# Senior Co-op Culture and Business Developer > Beloved Community Incubator · Washington, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-19 **Salary:** USD 83,000–96,000 **Workplace:** hybrid ## Description _Deadline: June 7th, 11:59pm PT. This post may be kept open after that point.._ **Position Overview** BCI is seeking a full-time Senior Co-op Culture and Business Developer to join our growing team. This role is focused on member leadership development, as well as cooperative structure, governance, and management, with an emphasis on simple, concrete, and easily implementable solutions and structures.  **About Beloved Community Incubator** Beloved Community Incubator is a worker self-directed non-profit organization in Washington, DC. Worker self-directed nonprofits are organizations in which all workers influence the programs in which they work, the conditions of their workplace, their own career paths, and the direction of the organization as a whole.  As a [solidarity economy organization](https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/) and cooperative incubator, BCI  engages our community in training and education in cooperative economics and does work to grow the solidarity economy and an ecosystem of cooperatively owned businesses in the Washington, DC region.  We organize resources and provide tangible support to cooperative enterprises, including legal, bookkeeping and administrative support. We give special focus to cooperatives that provide family sustaining wages and are led by poor and working class Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of Color. We circulate capital to cooperatives in a non-extractive way through our membership in Seed Commons, a national financial cooperative that is dedicated to financing democratically owned companies, particularly for workers who have been undervalued and pushed to the margins of the economy due to race, origin, economic or immigration status, gender, and age. **Key Responsibilities:** Cooperative development 60% - Support BCI’s new cooperative incubation program, [Cooperative Futures](https://belovedcommunityincubator.org/blog/announcing-cooperative-futures), by serving as a cooperative business coach to start up businesses, assisting groups in strengthening their team cohesion & decision making processes, as well as developing their business model canvas, financial structure, and cooperative governance.  - Support cooperatives in the BCI Network as a coach, helping identify needs and connect co-ops with resources. - Document current facilitation modules and create templates & worksheets for workshops on various coop related subjects that can be used by the entire team.  - Serve as a primary point of contact for Network Cooperatives as assigned.  - Provide support at coop team meetings in order to help build coop culture, business literacy, business planning as well as supporting coops to solve challenges.  - Assist groups to continuously improve coop governance and management - Facilitate trainings with cooperatives Non-extractive lending 20% - Coordinate BCI’s loan assembly. This includes agenda creation, orientation of new members, and coordinating presentation of new loan intakes.  - Conduct training and coaching sessions for co-ops and allies on business financials, loan readiness, and our approach to [Non-Extractive Lending.](https://seedcommons.org/projects/non-extractive-finance) - Work with the Director of Lending and Loan Coaches from the Seed Commons Community Wealth Cooperative to prepare cooperative projects for financing. Present projects in need of funding to the Sustainability Committee of Seed Commons to obtain non-extractive financing. - After loan approval, provide cooperatives with ongoing support, continued relationship, and monitoring according to an agreed upon plan.  BCI Internal Team Responsibilities 20% - Attend weekly staff meetings, monthly all staff meetings, and quarterly Worker Board meetings.  - Attend weekly cooperative support meetings, and other circle meetings as required.  - Participate in the organization’s participatory goals and budget process  - Participate in the organization's 360 evaluation processes. - Manage contacts and companies within the organization’s CRM platform. ## Requirements Our ideal candidate will have some combination of the following qualifications. We expect to interview candidates that may not possess every qualification and if you are wondering whether you are qualified please submit an application!  - 3-5 years of experience in cooperative development.  - Passion, interest, or connection to the cooperative movement - particularly worker cooperatives, cooperative economics, and democratic management. - Demonstrated social leadership skills such as community formation, meeting facilitation and coordination, democratic decision-making, direct communication, mediation, and conflict resolution. - A clear understanding of economic justice and a commitment to and experience in working with diverse groups of people including BIPOC, immigrant, LGBTQIA+ and working class communities. Connection to community or labor organizing a plus. - Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, strong writing and verbal communication abilities, and adaptable and flexible when necessary.  - Solution-focused - able to analyze administrative, interpersonal, financial, and technical problems and recommend effective solutions. - Computer proficiency, well-organized, and able to create and maintain appropriate online and physical files, data, and communications systems (i.e. Google Suite, Slack, CRM, Canva and/or other data systems) - Comfort with planning and facilitating meetings, workshops, and trainings - Preferred but not required: fluency in Spanish and/or Amharic. ## Benefits At Beloved Community Incubator, we have a culture that we’ve collectively worked hard to build. We are a worker-self directed organization that centers workers and our wellness, while building a culture of excellence and integrity.   Things that make BCI a distinct place to work –  - We combine organizing skills with economic development work. So we’re not a typical organizing shop nor are we a typical Economic Development Institution.  - We have a very relational culture, both internally and with our leaders and cooperatives.  - We have an extremely collaborative work environment – our norm is that you share ideas, proposals, and work product early and often, and expect to receive and incorporate feedback - We have a hybrid work culture – while the vast majority of our work can be done remotely, we try to meet once a month in person. - Some organizing work has field work components that require more in-person work.  - We try to be on camera with each other at our weekly staff meeting. - We have a shared decision-making structure. We expect workers to see and identify problems, and be able to think through structural solutions.  - We have a deep commitment to language justice and disability justice, through interpretation, covid planning, and other practices. It shows up in every meeting and gathering. What would make you a good fit -  - Ability to give and receive feedback from a teamwork approach  - Commitment to excellence & integrity - timeliness, accountability to members, and producing high-quality work  - Willingness to learn from and be mentored by other staff, while also be willing to share your expertise with others  - Comfort with consensus based decision making, and familiarity working in collectives or other non-hierarchical structures.  - Self motivated, with strong project management skills **Location, Salary, and Benefits**  Location: This is a full-time, exempt 40 hours a week hybrid position. Work is currently hybrid (in-person and remote) with required residency in the greater Washington, DC area (Baltimore, DC’s Maryland suburbs, and Northern Virginia could all work). BCI will offer a relocation stipend up to $5,000 to candidates who need move assistance. Minimum in person commitment is one day per week. Must be available to work from the office location and meet with participants in person as needed, including occasional evenings and weekends. Salary: The base salary for this position is $83,000 to $96,000. Within the entire organization, BCI has a formal allowable pay ratio of 1:1.33. The salary range listed for this position is reflective of BCI’s policy of salary adjustments commensurate with years of experience. This is a predetermined scale. BCI uses the experience range as a substitute for negotiations in order to produce equitable outcomes in hiring. Benefits: Employer covered health care premiums for staff and dependents. All FTE workers have the month of August off, 10 federal holidays, a week off between Christmas and New Years, and have access to generous leave policies. **Hiring Process** We hope to complete the hiring process by the end of July 2026, with an anticipated start date of September 15, 2026. The stages of this hiring process are: - Submit your resume and brief answers to a few questions (please note we are explicitly not asking for a separate cover letter, please don't include one anyway) - An initial screening interview with the BCI team - A final interview with the BCI team - Reference checks Frequently cited statistics show that people of color, women, trans, and non-binary people, as well as other structurally marginalized groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. BCI encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We strongly encourage people of color, native Washingtonians and generally, DMV residents, graduates of DC public schools, LGBTQ, and disabled people to apply. ## Apply [Apply at Beloved Community Incubator](https://apply.workable.com/beloved-community-incubator-1/j/641BF2FAE5/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)