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About the Role

Raising The Village (RTV) is seeking a Chief Growth Officer to lead its global growth agenda, focusing on fundraising, strategic partnerships, and communications to achieve significant scale. This role is ideal for a competitive builder and strategist who can create a robust growth engine for the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own a multi-year growth strategy to scale RTV toward $200M+, grounded in market opportunity and RTV's comparative advantage.
• Define RTV's strategic approach across funders, partners, channels, geographies, and financing structures.
• Own revenue performance end-to-end, including targets, investment, pipeline, forecasting, conversion, cost to raise, risk, and reporting.
• Personally originate, shape, negotiate, and close significant funding and partnership commitments.
• Translate RTV's model, evidence, and delivery system into a clear investment case.
• Partner with Programs, Evidence, Finance, and Venn to ensure external commitments are supported by implementation capacity and data.
• Build senior relationships with funders, government leaders, technical experts, and strategic partners.
• Build a rigorous revenue operation with clear portfolio ownership, qualification standards, forecasting, decision rights, learning loops, and accountability.
• Develop institutional capabilities in prospect intelligence, proposition development, due diligence, stewardship, communications, and executive engagement.
• Build and lead a high-performing, globally distributed, and cross-cultural team.
• Strengthen RTV's market position among global development leaders.
• Serve as a senior external champion for RTV in high-impact forums and relationships.
• Integrate communications and brand with growth strategy to build trust and support.

Requirements

• Demonstrated record of driving step-change revenue growth in a complex, mission-driven organization.
• Experience scaling strategy, teams, and institutional capabilities.
• Direct, personal experience originating, shaping, and closing large or strategically important funding or partnership commitments.
• Strong strategic and commercial judgment to identify and evaluate growth opportunities.
• Proven ability to build and manage a disciplined revenue pipeline, including forecasting, qualification, conversion, resource allocation, risk management, and accountability.
• Executive-level ability to connect fundraising, partnerships, communications, and market positioning into a coherent go-to-market strategy.
• Experience building and leading high-performing, distributed, cross-cultural teams through significant growth and change.
• Credibility and executive presence with boards, senior funders, government leaders, strategic partners, and technical experts.
• Exceptional written, verbal, listening, and public-speaking skills.
• Ability to translate complex evidence and technical information into a compelling case for action.
• Demonstrated humility, resilience, curiosity, sound judgment, and high standards in fast-changing environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 30%, including regular travel to RTV program countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Skills

• Fundraising
• Strategic Partnerships
• Communications
• Market Positioning
• Go-to-market strategy
• Revenue generation
• Pipeline management
• Forecasting
• Negotiation
• Relationship building
• Team leadership
• Cross-cultural team management
• Public speaking
• Translating complex information

Location

• Toronto
• New York
• Remote (Eastern Standard Time zone)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid
• International travel required

Experience Level

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in fundraising, business development, strategic partnerships, growth, or a related field
• At least 7–10 years in executive leadership roles

Education Level

• Master’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience

About the Company

• Raising The Village (RTV) is one of the fastest-growing organizations in international development, combining evidence, operating discipline, and ambitious scale.
• Over the past three years, RTV has grown from a $15M annual budget to one nearing $70M.
• This year, RTV will enroll one million people; its next stage aims to reach six million people annually across Sub-Saharan Africa and build toward a $200M+ organization.

Equal Opportunity

• RTV is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace.
• We comply with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
• Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the employment process.