Director of National Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Create and implement a comprehensive national fundraising strategy that aligns with TPPF’s objectives, featuring clear revenue targets and plans to enhance long-term philanthropic support.

• Oversee and expand a portfolio of current and potential major donors.

• Assume direct responsibility for donor cultivation, solicitation, and ongoing stewardship.

• Identify and engage new donors across the country, including individuals and foundations that share TPPF’s national goals.

• Craft proposals, presentations, and funding opportunities that articulate TPPF’s work and its impact.

• Collaborate with executive leadership and the development team to devise donor strategies.

• Prepare and involve TPPF leaders in meetings and major gift solicitations.

• Lead donor cultivation efforts through personal visits, briefings, and events.

• Provide tailored stewardship and meaningful updates to reinforce donor relationships.

• Monitor fundraising objectives and report on outcomes, prospective gifts, and growth opportunities to senior leadership.

• Enter contact reports into TPPF’s donor database and coordinate activities within the development team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant progressive experience in fundraising, including leadership in major gift strategy and a proven track record of personally securing substantial donations.

• Proven success in identifying new donors, cultivating and managing major donor relationships, and achieving fundraising objectives.

• Capability to formulate fundraising strategies while independently executing cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.

• Knowledge of national philanthropic networks and donors interested in free market public policy.

• Experience in fundraising for policy organizations or related causes is highly preferred.

• Exceptional writing, presentation, listening, and interpersonal skills.

• Proficiency in articulating complex policy and litigation priorities in a clear and persuasive manner.

• Strong project management abilities, sound judgment, meticulous attention to detail, and effective follow-through.

• Ability to work autonomously and collaborate successfully with colleagues across various locations.

• Willingness and capacity to travel regularly throughout the United States.

• Strong dedication to TPPF’s mission and the principles of personal responsibility and free enterprise.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries.

• Excellent health insurance for staff and their dependents.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policies.

• Holidays.

• Parental leave.

• Retirement contribution matching.