About Teach for
Lebanon
Teach
For Lebanon (TFL) is a Lebanese NGO committed to ensuring that every child in
Lebanon, irrespective of their socioeconomic background, has access to quality
education. TFL employs an innovative approach that emphasizes youth capacity
building to implement impactful educational interventions and provide systemic
support for students in need.
Therefore,
TFL recruits and trains Lebanon’s most promising fresh graduates, known as
"TFL Fellows," and places them in schools serving economically
disadvantaged refugees and Lebanese children. These fellows receive ongoing
training and support to address educational challenges through transformational
teaching, guiding their students toward academic success. Throughout their
journey, they evolve into leaders and advocates for a brighter future in
Lebanon.
Teach for Lebanon is an independent
local NGO and part of Teach for All, a global network spanning 62 countries
dedicated to educational equality.
Role
Summary
The Development & Engagement Manager
is responsible for raising funds for the operations of Teach For Lebanon (TFL). He/she will also be
responsible for initiating and maintaining relationships with key donors and their organizations.
Development is one of the critical backbones
of TFL as the organization is completely
dependent on donations in its current
form. The Development &
Engagement Manager needs to be abreast with everything
happening in the organization and the education sector through creating and
maintaining relationships with team
members and external stakeholders.
The Development & Engagement Manager is
responsible for building
sustainable relationships between
private
bodies, corporates, foreign entities,
governmental bodies and Teach For
Lebanon.
The Development & Engagement Manager will coordinate
with key internal and external stakeholders
including overseas fundraising arms (TFL-US) to
monitor progress to targets and ensure targets are met. The Development & Engagement Manager works closely with TFL’s
senior executives (Executive Director), TFL-US Executive Director, and board of trustees
fundraising committee to
identify, matriculate and engage new donors.
Main Accountabilities
Responsibilities include, but are not
limited to:
Development:
● Manage development
strategy on a monthly
and yearly basis to reach specific
targets of scaling plans.
● Identify, build and cultivate a knowledge
base of current and potential donors to secure donations from new streams of
funding.
●Develop a broad external
network and profile within the philanthropic and corporate
communities.
● Set up and keep
up to date the donor data management system
(donation, funder records…).
●Prepare meeting packets, toolkits,
proposals, presentations and mailings to prospects and donors.
● Write with the support of relevant team
members grant proposals and reports.
●Conduct donor research,
cataloging and collecting necessary data for grant reports, proposal updates and supplementary materials.
● Identify
and contact possible donors to reduce costs for fundraising
and development events.
●Collaborate with TFL departments to keep abreast of programmatic
developments in order to share with supporters and to further advance their function goals where feasible.
●Coordinate with the Finance Manager
on the collection of gifts and donations
while ensuring the proper invoices, receipts and thank you
letters.
● Assist with the development
and management of online and offline fundraising
strategies and tools with the support of the
communication department.
●Leverage board members
with the support
of the ED and other key constituents to reach
funding goals.
● Identify
and contact corporations
or individuals for pro-bono
services.
●Drive long-term
fundraising strategic planning
to ensure sustainability of a diverse funding
base with an objective to raise
funds to meet the needs of the organization.
● Support eventual fundraising events.
Engagement:
●Ensure exceptional ongoing
communication and cultivation of all supporters through regular
communication.
● Coordinate with ED and, local and overseas development team (TFL-US) to ensure alignment of funding priorities and strategies, and of communication with supporters.
● Plan and execute a sequence
of communications, actions and events for each donor (Donor
volunteer days, CSR events, TFL week…)
in the portfolio to increase
their understanding of and commitment to Teach For Lebanon.
● Utilize
the Communications Department to enhance engagement with potential donors and
the broader community.
● Align
communication strategies with development goals to maintain transparency and
keep stakeholders informed and involved.
● Use diverse communication tools to reach and
engage different audience segments effectively.