Chief Development Officer

Organizational Overview:

Coaching Corps uses organized sports with caring coaches as a vehicle of transformative change to improve health, educational, and social outcomes for kids living in struggling communities. By mobilizing and training thousands of volunteer coaches, we provide kids with consistent, caring adults as role models and teachers. Our coaches use the thicket of teachable moments that sports provide to nourish healthy development by increasing physical activity rates, providing safe places to play team sports with a positive group of friends, fostering leadership skills, and teaching life lessons that build self-confidence and the ability to surpass their own expectations.

We are leading the field in how sports can be used to improve health, educational, and social outcomes for kids, and we are poised to ignite a national movement of volunteer service on behalf of children through sports. By taking Coaching Corps to scale we will be able to reach hundreds of thousands of kids in struggling communities across the nation.

More information about Coaching Corps can be found at www.coachingcorps.org

Job Summary:

The Chief Development Officer reports to the Executive Director and is a member of the senior leadership team. His/Her responsibilities fall into three closely connected areas: providing visionary leadership in conceiving and implementing innovative and targeted development strategies; enabling Coaching Corps' Board, staff and supporters to raise sufficient resources to implement and sustain an aggressive expansion plan while continuing to operate current programs; and generating high-quality products – proposals, presentations and other materials that present a powerful case for Coaching Corps.

Essential Job Functions:

• Create and implement a comprehensive, strategic, and innovative growth and development plan for Coaching Corps that supports our ambitious expansion plan, maximizes the strategic opportunities to increase contributed revenue across all funding sources and raises a minimum of $25 million over the next four years
• Serve on the Senior Leadership Team with the Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Finance, and Chief Marketing and Engagement Officer
• Research and develop strategic partnership opportunities, including those with organized philanthropy, corporate and individual donors
• Develop priorities and activities to solicit and steward these target groups
• Provide progressive leadership and supervision of staff dedicated to fund development
• Identify potential supporters and personally solicit them for support
• Deploy and support Board and staff in cultivating and/or soliciting support with a focus on six, seven and eight figure gifts
• Serve as an external face of Coaching Corps, representing the organization at events and meetings and make presentations as required
• Oversee systems that will organize, track and communicate with donors and prospects

Qualifications:

The right person for this position will have more than the necessary development experience and demonstrated technical skills. He/She will have a vision of development that is rooted in promoting equity for young people, commitment to pursuing entrepreneurial and innovative strategies, desire to work externally to identify and cultivate new donors and partners, capacity to motivate and manage, desire and ability to work collegially at a pioneering and growing organization, and a passion for the power of participation in high-quality sports programs to transform lives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 10+ years of progressively more responsible leadership experience in development
• Demonstrated success in conceiving and implementing strategies that reach a range of donors, individual, philanthropic, government, and corporate supporters
• Experience personally soliciting and cultivating new major donors
• Demonstrated results in working closely with program staff and in securing resources from programs, ideally in an organization without a built-in or natural constituency
• Personal energy, enthusiasm and drive to attract donors, engage colleagues and motivate staff and volunteers
• Experience with and commitment to using data to drive decision-making, strategy development and assessing results
• Excellent verbal and communications skills
• Working knowledge of the sports world is a plus