As a Chief Advancement Officer, you will have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of women, children, and their families throughout Minnesota. Your passion to provide client focused care and willingness to be a team player makes all the difference in fulfilling our mission and philosophy of care by breaking the cycle of addiction and trauma.

The CAO plays an important role in our non-profit organization. As a member of the senior executive team, the CAO will be responsible for planning and implementing strategies to secure donors and contributions in support of the organization, provide oversight of fund and grant development programs, contribute to strategic planning, administer capital campaigns, and assuring development and maintenance of appropriate systems to fund development including donor management, research and cultivation, gift processing and recognition.

The CAO should be a competent fundraiser and an excellent advancement specialist in a non-profit organization or a similar environment. The individual is expected to translate broad goals into achievable steps, help set and manage appropriate expectations, handle detailed, complex concepts and problems, and plan and implement programs.

Comprehensive management skills and experience are required including short and long-term planning, evaluation, directing and motivating staff, oral and written communication skills, marketing and financial management, values clarification, organizational behavior and development, and governance. The position requires demonstrated experience in managing and implementing a comprehensive fund development program and producing charitable contributions. The individual is expected to be a highly competent enabler of staff. The individual is also expected to have demonstrated experience and confidence in asking people to contribute time and funding.

If this sounds like you, keep reading because you might be the person we are looking for!

By joining the Wayside team, you will become part of an ethical, compassionate, innovative team that works together to empower women, children, and families in our community. Wayside values diversity and inclusion and we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you required accommodations during the interview process.

Why you should work with Wayside:

Wayside has three programs to help women break the cycle of addiction and trauma.

Wayside Women’s Treatment Center provides residential substance use disorder and mental health treatment services for women who face the greatest challenges of achieving long-term sobriety. Residential treatment includes addressing substance use and mental health disorders and wraparound services including housing, health, employment, and parenting.

Wayside Family Treatment Center maintains the family unit by welcoming women who are pregnant and mothers with children into treatment to prevent separation. We receive services for addiction, parenting, understanding how their alcohol or substance use contributes to Adverse Childhood Experiences, and improving their relationship skills to ultimately break the generational transmission of risk.

Wayside Wellness Outpatient Center provides outpatient, intensive outpatient, and preventative care of women. Our programming meets the needs of women at any stage of their journey.

What you will do:

• Provides comprehensive oversight of all the organization’s fund development activities, manages the day to-day operations of the development function, and monitors adequacy of activities through coordination with staff, appropriate committees, and governing body.
• Ensures establishment of and compliance with the organization’s own fund development and philanthropic principles, policies, and procedures
• Assures sound fiscal operation of development function including timely, accurate and comprehensive development of charitable contributions income and expense budgets, reporting, monitoring, and implementation.
• Assures development and writing of foundation, corporate and government proposals, and solicitation materials.
• Assures proper planning including goal setting, strategy identification, benchmarking, and evaluation to support fund development.
• Establish a balanced mix of donor sources and fundraising programs to attract and retain donors.
• Establish performance measures, monitor results, and evaluate the efficacy of fund development programs.
• Maintain accountability and ensure compliance with all regulations and laws, as well as the code of ethics for fundraising professionals.
• Keeps informed of developments in philanthropy and fund development as well as the non-profit sector; informs the chief executive officer, development committee(s) and board on current trends, issues, problems, and activities to facilitate policy making. Recommends policy positions concerning fund development.
• Helps develop a balanced funding mix of donor sources and solicitation programs tailored to the needs of the organization that will enable it to attract, retain and motivate donors and fundraising volunteers.

Benefits:

Benefits effective first of the month following date of hire.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
• Employer paid $50,000 life insurance policy.
• Voluntary life insurance
• Generous PTO plan starting first pay period.
• 8 paid holidays
• Floating holidays
• 403(b) retirements savings with agency match after one year of employment
• Participation in the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) through Department of Education
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Compensation: $100,000-125,000

Schedule:

Hybrid work arrangement. Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week, day-time hours.

Sound like a good fit? A few requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, business, or related field
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of advancement & fundraising experience; 8 years or more preferred
• Proven track record of success in fundraising.
• Experience planning and administering capital campaigns.
• Experience managing and leading a team.
• Energetic, forward-thinking, and creative with high ethical standards
• Strong attention to detail required.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and possessing exceptional public speaking skills with various stakeholders, community organizers, and community partners.
• Must be able to pass a Minnesota DHS background study.
• Ability to pass a motor vehicle check – no DUIs within the last 3 years.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

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