ROLE TITLE: Director, Content
POSITION REPORTS TO: Madeline Medina, Vice President, Field Fundraising
APPLICATION DEADLINE: The priority deadline is November 20, 2024 at 11:59pm ET.
LOCATION: Flexible - West Coast preferred
NOTE: This is a Limited Term Role. The position will end in August 2025.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As the Director, Content for field fundraising across California, Hawaii, Phoenix, and Nevada, you will enable positive change for students in low-income communities by helping to maximize the impact of Teach For America’s frontline fundraisers through powerful storytelling and visual design that engages donors in our mission, vision, and work. You will be our team’s subject matter expert on all things external fundraising communications and collateral. You’ll articulate and continually refine our core messaging, manage systems to enable field fundraisers to access content resources, create collateral for use in donor meetings and events, and more to ensure a consistent and compelling story about Teach For America’s impact is being conveyed to our external stakeholders.
You are highly creative, passionate about sparking conversations and action across a variety of communication platforms. You thrive in environments where no two days are the same and you want to be part of a movement to elevate the voices of students and educators.
WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Primary Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Strategic Communications and Content Design (60%)
Develop highly sophisticated communications content that will be leveraged by multiple teams for internal and external audiences
Produce ready-to-use collateral for use by field fundraisers, including one-pagers, pitch materials, event invites, and solicitation and campaign materials
Write and maintain core content to be leveraged across the fundraising team in donor materials, such as programmatic data, stakeholder profiles, and grant language
Create systems to enable field fundraisers to access content efficiently and effectively, and laterally manage team members to utilize resources to their full potential
Cross Team Resource Identification, Codification, Maintenance and Dissemination (30%)
Collaborate with FF and program and External Affairs teams to understand both donors needs and programmatic details in creating targeting donor communications
Create systems to enable to field fundraisers to access content efficiently and effectively, and laterally manage team members to utilize resources to their full potential
Team-Wide Support & Special Projects (10%)
Participates in regular organizational and team engagements, including meetings and stepbacks, occasionally leading sessions or activities
Actively reflects on, seeks to embody, and promotes strong team culture, core values, and the Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness
Juggle multiple projects at once while delivering quality content and assets
Works with vendors for quotes, purchase orders, proofs, and delivery of final product
Be a creative leader on the team; foster relationships cross-functionally
THE MUST HAVES
Prior Experience
Minimum of five years of professional work experience including roles with significant emphasis on content design and copywriting
Previous experience designing email, social and print marketing or fundraising assets preferred
Previous experience working in nonprofit development preferred
Previous experience with grant writing a plus
Skills
Exceptional writing and communications skills
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and Microsoft Office tools
Ability to tailor written communications to different audiences and communications channels
Ability to inspire, motivate, and manage up and laterally across diverse teams toward goals
Strategic thinker willing to challenge conventional wisdom and eager to reinvent modern marketing tactics
Strong client service orientation and follow through
Exceptional organizational skills, high level of efficiency, and ability to manage operations with precision
Ability to take and give constructive feedback while iterating and evolving concepts, copy, and design
Ability to thrive in a growing, changing, fast-paced, diverse, results-oriented culture
Positive outlook, optimistic attitude, can-do approach
Strong skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint; and general comfort with multiple technology platforms (experience with Salesforce a plus)
Ability to collaborate with people across lines of difference to build inclusivity and equitable outcomes
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
The Revenue and Development team at Teach For America inspires donors and champions to contribute to shaping the future of our country by investing in Teach For America’s work with students nationally and regionally. We aim to source investments that fuel our work and impact with a revenue growth trajectory to raise $300 million annually. This role will be an essential part of the Field Fundraising arm of the Revenue and Development team, maximizing the contributions of local donors across multiple regions of the country.
YOUR COMPENSATION
The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Tier A: $67,500-90,300
Tier B: $73,600-98.400
Tier C: $79,700-106,500
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. If your location is not listed, please click here for additional total rewards information.
