Vice President, Development

TNTP • AL: Alabama, AL

1d • $189,253 - $283,880 • Remote

About The Position

The Vice President, Fundraising is a senior enterprise leader responsible for setting, strengthening, and delivering a multi-year fundraising strategy that sustains and accelerates TNTP’s impact. Beyond driving revenue results, this role is charged with building a world‑class fundraising function and culture—ensuring TNTP has the right models, processes, systems, and capabilities to fund its evolving strategic priorities over time. As TNTP advances its FY26–FY29 strategic plan, the Vice President, Fundraising will play a critical role in helping the organization rethink how fundraising is done across the enterprise, laying the groundwork in Year 1 and executing against a more mature, diversified strategy in Years 2 and 3. As a member of TNTP’s Leadership Team, the Vice President, Fundraising reports to the Chief of Strategy, Growth, and Finance and partners closely with the CEO, Executive Team, Board, and leaders across programs, research, finance, and operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive fundraising/development leadership, including experience setting strategy and delivering results at the senior/executive level.
• Demonstrated success leading teams to ambitious revenue goals, with strong command of pipeline management, forecasting, and performance metrics.
• Proven ability to cultivate, solicit, and steward high-value relationships with foundations, corporations, and/or major individual donors, including closing complex, multi-year commitments.
• Strong executive presence and partnership skills—able to advise and elevate leaders (including CEO and Board members) in fundraising strategy and donor engagement.
• Experience building and improving fundraising infrastructure and processes (e.g., CRM/Salesforce, prospecting, proposal and reporting workflows, data quality, and team operating rhythms).
• Strategic and analytical mindset with comfort translating organizational strategy into revenue plans, budgets, and resourcing decisions.
• Skilled people leader with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent, including managing geographically dispersed teams.
• Commitment to TNTP’s vision, values, and operating principles, and to advancing educational equity and opportunity for students.
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Applicants for employment with TNTP must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Assess and strengthen TNTP’s fundraising model, culture, processes, and systems to ensure they are fit for current needs and future growth.
• Build a shared, enterprise-wide understanding of how fundraising happens at TNTP, what must change, and how leaders and teams across the organization contribute to success.
• Lead the evolution from strong execution today toward a more scalable, proactive, and strategic fundraising function capable of delivering on Years 2–3 priorities.
• Own and deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy and revenue model aligned to TNTP’s strategic plan, impact goals, and financial sustainability.
• Ensure new and emerging priorities in the strategic plan are resourced effectively, including: Education-to-Career (E2C) initiatives, AI-enabled work and innovation, and TNTP’s research agenda, all of which will be primarily funded through philanthropic sources.
• Translate strategy into clear annual plans, ensuring early groundwork is in place to execute more ambitious goals in future years.
• Lead a robust and diversified fundraising portfolio spanning institutional philanthropy (foundations and corporations) and individual giving.
• Expand and diversify funding across: Geographies, Donor types (e.g., new foundation segments, national and regional funders, individual investors), and Giving structures (e.g., multi-year, unrestricted, innovation-focused funding).
• Personally manage and close a portfolio of highest-priority funder relationships, including principal-level prospects.
• Serve as a strategic partner to program, research, and regional leaders—helping them align priorities, narratives, and funding strategies.
• Partner with the CEO, Executive Team, and Board to strengthen TNTP’s external positioning, expand the funder network, and activate leadership in fundraising.
• Shape and operationalize a compelling value proposition that reflects TNTP’s evolution, innovation, and impact.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing fundraising team, strengthening skills, clarity of roles, and operating norms.
• Build a world-class fundraising team with strong strategic thinking, relationship management, execution excellence, and learning orientation.
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and development pathways in a distributed, remote environment.
• Strengthen fundraising infrastructure and operations, including CRM (Salesforce), prospecting, forecasting, proposal development, reporting, and data quality.
• Ensure strong coordination with Finance on budgeting, grant management, compliance, and risk.
• Use data and insights to continuously improve decision-making, prioritization, and funder experience.

Benefits

• competitive mid-market salaries
• generous PTO
• comprehensive benefits with programs designed to support the physical, mental, and financial wellness of employees and their dependents
• closed the last two weeks of December

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive