Vice President, Fundraising

About the role

The Vice President, Fundraising is a senior enterprise leader responsible for setting, strengthening, and delivering a multi-year fundraising strategy that sustains and accelerates TNTP's impact. Beyond driving revenue results, this role is charged with building a world-class fundraising function and culture—ensuring TNTP has the right models, processes, systems, and capabilities to fund its evolving strategic priorities over time.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen the Fundraising Function & Culture
• Achieve and deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy and revenue model aligned to TNTP’s strategic plan, impact goals, and financial sustainability.
• Own and deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy and revenue model aligned to TNTP’s strategic plan, impact goals, and financial sustainability.
• Own and deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy and revenue model aligned to TNTP’s strategic plan, impact goals, and financial sustainability.
• Own and deliver a multi-year fundraising strategy and revenue model aligned to TNTP’s strategic plan, impact goals, and financial sustainability.
• Lead the evolution from strong execution today toward a more scalable, proactive, and strategic fundraising function capable of delivering on Years 2–3 priorities.
• Portfolio Leadership, Diversification & Growth
• Expand and diversify funding across: Geographies, Donor types (e.g., new foundation segments, national and regional funders, individual investors), and Giving structures (e.g., multi-year, unrestricted, innovation-focused funding).
• Personally manage and close a portfolio of highest-priority funder relationships, including principal-level prospects.
• Lead TNTP’s public funding strategy, including federal, state, and local funding streams—setting direction for identification, pursuit, and stewardship of government grants aligned to organizational priorities.
• Ensure strong alignment between public and philanthropic funding strategies, leveraging blended funding approaches to expand scale, sustainability, and impact across TNTP’s work.
• Organization-Wide Partnership & External Engagement
• Serve as a strategic partner to program, research, and regional leaders—helping them align priorities, narratives, and funding strategies.
• Partner with the CEO, Executive Team, and Board to strengthen TNTP’s external positioning, expand the funder network, and activate leadership in fundraising.
• Shape and operationalize a compelling value proposition that reflects TNTP’s evolution, innovation, and impact.
• Team Leadership & World-Class Capability Building
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing fundraising team, strengthening skills, clarity of roles, and operating norms.
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and development pathways in a distributed, remote environment.
• Systems, Infrastructure & Operational Excellence
• Strengthen fundraising infrastructure and operations, including CRM (Salesforce), prospecting, forecasting, proposal development, reporting, and data quality.
• Ensure strong coordination with Finance on budgeting, grant management, compliance, and risk.
• Use data and insights to continuously improve decision-making, prioritization, and funder experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive fundraising/development leadership, including experience setting strategy and delivering results at the senior/executive level.
• Demonstrated success leading teams to ambitious revenue goals, with strong command of pipeline management, forecasting, and performance metrics.
• Proven ability to cultivate, solicit, and steward high-value relationships with foundations, corporations, and/or major individual donors, including closing complex, multi-year commitments.
• Strong executive presence and partnership skills—able to advise and elevate leaders (including CEO and Board members) in fundraising strategy and donor engagement.
• Experience building and improving fundraising infrastructure and processes (e.g., CRM/Salesforce, prospecting, proposal and reporting workflows, data quality, and team operating rhythms).
• Strategic and analytical mindset with comfort translating organizational strategy into revenue plans, budgets, and resourcing decisions.
• Skilled people leader with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong talent, including managing geographically dispersed teams.
• Commitment to TNTP’s vision, values, and operating principles, and to advancing educational equity and opportunity for students.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $189,253 - $283,880. New hires can typically expect a starting salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint, aligned to experience, qualifications, and our commitment to equity in compensation.

Schedule

TNTP is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, veteran, disability status, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of TNTP, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, and administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations.

Benefits

We offer a compelling Total Rewards package, including competitive mid-market salaries, generous PTO, and comprehensive benefits with programs designed to support the physical, mental, and financial wellness of employees and their dependents. We suggest learning more about our benefits (Spoiler alert: we’re closed the last two weeks of December).

Application

Please submit your application online through our partner DSG Global/Koya on their website directly at: https://www.dsgco.com/search/23169-tntp-inc-vice-president-of-fundraising/. The priority application deadline for this position is June12, 2026. After that date, applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so it is in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.