Development Manager

Teach For Lebanon (TFL) is an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to quality education. The model of Teach For Lebanon is an education innovation that focuses on youth capacity building to provide quality intervention and systemic support for students. TFL employs and trains Lebanon’s most promising graduates, “TFL Fellows”, and places them in schools serving underprivileged refugees and Lebanese children. These Fellows receive ongoing training and support to address educational disadvantages by providing transformational teaching that places their students on a path of academic success. Along the way, they become leaders and advocates for a better Lebanon. 

Learn More: www.teachforlebanon.org 

Role Summary

The Development Manager is responsible for raising funds for the operations of Teach For Lebanon (TFL). He/she will also be responsible for initiating and maintaining relationships with key donors and their organizations. Development is one of the critical backbones of TFL as the organization is completely dependent on donations in its current form. The Development Manager needs to be abreast with everything happening in the organization and the education sector through creating and maintaining relationships with team members and external stakeholders. The Development Manager is responsible for building sustainable relationships between private bodies, corporates, foreign entities, governmental bodies and Teach For Lebanon. The Development Manager will coordinate with key internal and external stakeholders including overseas fundraising arms (TFL-US) to monitor progress to targets and ensure targets are met. The Development Manager works closely with TFL’s senior executives (Executive Director), TFL-US Executive Director, and board of trustees fundraising committee to identify, matriculate and engage new donors.

Main Accountabilities 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

Manage development strategy on a monthly and yearly basis to reach specific targets of scaling plans.

● Identify, build and cultivate a knowledge base of current and potential donors to secure donations from new streams of funding.

● Develop a broad external network and profile within the philanthropic and corporate communities. ● Set up and keep up to date the donor data management system (donation, funder records…).

● Prepare meeting packets, toolkits, proposals, presentations and mailings to prospects and donors.

● Write with the support of relevant team members grant proposals and reports. ● Ensure exceptional ongoing communication and cultivation of all supporters through regular communication.

● Coordinate with ED and, local and overseas development team (TFL-US) to ensure alignment of funding priorities and strategies, and of communication with supporters.

● Conduct donor research, cataloging and collecting necessary data for grant reports, proposal updates and supplementary materials.

● Identify and contact possible donors to reduce costs for fundraising and development events.

● Collaborate with TFL departments to keep abreast of programmatic developments in order to share with supporters and to further advance their function goals where feasible.

● Plan and execute a sequence of communications, actions and events for each donor (Donor volunteer days, CSR events, TFL week…) in the portfolio to increase their understanding of and commitment to Teach For Lebanon.

● Assist with the development and management of online and offline fundraising strategies and tools with the support of the communication department.

● Leverage board members with the support of the ED and other key constituents to reach funding goals.

● Identify and contact corporations or individuals for pro-bono services.

● Drive long-term fundraising strategic planning to ensure sustainability of a diverse funding base with an objective to raise funds to meet the needs of the organization.

● Support eventual fundraising events.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Working Conditions

Location: The chosen candidate can be either based in Achrafiyeh office (with flexibility in case the person is from outside Beirut).

Package:  Competitive salary based on experience with NSSF and Medical-Life Insurance benefits.

Other:   Flexibility  in  working  hours  with  possible  need  for  travel  (Gulf,  UK  and  USA)  and willingness to work some weekends and evenings.