Chief Growth Officer

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, vision, and execution of scaling donations across: Individuals fundraising, Institutional fundraising, Communications, press, & website, Donor analytics
• 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
• Drive organization transformation, train 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

Requirements

• 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 - 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