Job Description

Teach For Bangladesh (TFB) is building a movement of leaders committed to ensuring that every child in Bangladesh knows their inherent power and worth, and has the knowledge, skills, and agency to thrive.

Bangladesh has achieved near-universal primary enrolment and sustained gender parity in education. These are hard-won gains. But enrollment has not translated into learning. The National Student Assessment found that only half of Grade 5 students meet grade-level standards in Bangla, and fewer than one in three do so in Mathematics. This learning crisis is not evenly shared: children who are poor, rural, or marginalized by language, disability, or displacement face the steepest barriers. The education system, as it stands, too often reproduces the very inequities it should be dismantling.

TFB is working to change this reality. TFB was founded in 2012, registered as a not-for-profit Trust in Bangladesh and as a 501(c)3 in the United States. Since then, it has placed 659 Fellows in under-resourced schools across Dhaka, Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, and Rangpur, directly supporting the learning and growth of over 125,000 children TFB has built a growing alumni community of nearly 400 leaders now working across education, government, business, and civil society–carrying forward a shared commitment to equity and to the children and communities they serve.

Vision & Approach

TFB envisions a Bangladesh where all children know their inherent power and worth, and have the knowledge, skills, and agency to thrive – nurturing the wellbeing of themselves, their communities, and the planet. We imagine classrooms as spaces of love, safety, and joy. We see a society built on equity, care, and shared responsibility, where systems and institutions work together so that every child can learn, heal, grow, and shape a just, sustainable future.

TFB's approach is grounded in the belief that educational inequity is sustained by a complex system of interconnected causes–from underfunded classrooms and overstretched teachers to entrenched mindsets, fragmented governance, and the long shadow of historical inequality. No single actor or intervention can dismantle this alone. What it requires is a critical mass of leaders across the system–in schools, communities, institutions, and policy–who hold an unshakeable belief in every child's potential and who work collectively toward a shared vision of equity.

Short term: TFB recruits and develops promising leaders to teach in under-resourced schools, creating classrooms where children can learn, grow, and experience their own dignity and agency.
Medium term: Fellows join a growing alumni community working across sectors–education, government, business, civil society–united by a shared, enduring commitment to children and equity.
Long term: This collective, values-driven leadership challenges limiting mindsets, shifts practice, and builds the coalitions needed to transform an education system–and a society where all children can thrive.

Teach For Bangladesh is a partner of Teach For All, a global network of 60+ independent organizations around the world that are working to address educational inequity in their own country contexts, while sharing a commitment to a set of unifying principles

 The Opportunity

Bangladesh's funding landscape for education and social impact work is shifting. International development aid and philanthropic priorities are evolving, and competition for both foreign and domestic funding is intensifying. At the same time, a growing base of Bangladeshi high-net-worth individuals, an increasingly engaged diaspora, and a maturing local CSR sector represent significant, still-underdeveloped opportunities.

TFB enters this moment from a position of strength: a proven model, more than a decade of demonstrated impact, and a distinctive, clearly articulated theory of change that resonates with funders who share its conviction in every child's potential. The task now is to translate that strength into a resilient, diversified funding base–built on multi-year partnerships rather than one-off grants, and drawing confidently on both foreign and domestic sources of support.

This is the opportunity at the center of the Director, PDRM role: to build, alongside the CEO, the fundraising engine that will sustain and scale TFB's work for years to come.



The Director, Partnership Development & Resource Mobilization (PDRM) is TFB's senior fundraising leader, working hand-in-hand with the CEO to build and execute a robust strategy for a diversified, multi-year funding base. The Director owns the fundraising pipeline and partnership ecosystem end-to-end–from strategy and prospecting through cultivation, acquisition, and stewardship–and interfaces frequently with TFB's Boards, providing the visibility and analysis they need to make confident decisions about TFB's financial future.

The role carries a few distinctive parameters:

• Dual funding mandate: roughly 60–70% of the budget is raised in foreign currency for TFB's U.S.-based 501(c)3, and 30–40% is raised in local currency (BDT) for TFB's Bangladesh-based Trust.

• Multi-year horizon: fundraising happens simultaneously for the current fiscal year and the two fiscal years that follow, so TFB's funding base is never built one year at a time.

• Five core funding streams: national and international foundations; local and multinational corporates; high-net-worth individuals in Bangladesh and the diaspora; small individual donors and crowdfunding campaigns (including around Giving Tuesday and Ramadan); and local and national government partnerships, particularly where government (and bilateral and multilateral agencies) can unlock funding at scale.

• Close working relationships: with the CEO day-to-day, and frequent engagement with both the Bangladesh-based Board of Trustees and the U.S.-based Board of Directors.
  

 Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy & Multi-Year Pipeline

• Partner with the CEO to design and execute a diversified, multi-year fundraising strategy

• Build and manage a pipeline that spans the current fiscal year and the two years beyond it, so TFB has funding visibility well past its immediate budget cycle

• Own delivery against TFB's dual funding targets across its 501(c)3 and Bangladesh-based Trust

• Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and a regular presence with the Board, translating pipeline data into clear analysis, risks, and recommendations

2. Diversify and Grow the Funding Base

• Cultivate and grow relationships with national and international foundations

• Build a major-gifts program for high-net-worth individuals in Bangladesh and across the diaspora

• Grow recurring-donor and crowdfunding channels, anchored around flagship campaigns such as Giving Tuesday and Ramadan

• Develop CSR partnerships with local and multinational corporations

• Build relationships with local and national government to unlock funding partnerships, particularly for scale

3. Build and Lead a High-Performing Team

• Recruit, develop, and retain a small but high-impact PDRM team

• Use AI and technology to drive efficiency in research, prospecting, proposal development, and donor management

• Build a team culture grounded in TFB's values and vision, not just targets

• Design and maintain the systems–pipeline tracking, reporting, donor databases–that let the team operate efficiently as it grows

4. Champion-Building & Mission Storytelling

• Build a growing network of champions–individuals and institutions who lend their voice, networks, and resources to TFB's mission

• Identify and structure innovative, shared-value partnerships that go beyond transactional giving

• Develop a deep command of TFB's theory of change, and articulate it persuasively to different audiences–so TFB attracts funders aligned with its mission, rather than reshaping its model to fit external demands

• Represent TFB in external forums and partnership spaces to build its visibility and credibility

Candidate Profile

TFB is looking for a fundraising leader who combines deep conviction about TFB's mission with the strategic rigor, relationships, and team-building instincts to grow a diversified, multi-year funding base.

What We're Looking For

• Mission-driven storyteller: Deeply understands TFB's theory of change and can make the case for it persuasively to funders, government counterparts, and other audiences–attracting partners who resonate with TFB's model rather than reshaping it to fit external demands.

• Proven fundraiser: Track record of building and closing a multi-source pipeline, with deep, hands-on experience in one or more of TFB's core funding streams–foundations, HNWI/major gifts, corporate CSR, crowdfunding, or government partnerships.

• Team & systems builder: Experience building small, high-performing teams and the systems that let them scale–using AI and technology to drive efficiency, and building a culture grounded in TFB's values and vision, not just targets.

• Innovative partnership-builder: Finds shared-value partnerships and builds champions for TFB's mission, beyond conventional grant-seeking.

• Trusted strategic partner: Works hand-in-hand with the CEO and engages confidently with the Board, translating funding data into clear strategic recommendations.

Experience

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in fundraising, partnership development, or resource mobilization
• Deep, hands-on experience in one or more of TFB's core funding streams–foundations, major gifts/HNWI engagement, corporate CSR, crowdfunding, or government partnerships–is highly preferred
• Experience building and leading a small, high-performing team
• Bachelor's degree required; a postgraduate degree in a related field is preferred but not essential
• Fluency in English and Bengali, written and spoken, is strongly preferred
• Comfortable managing relationships and communication rhythms across time zones with international partners and funders.
  

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• Benefits:  Health insurance, Festival bonus, 24 days paid annual leave + 8 days paid sick leave
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