ROLE TITLE: Managing Director, Grant Strategy & Innovation (Full time)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Brittany Doshi, Vice President, National Foundation Partnerships

PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, March 17th. Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

LOCATION: Flexible

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• You will help grow foundation fundraising across Teach For America by building the architecture and support for high-quality, consistent grant management. You will establish a baseline for excellence by drafting evergreen boilerplate, providing templates, and disseminating tools and resources to fundraisers and grant managers. You will also set TFA up for the next wave of fundraising innovation – sourcing new approaches to storytelling and stewardship and piloting AI and other technologies.

• This role is ideal for an experienced fundraiser or grant manager who is ready to scale best practices. You know how to operate within a complex system and approach learning and development from a lens of continuous improvement, rather than static codification.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Content Architecture: Draft and disseminate collateral for grants including programmatic narratives, logic models, budgets, and due diligence materials that aid more consistent, aligned proposals and reports across the organization

• Grant Management Excellence: Create replicable templates, checklists, and workflows for grants capabilities managers that drive efficient and reliable portfolio management

• Training & Enablement: Monitor best practices and bright spots across the network, through relationships, impact data, and communities of practice; drive adoption of best practices and resources through trainings, playbooks, and practical tools

• Innovation: Source newly emerging practices in foundation fundraising, particularly the use of AI, and translate innovation through pilots and workshops

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

Over the course of any week, the MD, Grant Strategy & Innovation will spend time:

• Proactively collecting programmatic updates from central fundraisers and translating into donor-facing narratives that are replicable across multiple regional contexts

• Consulting with regional fundraisers and grant managers to understand their needs and strengthen centralized resources and supports

• Lead design for pilots and working groups to test AI applications for grant writing

• Develop a training or a playbook for best practices sourced from the industry and field

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications):

• 7 years of experience in direct portfolio management as either a fundraiser or grant management, with evidence of successfully retaining and growing managed revenue

• Excellent written communication for a donor audience

• Evidence of creating systems, templates, or scalable processes adopted by other fundraisers

• Strong project management skills and comfort navigating complex systems

• A mindset of continuous improvement and iteration – curious and eager to learn from others

BONUS (preferred qualifications)

• Consulting, coaching, or adult learning experience

• Familiarity with AI

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

The National Foundation Partnerships team manages Teach For America’s leading institutional partnerships. We sit within the broader Development team that includes individual and corporate streams and a robust field fundraising operation – together raising over $250M annually. This role will work alongside national foundation portfolio managers and have proximity to the most recent evolutions in campaign and grant strategy.

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. 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: $81,700 - $111,500

Tier B: $89,100 - $121,500

Tier C: $96,400 - $131,600

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here.