Vice President of Development

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do! To overcome today's biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

We're hiring a Vice President of Development (VP) in Houston, TX . This position is responsible for leading, managing, inspiring, and driving the Houston Division fundraising campaigns (Heart Walk, Cycle Nation, Heart Ball, and Go Red For Women Luncheon). The VP will champion and cultivate a culture around the Houston Division and its vision to increase revenue and mission impact. They will also promote and implement the concept of all staff encouraging and looking after one another.

This is an office-based position that offers a hybrid schedule in a fast-paced environment with the main responsibility of driving revenue in support of our mission.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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Responsibilities

• Work alongside the Executive Director on key donor relationships, including stewarding them, but also strategizing on how to deepen impact in time, talent, and treasure.

• Work alongside the Executive Director on mid-to-large corporate prospecting, sales process, and onboarding. This will include assisting with the management of the Top 25 Prospect List and providing first-class service when bringing a new company into the Greater Houston Division.

• Have the principal responsibility of securely positioning the Division for bold growth in unrestricted revenue on an increasing and sustainable basis through building a dynamic development staff and volunteer leadership talent and capabilities.

• Have a "Drive for Results" mentality that not only pushes themselves but others as well.

• Coach and lead (4) staff (Assistant Vice President (AVP) Heart Walk, AVP Go Red For Women, and AVP Heart Ball and Development Director, Impact Campaigns) who lead approximately nine development and support staff.

• Must quickly be able to learn existing donor relationships and partner with the team to deepen and grow in financial and volunteer impact.

• Lead from a position of collaboration across campaigns, with the best interest of the donor as the top priority, encompassing a "One Voice" mentality.

• Will aggressively work with the team on new company growth and development, both in revenue and leadership engagement/recruitment.

• Partner and continually build a network of meaningful volunteer partnerships to advance the mission of the Association. Through campaign voluntary leadership, help provide timely direction, a framework, and resources for volunteers to achieve campaign goals.

• Provide staff with leadership direction on setting dream goals. After setting those visionary goals, the VP must celebrate successes and hold each campaign team accountable for their goals and activities to ensure they are achieved.

• Foster a professional work environment that promotes and values collaboration, trust, teamwork, empowerment, and integrity, where communication is open, staff celebrate each other's successes, and problems are identified and quickly resolved.

• Work with the Executive Director and campaign leads to maintain a minimum of three (3) years of "transformational" Chairs for each campaign and its events, therefore growing the division's revenue and volunteer engagement.

• Partner with Southwest Region and National Center resources to provide management expertise, coaching, and monitoring for fundraising events to ensure the aggressive growth of events and focused year-round attention by monitoring internal reports and management of development staff.

• Work with direct reports and Marketing/Communications event staff to ensure direct and indirect campaign expenses are within the approved budget.

The VP will meet weekly with the market Executive Director and report on:

• Individual campaigns status

• Individual campaign pipeline management

• Strategies for growth with current donors

• Strategic input on larger, multi-year asks for prospects

• Individual campaign leadership succession, volunteer utilization

• Development staff successes and opportunities

• Any HR items with development staff

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree is preferred.

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in a comparable non-profit or sales organization.

• At least 6 years of supervising with a sales or fundraising team.

• Demonstrated track record of setting, achieving, and exceeding aggressive goals on a sustainable basis.

• Demonstrated track record of influencing others to action through communicating a shared vision.

• Ability to establish and implement strategic plans in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Ability to travel locally approximately 75% of the time; requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis.

• Must have at least basic knowledge and skill/proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Compensation & Benefits

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• Compensation - Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That's why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.

• Performance and Recognition - You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; this position is incentive eligible based on achieving certain targets.

• Benefits - We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.

• Professional Development - You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. Heart U is the Association's national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.

• Work-Life Harmonization - The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.

• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association's 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the Association will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities.

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Default: Location : Location US-TX-Houston

Posted Date 3 months ago (2/25/2026 11:56 AM)

Requisition ID 2026-17171

Job Category Field Campaigns

Position Type Full Time