Deputy Director

Location: Remote with substantial cross country travel (approximately 30% - 40% of the year). Preferred base location in Phoenix Metro Area, New York City, Washington, DC, Boston Metro Area, Los Angeles Metro Area, or Bay Area.

Role: Full time, regular, salaried, exempt

Position Summary: The Deputy Director is a member of the Youth Engagement Fund’s (YEF) Senior Leadership Team (SLT) who partners closely with the Executive Director to drive strategy, fundraising and high impact programming. This role plays a leading role on design and execution of fundraising strategy, external facing representative in funder and donor relationships, and strategic oversight of the programs team.

The Deputy Director reports directly to the Executive Director and serves as both a strategist and organizational leader implementing the mission and vision into aligned, equity driven work across the organization and its philanthropic partners, and the overall sector.

• Co lead YEF’s fundraising strategy in partnership with the Executive Director and oversee execution of fundraising strategy.
• Design and execute donor stewardship, including working with the Development Officer on funder and donor research, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Act as a leading external representative of the organization primarily at in person funder and donor conferences, events, meetings, and serve as spokesperson in speaking engagements.
• Develop and maintain relationships with philanthropic partners including institutional funders, donor collaboratives, individual donors, and aligned organizational partners.
• Lead or co lead donor presentations, briefings, pitch meetings, and speaking engagements.
• Lead strategy for participation in external funder events, conferences, briefings and meetings.
• Oversee creation of donor facing materials such as concept notes, grant proposals and reports, and communications collateral such as donor update memos, impact reports, and learning briefs.
• Identify new funding opportunities and shape multi year fundraising plans.
• Manage fundraising development staff and consultants to strengthen systems for donor prospect tracking, stewardship, and communication.
• Act as an ambassador in the philanthropic sector to engage and organize funders and donors in service of the needs of the movement partners (grantees).
• Oversee management and maintenance of YEF’s funder and donor database, Every Action.
• Lead on design and implementation of fundraising strategy for Youth Engagement Action Fund (YEAF), YEF’s 501(c)4 sister organization.
• Ensure compliance with and across 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 funding streams, including in grant applications and reporting.
• Represent YEAF in 501(c)4 philanthropic network and movement spaces.

• Serve as an external ambassador for the organization’s strategy, values, and field leadership in partnership with other Senior Leadership Team members.
• Serve as a thought partner to the Executive Director on organizational vision, strategic direction, and priority setting.
• Participate in the Senior Leadership Team to guide overall organization and its success.
• Co lead implementation of governance structure and communications along with the Executive Director, including recruitment, onboarding, and communications with Guiding Circle (Advisory Board) members.
• Project manage engagement of YEF’s Guiding Circle including planning regular advisory board meetings, setting agendas, preparing materials, and managing speakers with the support of programs and operations team, and Development Officer.
• Represent the organization alongside the Executive Director in strategic coalitions, funder tables, and cross sector partnerships.
• Exemplify internal culture building grounded in equity, transparency, trust, and accountable collaboration.
• Collaborate with the Director of People and Operations on compliance with NEO Philanthropy as the fiscal sponsor, as applicable.
• Work in parallel partnership with the Director of People and Operations on executive level project management to ensure that program and development work plans and…