We're Hiring!

We’re excited to announce that we’re seeking a full-time Senior Co-op Culture and Business Developer to join our growing team. This role will focus on co-op business and leadership development for the members of the BCI Network, our local network of cooperative businesses, and the members of Cooperative Futures, our new cooperative incubation program. The Senior Co-op Culture and Business Developer will support individual businesses with cooperative structure, governance, and management, with an emphasis on simple, concrete, and easily implementable solutions and structures for a variety of businesses run by poor and working class people of color in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Who We Are & What We Do

Beloved Community Incubator (BCI) is a worker self-directed non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. As a worker self-directed nonprofit, the workers at BCI shape the programs in which we work, the conditions of our workplace, our own career paths, and the direction of the organization as a whole. You can learn more about how we’re building a democratic workplace here.

As a solidarity economy organization and cooperative incubator, we help workers and communities build economic power through cooperative business ownership, access to capital, and network-based support. We provide education and training for workers and communities in the Washington, DC region, support an ecosystem of cooperatively owned businesses, and organize workers to build a regional solidarity economy that centers a livable planet and people—especially poor and working class immigrants and people of color—over profit.

Through our network of local cooperatives, 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 immigrants and people of color. We provide capital to co-ops in a non-extractive way through our membership in Seed Commons, a national financial cooperative that finances democratically owned companies, particularly those made up of workers who have been pushed to the margins of the economy due to race, origin, economic or immigration status, gender, and age.

What it’s Like to Work Here

At Beloved Community Incubator, we have worked collectively to build a shared culture. As a worker-self directed organization, we center 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 – 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 collaborate, check in, and care about how we’re doing as we work together.
• 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 from the rest of the team.
• 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 and this role will have occasional evening and weekend work in order to effectively support cooperatives led by working-class people.
• 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 – which shows up in every meeting and gathering.

More Details About the Job Description and How to Apply

Applications are due by June 7th at 11:59pm PT. More details about the job description can be found here.

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 at the link above
• 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. We also encourage you to apply if you live outside of the DMV – we offer a relocation stipend up to $5,000.