TITLE: Manager, Strategy & Integration

START DATE: September 2024

STATUS: Exempt

TEAM: Central Fundraising on National Development

REPORTS TO: Diana Pease, Managing Director, Strategy & Integration

LOCATION: Flexible (remote)

THE ROLE

Position Summary

As Manager, Strategy & Integration you help ensure that Teach For America is efficiently, thoughtfully & strategically cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding our organization’s most generous funders through providing strategic support & leadership for essential operations, communications, and team culture/DEI efforts. You will leverage your strong abilities to proactively problem-solve and navigate complexity by supporting a large and highly influential team that is charged with raising funds from high net worth individuals, managing our national board and collaborating across the organization for high-stakes projects.

Reporting to the MD, Strategy and Integration, you will also directly support special high-stakes projects upon assignment from the SVP, Central Fundraising, you will ensure our team is operating at its highest capacity as a result of strong systems, operations and communications. Further, you will support key fundraising efforts--including donor campaigns & communications, event strategy, and key initiatives. Finally, you will be a leader in team culture and diversity, equity and inclusivity, partnering with the MD, Strategy & Integration and the SVP, Central Fundraising to drive this work forward across the team

THE ORGANIZATION

There are more than 16 million children growing up in poverty in the U.S., and less than 10 percent of them will graduate from college. These statistics are not a reflection of our children’s potential; we know that children growing up in poverty can and do achieve at the highest levels. Rather, these statistics reflect the systemic lack of access and opportunity for children in low-income communities.

Teach For America’s (TFA) mission is to find, develop, and support a diverse network of leaders committed to expanding opportunity for children from classrooms, schools, and every sector and field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. We are seeking individuals who align with our mission, core values and commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusiveness and are ready to join us in this global movement.

THE TEAM

The National Development team builds and strengthens Teach For America’s philanthropic partnerships. Our team inspires donors to invest in the future of our country by investing in TFA’s work with students nationally and regionally. We help educate staff in the knowledge and practices of fundraisers. Our team is responsible for ensuring that our fundraising infrastructure supports and sustains TFA’s ambitious short- and long-term mission. Within National Development, the Central Fundraising team is catalytic in growing the number of individuals investing in Teach For America and developing diverse champions for our mission in order to maximize the financial and broader contributions to regional and national work.

THE ROLE

This role will function supporting the Central Fundraising Team and lifting/scaling tools, systems, resources, across the broader Development team. Differentiated responsibilities are noted within.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Team and Cross-Team Operations & Strategy (70%)

• Build & maintain strong, functional operational tools and systems for the team (e.g., donor data, strategic planning tools and reports, dashboards)

• Track and regularly assess team-wide data & progress to goals (both revenue and non-revenue), as well as donor retention and acquisition data

• Through project management, data & systems management, and execution, support the Strategy & Integration team to execute vision & plans on strategic projects such as (but not limited to)

  • Fundraising strategy & cross-team coordination with events (FY25 Positioning Campaign)

  • Key funding campaigns for use across the Development team

• Implement annual strategic planning process

• Building tools

• Support cross-functional partnerships outside of CF (OCEO, EA, DevOps, Rev, etc.)

• Support the MD, SI to maximize SVP, CF’s time advising on strategic priorities and managing workflow across the team

• Partner on content development for team engagements and lead on logistics

Team Culture & Communications (30%)

• Partner on the content and lead on logistics for Central Fundraising meetings & engagements including developing the agendas, decks, & materials

• Support MD, SI and SVP, CF in implementing cross-team cultural priorities, learning agendas and professional development with a prioritized focus on our commitment to DEI; advise on elements that can & should be scaled to the entire Development team and partner to execute that implementation.

• Support in onboarding incoming team members, designing and supporting onboarding plans in collaboration with SVP, CF.

• Lead and support projects as identified by Central Fundraising as needed related to strategic priorities.

Skills:

• Experience managing up to senior leaders; supporting others in managing to priorities

• Flexibility in outlook and ability to pivot quickly

• Record of achieving ambitious goals and creating effective systems to manage multiple projects

• Strong facility with Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint/Google Slides, Canva, and/or other graphic design tools preferred

• Familiarity with Salesforce a plus

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

• Sense of personal responsibility for outcomes and ability to manage up

• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks, demonstrate good judgment, and make timely decisions

• Ability to think critically with a high level of organization, attention to detail and energy

• Ability to work efficiently and with accuracy in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with a spirit of flexibility, sense of possibility

• Ability to anticipate the needs of others and collaborate across functions to resolve unexpected challenges

• Strong team orientation and ability to build relationships with teams across the organization as well as all individuals within the Development team

• Strong customer service orientation and problem-solving orientation

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate the needs of others, identify opportunities for improving systems and processes and resolve unexpected challenges

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of professional experience--specifically in operational leadership and project management preferred.

• At least two years experience in Development/Fundraising work

• A Bachelor’s degree is great to have, but we are more interested in your total experience and achievements throughout your professional career.

THE PERKS

By joining staff, you join a network of individuals committed to pursuing equity for all students and developing themselves as professionals in the process. We as an organization value the longevity of our employees and offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits plan. The salary for this position is also competitive and depends on your prior work experience. Please be advised, you will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

YOUR COMPENSATION

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. The expected starting salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Tier A: $61,300 - $82,000

Tier B: $66,800 - $89,400

Tier C: $72,300 - $96,800

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. If your location is not listed, please click here for additional total rewards information.

WE ARE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSIVENESS

In all we do, we act on the following beliefs:

• Diversity is crucial for successful change efforts and is one of Teach For America’s greatest strengths.

• The full potential of our diverse network will be reached only when we are an inclusive community.

• The predictability of success or failure for our students or individuals in our organization should not correlate with any social, cultural or other identity-based factors.

Teach For America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

*This job description reflects Teach For America's assignment of essential functions and qualifications of the role. Nothing in this herein restricts management's right to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.