Join the WayFinder Network
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We’re calling all bold builders, brave collaborators, and systems-shifting strategists.
The ESHIP Way is growing—and we’re seeking aligned professionals, creatives, and change agents who want to partner, collaborate, or subcontract with us on high-impact projects. We work across nonprofit and for-profit spaces, and welcome collaborators who bring lived experience, technical skill, and heart-centered leadership to their work.
Our work is primarily focused on national and field-level ecosystem-building initiatives. We do not take on projects that replace or displace local ecosystem builders. Instead, we help ‘build the builders’. Whether you're a experienced strategist, facilitator, educator, designer, storyteller, or organizer, if you believe in ecosystems, the power of collaboration, and transformation from the inside out—we want to meet you.
What we’re looking for
We’re building a deep bench of trusted collaborators, co-creators, and independent subcontractors to help us deliver on projects with local and national partners. We’re especially seeking talent with 5+ proven years of experience in one or more of the following focus areas:
Culture | Healing organizational culture, centering lived experience, demographic equity, shared leadership, cultural intelligence, trust-building
Asset Mapping | Landscape scans, community-based mapping, surfacing hidden assets, relationship mapping, data storytelling
Assessment | Ecosystem diagnostics, equity audits, ecosystem health indicators, participatory research, field learning
Alignment | Multi-stakeholder strategy, systems thinking, collaborative design, network weaving, cross-sector coordination
Action | Program design, pilot implementation, leadership development, capacity-building, coaching and facilitation
Advocacy | Policy influence, narrative framing, champion cultivation, field mobilization
Amplification | Storytelling, branding, multimedia, campaign design, experience curation, social media, events
What it means to be a WayFinder
WayFinders are values-aligned partners who bring humanity, courage, and creativity to complex ecosystem work. We believe in collaborative leadership, radical inclusion, and building with—not for—communities. We are seeking collaboraters who are open to embracing and amplufying the WayPoints as a plumbline for ecosystem building practitoners.
Ready to break-free from the traditional corporate and nonprofit heirarchies? We’re building a better way. Some WayFinders serve as short-term subcontractors on specific deliverables, others may partner on speculative proposals, while others become ongoing collaborators helping to shape the future of this work. Either way, you’ll be joining a movement committed to building better ecosystems and more just economies.