Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Evidence Action is a high-impact organization focused on delivering data-driven interventions to improve global health. They are seeking a Chief Growth Officer to oversee fundraising, communications, and thought leadership, aiming to significantly increase the organization's impact and funding through innovative strategies and partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap, vision, and execution of scaling donations across:
- Individuals fundraising: Drive a major influx of capital from high-net-worth donors, building the pipeline, strengthening the donor community, and personally closing transformational gifts, while overseeing the broader individual donor funnel from retail to HNW, reaching new audiences with Evidence Action's impact and deepening ties with existing supporters
- Institutional fundraising: Partner with program teams on scaling our work across strategic foundations and major institutions, and advocate across the sector for evidence-based development
- Communications, press, & website: Oversee Evidence Action’s brand voice and narrative, finding the most interesting and differentiating content - from stories about our work with fluid dynamics engineers in India to partnering on events with Nobel Prize-winning Economists
- Donor analytics: Oversee analytics infrastructure and reporting
- Manage existing team of 10 employees
- Serve on executive leadership team of 900+ person organization
- Be a passionate advocate and spokesperson for Evidence Action's mission and approach, in meetings with donors and partners, press interviews, and conferences
- Drive organization transformation, training team members on best practices in fundraising and relationship management
- Establish systems to ensure meaningful scale, including analytics infrastructure, donor pipelines, Salesforce tooling, and more
Skills
- 12+ years of professional experience; most candidates will have 8+ years in fundraising with a proven personal track record of closing significant gifts or partnerships
- Experience growing pipelines of $30M+
- Experience leading top performing teams (5+) and developing team members
- Creativity in execution - you see opportunities that others don't, iterative approach to testing and validating tactics
- Curiosity with a passion for 'the close' (persistence in converting prospects into donors)
- Utilizes a strong prioritization framework
- Provide timely and actionable feedback to others; proactively solicit feedback and iterate
- Comfort with AI, data analysis and Excel
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including international health care
- HSA/FSA options
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Retirement plans with a matching component
- Generous and flexible leave options
- Other employee perks on a reimbursement basis
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