Business Development + Strategic Outreach Coordinator — Women’s Sports

I am building a specialized organizational consulting practice focused on organizational recovery—helping organizations navigate what comes after conflict, leadership disruption, cultural breakdown, difficult transitions, and other consequential organizational moments. The practice sits at the intersection of organizational conflict, facilitation, recovery, culture, and women’s sports. I am looking for a resourceful Business Development + Strategic Outreach Coordinator to help me build the relationships, visibility, and opportunity pipeline around the practice. What I’m Looking For This is not a high-volume lead generation or cold-sales role. I need someone who is excellent at research, relationship development, thoughtful outreach, and connecting dots. Your job is to help answer: Who should I know? Who should I talk to next? Where should I be? What opportunities should I pursue? You will create access and keep opportunities moving. I will take the substantive conversations, build the relationships, and close the consulting work. Scope You will: 1. Research potential clients, decision-makers, referral partners, and strategic connectors 2. Identify warm introduction paths whenever possible 3. Draft and coordinate personalized email and LinkedIn outreach 4. Coordinate founder 1:1 meetings and follow-up 5. Research women’s sports and sports-industry conferences, events, associations, and networking opportunities 6. Build and maintain a rolling 12-month industry/event calendar 7. Identify speaking, panel, workshop, podcast, and other visibility opportunities 8. Research priority people I should meet before attending major events 9. Build and maintain a simple CRM/business-development pipeline 10. Track outreach, relationships, follow-ups, introductions, meetings, and opportunities 11. Prepare a concise weekly Business Development Brief with priority relationships, follow-ups, introductions, events, and opportunities Our initial focus will be approximately: 70%: college athletics, women’s sports organizations/businesses, and women’s golf 20%: high-value referral relationships such as sports/employment attorneys, executive search firms, consultants, associations, and industry connectors 10%: exploratory opportunities across the broader women’s sports ecosystem We are intentionally starting broad enough to learn where the strongest market opportunities exist rather than limiting the practice to one sport. 90-Day Deliverables By the end of the initial engagement, I want: 1. A researched and prioritized relationship pipeline 2. Consistent personalized outreach underway 3. Warm introductions identified and pursued 4. Founder 1:1 conversations being generated 5. An active referral-partner pipeline 6. A 12-month sports industry/event calendar 7. Relevant speaking opportunities identified and pursued 8. Clean CRM tracking and follow-up 9. Clear insights into which audiences, relationships, and opportunities are gaining traction 10. Recommendations for the next 90 days of business development Who I’m Looking For You may come from business development, strategic partnerships, executive recruiting, founder/executive support, professional-services marketing, sports business, college athletics, association management, or research. You should be particularly strong in: Business Development Prospect + Market Research Executive Outreach + Relationship Building Event/Conference Research CRM + Pipeline Management Sports-industry experience is a plus, but exceptional research skills, judgment, writing, and follow-through matter more. LinkedIn Sales Navigator experience is also a plus. What This Is NOT I am not looking for mass cold email, scraped lead lists, automated LinkedIn spam, or generic appointment setting. This is a high-trust consulting practice. I would rather build 10-20 highly relevant relationships than collect 1,000 irrelevant contacts. There is potential for this to grow into an ongoing fractional or larger Business Development / Strategic Partnerships role if the partnership is successful.