Director of Development
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Lead PEF’s fundraising efforts:
• Design and lead a year-round development plan that supports and grows PEF and our programs.
• Strengthen and nurture existing relationships with local foundations, corporations, and donors.
• Create and nurture relationships with new partners.
• With support from PEF’s staff members, develop, write, and submit successful proposals.
• Oversee PEF’s donor management CRM, Neon One.
Communications & Development Alignment
· Collaborate closely with PEF’s Director of Communications to ensure fundraising and donor engagement strategies are aligned with organizational messaging.
· Coordinate with the Communications team to integrate development initiatives into PEF’s overall communications plan.
· Ensure consistent messaging between Development and Communications efforts, supporting organizational branding and voice.
Serve as a member of PEF’s Senior Leadership Team
• Actively contribute to weekly meetings of Senior Leadership Team.
Critical Strengths and Skills:
• Strategic—able to create paths to success.
• Compelling—able to build authentic relationships across community and within PEF.
• Flexible and smart—able to develop creative solutions to challenging problems.
• Devoted to PEF’s mission, vision, and values.
• Committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Entrepreneurial—able to see opportunities and move quickly to seize them.
• A learner—enjoys learning about new ideas and meeting new people.
• Strong writer—has written many successful proposals.
• Outstanding speaker—able to tell compelling stories to different audiences.
• Committed to public education— believes that public education is the lynchpin of a great community and the major driver of a strong economy.
Director of Development
Public Education Foundation (PEF) is looking for an extraordinary individual who is gifted at designing and managing long-term strategic development plans, building relationships, and has an outstanding record of securing financial support for a not-for-profit organization. We want to hire someone who is a terrific relationship-builder, a strategic thinker, a self-starter and a committed advocate for great public schools.
What Sets Us Apart
Benefits
Salary will be highly competitive and include PEF’s excellent benefits package. PEF has established a highly flexible work environment. This position offers the opportunity to work at a mission-based non-profit that makes a difference in our community and for our children.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest that describes how their experience aligns with this position, a resume, and at least one document that they wrote to secure funding. Materials should be sent to: Whitney Koen at wkoen@pefchattanooga.org. Review will begin on September 15th and continue until the position is filled.