives.

Create materials : Assist in creating research reports, discussion guides, and other materials. This will include creating content for prototypes of the top ideas.

Design program content : Help identify the most impactful and compelling content for the fellowship program.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of experience in investments, management consulting and/or corporate strategy or equivalent experience
  • Experience facilitating and synthesizing complex discussions among diverse stakeholders
  • Strong interest in, and basic knowledge of, climate change challenges and solutions
  • Sector expertise in oceans, food & agriculture, and/or energy is a plus
  • Ability to draw meaning from complex and sometimes contradictory information
  • Empathetic, humble listener
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (i.e. ability to synthesize information into key themes, insights and implications).

Compensation

  • Pay rate: $30/hour, ~10 hours per week (flexible weekly schedules can be discussed)
  • Timeframe: Begins September / ASAP, and runs through the end of the year. This is a temporary role and is not eligible for overtime, paid time off (PTO), benefits or holiday pay.

Builders Vision is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to apply, including women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status under applicable laws and regulations.