Managing Director, Grant Strategy & Innovation

Teach For America • Bentonville, AR

6d • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Consulting, coaching, or adult learning experience
• Familiarity with AI

Responsibilities

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed