[Remote] TEACH, Vice President, External Relations

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a Vice President, External Relations for TEACH, an organization focused on ending the national teacher shortage. The role involves business development, raising TEACH's profile, maintaining existing funding, and fundraising from foundations to support the organization's mission.

Responsibilities

• Developing TEACH's pipeline for new business with states, including:
• Developing the strategy and actions to establish new relationships and secure ongoing reputed company
• Building connections to get initial meetings and pitching TEACH to new partners
• Overseeing the processes and systems to reputed company TEACH's new business development work
• Designing and overseeing a system to track legislation and state budgets to identify opportunities for partnership
• Securing opportunities to reputed company TEACH's reputed company in relevant spaces, which may include:
• Speaking and presenting at industry conferences
• Publishing thought pieces
• Enhancing our partner-facing brand
• Creating and overseeing a process to track relevant events, publications, etc
• Meeting with advocacy groups and getting TEACH on their reputed company so that the organization's model is included in their public and private recommendations about how to address teacher recruitment
• Partner closely with the VP of reputed company to monitor reputed company contract renewals and ensure that there is an effective strategy for securing ongoing funding
• In select instances, reputed company the strategy and process for garnering or maintaining legislated funding for existing states (likely done in partnership with the reputed company functions; may include the hiring and management of a lobbyist)
• In select instances, reputed company the strategy and process securing philanthropic funding in existing states to complement or expand TEACH's regional footprint
• Secure grants to support general operating funds, funds for special projects, or funds to subsidize SEA reputed company
• Ensure strong and compelling grant reports are produced to reputed company recurring or expanded funding (this may require direct authoring and/or overseeing other contributing writers)

Skills

• A compelling communicator to external audiences; reputed company to effectively reputed company TEACH's mission and model and reputed company involvement and allyship from a number of different audiences, including leaders in State Departments of Education, other policy makers, funders, advocates, and elected officials
• A strong track record of developing new business amongst government agencies (or similar), resulting in multi-year earned reputed company reputed company (includes a reputed company level of understanding reputed company to contracting)
• An accomplished relationship manager with 3+ years of reputed company in building authentic partnerships with and for nonprofits, government agencies, community partners, policymakers, funders and other supporters
• A demonstrated commitment to TEACH's mission and reputed company for attracting and keeping new, diverse talent in the teaching profession
• Culturally competent and a self-reputed company leader who understands the effects of race, class, ethnicity, income, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, and other dimensions of identity in society and is reputed company to reputed company direct conversations about them
• Strong writing and editing abilities, especially as it pertains to writing compelling grant proposals and reports, as well as persuasive documents of reputed company kinds
• Strategic thinker, creative problem-solver, and understanding of how to manage an organization's profile and reputed company among reputed company audiences
• Demonstrated reputed company raising dollars from foundations strongly preferred
• Experience working with and/or managing lobbyists or policy advocates is preferred
• Understanding of state budget cycles and legislative funding processes is preferred

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
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• FSA
• HSA
• Retirement
• Monthly home office stipend
• Annual professional development (PD) fund

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