Chief Partnerships Officer at Accelerate Change

On-Ramps; United States; Hybride; USD 196 000 - 220 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Accelerate Change is a premier mission-driven media network seeking a Chief Partnerships Officer to grow philanthropy and expand our nationwide reach. You will bridge traditional philanthropy with digital narrative strategies, coordinating with senior leaders to scale the organization’s fundraising capacity and partner networks.

This fully remote role requires residency in the continental United States, with travel up to 40% for funder engagements and conferences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive fundraising or executive leadership experience.
• Proven success managing institutional funder portfolios and renewals.
• Ability to translate digital media metrics into compelling donor narratives.
• Experience with large budgets around $25M+.

Responsabilités

• Lead executive fundraising strategy and revenue scaling.
• Oversee the Development Operations and Partnerships teams.
• Represent the organization to donors, conferences, and high-level retreats.
• Promote equity and anti-racism in external funder partnerships and internal strategy.

Connaissances

Executive fundraising leadership

Fundraising portfolio management

Public speaking

Strategic partnerships

Equity and anti-racism advocacy

Description du poste

Since 2012, Accelerate Change has evolved from a scrappy incubator into the largest mission media network in the country. Grounded in experimentation, we scale and invest in cultural media properties and creator networks to drive impact.

About the Organization

We are the nation's largest mission-driven media network with our vibrant cultural media partners and dynamic creator networks that collectively reach more than 135 million people each month. Our theory of change is rooted in functional organizing: the belief that sustainable, scalable civic engagement grows when organizations provide real value in people's everyday lives. By producing culturally resonant media content, not ads, we build affinity and trust before layering in nonpartisan civic engagement, public education, and action.

• Scale emerging cultural media properties
• Invest in and expand established mission-aligned platforms
• Lead a digital media experimentation lab
• Build and support creator networks
• Drive large-scale civic engagement campaigns
• Deliver on large-scale public education initiatives

At our core, we are collaborative, solutions-oriented, and deeply committed to advancing equity through an intersectional lens. We center distributed leadership, reject scarcity mindsets, and view anti-racism as mission-critical, both externally and within our organizational culture.

About the Role

The Chief Partnerships Officer (CPO) will serve as the chief architect of Accelerate Change's external growth, transforming our philanthropic capacity to match our massive digital footprint. As a primary public face to the funding ecosystem, the CPO will secure the scaled, movement-level capital necessary to expand the nation's largest mission media network, which currently reaches half of all U.S. adults monthly.

By bridging traditional philanthropy with innovative digital narrative strategies, you will manage a seamless relationship handoff from our principals, eliminate structural fundraising bottlenecks, and unlock the resources required to support our network partners. Ultimately, this hire ensures that BIPOC and low-income communities have the sustainable, independent media infrastructure required to build lasting civic power and reshape dominant public narratives.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Fundraising Strategy & Revenue Scaling

• Lead comprehensive central strategy: Design and execute a broad fundraising framework to scale a $25M+ media network, moving major institutional and civic engagement funders to catalytic action.
• Own specialized funder portfolio: Personally manage and scale a robust funder pipeline and portfolio.
• Pitch major funders nationally: Represent the organization at key donor conferences and high-level retreats to secure large-scale funding for our core media network and pro-democracy initiatives.

Movement Pitching & Narrative Translation

• Inspire through experimental proof points: Effectively translate complex audience data, algorithmic shifts, and randomized control test data into undeniable investment proof points for traditional donors.
• Target core funder segments: Focus core cultivation and pitching efforts on general operations, civic engagement (political), and media funders, while selectively engaging a targeted pool of large, cross-cutting narrative donors.

Internal Leadership

• Oversee and mentor the Development team: Directly manage and provide strategic direction to the Director of Development Operations and the Senior Director of Partnerships, actively shaping their frontline and people leadership capacities.
• Model cross-functional collaboration: Serve as a core member of the Executive Team, partnering with senior leadership to design long-term organizational strategy.
• Goal setting: Set ambitious and achievable goals, and support the team to meet and exceed those goals, tracking progress and adjusting course as needed.

Mission and Values Stewardship

• Promote Inclusive Leadership and Cultural Humility: Embody a deep commitment to organizational equity, ensuring an environment where all staff identities are respected and affirmed. Bring a high degree of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and relational maturity to navigating cross-cultural and identity dynamics within a diverse, majority-BIPOC team and across external funder networks.
• Support the Broad Partner Ecosystem: Act as an accessible fundraising resource for partner media properties, sharing key donor takeaways to help network partners monetize and scale their platforms.

Who You'll Work With

You will report to the Executive Director.

You will directly manage the Director of Development Operations, Senior Director of Partnerships, and oversee a total team of 4.

You will frequently collaborate with the President, Chief Program Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and other members of the senior Leadership Team.

Required Skills and Experience

Executive Fundraising and Network Leadership

• 10+ years of progressive fundraising or executive leadership experience, including preferably at least 5 years in a role such as Chief Development Officer, VP of Advancement, or Executive Director.
• Demonstrated success managing institutional funder portfolios and securing renewals aligned with a $25M+ organizational budget.

Institutional Partnerships and Issue Translation

• Strong understanding of the media landscape, coupled with a mastery of how digital media drives the formation of narratives around issue areas, and the ability to articulate and describe online phenomena to both "online" and "offline" stakeholders.
• Proven ability to translate complex digital media metrics, audience reach, and randomized control test proof points into compelling, persuasive narratives for funders.
• Public Presence and Movement Alignment
• Exceptional public speaking and presentation skills, with the credibility, poise, and expertise required to serve as a primary public face on national stages and at major convenings.
• Deep empathy for and personal commitment to addressing the systemic challenges facing BIPOC and low-income communities, ensuring all external relationships are consistent with organizational values around equity.
• Proven ability to champion and integrate anti-racism, distributed leadership, and abundance mindsets into external funder relationships and internal strategy.

Team Management and Distributed Operations

• Success managing, mentoring, and building capacity for senior-level directors (e.g., Dev Ops, Partnerships).
• Ability to collaborate seamlessly with peers and executive leaders while operating with the high autonomy needed to solve capacity bottlenecks.
• Prior experience navigating values-driven, mid-to-large scale non-profit environments is a plus.

Additional Details

Compensation

The salary range for this position is: $196,000 - $220,000. The Chief Partnerships Officer will also be eligible for a performance-based bonus up to $40,000. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

Location

This role operates on a fully remote basis. Candidates must reside within the continental United States. Up to 40% travel expectations to conferences, funder convenings, and in-person meetings to deepen relationships and expand visibility.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to the continuous work of being and becoming an anti-racist organization and dismantling white supremacy.

We view our racial equity commitment through an intersectional lens that includes LGBTQIA+ equality, class, ability, and other frameworks that help us understand empowerment and dismantle oppression. Anti-racism is mission-critical for Accelerate Change because racial equity is core to who we are as an organization and our progressive values.

Additionally, anti-racism is mission-critical for us because we believe our commitment to BIPOC power building must also be reflected internally in the organizational culture and programs.

Accelerate Change is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQIA+ people must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.