Chief Development Officer (Remote) | Fund Developement

The Chief Development Officer (CDO) is a key executive leadership position reporting directly to the CEO. The CDO is responsible for building a culture of philanthropy based on a comprehensive fundraising and development strategy. The CDO will work with the assigned fund development manager and across departments to establish and cultivate philanthropic and donor relationships for the benefit of the company’s strategic priorities. The CDO will serve as a member of the C-Level Leaders (CLL) Team, the executive team that oversees the organization, and provide insight and strategic direction to the CLL related to philanthropy as a critical part of the company’s mission and business model.

To be considered for this role, a cover letter including your history of fund development results is required.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive fund development strategy that includes a diversified mix of revenue streams to include: annual giving, leadership and major giving, corporate, private foundations, government grants and planned giving.
• Guide the CEO in highest value/potential yield activities that result in new revenue for the company.
• Build a portfolio of foundation, corporate, and individual donors by identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors and donor prospects.
• In partnership with program staff, create annual fund development plans and have primary responsibility for development and execution of all foundation funding proposals with an eye toward ensuring a long-term relationship-management approach.
• In partnership with the Sr. Director of Marketing & Communications, develop and implement a marketing strategy to support fundraising efforts, including collateral materials, social media content, and other communications to promote organization’s priorities, mission, and services.
• Identify, develop, and mentor assigned staff and others at the company to work collaboratively and effectively to meet fund development goals and contribute to the company’s priorities.
• Partner with the CEO to represent the company with external constituency groups, including community, governmental, and private organizations.
• Establish and communicate organizational priorities as part of the CLL and ensure consistent alignment and integration of ideas, problem solving, and execution of work for CLL and overall organization.
• Promote an organizational culture of excellence, adaptability, efficiency, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Articulate the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to the company’s mission to internal and external stakeholders.
• Operationalize an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mindset into all facets of philanthropy.
• Promotes a collaborative workplace climate that recognizes, celebrates, and rewards EDI.
• Recognizes and addresses incidents of explicit and implicit bias, including one’s own; holds people accountable for problematic behaviour.

Specific Skills, Knowledge And Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, including high level of diplomacy and tact, with an appreciation for confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability and track record of influencing and engaging institutional and individual donors resulting in significant multi-figure gifts.
• Strategic self-starter who understands the enterprise as a whole and works collaboratively to productively engage staff at all levels.
• Ability to learn and engage with subject matter experts, internally and externally across a broad range of content areas.
• Highly effective personnel manager, able to motivate high levels of performance and deliver coaching and guidance that delivers excellent employee results, satisfaction, and engagement.
• Experience in planning, leading, and managing development projects, including coordinating with subject matter experts to develop fundable program concepts and build fund development plans that align with organization mission, vision, values, and budget goals.
• Highly skilled in Microsoft suite of programs, experience with CRM software, SharePoint, web conferencing, and online tools and platforms preferred.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrates a commitment to positively impact social sector issues.
• Practices reflect the company’s mission, vision, values and are responsible, flexible, reliable, and dependable.
• Demonstrates a commitment to high quality and responsive service; Proactively identifies opportunities and takes action to improve operations; Offers and accepts constructive feedback; Contributes to the development of new ideas.
• Actively engages in problem solving; Responds to complaints; Seeks resolution of conflicts.
• Is organized, efficient, and effective; Sets goals for work tasks; Identifies priority issues; Meets productivity standards.
• Works collaboratively with others to encourage and support the accomplishment of goals/tasks.
• Provides exemplary customer service to all internal and external company’s stakeholders; Interactions are timely, responsive, and courteous.
• Shows respect for each person’s individuality and preferences, and the cultural/ethnic diversity of the company’s stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a commitment to learning and improvement; Pursues activities to enhance personal and professional growth for self and others.
• Protects the confidentiality and the information/documentation obtained by nature of the company’s work.

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

Job-related Experience:

• A minimum of seven (7) years of professional experience in a fund development function with demonstrated results with large gifts; experience working with national intermediary or other national social sector organizations is preferred.
• Experience working with social sector organizations with understanding of structure, operations, and culture and passion for advancing the capacity and influence of the sector.

Supervisory Competencies

Leadership Presence: (Personal accountability, unified)

Demonstrates consistency in actions and words. Takes unpopular stands when needed. Simultaneously focuses on short- and long-term strategies/goals/actions. Fosters teamwork. Influences and motivates others with enthusiasm, logic, and facts. Displays self-awareness of leadership strengths and weaknesses, always striving to improve competencies in emotional intelligence, regulation, engagement, effective communication, and cultural humility.

Managing People Talent Development: (Achievement focus, Quality, initiative, just)

Provides ongoing coaching to assist employees in accomplishing their work and professional goals. Discusses short term performance improvement opportunities and career interest. Hires high potential talent that adds value to the organization. social-current.org Models being a team player and expects team members to support each other and other departments in accomplishing goals. Utilizes the talents of all team members. Celebrates and shares team successes. Provides ongoing flow of information to team members. Holds self-accountable for achieving results/goals, honoring commitments, and meeting deadlines.

Quality Management: (Quality, initiative, purposeful)

Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness. Looks for ways to improve and promote quality. Monitors own work to ensure quality. Asks for help when needed. Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities. Seeks increased responsibilities. Takes independent actions and calculated risks. Fosters quality focus in others. Improves processes, products, and services. Measures key outcomes. Sets clear quality requirements. Solicits and applies feedback (staff, partners, customers) to improve performance.

Impact & Influence: (Achievement focus, purposeful)

Listens to and addresses divergent opinions. Displays ability to influence key decision-makers. Pursues and wins support for ideas. Uses authority appropriately to accomplish goals. Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Sets and achieves challenging goals.

Strategic Thinking: (Initiative, Achievement focus, intrepid)

Adapts strategy to changing conditions. Analyzes market and competition. Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals. Identifies and acts on external threats and opportunities. Understands organization’s strengths & weaknesses. Is proactive in all business issues. Takes independent actions and calculated risks.

Learning Agility: (Intrepid)

Learns quickly from all types of situations and can adapt behaviour to new situations to improve performance. Takes risks in applying new ideas/thinking/approaches. Asks for help when needed. Seeks increased responsibilities. Undertakes self-development activities.

The EDI Statements-Supervisor:

• Articulates the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to the company’s mission to internal and external stakeholders.
• Operationalizes an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mindset into team strategic planning.
• Promotes a collaborative workplace climate that recognizes, celebrates, and rewards EDI.
• Recognizes and addresses incidents of explicit and implicit bias, including one’s own; holds people accountable for problematic behaviour.

Travel Expectations:

Travel is expected; approximately 20-30 days a year. Travel to in-person staff meetings/events a minimum of one time annually.

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