Director, Prospect Strategy, Management, Research

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $74.3k - $115k / year

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Teach For America

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $3.7M Grant on 2017-11

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Teach For America is an education-focused organization dedicated to ensuring that every young person receives a relevant, engaging education and has the opportunity to choose their own future. Through its teacher corps, Ignite Fellowship, and alumni programs, it builds transformational relationships between students and educators, fostering leadership and social change. TFA aims to impact students in under-resourced communities by recruiting and training teachers, prioritizing diversity, and tackling educational inequities.

📋 Description

• Deliver timely, accurate, and actionable prospect research, including deep-dive profiles, meeting briefings, capacity ratings, inclination assessments, philanthropic interest analysis, board and relationship mapping, and strategy recommendations • Lead proactive prospect discovery projects for individual, foundation, corporate, and institutional prospects • Maintain prospect and donor intelligence in Salesforce from internal and external sources • Analyze and synthesize research databases, public records, internal giving history, relationship networks, and fundraiser knowledge • Monitor ethical, legal, and privacy considerations related to prospect research • Provide due diligence research and reputational risk insights • Lead portfolio reviews with fundraisers and development leaders • Recommend and manage prospect assignments, reassignments, qualification priorities, and disqualification decisions • Track donor lifecycle movement and document prospect stages, strategies, opportunities, contact reports, and next steps • Evaluate prospect management processes for consistency, accountability, efficiency, and adoption • Create and maintain healthy donor and prospect pools, balanced portfolios, and robust pipelines • Build reports, dashboards, and visual summaries for fundraisers and leaders • Participate in Fundraising Operations and Development team meetings • Demonstrate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness • Engage in TFA’s Elevate performance review system

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant experience in prospect development, prospect management, advancement services, fundraising operations, donor intelligence, prospect research, or a related field • Experience partnering directly with fundraisers or internal stakeholders to support portfolio strategy, prospect prioritization, relationship management, or fundraising outcomes • Experience with prospect management practices, including portfolio reviews, prospect assignments, pipeline management, moves management, and/or donor lifecycle tracking • Experience conducting prospect research and translating information into actionable insights or recommendations • Experience working with a CRM or other system used to manage prospect, donor, or relationship information • Strong understanding of data quality and accurate, accessible information for decision-making • Ability to analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources and communicate it clearly to different audiences • Strong attention to detail and discretion when working with confidential and sensitive information • Ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, and competing priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment • Curiosity and continuous learning mindset, with willingness to learn new systems, tools, and approaches • Creative problem-solving skills and ability to work through ambiguity and change • Strong written, verbal, and relationship-building skills • Preferred: experience with Salesforce and/or Microsoft Dynamics or another fundraising CRM • Preferred: experience with data analysis, reporting, dashboards, or data visualization • Preferred: experience using RelSci, iWave, LexisNexis, Wealth-X, Candid, or similar prospect research tools • Preferred: ability to leverage emerging technologies, including AI • Preferred: experience across different areas of fundraising or Development • Preferred: experience launching, improving, or innovating a process, tool, program, or approach • Preferred: experience developing workplans, setting project direction, or structuring ambiguous work • Preferred: ability to tailor communications and recommendations and support change management or systems adoption • Preferred: experience presenting complex information through research profiles, briefings, portfolio summaries, dashboards, or data storytelling • Preferred: familiarity with APRA principles and ethical prospect research practices • Preferred: strong proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable productivity tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible/remote work arrangement • Limited travel for team meetings • Performance review system supporting learning and professional growth