Team Pennsylvania Hiring for Senior Vice President, Development & External Relations at Harrisburg, PA Full Time

The Position

Reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Vice President, Development & External Relations will build both reputation and the necessary funds to fuel Team PA’s ambitious vision, raising the profile of Team PA across Pennsylvania, as well as on the national and international stage.

We work closely with the leaders of business and industry, government, academia, nonprofits, and organized labor and convene CSCs to solve Pennsylvania’s biggest challenges. These same stakeholders in turn provide philanthropic support to sustain our work. Following an aspirational strategic plan, we now embark on our next chapter as an organization, and we seek a leader that can navigate this complex dynamic with creativity and integrity.

This role requires:

• Strategic relationship building;
• Managing and growing a strong team;
• Activating Team PA’s new brand identity;
• Collaborating within Team PA to align fundraising approach and mission;
• Supporting the health and engagement of the Board of Directors

The following focus areas will be key for this role in the coming year:

Public Relations, Marketing & Communications

Team PA used to be a behind-the-scenes organization and it has always been hard to tell the ‘Team PA story.’ Historically, Team PA took on many different activities and initiatives that would change with each gubernatorial administration, and the organization does not have a parallel organization in another state. Our ambitious and aspirational strategic plan brought about an equally bold and bright new brand identity, and we are much more clear about who we are and how we work. That said, the work we do is still complicated to describe, and we are still an unknown entity to most of our key stakeholders. The person in this role will be responsible for both creating and implementing a strategy for activating our new brand, taking it to new heights through media, events, and external communications.

• Increase Team PA’s brand visibility and reputation as an authority on Pennsylvania’s economic future with business leaders and policy makers in Pennsylvania, nationally, and globally, grounded in our organizational commitments and core values;
• Create and oversee implementation of a proactive public relations strategy in partnership with contracted public relations firm;
• Protect Team PA’s brand identity as brand champion, ensuring consistency across organizational communications;
• Ensure integrity of Team PA’s brand identity across all events:
• Manage staff, contractors, and vendors in planning and execution of in-person and virtual events and large meetings
• Learn from and collaborate with staff, the Board of Directors, and key stakeholders to effectively communicate the importance and full scope of the organization’s work to key external audiences;
• Serve as an effective spokesperson for Team PA through verbal and written communication;
• Raise Team PA’s profile through the identification and advancement of opportunities around speaking engagements, communications, and events;
• Lead efforts, in collaboration with staff and marketing/communications partners, to develop and produce collateral materials, newsletters, annual report, regular and ongoing website updates to explain the organization and value proposition;
• Oversee Team PA’s social media presence, monitoring activity across platforms and ensuring a consistent presence on LinkedIn;
• Manage reputational risk in partnership with public relations firm and key staff;
• Equip staff, board members, and other key stakeholders with clear and succinct talking points about Team PA;
• Write tailored briefings, talking points, and profiles for senior organizational leaders to ensure successful preparation for a meeting/solicitation

Board Governance & Engagement

Team PA’s 49-person Board of Directors serves as our most important ambassadors. They represent the diverse nature of the Commonwealth in terms of demographics, industry, geography, and organizational size, and as leaders of business and industry, government, organized labor, academia, and nonprofit organizations, they generously commit their time to serve the Commonwealth. We support their leadership through a highly professional approach to board engagement, ensuring attention to detail at every step.

• Engage directly with the Board of Directors as individuals, through board and committee meetings, and across the Team PA portfolio of work;
• Oversee relationship management systems to track and monitor board member engagement and development;
• Assess and develop committee rosters in partnership with President & CEO;
• Manage board nomination process in partnership with President and CEO and Nominating & Development Committee Chair;
• Serve as the primary staff lead for the Nominating & Development Committee
• Oversee materials, communications, and logistics for board and committee meetings, and the bi-annual board retreat.

Development

Team PA is not a traditional organization, and we are not looking for a traditional development professional. While some organizations are able to leverage membership dues, events, and sponsorships as fundraising mechanisms, due to the unique nature of our work and our organization, we rely on philanthropic support toward a shared vision for Pennsylvania’s economic health. Success in this role depends on a creative strategy grounded in integrity and collaboration. It also depends on achieving results, building on a positive revenue growth trajectory. For several years, Team PA raised less than $500,000. Since our strategic plan, we expanded our reach and our work, and we are set to more than triple our historical fundraising in less than three years. As we continue to expand our organizational reach and impact, we will continue to expand our fundraising efforts to meet the aspirations of our mission, focusing on strategy and relationships to meet our development goals.

• Collaborate with CSCs, partners, and stakeholders to build a culture of philanthropic support for our shared goals regarding the health of Pennsylvania’s economy;
• Develop and implement a robust development and donor relations strategy, from research to donor stewardship, aligned with organizational growth priorities and trajectory;
• Set short and long-term fundraising goals and establish appropriate metrics to measure performance and progress towards those goals;
• Continually build, monitor, cultivate, and manage a diverse prospect pipeline to include moves management, recommending actions to ensure effective prospect management;
• Create and oversee execution of stakeholder engagement and management plans, processes and data;
• Oversee the strategic use of the CRM for relationship management and alignment across the organization;
• Partner with the finance and accounting department to sustain efficient, effective, and transparent financial tracking, modeling, and reporting processes;
• Develop and produce regular analytic reports for the CEO and Executive Committee of the Board that synthesize the financial progress and trends of fundraising and other revenue activities

People & Budget Management

The concept of a team is not just in our organization’s name – it’s absolutely essential for anyone to thrive at Team PA. Each of our core values and organizational commitments are core to the role of the Senior Vice President, Development & External Relations regarding people and budget management.

• Build and manage a highly effective and cohesive team that delivers on Team Pennsylvania’s fundraising and external relations goals;
• Monitor team performance and carry out supervisory responsibilities, including assigning and directing work, evaluating performance, and delivering timely and constructive feedback;
• Identify and shape new positions when appropriate and participate in hiring decisions for supporting development and external relations;
• Manage the following current employees and contractors:
• Manager of Board & Investor Relations;
• Vice President of Strategic & External Affairs
• Work closely with the finance team to budget and monitor development and external relations operations to ensure sound fiscal and system management;
• Oversee the budget development process for development and external relations and maintain a high level of fiscal responsibility

Requirements

Qualifications

• Experience in both development AND communications/marketing/PR
• At least 8-10 years of management and leadership experience
• Thrives on being a connector across people and organizations, maintaining a wide and diverse network
• Possess a proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and an interest in building a strong organizational culture
• Strategic mindset and ability to connect programs to goals and outcomes
• Display excellent and versatile oral and written communications skills including the ability to summarize detailed information to senior level audiences, and to adapt to meet the needs of the CEO
• Demonstrated commitment to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, access, and belonging with experience in implementing these principles
• Effective team leadership and managing change skills while balancing competing priorities strongly desired
• Demonstrated accomplishments in a senior management role, with a proven track record in building and managing effective teams
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach senior staff members and coordinate between multiple programmatic areas
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, make timely decisions and advise staff on multiple projects, priorities and deadlines while providing timely, comprehensive feedback
• Demonstrate respect and professionalism clearly and consistently with all people
• Exercise high and strict levels of confidentiality and use professional judgment and discretion
• Proficiency with CRM tools, Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Suite, Slack, and other technology tools that advance the portfolio of work
• Ability to travel to the Harrisburg office at least 4 days/week. (Required)

Benefits

About Team Pennsylvania

Our Mission: Working together for all Pennsylvanians in public-private partnership, Team Pennsylvania accelerates the commonwealth’s long-term economic future.

Who We Are: A dynamic, non-profit organization, Team Pennsylvania is a statewide entity co-chaired by the Governor and a private sector leader. We are the state’s trusted neutral broker and convener, and we couple collaboration with strategic investment of public and private funds to accelerate Pennsylvania’s economy.

We convene Cross-Sector Collaboratives (CSCs) on the most transformative economic opportunities in Pennsylvania: agriculture, energy, and manufacturing, with plans to launch future collaborations in life sciences/biotech and innovation & technology. Each CSC includes the commonwealth’s top policymakers and business leaders, as well as leaders of labor, academia, and nonprofits.

Together, we tackle the issues that no one sector can address alone to position Pennsylvania as a leader among states and a competitor among nations, maximizing impact for the commonwealth while creating equity and economic opportunity for all Pennsylvanians.

Our Core Values are how we show up when we do this important work.

The Opportunity

In June 2022, Team PA’s Board of Directors adopted a new strategic plan charting a growth-oriented course. Since then:

• We’ve increased our reach: Over 300 organizations began participating in our CSCs – from start-ups to Fortune 500s, from R1 universities to community colleges – along with leaders in labor, NGOs, and the public sector in our new mode of Cross-Sector Collaboration.
• We’ve begun making an impact: The outputs of our work are slowly but surely leading to outcomes, particularly in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing. With every report, op-ed, and event, we’re taking an action-oriented approach to long-term systems change work with our eye on the horizon.
• We’ve grown our organization: Since 2022, we’re doubled the size of our staff and our operating budget, as well as adopted a new brand identity to match this action-oriented, external-facing new way of working.

As we continue to build momentum, we also need to build the organizational capacity to achieve our aspirational mission.