Community Outreach Lead

Community Outreach Lead (Contract, Performance-Weighted, Part-Time to Start)

Mind for Mission | Remote USA, Chicago area preferred

About Mind for Mission

Mind for Mission is a consultancy that helps local businesses and mission-driven organizations modernize their operations using AI and smart systems.

Our work sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and responsible AI adoption. We do concierge consulting work that sticks. We stay through implementation. That commitment to staying is the differentiator.

Learn more at mindformission.com

About the Role

We are hiring a Community Outreach Lead to find the owner-operators we're built to help and start real conversations with them. The work happens where they live: Facebook groups and communities for clinicians, Instagram threads, niche forums for dental practice owners, and local online spaces where small business owners gather. It calls for real participation in those communities and a kind of outreach that sounds like a human wrote it because a human did.

Your job is to learn each community, find the operators who would benefit from what we do, and reach out one-to-one in their voice and on their channel. M4M leadership handles discovery, proposals, and everything after.

This is not an entry-level role. We are looking for someone with applied experience running outreach in community-rooted spaces, with examples they can walk us through. Someone who treats relationship-building as the craft.

This role is well-suited for someone who likes the early-stage feel of a small team, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and prefers being measured on engagement quality and outcomes over message volume. As an early team member, you will have meaningful influence over how this role evolves as the firm grows.

About the Team

You will join a small, experienced team with deep backgrounds in strategy, operations, enterprise technology, and creative work. We take our work seriously while valuing perspective, humanity, and the understanding that great work is sustained by rhythm and care.

What You Will Be Working On

• Spending real time in Facebook groups, Instagram communities, niche forums, and local online spaces where our target owner-operators live
• Learning what each community cares about, noticing patterns, finding operators who are open to a conversation about how AI could help them
• Reaching out in their voice and on their channel: personal messages, warm intros, follow-ups and meaningful prompts.
• Building and maintaining contact records in Pipedrive. Logging every touch within 24 hours
• Booking qualified discovery calls into the founder's calendar and handing off cleanly
• Bringing back what you're hearing: what's resonating, what's falling flat, what language owners use, and where the conversations are happening
• Operating from M4M brand voice guidelines. You bring the channel craft and your own voice
• Reporting weekly in Slack every Friday: touches by channel, conversations had, qualified meetings booked, and what you learned

Required Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should meet most or all of the following:

• 2-4 years (minimum) of professional experience running outreach in community spaces for small businesses, mission-driven organizations, or local-market campaigns. SMB outreach, community organizing, nonprofit development, grassroots fundraising, advocacy work, and ground game political organizing all map
• Demonstrated experience on Facebook and Instagram as channels for finding and engaging people, not just posting content. You can walk us through three communities you'd join tomorrow if asked to find a dental practice owner or ABA clinic owner
• Strong writing in plain language. You write the way people read. No corporate jargon. No "I noticed your impressive work" openers
• Comfort with mission-driven work and the patience to build relationships over weeks, not hours
• Comfort using AI tools as helpers, with your own voice on the final message. Claude or similar for research and drafting
• Working knowledge of CRMs (Pipedrive, HubSpot, or similar) and the basics of contact list hygiene
• Comfort working independently in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
• Strong discipline around weekly engagement quality and reporting

This role is not appropriate for candidates whose primary background is SaaS BDR work, who measure outreach success in messages sent per day, or whose default channel is LinkedIn sequences.

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Chicago-area roots or strong familiarity with the Midwest small business landscape
• Background in behavioral health, ABA, healthcare administration, fitness, or local retail
• Community organizing, nonprofit development, or grassroots fundraising experience
• Experience or interest in mission-driven for-profits and small businesses
• Spanish speaking a plus

Logistics and Compensation

• Start date: Late June or July 2026
• Schedule: Part-time contract, 10-15 hours per week to start, with a cascading growth path
• Engagement: 90-day pilot with check-ins at weeks 4 and 8 to step up hours based on engagement quality, then a full evaluation at 90 days. Strong performance moves to a longer-term agreement or expanded scope
• Location: Remote USA. Chicago area is a plus. Hours align with Central Time

Compensation Structure

• Hourly rate of $18-$24 per hour, billed for hours worked on outreach and reporting (weekly hours submitted Friday alongside the activity report)
• Commission of 10% on Roadmap engagements you source ($500-1,200 per close depending on tier)
• Commission of 8% of year-one value on Core Package engagements ($1,600-12,000+ per close)
• Quarterly performance bonus of $1000 when engagement quality and outcome targets are both hit

Why This Role Matters

Small businesses and mission-driven organizations are the operations that benefit most from thoughtful AI adoption, and they are the ones least likely to be reached by the enterprise consultancies. We exist to close that gap. The work starts with you finding the right owners in the places where they spend time, and starting conversations that earn trust.

If you bring community outreach experience, you enjoy the craft of finding and engaging people on the channels they use, and you want to help build something thoughtful from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Apply via LinkedIn's "Apply Now" feature. Then send a short note and your resume to [email protected] with the subject line "Community Outreach Lead - your name." In your note, include three things:

• One Facebook group, Instagram account, or community space where you'd spend time to find a dental practice owner or ABA clinic owner. Why that one?
• A short paragraph (under 150 words) on how you'd reach out to a clinic owner who just posted in a peer group about losing their third staff member this year
• Your earliest realistic start date, and a yes or no on whether 10-15 hours per week works for you initially