Chief Growth Officer
Skills
FundraisingInterest RatesLead GenerationLeadershipNetwork ExpansionNew Market ExpansionPhilanthropy
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Senior leader with experience in growth fundraising or partnerships
- Background in startups accelerators incubators or founder ecosystems strongly preferred
- Proven ability to build and scale revenue or growth functions
- Experience leading remote or volunteer-driven teams
- Strong strategic thinking with execution focus
- Ability to build relationships with donors partners and stakeholders
- Ability to drive conversion funnels pipelines and performance metrics
- Strong storytelling connecting mission impact and value
- Deep commitment to women’s economic empowerment
- Comfort balancing ambiguity with accountability
Nice to have
- Builder mentality
- High accountability
- Mission driven
- Strategic thinker
- Relationship oriented
- Data driven
- Growth minded
Day to day
- Lead an integrated growth strategy across fundraising partnerships and enrollment to expand income participation and market reach.
- Build and steward donor corporate and ecosystem relationships while translating impact into persuasive funding narratives and proposals.
- Oversee enrollment funnels sales conversion and growth operations while guiding team performance metrics reporting and accountability.