Vice President, Development

Vice President, Development

Location:

Alexandria, VA

FLSA:
Exempt

Division / Department:
Development

Reports to:

President and CEO

Direct reports:
Senior Director, Digital Fundraising;
Director, Major Gifts;
Director, Corporate Partnerships;
Manager, Development Operations

Last updated:
September 2026

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. The successful candidate will bring a relationship-driven approach to stewardship, a growth and sales mindset, sound business judgment, and the ability to represent NCMEC with credibility, enthusiasm, and appropriate urgency.

• Lead, refine, and implement NCMEC’s multi-year private philanthropy strategy, translating enterprise goals into clear annual priorities, revenue targets, portfolio strategies, investment requirements, and measures of progress.
• Serve as the organization’s senior private philanthropy strategist and a business partner to the President and CEO and leaders across NCMEC, ensuring that fundraising is integrated across the organization rather than operating as a separate function.
• Assess the existing strategy and operating model, identify blind spots and capability gaps, and recommend adjustments based on experience, data, market conditions, and results.
• Lead the Development team across individual giving, foundation support, corporate partnerships, digital fundraising, events, and development operations, with clear goals, decision rights, handoffs, and accountability.
• Build a culture of stewardship, responsiveness, and follow-through. Ensure that funders and partners receive timely, relevant engagement before, during, and after a gift or partnership, with ownership and next steps clearly documented.
• Create coordinated strategies for NCMEC relationships led by executives, program leaders, board members, or other staff. Clarify roles, prepare internal partners for funder engagement, and ensure Development provides the strategy, coordination, documentation, and follow‑up needed to advance each relationship.
• Manage a personal portfolio of approximately 40 principal and major gift relationships across individuals, foundations, and corporations, with an annual solicitation goal established with the President and CEO.
• Personally cultivate, solicit, negotiate, and close significant gifts and…