Chief Development Officer

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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $190k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Pulitzer Center

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Media • Non-profit • Education

Pulitzer Center is a nonprofit journalism organization that champions the power of in-depth storytelling to make complex global issues relevant and drive action. Through grant and fellowship programs it provides financial and editorial support, training, and collaboration networks for journalists to pursue high-impact reporting projects on topics such as climate and environment, global health, conflict, human rights, and information/AI. The organization also runs extensive education and outreach initiatives — including K–12 resources, a Campus Consortium for colleges, student reporting fellowships, and public events and webinars — to amplify reporting, build media literacy, and connect journalists with teachers, students, policymakers, and communities. Pulitzer Center’s work emphasizes impact, accountability, and storytelling that influences policy and public understanding.

📋 Description

• Develop and lead the Pulitzer Center’s overall fundraising and revenue strategy, with clear priorities, growth targets, and a multi-year roadmap aligned to the organization’s long-term vision and programmatic ambition. • Bring field-aware strategic thinking to questions of positioning, sector trends, and philanthropic opportunity – and translate that thinking into concrete cultivation, partnership, and revenue strategies. • Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the CEO, Board, and senior leadership on organizational sustainability, growth opportunities, and institutional positioning. • Partner closely with editorial, engagement, and program leadership to ensure fundraising strategy is deeply integrated into organizational priorities and initiative design from the outset. • Help shape organizational growth strategy by identifying emerging opportunities across journalism, philanthropy, technology, global affairs, education, environment, and civic engagement ecosystems. • Contribute meaningfully to executive-level decision-making beyond the development function, including strategic planning, organizational growth, and cross-functional leadership initiatives. • Identify opportunities for cross-sector collaboration across philanthropy, academia, technology, civil society, and media ecosystems.

🎯 Requirements

• 10-15 years of development leadership experience • A track record of personally cultivating, soliciting, and closing transformational gifts and multi-year institutional commitments at the seven- and eight-figure level • Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams during periods of organizational growth and evolution • Experience designing and overseeing the operational backbone of a sophisticated modern development function, including pipeline strategy, prospect research, forecasting, grants management, and donor operations. • Experience partnering closely with executive leadership and boards on organizational growth, institutional positioning, and long-term sustainability strategy.

🏖️ Benefits

• paid time off (holiday, vacation, parental and sick) • health care coverage (including medical/dental/vision) • health savings accounts 403(b) retirement plan • transit benefit • parental leave • Life & ADD/LTD/STD Insurance