Vice President, Development

Vice President, Development

Reporting to the President and CEO, the Vice President, Development leads the organization's private philanthropy strategy and translates NCMEC's five-year growth direction into an integrated, measurable plan. The Vice President will refine and operationalize the strategy already underway, bringing the judgment and experience to test assumptions, identify gaps, set priorities, and build the capabilities required to increase sustainable private revenue. This is both an enterprise leadership role and a front-line fundraising role. The Vice President serves as a business partner to leaders across NCMEC, connecting Development with program, operations, communications, finance, legal, and executive leadership. Because many of NCMEC's strongest funder relationships are held across the organization, the Vice President must be able to lead through influence, create shared accountability, and equip mission and executive leaders to play clear, effective roles in cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and renewal. The Vice President is responsible for building a disciplined fundraising operation across individual giving, foundations, corporate partnerships, events, and third-party partnerships. The role requires a leader who combines strategic thinking with execution: someone who has built or significantly strengthened a fundraising program, can personally cultivate and close significant gifts, develops a strong team, and ensures timely follow-through.

Essential duties and responsibilities include leading, refining, and implementing NCMEC's multi-year private philanthropy strategy, serving as the organization's senior private philanthropy strategist and a business partner to the President and CEO and leaders across NCMEC, assessing the existing strategy and operating model, leading the Development team, building a culture of stewardship, creating coordinated strategies for NCMEC relationships, managing a personal portfolio of principal and major gift relationships, personally cultivating, soliciting, negotiating, and closing significant gifts and partnerships, growing sustainable and unrestricted private support, building and strengthening leadership, mid-level, major, and principal giving pipelines, partnering closely with Communications, partnering with corporate, program, and operational leaders, establishing Salesforce as the system of record for donor and partner activity, setting and reviewing individual revenue goals, portfolio assignments, activity measures, and development plans for team members, reporting regularly to the President and CEO and other designated organizational leaders, recruiting, developing, mentoring, and retaining a talented Development team, partnering with the President and CEO and Board leadership to engage the Board of Directors in fundraising, working with the President and CEO and Committee Chair to support the Development and Marketing Committee of the Board of Directors, managing all work in accordance with NCMEC policies, and performing other duties as assigned.

Education and experience required include a Bachelor's degree, minimum of ten to twelve years of progressively responsible fundraising experience, demonstrated success building, transforming, or materially growing a fundraising program, experience working in a complex, matrixed, or mission-driven organization, experience building or strengthening donor stewardship, retention, upgrade, reactivation, and pipeline-development programs, strategic judgment, enterprise leadership and influence, exceptional relationship management and stewardship skills, business development and sales acumen, ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution, demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and retain fundraising staff, strong knowledge of current fundraising practices, strong proficiency with Salesforce, strong analytical, planning, prospect strategy, written, verbal, and presentation skills, ability to represent NCMEC and its mission with credibility, discretion, enthusiasm, and respect, adaptability, sound judgment, and the ability to prioritize multiple demands in a fast-paced environment, and ability to work additional hours and travel as needed to meet position requirements.