Teach For America
Director, Development
🇺🇸 St. Louis, MO
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $74K - $101K
💻 Development & Advancement
🗓️ October 30th, 2025
Salesforce
Edtech.com's Summary
Teach For America is hiring a Director, Development. The role requires cultivating, stewarding, and managing a portfolio of donors to raise $1-5 million or more, partnering with Executive Directors and regional advisory board members to maximize fundraising efforts and execute long-term development strategies. The position involves active donor engagement, portfolio management, and collaboration across local fundraising teams to secure both public and private funding.
Highlights
- Build and execute plans to cultivate donor portfolios aiming to maximize local and organizational revenue.
- Manage, cultivate, and steward donors ensuring primary solicitors are equipped for engagement at all donor life cycle stages.
- Collaborate closely with Executive Directors and regional advisory board members to advance fundraising initiatives.
- Maintain donor and fundraising data in Salesforce, using it to monitor progress and adjust strategies.
- Steward team and organizational initiatives contributing to overall development goals.
- Required technical skill: proficiency with Salesforce CRM for managing donor relationships and activity.
- Minimum qualifications include 4+ years of experience in development and fundraising, a track record of meeting/exceeding goals managing donor portfolios, and a Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience includes development work specifically in St. Louis.
- Salary range for this position in St. Louis is $74,300 to $101,300, depending on qualifications and other factors.
- Some evening/weekend work and travel for donor engagement or staff conferences may be required.
Director, Development Full Description
ROLE TITLE: Director, Development
POSITION REPORTS TO: Vice President, Field Fundraising
LOCATION: St. Louis
PRIORITY APPLICATION DATE: Rolling Application Review
WHAT YOU'LL DO
All prospect & donor management roles on Field Fundraising teams are responsible for cultivating, stewarding, and managing a portfolio of donors in our local communities who share our commitment to ensuring that all children have access to an equitable and excellent education. As a member of the Field Fundraising team, you will be a part of a team-based effort charged with developing and executing on a long-term vision and strategy to achieve our development goals for both public and private funding. In your role, you will partner with the Executive Director, regional advisory board members, and other front-line fundraisers to maximize giving, playing a key role in new donor strategy and acquisition over the next 3-5 years.
Reporting to the Vice President, Field Fundraising, you will be charged with raising $1-5 million or more from a portfolio of donors which may include both public and private funding. You will work directly with the Executive Director or other field fundraisers to cultivate and steward your portfolio of donors, and ensure the primary solicitor is well-positioned to engage with donors across fundraising streams and at all stages of the donor life cycle. We are looking for a true team player who can make a significant contribution across a local fundraising landscape. In partnership with local Executive Directors, the VP, Field Fundraising and other fundraisers in local markets, you will be a key contributor in developing and executing the strategy to acquire, cultivate, retain, and diversify your portfolio of donors (including public and private donors).
WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
- 15% - Build and execute a plan for cultivating a portfolio of donors with the goal of maximizing revenue locally, and to the organization as a whole
- 45% - Manage, cultivate, and steward a portfolio of donors, ensuring that the Executive Director and other primary solicitors are well equipped to engage at all stages of the donor life cycle
- 25% - Work in close partnership with the Executive Director to build the relationships necessary to advance fundraising efforts, which may include regional advisory board members
- 10% - Consistently maintain donor, prospect, and fundraising activity information in our customer relationship management system (currently Salesforce) and leverage this information to track progress, monitor gaps, and adjust strategy and approach
- 5% - Steward team and organizational initiatives
YOUR EXPERIENCE
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications):
- Relationship Building and Management
- Build strong relationships with prospects and donors and/or support the primary relationship holder/solicitor through a comprehensive relationship management plan Strong written and verbal communication skills with a variety of internal and external constituents
- Ability to manage up and laterally to influence development teammates in service of donor stewardship
- Fundraising and Development
- Have a solid foundation in best practices of development and fundraising
- Experience stewarding a portfolio of donors/funders from various funding streams
- Contribute to complex fundraising and relationship management initiatives
- Portfolio Management
- Leverage the market vision and overarching strategy to determine the specific approach to steward a portfolio of local donors and execute on that strategy in service of maximizing revenue to Teach For America as an enterprise
- Monitor progress against the portfolio to ensure continuous donor stewardship
Prior experience
- Required: At least 4+ years of related experience in development and fundraising context
- Required: Track record of meeting and exceeding ambitious goals managing and/or supporting the management of a portfolio of donors
- Required: Bachelor's Degree
- Preferred: Development experience in St. Louis
Work Demands
- Occasional weekend or evening work hours required.
- Some travel to engage with local donors or attend staff conferences may be required
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
The Revenue and Development team at Teach For America inspires donors and champions to contribute to shaping the future of our country by investing in Teach For America's work with students nationally and regionally. We aim to source investments that fuel our work and impact with a revenue growth trajectory to raise $300 million annually. This role will be an essential part of the Field Fundraising arm of the Revenue and Development team, maximizing the contributions of local donors across multiple regions of the country.
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 starting salary range for this role is set forth below. This range may be modified in the future:
Salary Tier A (St. Louis) - $74,300 - $101,300
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here.
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