Senior Director, Development

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $165k / year

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👔 Director

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America's Promise Alliance

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1997

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

America's Promise Alliance is a national organization that aims to improve the well-being of young people in the United States. The organization focuses on ensuring that all children and youth have the resources needed to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. America's Promise Alliance brings together organizations, communities, and individuals to collaborate on initiatives that help young people develop the skills and support systems they need to thrive in today's world. Their work involves partnering with educational institutions, youth service organizations, and various other stakeholders to address issues such as education, health, and community engagement.

📋 Description

• Manage a portfolio of current and prospective institutional funders • Develop relationship strategies, next steps, timelines, and paths toward cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, or renewal • Conduct prospect research and qualification to identify aligned funding opportunities • Build and maintain funder pipelines and expand philanthropic support • Prepare meeting briefs and materials for the CEO, Vice President of External Affairs, and senior leaders • Translate funder conversations into follow-up actions and portfolio steps • Lead proposals, concept papers, reports, renewal requests, stewardship materials, and other funder deliverables • Translate APA strategy, programs, and emerging ideas into fundraising narratives and cases for support • Coordinate with program, finance, research, communications, and other teams to gather inputs • Support donor cultivation and stewardship through tailored materials, communications, updates, and touchpoints • Manage proposal and reporting processes, including timelines, internal review, budget coordination, and quality control • Ensure funder commitments, reporting requirements, and stewardship expectations are met on time • Maintain portfolio information in Salesforce and other development systems • Strengthen development processes, tools, workflows, documentation, handoffs, and coordination • Track deadlines, commitments, and future actions across funders and prospects • Support portfolio reviews and maintain visibility into pipeline activity, prospect movement, and renewals • Contribute to project management, accountability, and follow-through across the Development function • Report to the Vice President of External Affairs

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of experience in nonprofit development, institutional philanthropy, foundation relations, or a related field • Significant responsibility for complex national funder portfolios • Track record managing substantial portfolios of national foundations, corporations, or other institutional funders and prospects • Experience with complex six- and seven-figure opportunities • Experience building and growing funding portfolios around new programs, innovations, initiatives, pilots, or systems-change work • Experience conducting funder landscape research and qualifying prospects • Experience developing cultivation strategies and moving opportunities through proposal, funding, stewardship, and renewal • Exceptional writing and editing skills • Experience producing sophisticated proposals, concept papers, reports, briefs, and executive-level funder materials • Experience supporting a CEO, Vice President, or other senior leaders who serve as primary funder relationship holders • Experience leading cross-functional development work across program, finance, research/evaluation, communications, and other teams • Experience using Salesforce or another CRM and project management systems • Experience in organizations focused on K–12 education, youth development, postsecondary-to-workforce pathways, economic mobility, civic engagement, or adjacent fields preferred • Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States • Regular availability for meetings and collaboration during core Eastern Time business hours

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position • Approximately 5% travel for meetings, Partner City visits, organizational convenings, staff gatherings, and other events • Occasional multi-day convenings or evening funder and partner events