CAO - Chief Advancement Officer

Chief Advancement Officer | Denver, CO (Hybrid) We're partnering with a mission-driven organization seeking a Chief Advancement Officer to lead revenue growth, strategic partnerships, fundraising, and organizational advancement efforts. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you'll oversee advancement and finance functions, build high-performing teams, cultivate key stakeholder relationships, and develop strategies that drive sustainable growth and long-term impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead fundraising, advancement, and revenue growth strategies.
• Cultivate and secure major gifts, partnerships, sponsorships, and other significant investments.
• Build and lead a high-performing advancement team.
• Develop scalable systems, metrics, forecasting, and accountability processes.
• Partner with executive leadership to align growth initiatives with organizational priorities.
• Provide executive oversight of finance, budgeting, forecasting, and resource planning.

This role reports to the CEO and offers some WFH.

• Executive leadership experience in fundraising, business development, strategic partnerships, sales, or other revenue-generating functions.
• Proven success leading teams and delivering measurable growth results.
• Experience securing significant investments, partnerships, contracts, grants, or major gifts.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Ability to influence and lead across complex organizations and stakeholder groups.
• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills.

Ideal Backgrounds We welcome candidates from nonprofit, higher education, healthcare, research, life sciences, enterprise sales, business development, customer success, and other relationship-driven growth environments. If you're a strategic, growth-oriented leader who enjoys building teams, creating scalable systems, and securing transformational opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.