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TechForce Foundation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2005

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Non-profit • Education

TechForce Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that champions students into and through technical education and careers as professional technicians. The organization operates the TechForce Network, a workforce platform connecting students, instructors, working technicians, and industry partners; provides more than $6. 5M in scholarships, grants, contests, VIP event access, trainings, and job-connect tools; and publishes supply-and-demand research to address the national technician shortage. TechForce partners with companies (e. g. , Ford, Carhartt) and runs resources, events, and campaigns to recruit, train, and place technicians.

📋 Description

• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team of the organization, providing executive-level thinking, strategy, accountability, and management to the organization as a whole. • Set and own the vision and strategy to dramatically grow and diversify the organization’s revenue, with primary focus on major and transformational giving. • Personally prospect, cultivate, solicit, and close major and transformational gifts and partnerships from large foundations, government sources, high-net-worth individuals, and corporate prospects. • Lead corporate prospecting and solicitation, building a pipeline of new national corporate partners and high-value funding relationships. • Build, lead, develop, and hold accountable the development department, and the fundraising and account management functions. • Partner with the CEO and Board of Directors to establish ambitious annual and multi-year revenue goals, strategies, and budgets, and report regularly on progress. • Design, build, and continuously evolve the department’s infrastructure, processes, database, content, materials, budget, and staffing to ensure scalable, sustainable revenue growth. • Identify and develop new and emerging revenue opportunities, including planned giving, earned revenue, and innovative partnership models. • Drive a culture of philanthropy across the organization, aligning the CEO, Board, volunteers, and colleagues around shared revenue goals, messaging, and direction. • Publicly represent TechForce locally and nationally as its lead development executive, ensuring donors and partners continuously experience TechForce’s value and beneficial impact. • Other duties, as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in nonprofit management, marketing, communications, business, or a related field; an advanced degree and/or CFRE credential is preferred. • Minimum four years of proven fundraising experience, including securing seven-figure relationships with foundations and corporations. • Vast experience cultivating and securing five- to six-figure gifts from high-net-worth individuals is required. • Demonstrated senior leadership skills, including experience managing, developing, and building high-performing teams. • Demonstrated success diversifying and scaling revenue, designing fundraising strategy and tactics, and designing and implementing department infrastructure. • Knowledge of major gift, corporate partnership, foundation, government, annual fund, and planned giving fundraising practices, strategies, and tactics. • Knowledge of nonprofit accounting and legal requirements related to corporate sponsorship, UBIT, and commercial co-venture laws is highly desired. • Familiarity with aspects of the technician profession is strongly desired.

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to 50% travel within the United States may be required