[Hiring] Director, National Foundation Partnerships @Teach For America

Role Description

As a Director on the National Foundation Partnerships team, you will manage and grow a high-impact portfolio of institutional funders. You’ll serve as the primary relationship and grant manager for multiple partners – owning proposals, reports, compliance, and day-to-day engagement – while collaborating with executive, programmatic, and regional teams to deliver an exceptional funder experience.

Alongside portfolio management, you’ll lead cross-team special projects to strengthen our prospect pipeline and support complex, high-stakes partnerships. This role requires strong judgement, sharp writing, and the ability to move quickly in a dynamic fundraising environment.

Reporting to the Head of Foundation Fundraising and Partnerships, you’ll join a virtual team of principal-gifts fundraisers located across the country. This person is ideally based in the Bay Area or Seattle – where TFA has a concentration of current and prospective partners – and can integrate themselves into the local philanthropic community, while staying connected to the national landscape.

Qualifications

• 4 years of fundraising experience, ideally managing institutional partnerships with a track record of growing a portfolio
• Excellent written communication for a donor audience, particularly in drafting original grant proposals and reports
• Capacity to build rapport and trust with internal colleagues across departments and with funders, including in a virtual setting
• Strong project management skills and comfort navigating complex systems to effectively manage grants
• Agility and adaptability; the capacity to re-arrange priorities and respond to high-stakes donor requests

Requirements

• Independently manage a grants portfolio, including drafting proposals and reports and ensuring grant compliance and implementation
• Design a robust engagement experience, coordinating relationships across Teach For America and the foundation
• Meet directly with program officers and foundation staff
• Provide agile support for the Managing Directors’ portfolio of complex institutional partners, including drafting reports, meeting prep, and due diligence responses
• Manage opportunity and relationship data in CRM
• Direct prospect pipeline development, including coordinating monthly prospect reviews to review qualified prospects and assign next steps with portfolio managers
• Source, research, and qualify new prospects (with support from our prospect strategy and research team)
• Provide additional team operational support as needed
• Participate in both team and organization initiatives (e.g. corps member selection)

Benefits

• The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area.
• Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands.
• New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role.
• The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.
• Tier A: $74,300 - $99,300
• Tier B: $81,000 - $108,300
• Tier C: $87,700 - $117,200