Director, Major Gifts Partnerships

🕒 May 6

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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Stand Together

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5001 - 10000 employees

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Education • Social Impact

Stand Together is a community-focused organization dedicated to tackling America's biggest problems by empowering individuals. The organization is committed to addressing various issues such as education reform, health care, criminal justice, foreign policy, and economic challenges. Through partnerships, media, and philanthropy, Stand Together collaborates with changemakers to create sustainable solutions. It prioritizes empowering communities and fostering innovation through a principled approach that leverages education, business investment, and policy advocacy. Stand Together also emphasizes the importance of free speech and reducing recidivism, aiming to transform society positively.

📋 Description

• Build and manage a focused portfolio of top-tier institutional and family foundation partners, as well as select major individual donors • Originate and close 7-figure+ commitments through structured, multi-stakeholder engagement • Develop tailored strategies that align foundation priorities with scalable, high-impact initiatives • Cultivate long-term partnerships with foundation executives, program officers, and family decision-makers • Own the full lifecycle from prospect identification through close and renewal • Navigate complex decision processes, aligning multiple stakeholders and timelines • Develop clear, compelling investment cases, including proposals, financial frameworks, and impact narratives • Maintain rigorous pipeline discipline to drive predictable, multi-year revenue outcomes • Partner with program and executive teams to shape institutional-grade opportunities, and complex portfolio level gifts across non-profit, educational curriculum, for-profit, policy advocacy, and media amplification • Translate strategy into fundable initiatives with defined outcomes and measurement frameworks • Serve as a connector across the organization to ensure alignment between partner expectations, delivery and stewardship to drive deeper donor relationships

🎯 Requirements

• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. • 7+ years of success in institutional fundraising, foundation relations, OR enterprise sales with complex, consultative sales cycles • Proven track record of closing 7-figure+ deals involving multiple stakeholders and extended decision timelines • Experience engaging senior decision-makers (e.g., foundation executives, family principals, C-suite leaders) • Demonstrated ability to manage a pipeline, qualify opportunities, and drive deals to close with discipline and precision • Strategic thinker with the ability to frame large, ambiguous initiatives into clear investment opportunities • Strong executive presence with exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills • High degree of business acumen, including comfort with financials, structuring, and impact measurement • Entrepreneurial mindset with urgency, ownership, and resilience • High humility, integrity, and respect for others • Ability to travel up to 50% within the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. • A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. • Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents. • Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.