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Teach For America is hiring a Managing Director, Grant Strategy & Innovation. This role involves developing and supporting high-quality, consistent grant management to grow foundation fundraising, including drafting templates, managing content architecture, and piloting AI-driven fundraising innovations. The position requires collaboration with fundraisers and grant managers to scale best practices and drive continuous improvement in grant strategy.

Highlights

Build architecture and tools for consistent grant management across Teach For America.
Draft evergreen boilerplate, program narratives, budgets, and due diligence materials.
Create replicable templates, checklists, and workflows for grant portfolio management.
Lead training, enablement, and adoption of best practices through playbooks and workshops.
Source and pilot innovative fundraising practices, including AI applications for grant writing.
Requires minimum 7 years of experience in portfolio management as a fundraiser or grant manager with proven revenue growth.
Strong written communication skills tailored to donor audiences and project management expertise.
Preferred experience in consulting, coaching, adult learning, and familiarity with AI technologies.
Work with the National Foundation Partnerships team raising over $250M annually through institutional partnerships.
Salary ranges from $81,700 to $131,600 depending on geographic tier, qualifications, and experience.

Managing Director, Grant Strategy & Innovation Full Description

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 workhere.

Original Job Description

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

YOUR COMPENSATION

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 workhere.

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