Deputy Chief

About KIPP TEAM and Family

KIPP TEAM & Family is our network office that includes support teams — Leadership Development, Recruitment, Advocacy, Facilities, Finance, HR and more — dedicated to empowering our schools and ensuring the success of KIPP students throughout New Jersey and Miami. Our schools are part of the nationally recognized “Knowledge Is Power Program” network of free, open‑enrollment, college‑preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students for success in college and in life.

By 2027, KIPP New Jersey will provide a world‑class education to over 10,300 students across Newark and Camden.

KIPP Team & Family is at an inflection point in our fundraising work. We have ambitious goals, a committed team, and strong mission alignment—​but we want to significantly level up our fundraising infrastructure, systems, and practice to raise $10M+ annually across both states.

• Stabilize and strengthen our core fundraising systems (Raiser’s Edge, reporting, donor tracking, finance coordination) working closely with our operations manager.
• Establish baseline metrics and accountability rhythms that drive consistent activity and results.
• Assess the team’s capabilities and design a professional development roadmap that addresses our highest‑leverage gaps.
• Build and manage your own portfolio of major donor relationships (25‑40 donors), modeling best‑in‑class cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Create annual and multi‑year fundraising plans that are ambitious, realistic, and aligned with current philanthropy trends.
• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to our finance team and internal stakeholders.

• Deepen training and coaching as systems stabilize and the operations function matures.
• Scale effective practices across both states.
• Expand portfolio strategies and increase the team’s major gifts capacity.
• Position the organization to meet and exceed increasingly ambitious revenue goals.

• Provide hands‑on coaching, training, and professional development to fundraising staff across multiple disciplines: major gifts, institutional giving, events, stewardship, cultivation, and donor relations.
• Model best practices through your own portfolio work—demonstrating what excellent donor engagement looks like in real time.
• Evaluate and upgrade our full stack of fundraising materials, event plans, cultivation strategies, and donor communications to meet industry standards.
• Work alongside the CGAO to ensure our strategies are ambitious, evidence‑based, and calibrated to efficiently meet/exceed goals.

• Partner closely with the Manager of Development Operations to troubleshoot, build, and implement fundraising systems and tools that drive week‑to‑week productivity.
• Help develop the operations manager’s skills and capabilities so they can increasingly own day‑to‑day systems‑management.
• Design and implement frontline fundraiser metrics that create accountability, track progress, and foster a collegial, results‑oriented culture.
• Ensure our systems for internal collaboration—especially with finance—are accurate, timely, and sufficiently detailed.

• Build and manage a portfolio of 25‑40 major donor relationships, generating significant revenue while demonstrating cultivation and solicitation best practices for the team.
• Partner with state directors on their most complex donor relationships and opportunities.
• Directly manage the Director of Institutional Giving and Manager of Development Operations.
• Serve as a proxy for the CGAO on decision‑making when needed.

• Lead annual and multi‑year planning for Development, incorporating input from the CGAO and state directors.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Development and Finance, ensuring we provide timely, accurate data and maintain strong cross‑functional relationships.
• Identify and sequence capacity‑building priorities, making strategic choices about where to invest time and resources for maximum impact.