Chief Development Officer

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🕒 March 18

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Colorectal Cancer Alliance

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1999

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Consulting • Non-profit

Colorectal Cancer Alliance is the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to ending colorectal cancer. The organization provides resources, support, and advocacy for patients, families, and caregivers affected by this disease. They focus on screening and prevention, promote research to improve treatment options, and offer community support to those impacted by colorectal cancer.

📋 Description

• Partner with the CEO, Executive Team, and Board to set bold development goals and drive a clear, results-focused revenue vision and strategy. • Shape and strengthen the infrastructure, talent, and systems required to support sustained revenue growth. • Champion and embed a culture of philanthropy, modeling fundraising leadership internally and externally through volunteer teams. • Proactively cultivate and maintain high-trust relationships with executives, board members, donors, funders, corporate partners, and key stakeholders to expand engagement and investment. • Lead and execute a comprehensive development strategy to scale revenue from $21M to $60M within three years, translating vision into clear annual targets, measurable KPIs, and disciplined execution plans. • Direct the development team in building actionable growth plans, managing robust pipelines, and delivering consistent revenue performance. • Continuously evaluate all fundraising initiatives, analyze ROI, and recalibrate strategies to maximize growth and unlock new revenue opportunities. • Partner directly with the CEO to lead and accelerate execution of the $100M Project Cure CRC campaign, driving principal gift strategy and campaign momentum. • Serve as the organization’s senior fundraising strategist, advising the Executive Team on best practices, market intelligence, and scalable growth models. • Proactively identify, cultivate, and secure high-impact grants, sponsorships, investments, and philanthropic partnerships to diversify and expand revenue streams. • Personally manage and grow a portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects, securing six and seven-figure gifts through strategic cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. • Translate strategic priorities into clear annual revenue plans, quarterly benchmarks, and individual performance goals, driving disciplined execution across the organization. • Lead, coach, and motivate a high-performing development team grounded in results, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Oversee revenue performance across all fundraising pillars, proactively addressing gaps, reallocating resources, and accelerating high-performing initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated success scaling revenue in a complex nonprofit or mission-driven organization, ideally leading significant multi-year growth initiatives. • Track record of personally securing and closing six and seven-figure gifts, with deep experience managing high-capacity donor portfolios. • Experience leading comprehensive fundraising campaigns, preferably $25M+. • Strong ability to translate bold vision into measurable goals, performance dashboards, pipeline discipline, and revenue accountability. • Experience leading, mentoring, and holding accountable high-performing fundraising teams while remaining actively engaged in frontline fundraising. • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with CEOs, executive teams, and boards to advance fundraising priorities and engage volunteer leaders in revenue generation. • Broad knowledge of corporate partnerships, foundation giving, individual major gifts, community fundraising/peer-to-peer fundraising. • Proven ability to embed a culture of philanthropy across an organization, aligning systems, talent, and incentives to drive sustained growth. • Demonstrated ability to build trust, align diverse stakeholders, and drive results across executives, board members, staff, volunteers, donors, and external partners, fostering shared ownership of ambitious revenue goals.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare benefits are available for this role