Director, Fundraising Training & Enablement

About the role

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better. When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are outside of work as much as what you do at work.

We are currently seeking a professional, innovative, and enthusiastic Director, Fundraising Training & Enablement. This is a fully remote position that can be located anywhere in the USA.

The Director, Fundraising Training & Enablement, serves as the enterprise leader for learning and capability development within Fundraising Programs & Operations. This role translates organizational priorities, performance expectations, technology investments, and workforce needs into scalable learning strategies, practical tools, and development programs that build employee and leader skills, strengthen execution, and support fundraising results. The Director sets the enterprise vision, strategy, and priorities for fundraising talent development and stewards the learning agenda to align with organizational needs and measurable outcomes. This role partners across FP&O, field fundraising, and enterprise functions to align development investments with fundraising priorities and long-term growth. As fundraising evolves, this role helps the organization scale effective practices, strengthen execution, and adopt new approaches that increase fundraising impact. Through this work, the Director ensures employees and leaders have the skills, knowledge, practical support, and reinforcement needed to improve execution, deepen donor relationships, and contribute to sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Learning Strategy & Talent Development – Define and lead the enterprise learning and skill-building strategy for fundraising, including a multi-year roadmap aligned with organizational priorities, workforce needs, leadership capacity, and future capabilities. Set learning investment priorities that translate business strategy and performance expectations established by fundraising and organizational leadership into a coherent development agenda. Establish a disciplined approach to identifying learning needs, setting standards, and measuring success so learning efforts are relevant, consistent, scalable, and accountable for measurable workforce and business outcomes.
• Curriculum Design, Facilitation & Learning Innovation – Lead the design, development, facilitation, and delivery of practical, high-quality learning across fundraising roles, including onboarding, core fundraising skills, Red Cross program and mission knowledge, leadership development, and