Chief Development Officer

🕒 July 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Sandy Hook Promise

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Healthcare • Travel

Sandy Hook Promise is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing gun violence and protecting children. Founded by family members of victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the organization focuses on educating and empowering youth and adults to recognize warning signs and take action against violence. Their comprehensive programs include initiatives like 'Start With Hello' and 'Say Something', aimed at promoting school safety, mental health, and community engagement. Through advocacy and research-based interventions, Sandy Hook Promise strives to create a future where children are safe from shootings and violence in their environments.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy supporting organizational growth and long-term sustainability. • Lead and grow a multi-channel fundraising program, including major gifts, principal gifts, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, advocacy fundraising, and emerging revenue opportunities. • Personally manage and solicit a portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects, securing transformational six- and seven-figure gifts. • Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing national development team while fostering accountability, collaboration, and professional growth. • Partner closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to align fundraising strategy with organizational priorities. • Collaborate with both Co-Founders to leverage their visibility, relationships, and leadership in donor cultivation and stewardship. • Strengthen fundraising operations through effective pipeline management, forecasting, performance metrics, donor analytics, and CRM utilization. • Engage and support the Board of Directors and key volunteers in fundraising strategy, donor engagement, and stewardship. • Serve as a visible ambassador for Sandy Hook Promise with donors, foundations, corporate partners, policymakers, and external stakeholders. • Foster a collaborative fundraising culture that reflects Sandy Hook Promise's commitment to inclusion, respect, and bipartisan violence prevention.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant senior fundraising leadership experience within a national nonprofit or similarly complex mission-driven organization. • Demonstrated success developing and executing comprehensive fundraising strategies across multiple revenue streams. • Proven record of personally cultivating, soliciting, and closing six- and seven-figure gifts. • Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing fundraising teams. • Strong executive leadership skills with experience partnering across departments and with governing boards. • Experience building fundraising infrastructure, utilizing CRM systems, establishing performance metrics, and leveraging data to drive strategy. • Outstanding communication, relationship-building, and executive presence. • Experience with both 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) fundraising is strongly preferred. • Candidates without direct c4 experience should demonstrate familiarity with advocacy fundraising. • Experience operating within politically nuanced or bipartisan environments is preferred. • Experience leading within a fully remote or geographically distributed organization is preferred. • Demonstrated commitment to Sandy Hook Promise's mission and values.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Paid holidays • Sick leave • Paid parental leave • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Employer-paid life and disability insurance • 401(k) with employer match • Employee Assistance Program • Home office reimbursement • Monthly internet and cell phone reimbursement