Chief Development Officer

Job Details

Level

Senior

Job Location

Kansas City, MO

Position Type

Full Time

Travel Percentage

Up to 50%

Job Category

Executive

Description

Organizational Profile

The Global Orphan Project (GO Project) is the redemptive quest of a community of strategic Kingdom investors joining forces in a shared Mission: to break the orphan cycle through the power of community, commerce, and the love of Jesus. The essential cell of civilization is the family. The breakdown of family has created an orphan crisis and weakened local communities across the world. Leveraging the greatest care distribution network on the planet, the local church, GO Project innovates, creates, and implements collective impact platforms to strengthen children and families in crisis, at scale, to advance our Mission.

GO Project is also a Christian non-profit organization, the backbone parent company to our flagship collective impact platforms: CarePortal, a care-sharing platform that drives action for local kids and families in crisis; Strong Family, a family strengthening training and technology platform that is scaling in the developing world; and GOEX, our fair-trade certified apparel and artisan platform that keeps families together through the dignity of work. GO Project provides overall enterprise leadership and support to our signature platforms, a professional suite of business services, which include marketing, communications, finance, human resources (HR), facilities, compliance, information systems and technology (IS&T) - as well as an emerging development capability to support diverse revenue streams across the GO Project enterprise.

The Chief Development Officer (CDO) will serve as a key member of GO Project’s senior leadership team responsible for the strategy and execution of our revenue model, leveraging our exploding impact to generate diverse revenue streams to support next-level scale. In 2024, we expect that GO Project’s topline revenue will be near $30m. To meet our North Star for impact over the coming 3-5 years, we will need to scale to $50m plus, with the infrastructure, systems, and processes to keep scaling. We need to organize the entirety of our development efforts into a clearly structured and well supported Development Department, hence, this role. GO Project leaders lead by example. No one is perched in an ivory tower looking down on others doing the work. Every Team Lead at GO is a player/coach.

Candidate Profile

You believe in showing up every day with a Gospel-centered passion and the highest integrity in order to see nonprofits thrive in achieving their mission. You are a self-starter, goal-oriented, and results-driven, but love and excel in the relational work of storytelling and listening to others’ stories. Your deep knowledge & understanding for nonprofit budgeting allows you the confidence to be disciplined and drive high follow-through, while maintaining a humble and servant-hearted leadership. You are an excellent communicator and connector, and have a heart for operating through prayer and encouragement.

Your Responsibilities Include

Reporting to the CEO and working closely with executive leadership, lead the development strategic direction as an executive team member in a highly collaborative, faith-based work environment, to include primary accountability for GO Project’s revenue model across the enterprise.
Work with each executive team member to establish plans for fundraising and revenue goals for GO Project, to include CarePortal, GoEx, Strong Family, and CarePortal earned revenue.
Collaborate with each executive team member toward creating a shared vision and common goals for development ideas and events.
Supervise and support leaders over the following development verticals:
- Founders Circle and Strategic Investors (major gifts)
- Grants and Reporting (grants)
- Future regional development officers (local donor development)
- Future earned revenue officer (government contracts)
Hire the future regional development roles
Raise charitable gifts through ask meetings, digital media, events, and grant income. Additionally, supervise revenue growth through government contracts and/or agency procurement.
Steward relationships with giving partners and agencies to show appreciation, grow their support, and establish new fundraising and revenue networks.
Work with the COO to ensure the development, marketing, and events team members collaborate through a master calendar defining when to promote development-related marketing messaging.
Create and analyze stewardship processes to ensure giving partners at all levels of generosity remain connected and grow their giving to new levels.
Recruit and train a team of development volunteers to support fundraising efforts.
Oversee the tracking of giving prospects and giving partners through Salesforce CRM.
Keep an innovation focus to lead ways to raise funds

Qualifications

Knowledge & Skills You Bring To the Organization

Demonstrated experience in development, 7 or more years preferred
Prior leadership of development teams, national-level experience preferred
Demonstrated excellence in organizational, managerial, and communication skills
Experience using a CRM system for giving prospects and giving partners
Excellent budget management and forecasting
CFRE is desired, but not required
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or relevant experience
Ability to commit to a hybrid schedule with at least 25% travel time

The above description is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather a focused list of priorities. The Global Orphan Project, Inc. is a Christian nonprofit ministry with a mission to break the orphan cycle through the power of community, commerce, and the love of Jesus Christ. We carry out our mission by equipping and empowering local churches to care for children and families in crisis. We seek associates who understand and are enthusiastic about advancing our organizational mission, vision, and values.

Compensation

Annual salary, commensurate with relevant skills and experience. The Global Orphan Project offers a competitive benefits package for full-time positions (30+ hours per week) including health, dental, vision and employer paid life insurance, retirement savings and generous PTO plan and a highly competitive, market-indexed compensation when compared to similar non-profit roles.

The Global Orphan Project is a 501c3 non-profit located at 3161 Wyandotte, Kansas City, MO 64111. GO Project associates are at-will employees.

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