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Our Rescue's mission is to end human trafficking and child exploitation while empowering survivors to reclaim their lives and thrive on their healing journey. Our Rescue partners with law enforcement, survivor advocates, and communities to combat trafficking networks via direct rescue operations, survivor care, and prevention efforts worldwide – an ecosystem that builds lasting pathways to freedom.
The organization is poised for transformational growth by bringing together its Development and Marketing functions, two teams that have historically operated separately. Today, roughly 80% of fundraising revenue comes from mass marketing initiatives, led by Our Rescue’s Marketing team. These efforts have created a strong foundation to build out both an annual giving program – targeting gift renewals – and a major gift enterprise – focused on large scale donor upgrades. In addition, there are opportunities to leverage donor communications across the organizations stewardship efforts to strengthen understanding of the organization’s impact and work ahead. By aligning these two teams, the Chief Development and Marketing Officer will have the opportunity to focus on continuing the strong work that has already begun related to mass marketing and continue to build an engine for donor engagement on top of these touch points – shifting from transactional to transformational giving that will position Our Rescue for the future.
Description
The Chief Development and Marketing Office (CDMO) is a member of Our Rescue’s Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for leading the organization’s integrated revenue, growth, brand, and external engagement strategies that fuel our mission and expand our ability to serve those who depend on our work. This leader will inspire donors and supporters to see themselves as part of a larger movement, translating generosity into measurable impact and life-changing outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Revenue Strategy & Leadership
- Lead an integrated revenue strategy aligned with Our Rescues mission, values, priorities, and financial goals. Align Development, Marketing, Communications, E-Commerce, and other revenue-generating functions.
- Set revenue goals, priorities, KPIs, and accountability.
- Leverage your existing network of philanthropic, corporate, foundation, and community relationships to identify, cultivate, and introduce new funding, partnership, and visibility opportunities for the organization.
- Demonstrate a proven ability to open doors, create meaningful connections, and expand the Our Rescue’s sphere of influence beyond its current donor base.
- Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to drive growth, diversification, and sustainability.
- Identify opportunities to expand audiences, strengthen relationships, and increase revenue.
- Report revenue performance, risks, and opportunities to leadership and the Board.
Development & Fundraising
- Serve as a passionate ambassador for the mission, helping donors understand the human impact behind every contribution.
- Foster meaningful relationships with supporters by connecting their philanthropic investment to real-world mission outcomes.
- Support the VP of Advancement in fundraising across individual giving, major gifts, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, campaigns, planned giving and donor engagement.
- Collaborate in building a diversified fundraising strategy and strong donor pipeline.
- Use data and audience insights to improve acquisition, retention, engagement, and lifetime value.
- Ensure compelling, donor-centered messaging and stewardship.
- Partner with the CEO and Board on major donor, funder, and partner relationships.
- Ensure Advancement has the systems, tools, and resources needed to scale.
Marketing, Brand & Audience Growth
- Collaborate with the VP of Marketing and Communications on marketing and brand strategy to support revenue, growth, and mission impact.
- Support the development of compelling storytelling strategies that connect audiences to the human impact of Our Rescue's mission, inspiring action, generosity, and long-term commitment
- Identify priority audiences, markets, channels, and opportunities.
- Collaborate in the oversight of integrated campaigns across digital, social, email, web, events, and other channels.
- Partner with program and field teams to translate mission outcomes, survivor stories, and organizational impact into authentic, audience-centered communications.
- Use performance data to optimize campaigns and investment.
- Partner with the VP of Marketing and Communications to strengthen Our Rescue’s brand, reach, engagement, and audience conversion.
Communications & External Positioning
- Harness the power of storytelling to transform awareness into action, connecting supporters to the lives being changed through Our Rescue's work and inspiring sustained engagement, advocacy, and philanthropy.
- Support the MarComms team in internal and external communications, messaging, storytelling, and reputation management.
- Translate program outcomes and success stories into compelling donor communications that inspire engagement and generosity.
- Ensure communications support fundraising, marketing, advocacy, partnerships, and organizational priorities.
- Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic communications.
- Collaborate with the MarComms leadership on media relations, thought leadership, executive communications, and crisis communications.
- Partner with the Board of Directors to increase fundraising effectiveness and engagement.
- Support board members in donor cultivation and fundraising activities.
Integrated Revenue & Campaign Strategy
- Integrate Development, Marketing, Communications, and E-Commerce strategies and campaigns.
- Create clear audience journeys from awareness to engagement, investment, and long-term support.
- Align messaging, content, campaigns, data, and channels across functions.
- Identify opportunities to deepen engagement and develop new revenue streams.
Data, Analytics & Performance
- Establish a data-driven culture across revenue and externally facing functions.
- Define and monitor revenue KPIs, dashboards, forecasts, and performance reports.
- Use data to guide strategy, identify opportunities, and improve results.
- Partner with Finance to ensure accurate revenue reporting, forecasting, and analysis.
Team, Technology & Organizational Capability
- Build high-performing teams and develop strong leaders across the CRO? portfolio.
- Ensure teams have the systems, technology, processes, and resources needed to succeed.
- Promote collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Break down silos and create shared ownership of revenue and growth.
Executive & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve on the Executive Leadership Team and contribute to enterprise-wide strategy and partner with ELT and other leaders
- Build strong relationships with the Board, donors, partners, media, and community leaders.
- Create and lead, in partnership with VP, Development a development committee.
- Represent Our Rescue as a senior ambassador for its mission, impact, and strategic direction.
- Exemplify Our Rescue’s Core Values.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, nonprofit management, or a related field required; master’s degree preferred.1
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in revenue generation, fundraising, marketing, communications, sales, or related functions.
- Experience leading and integrating multiple functions at an enterprise level.
- Proven track record of developing high-performing teams while leading through periods of growth, transformation, and change.
- Demonstrated success leading comprehensive fundraising/marketing programs with annual revenue responsibility of $20 million or greater.
- Demonstrated success driving revenue growth, organizational scale, and financial sustainability.
- Experience with fundraising, major gifts, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, and/or campaigns.
- Strong understanding of marketing, brand, communications, audience development, and reputation management.
- Demonstrated ability to use data, technology, KPIs, and analytics to improve performance.
- Strong strategic, financial, communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
- Ability to build trust, make sound decisions, and work effectively across an organization.
- Passion for Our Rescue’s mission and an entrepreneurial, high-energy leadership style.
Benefits
Our Rescue offers competitive pay, generous paid time off, wellness days, and paid holidays, along with comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement savings with employer match, and other valuable benefits—all while working alongside a passionate team dedicated to making a meaningful impact.
Organization
Our Rescue's mission is to end human trafficking and child exploitation while empowering survivors to reclaim their lives and thrive on their healing journey. Our Rescue partners with law enforcement, survivor advocates, and communities to combat trafficking networks via direct rescue operations, survivor care, and prevention efforts worldwide – an ecosystem that builds lasting pathways to freedom.
The organization is poised for transformational growth by bringing together its Development and Marketing functions, two teams that have historically operated separately. Today, roughly 80% of fundraising revenue comes from mass marketing initiatives, led by Our Rescue’s Marketing team. These efforts have created a strong foundation to build out both an annual giving program – targeting gift renewals – and a major gift enterprise – focused on large scale donor upgrades. In addition, there are opportunities to leverage donor communications across the organizations stewardship efforts to strengthen understanding of the organization’s impact and work ahead. By aligning these two teams, the Chief Development and Marketing Officer will have the opportunity to focus on continuing the strong work that has already begun related to mass marketing and continue to build an engine for donor engagement on top of these touch points – shifting from transactional to transformational giving that will position Our Rescue for the future.
Description
The Chief Development and Marketing Office (CDMO) is a member of Our Rescue’s Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for leading the organization’s integrated revenue, growth, brand, and external engagement strategies that fuel our mission and expand our ability to serve those who depend on our work. This leader will inspire donors and supporters to see themselves as part of a larger movement, translating generosity into measurable impact and life-changing outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Revenue Strategy & Leadership
- Lead an integrated revenue strategy aligned with Our Rescues mission, values, priorities, and financial goals. Align Development, Marketing, Communications, E-Commerce, and other revenue-generating functions.
- Set revenue goals, priorities, KPIs, and accountability.
- Leverage your existing network of philanthropic, corporate, foundation, and community relationships to identify, cultivate, and introduce new funding, partnership, and visibility opportunities for the organization.
- Demonstrate a proven ability to open doors, create meaningful connections, and expand the Our Rescue’s sphere of influence beyond its current donor base.
- Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to drive growth, diversification, and sustainability.
- Identify opportunities to expand audiences, strengthen relationships, and increase revenue.
- Report revenue performance, risks, and opportunities to leadership and the Board.
Development & Fundraising
- Serve as a passionate ambassador for the mission, helping donors understand the human impact behind every contribution.
- Foster meaningful relationships with supporters by connecting their philanthropic investment to real-world mission outcomes.
- Support the VP of Advancement in fundraising across individual giving, major gifts, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, campaigns, planned giving and donor engagement.
- Collaborate in building a diversified fundraising strategy and strong donor pipeline.
- Use data and audience insights to improve acquisition, retention, engagement, and lifetime value.
- Ensure compelling, donor-centered messaging and stewardship.
- Partner with the CEO and Board on major donor, funder, and partner relationships.
- Ensure Advancement has the systems, tools, and resources needed to scale.
Marketing, Brand & Audience Growth
- Collaborate with the VP of Marketing and Communications on marketing and brand strategy to support revenue, growth, and mission impact.
- Support the development of compelling storytelling strategies that connect audiences to the human impact of Our Rescue's mission, inspiring action, generosity, and long-term commitment
- Identify priority audiences, markets, channels, and opportunities.
- Collaborate in the oversight of integrated campaigns across digital, social, email, web, events, and other channels.
- Partner with program and field teams to translate mission outcomes, survivor stories, and organizational impact into authentic, audience-centered communications.
- Use performance data to optimize campaigns and investment.
- Partner with the VP of Marketing and Communications to strengthen Our Rescue’s brand, reach, engagement, and audience conversion.
Communications & External Positioning
- Harness the power of storytelling to transform awareness into action, connecting supporters to the lives being changed through Our Rescue's work and inspiring sustained engagement, advocacy, and philanthropy.
- Support the MarComms team in internal and external communications, messaging, storytelling, and reputation management.
- Translate program outcomes and success stories into compelling donor communications that inspire engagement and generosity.
- Ensure communications support fundraising, marketing, advocacy, partnerships, and organizational priorities.
- Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on strategic communications.
- Collaborate with the MarComms leadership on media relations, thought leadership, executive communications, and crisis communications.
- Partner with the Board of Directors to increase fundraising effectiveness and engagement.
- Support board members in donor cultivation and fundraising activities.
Integrated Revenue & Campaign Strategy
- Integrate Development, Marketing, Communications, and E-Commerce strategies and campaigns.
- Create clear audience journeys from awareness to engagement, investment, and long-term support.
- Align messaging, content, campaigns, data, and channels across functions.
- Identify opportunities to deepen engagement and develop new revenue streams.
Data, Analytics & Performance
- Establish a data-driven culture across revenue and externally facing functions.
- Define and monitor revenue KPIs, dashboards, forecasts, and performance reports.
- Use data to guide strategy, identify opportunities, and improve results.
- Partner with Finance to ensure accurate revenue reporting, forecasting, and analysis.
Team, Technology & Organizational Capability
- Build high-performing teams and develop strong leaders across the CRO? portfolio.
- Ensure teams have the systems, technology, processes, and resources needed to succeed.
- Promote collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Break down silos and create shared ownership of revenue and growth.
Executive & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve on the Executive Leadership Team and contribute to enterprise-wide strategy and partner with ELT and other leaders
- Build strong relationships with the Board, donors, partners, media, and community leaders.
- Create and lead, in partnership with VP, Development a development committee.
- Represent Our Rescue as a senior ambassador for its mission, impact, and strategic direction.
- Exemplify Our Rescue’s Core Values.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, communications, nonprofit management, or a related field required; master’s degree preferred.1
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in revenue generation, fundraising, marketing, communications, sales, or related functions.
- Experience leading and integrating multiple functions at an enterprise level.
- Proven track record of developing high-performing teams while leading through periods of growth, transformation, and change.
- Demonstrated success leading comprehensive fundraising/marketing programs with annual revenue responsibility of $20 million or greater.
- Demonstrated success driving revenue growth, organizational scale, and financial sustainability.
- Experience with fundraising, major gifts, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, and/or campaigns.
- Strong understanding of marketing, brand, communications, audience development, and reputation management.
- Demonstrated ability to use data, technology, KPIs, and analytics to improve performance.
- Strong strategic, financial, communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
- Ability to build trust, make sound decisions, and work effectively across an organization.
- Passion for Our Rescue’s mission and an entrepreneurial, high-energy leadership style.
Benefits
Our Rescue offers competitive pay, generous paid time off, wellness days, and paid holidays, along with comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement savings with employer match, and other valuable benefits—all while working alongside a passionate team dedicated to making a meaningful impact.
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- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in chief development officer jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive fundraising experience, including major gifts
- Demonstrated success leading capital campaigns or comprehensive fundraising programs
- Experience managing and growing a development team of professional staff
- Bachelor's degree required, with CFRE certification preferred by many employers
- Proficiency with donor management platforms such as Raiser's Edge or Salesforce NPSP
- Strong board relations experience and comfort presenting to executive leadership
Tips for Your Chief Development Officer Job Search
Quantify your fundraising results clearly
Your resume needs hard outcomes: campaign totals raised, donor retention improvements, or endowment growth figures you drove. Chief development officer hiring committees compare candidates on revenue impact, so vague language about 'leading fundraising efforts' won't separate you from the field.
Tailor your materials to mission type
A portfolio that worked for a university capital campaign reads differently to a hospital foundation or arts nonprofit. Reframe your experience around the mission type in each posting, because boards and search committees want to see sector fluency, not just transferable skills.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists chief development officer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target organizations in active growth phases
Postings that mention a new strategic plan, a campaign feasibility study, or recent board expansion signal genuine need rather than a backfill. Prioritize these openings, because you'll enter with a clearer mandate and faster path to visible impact.
Prepare a portfolio case study for interviews
Walk interviewers through one complete campaign you led, from prospect identification through close and stewardship. Boards and executive teams at this level expect a structured narrative, not a list of talking points, so practice telling the arc before your first conversation.
Negotiate the full package, not just base pay
Chief development officer offers often include performance incentives tied to campaign goals, professional development budgets, and board engagement expectations. Clarify each element before accepting, because campaign bonus structures and travel requirements vary widely across organization types.
Chief Development Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most chief development officers?
The companies hiring the most chief development officers right now include Keck Medicine of USC, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and YMCA, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and District of Columbia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in organizations with active fundraising campaigns or recent leadership transitions in their development function.
How many chief development officer jobs are remote?
About 68% of chief development officer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though full-time remote roles are less common at this level than in many other functions. Donor stewardship, board relationship management, and major gift cultivation tend to require regular in-person presence, so most organizations expect at least partial on-site availability.
How do you become a chief development officer?
Most chief development officers build their path by starting in annual giving or major gifts, then moving into director-level roles overseeing a full development team. From there, gaining experience leading a comprehensive campaign, managing board volunteers, and presenting to trustees positions you for a CDO search. Earning your CFRE certification and developing a strong professional network in your sector accelerates the timeline considerably.
How do you get hired as a chief development officer without direct CDO experience?
Organizations conducting their first CDO search, or smaller nonprofits with growing programs, will often hire a strong director-level candidate who can grow into the role. Emphasize any experience where you functioned as the senior development leader, even without the title, and highlight board-facing work, campaign leadership, and team management. A clear vision for building or scaling the development function matters as much as an existing CDO title.
What does the chief development officer interview process look like?
Chief development officer searches typically run in multiple stages, starting with a screening conversation with HR or a search consultant, followed by interviews with the executive team and a separate session with board members or a board search committee. Many organizations ask finalists to present a fundraising vision or first-year strategic framework. Reference checks at this level are thorough and often include conversations with former board chairs or major donors.
Where can I find and apply to chief development officer jobs?
You can find and apply to chief development officer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that fit your experience and sector focus, then apply directly to each listing. There's no need to go through a third party or wait to be contacted.
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