Chief Development Officer; CDO Remote

Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care system. In partnership with an on-the-ground network of Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) organizations, we work in states and communities to advance high-quality, affordable child care — transforming a patchwork of resources into a system that works for everyone. Together, we make child care strong, and that makes everyone stronger.

The Chief Development Officer (CDO) serves as the senior strategic leader driving all revenue at CCAoA and is a critical member of the Senior Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. As the organization advances a bold 10-year strategic framework to make child care work for every child, family, and community, the CDO will architect and lead the development program required to diversify, grow, and sustain CCAoA’s philanthropic and government grants funding.

The CDO is responsible for building a modern, high-performing development function from the ground up, including foundation giving, high-net-worth individual major gifts, and corporate support. In time, the CDO will be responsible for coordinating CCAoA’s state and federal government grant program, as funding opportunities arise. The CDO will translate CCAoA’s 10-year strategic framework into a compelling case for support, drive a shift toward unrestricted, multi-year funding, and partner closely with the CEO and board on six- and seven-figure donor strategies.

This leader will activate a culture of philanthropy across the board, senior leadership, and staff—equipping CCAoA’s champions to be effective ambassadors and donors in their own right.

• Serve as the senior strategic leader for all philanthropic revenue, setting the vision,strategy, and multi-year roadmap to diversify and grow CCAoA’s funding base.
• Establish annual and multi-year multi-channel revenue targets, forecasts, and performance benchmarks, reporting to the CEO and board regularly on progress.
• Provide executive leadership and strategic oversight across foundation, individual, and corporate giving channels, ensuring an integrated approach to cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Lead the buildout of development infrastructure—including instituting a moves
  management process, CRM utilization, prospect research, pipeline development, reporting systems, and hiring members of the team itself—to professionalize and scale the function.
• Translate CCAoA’s 10-year strategic framework into compelling funder-facing materials and drive the shift toward unrestricted, multi-year funding.
• Represent CCAoA externally as a senior spokesperson, elevating the organization’s visibility and credibility with donors, funders, and sector leaders.

• Position CCAoA as a high-impact investment opportunity grounded in real-world results and national influence.
• Serve as a close strategic partner to the CEO, activating her time, relationships, and voice for high-impact fundraising.
• Collectively steward a shared portfolio of top foundation funders and high-net-worth individual prospects, providing tailored cultivation and solicitation strategies for six- and seven-figure gifts.
• Prepare the CEO for donor meetings with briefing materials, call plans, and follow-up strategies; accompany the CEO on principal gift cultivation and solicitation as the strategy requires
• Identify, qualify, and advance new principal and major gift prospects, building a robust pipeline capable of producing transformational gifts that sustain and grow CCAoA’s mission.