Director of Engagement

Purpose: The Director of Engagement will lead the foundation's strategy for cultivating, stewarding, and growing relationships with major donors and high-capacity prospective givers. This person will work closely with the President, Tim & Demi, The Tebow Group, TTF Leadership, and the Engagement team to create meaningful opportunities for donors to connect with the mission and increase their impact.

This is a highly relational and strategic role. The ideal candidate will bring executive presence, strong business acumen, and the ability to communicate with credibility among entrepreneurs, investors, family office leaders, financial advisors, business owners, and other sophisticated philanthropic partners.

In addition to serving as a senior relationship leader, this role will provide strategic leadership, direction, and development for a high-performing Engagement team, ensuring alignment, excellence, and consistency across donor relationship management and engagement initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow TTF's major donor engagement strategy, including cultivation, stewardship, retention, and lifetime giving.
• Build trusted relationships with high-capacity donors, families, companies, and prospective giving partners.
• Lead, coach, and develop engagement managers and donor relationship staff.
• Create clear donor portfolio strategies, communication rhythms, reporting processes, and relationship management systems.
• Ideate and direct the creation of engagement tools and resources that communicate the mission and support opportunities 1:1 with high-capacity givers.
• Create a tracking mechanism for potential giving opportunities and open appeals that can be referenced cross-functionally to drive alignment.
• Partner with Marketing, Ministry, Events, Finance, Brand, and TTF Leadership to align donor engagement with organizational priorities.
• Represent the foundation in donor meetings, private gatherings, events, and strategic conversations.
• Develop customized opportunities for donors to support the mission in ways that align with their passions, capacity, and desired impact.
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies strategically to strengthen donor engagement, operational effectiveness, and relationship stewardship at scale, while ensuring authentic human connection, sound judgment, and personal accountability remain central to every interaction and initiative.
• Strengthen donor communication, recognition, and stewardship practices across the organization.
• Provide timely updates to senior leadership regarding key donor relationships, life events, giving opportunities, and strategic next steps.
• Help build a scalable engagement structure that preserves the personal, family-oriented care that defines TTF.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in donor development, major gifts, advancement, nonprofit leadership, relationship management, business development, financial services, or a related field.
• 4+ years of leadership experience, including managing or coaching a team.
• Proven ability to build relationships with high-capacity individuals, families, executives, business owners, or philanthropic partners.
• Strong business acumen and comfort engaging donors from investment, family office, entrepreneurial, or financial services backgrounds.
• Excellent communication skills, including public speaking, executive conversation, written communication, and donor storytelling.
• Ability to create strategy, build processes, manage priorities, and execute with excellence.
• High emotional intelligence, discretion, diplomacy, and relational judgment.
• Deep alignment with the mission, values, and Christian foundation of the Tim Tebow Foundation.
• Joy-filled, flexible, humble, and team-oriented leadership style.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading a major gifts, advancement, donor relations, or engagement team.
• Background in financial services, wealth management, private banking, investor relations, family office services, or advisory work.
• Experience working with high-net-worth or ultra-high-net-worth donors.
• Track record of growing donor revenue, major gift pipelines, sponsorships, or strategic philanthropic partnerships.
• Experience with donor CRM systems, portfolio management, moves management, and reporting.
• Prior experience in a nonprofit, ministry, or faith-based organization.