Job Title: Chief Advancement Officer
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Marin County
Salary: $140,000-$200,000
Job Summary
Reporting to CEO, Richard Raya, and serving as a senior organizational leader, the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) will lead MPPâs fundraising and external engagement strategy. The CAO will grow and diversify revenue across major gifts, institutional philanthropy, public funding, and public-private partnerships while strengthening MPPâs external presence.
The CAO will personally cultivate and solicit donors, manage a high-value pipeline, activate the CEO and Board, sharpen MPPâs story, and build the systems and team needed for sustained growth. Over time, the CAO will have the opportunity to further shape and build the advancement team as resources and organizational capacity grow.
This is a rare opportunity to help shape how place-based systems change is financed. As MPP turns significant national investment and neighborhood-led plans into a new generation of coordinated action, the CAO will create funding pathways that connect community priorities with local, state, and national capital. The successful candidate will help set a standard for how holistic community plans attract durable investment and position Marin as a model for communities pursuing generational gains in educational opportunity.
Full Job Description
Chief Advancement Officer
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Status: Full-time, Exempt
Location: San Rafael, CA / Hybrid
About Marin Promise Partnership
Marin Promise Partnership (MPP) is a countywide, cross-sector Cradle-to-Career partnership working to ensure every child in Marin can reach their full educational potential. As a backbone organization rather than a direct-service provider, MPP brings together youth and family leaders, community organizations, funders, educators, and public agencies around shared goals, data-driven learning, and community-led systems change from early childhood through college and career.
MPP is part of the StriveTogether Cradle-to-Career Network and has been recognized as a Systems Transformation community. In 2026, Marin was one of three communities nationally selected for a significant multi-year investment to deepen neighborhood-based strategies. MPP is now seeking a senior advancement leader to turn this momentum into durable resources, relationships, and visibility.
The Opportunity
Reporting to CEO, Richard Raya, and serving as a senior organizational leader, the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) will lead MPPâs fundraising and external engagement strategy. The CAO will grow and diversify revenue across major gifts, institutional philanthropy, public funding, and public-private partnerships while strengthening MPPâs external presence.
The CAO will personally cultivate and solicit donors, manage a high-value pipeline, activate the CEO and Board, sharpen MPPâs story, and build the systems and team needed for sustained growth. Over time, the CAO will have the opportunity to further shape and build the advancement team as resources and organizational capacity grow.
This is a rare opportunity to help shape how place-based systems change is financed. As MPP turns significant national investment and neighborhood-led plans into a new generation of coordinated action, the CAO will create funding pathways that connect community priorities with local, state, and national capital. The successful candidate will help set a standard for how holistic community plans attract durable investment and position Marin as a model for communities pursuing generational gains in educational opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
Grow and diversify revenue
-Deliver a multi-year advancement strategy that grows and diversifies revenue, with clear goals, priorities, performance measures, and accountability for results.
-Build and personally manage a high-value major-gifts portfolio that expands MPPâs base of individual supporters and converts relationships into sustained investment.
-Position and successfully market MPPâs community-led plans to local, state, and national funders and mission-aligned investors, securing philanthropic, public, and blended capital for strategies designed to advance educational equity.
Mobilize leadership and relationships
-Partner with the CEO, Board, and Development Committee to expand MPPâs network, open doors, and build a shared culture of fundraising leadership.
-Increase and deepen MPPâs relationships with chambers of commerce, philanthropic and civic leaders, policymakers, community partners, local investors, and the StriveTogether network, building support for place-based, community-led systems change.
-In close strategic partnership with the CEO, grow MPPâs profile and influence across Marin, the Bay Area, and the national place-based field.
Strengthen story and visibility
-Shape a distinctive external narrative that makes MPPâs systems-change work clear and compelling, positioning Marinâs community-led approach as a model worthy of investment.
-Lead integrated advancement communications so donor materials, presentations, events, and outreach build confidence in MPPâs strategy, demonstrate impact, and inspire investment.
-Build a strong development function
-Build a disciplined, data-informed development function that strengthens pipeline management, forecasting, grant management, stewardship, and revenue reviewâand enables consistent growth.
-Equip the CEO, Board, and leadership team with accurate, actionable insights to guide relationship strategy, resource decisions, and revenue performance.
-Deploy staff and other resources to the highest-impact opportunities and build the advancement team as revenue and organizational capacity grow.
The Ideal Candidate
MPP welcomes candidates with different combinations of experience. Strong candidates will bring many of the following:
-Significant senior-level experience in fundraising, advancement, philanthropy, or external affairs, including a demonstrated record of personally closing significant major gifts.
-Success developing and executing fundraising strategies across individual, institutional, and other revenue streams.
-Experience building donor pipelines, systems, and operating rhythms that turn relationships into sustainable revenue.
-Strong experience partnering with a CEO and engaging a Board as active fundraising leaders.
-Institutional fundraising experience; familiarity with public funding, government, policy, or public-private partnerships is strongly preferred.
-Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills across donors, community leaders, public officials, and partners.
-Strategic judgment, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a willingness to execute hands-on.
-Commitment to educational equity and community partnership; experience with place-based work, collective impact, systems change, or the StriveTogether model is a plus. Familiarity with Marin County or the Bay Area philanthropic and civic landscape is also a plus.
Compensation, Benefits & Work Environment
-This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.
-Recommended salary range: $140,000 – $200,000 annually, commensurate with experience and expertise, plus a benefits package that includes health and dental coverage and retirement with a 5% employer match.
-MPP offers a flexible hybrid work environment, currently averaging approximately three days in person and two days working remotely. The role will require some flexibility for donor and partner meetings, events and occasional evening or weekend commitments.
How to Apply:
Please send an updated resume and cover letter (1pg each) to Cameron Hunter, Marin Promise Partnershipâs COO, at cameron@marinpromisepartnership.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Marin Promise Partnership is an equal opportunity employer, hiring and promoting staff and providing equity training to individuals without regard to race, creed, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age or physical ability. Women, underrepresented minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.