Senior Manager, Advancement

Title: Senior Manager

Department: Advancement

Location: Remote: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, and VA preferred.

Role status: Full-time

Priority deadline to apply: August 14th, 2026

Who We Are

New Teacher Center builds a stronger, more resilient educator workforce from day one. Our research-backed, personalized support helps teachers stay, grow, and lead — strengthening retention, fostering collaboration, and supporting leadership pathways. The result: skilled school teams where every student experiences strong relationships, consistent support, and high-quality instruction. Learn more: www.newteachercenter.org

NTC Competencies

As an organization, we seek candidates who display the following competencies:

• Takes Ownership: Sets strategy, takes initiative, and makes decisions that enable strong results within their sphere of responsibility.

• Organizes, Prioritizes, and Executes: Delineates tasks, plans, and prioritizes in alignment with goals, and follows through with attention to detail to ensure strong outcomes.

• Delegates, Structures Work, and Drives Accountability: Defines expected outcomes for projects/tasks/teams, assigns work, tracks progress, and adjusts course as needed to reach intended outcomes.

• Builds and Sustains Collaborative Relationships: Builds trusting relationships that embody organizational values and fuel positive impact and strategic collaboration.

• Fosters a Culture of Belonging: Contributes to a culture of inclusivity and belonging, works effectively across lines of difference, and proactively addresses bias and mitigates harm.

• Communicates Effectively: Considers the varied needs of diverse audiences and conveys information and opinions with those needs in mind.

• Adapts with Courage: Demonstrates creativity and flexibility in the face of shifting dynamics, new information, ambiguity, and setbacks.

• Cultivates Growth and Continuous Improvement: Uses reflection and feedback to grow, supports others' growth, and dismantles barriers when relevant.

Your Purpose: 

Reporting to the Vice President, Advancement, the Senior Manager plays a vital role in leading national fundraising efforts, as well as driving key communication efforts such as conference strategy and Advancement team operations. 

What Will You Do:

Some responsibilities and duties may vary, but the role of the Senior Manager, Advancement will:

• Lead national grant prospecting and make strategic fundraising recommendations 

• Drive the execution of national fundraising, including project management and writing grant applications

• Collaborate across teams to lead national grant budget development and spenddown monitoring

• Regularly and proactively gather input across departments to monitor national grant progress and develop communication strategies that promote best-in-class grant stewardship

• Manage the boilerplate language bank for grant proposals, ensuring it is updated and shared across internal teams.

• Interact with NTC executives and funder representatives as required to complete proposals and continue cultivation efforts

• Lead ongoing data monitoring on revenue goals in close collaboration with Business Development and Techpact, ensuring NTC leaders and Board of Directors have both the data and trends they need to make strategic decisions

• Oversee NTC’s conference strategy, regularly researching new conference opportunities and maintaining a calendar of upcoming conferences

• Maintain Advancement Team operations and external communications calendar, ensuring team tools and structures (ex., Asana) are regularly updated, and all team members are on track toward shared deliverables

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Leadership Team and Executive Teams, providing them with best-in-class, tailored preparation for funder-facing communications

What Will You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree a plus.

• 7+ years of professional experience requiring external written communication, strong analytical skills, and leadership of complex, group-based projects with concrete deliverables, including development and/or grant-writing experience.

• Ability to lead project management across multiple teams and on complex projects

• Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• Adept at synthesizing info from a variety of sources into a compelling and persuasive narrative

• Experience in written and verbal communications, collateral development, and proficiency in PowerPoint/Google Slides, Google Docs/Word/PDF

• Experience with Asana

• Exceptional interpersonal skills that inspire confidence from a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including funders, and junior and senior members of the NTC staff

• Ability to create and refine a program/project budget in Microsoft Excel, and help design budget modifications and tradeoffs when necessary.

• Ability to multitask, especially in managing multiple proposals simultaneously; outstanding time-management skills.

• Moderate to strong proficiency in Salesforce or other CRM. 

• Strong proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, and particularly in MS Excel.

• Experience in the non-profit and K-12 education sectors is a strong plus.

What We Offer: 

This position offers a competitive starting salary range of $103,445-$112,573, along with a comprehensive benefits package. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary closer to the start of the range. At NTC, when determining a salary offer for a role, we consider the specific requirements of the role, the relevant experience, and the required skills, while maintaining equity within our compensation bands. For this and other reasons, we have adopted a no-negotiation policy.

NTC believes in the importance of maintaining a professional and personal balance and supports the well-being of our staff. For those who qualify, NTC offers a robust benefits package including:

NTC offers a robust benefits package including:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, short-term, and long-term disability coverage

• 30+ observed holidays per year in addition to paid vacation and sick time

• Monthly health and wellness reimbursement

• New hire home office reimbursement

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• 401(k) plan with a 3% match

Must Be Able To: 

• TRAVEL: Minimum travel (5%-10%) - To include: semi-annual department retreats, internal learning convenings, NTC’s semi-annual National Program Leader Network, and at least one conference. 

• Work is typically performed in a typical interior/office work environment

• Limited physical effort is required

New Teacher Center provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.