Chief Development & Communications Officer

Location:

Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid: in-office Tuesdays & Thursdays)

Position: Full-time, reporting to the CEO

ICA accelerates great businesses through mentorship and mission-aligned investments to catalyze value in missed markets to transform communities. With a deep commitment to identifying, supporting and helping to grow small businesses run by underrepresented entrepreneurs, ICA is innovating ways to leverage coaching, capital and connections to amplify our impact.

By offering targeted acceleration workshops and operating tools, alongside hands‑on advising from a network of highly experienced business operators, ICA is democratizing access to resources that catalyze value and growth in small businesses.

ICA Fund is entering its next chapter of impact, and we are seeking an entrepreneurial, strategic, and relationship‑driven Chief Development & Communications Officer (CDCO) to help build the capital, visibility, and market presence required to realize that opportunity.

This is not simply a fundraising role. The CDCO will help articulate and advance the enterprise‑capital case for ICA Fund’s next decade, moving beyond an additive story of more products, more entrepreneurs, or broader geography to a multiplication story about how adequate, flexible, and sustained capitalization can fundamentally change the organization’s capabilities, economics, durability, and impact.

Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the executive leadership team, the CDCO will develop and lead an integrated development, marketing, and communications strategy that positions ICA Fund for long‑term growth and impact. The role will build the case for investing not only in annual programmatic needs, but also in the organizational capacity, talent, infrastructure, systems, and strategic capabilities that enable ICA Fund to multiply its impact over time.

The ideal candidate is a strategic visionary with executional discipline and an entrepreneurial development spirit. They also have a keen ability to see around corners, build a compelling narrative and fundraising strategy, cultivate sophisticated relationships, and create the systems and operating rhythms required to execute at an executive level.

• Develop and lead an integrated, multi‑year development strategy aligned with ICA’s strategic direction and next chapter of impact.
• In partnership with the CEO and Board, build a compelling multiplication narrative, grounded in organizational strategy and financials, that articulates how adequate capitalization changes the organization’s capabilities, economics, durability, and impact over the next decade, rather than simply funding incremental growth.
• Translate ICA’s organizational strategy into a compelling enterprise‑capital investment thesis that demonstrates how capitalization can multiply organizational capacity, financial sustainability, reach, and impact.
• Develop a diversified fundraising portfolio comprising major gifts, individual philanthropy, institutional funders, foundations, corporate and strategic partnerships, campaigns, and other sources of long‑term capital.
• Establish fundraising goals, strategies, priorities, metrics, and accountability mechanisms that balance near‑term revenue generation with long‑term market development.
• Design and manage a rigorous pipeline and capitalization campaign, including case development, prospect identification, relationship mapping, cultivation strategy, leadership engagement, and campaign infrastructure.
• Partner closely with the CEO, executive leadership and board to structure gift levels, campaign phasing (quiet and public phases), and board/leadership…