Children International

Job Type
Full-time
Description
All God's Children International is actively seeking a dedicated individual to serve as our Chief Growth & Marketing Officer.
The Chief Growth & Marketing Officer (CGMO) serves as AGCI's executive leader for organizational growth, audience development, constituent experience, brand strategy, and marketing effectiveness. Through these efforts, the CGMO helps expand AGCI's ability to serve vulnerable children and families around the world. Reporting to the President and serving as a member of the Executive Team, the CGMO leads enterprise-wide strategies that expand AGCI's reach, strengthen constituent relationships, and increase mission impact across its global enterprise. For purposes of this role, constituents include donors, sponsors, churches, advocates, ministry partners, community stakeholders, and other individuals and organizations engaged in AGCI's mission.
The CGMO provides strategic leadership for marketing, communications, digital engagement, brand stewardship, constituent experience, and audience development while building the systems, capabilities, and governance needed to support sustainable organizational growth. Working collaboratively with the Chief Development Officer and other executive leaders, the CGMO aligns growth initiatives with AGCI's mission, strategic priorities, and long-term organizational objectives.
Success in this role is measured through donor and constituent acquisition, engagement and retention; audience growth; brand awareness; digital engagement performance; contribution to fundraising outcomes; and the development of sustainable organizational growth capabilities.
ABOUT US
We are the world's leading child advocacy and trauma disruptor organization. For 35 years and counting, we have remained relentless in our commitment to stand up for children who need family by working across the continuum of care to dismantle systemic trauma.
Today, we are unlocking possibilities for over 123,000 children per year across the globe. Our reach has expanded across 25 countries spanning five continents. We work every day to dismantle the systemic trauma that sits at the heart of the orphan crisis that still affects over 8 million children. Thanks to God's provision, children facing the darkest realities experience powerful emotional healing every day and learn the hope of the Gospel. Because no child should be alone.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
ENTERPRISE OUTCOMES
The Chief Growth & Marketing Officer is accountable for the following enterprise outcomes:

• Organizational growth and audience expansion.
• Brand equity, reputation, and constituent trust.
• Donor and constituent acquisition, engagement, and retention.
• Constituent experience and journey performance across all touchpoints.
• Growth capability maturity and organizational capacity to support long-term mission expansion.

GROWTH LEADERSHIP

• Develop and lead AGCI's growth strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, mission objectives, and long-term sustainability.
• Build and mature the growth capability across AGCI's global enterprise, including audience development, constituent engagement, brand stewardship, communications, growth analytics, and field enablement.
• Identify opportunities to expand organizational reach, deepen engagement, and strengthen constituent relationships across key audiences.
• Ensure growth strategies are informed by audience insights, market intelligence, constituent behavior, and performance data.
• Establish scalable systems, governance practices, and operating mechanisms that support sustainable organizational growth.
• Develop enterprise growth frameworks, tools, standards, and support mechanisms that enable consistent execution across AGCI headquarters and affiliated national entities and foreign offices.

BRAND STRATEGY, COMMUNICATIONS, & CONSTITUENT EXPERIENCE

• Serve as executive steward of AGCI's brand strategy, messaging architecture, constituent experience standards, and organizational reputation.
• Establish communication governance, brand standards, and messaging frameworks that ensure consistency across the enterprise.
• Ensure constituent experiences are cohesive, compelling, and aligned across all engagement channels and touchpoints.
• Align brand, communications, content, digital engagement, and audience development strategies to support enterprise growth objectives.
• Increase organizational visibility, awareness, and engagement among priority audiences and stakeholders.

REVENUE ENABLEMENT & GROWTH PARTNERSHIP

• The Chief Development Officer maintains primary accountability for fundraising strategy and revenue generation.
• The CGMO serves as a strategic partner responsible for audience growth, constituent experience, engagement strategy, brand development, and marketing performance.
• Partner with the Chief Development Officer to strengthen constituent acquisition, donor engagement, retention, lifetime value, and long-term revenue growth.
• Ensure marketing investments, constituent experience strategies, and audience development initiatives contribute measurable organizational and fundraising outcomes.
• Align growth strategies with advancement priorities while maintaining shared accountability for supporter growth and engagement performance.
• Support enterprise planning and resource allocation decisions through growth forecasting, performance insights, and audience intelligence.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP & INTEGRATION

• Serve as a member of the Executive Team, contributing to enterprise strategy, organizational governance, operational alignment, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Partner with fellow Chief Officers to ensure growth strategies are integrated with programs, advancement, operations, finance, technology, and people strategies.
• Strengthen organizational alignment by fostering collaboration, reducing functional silos, and improving enterprise execution.
• Provide executive leadership regarding growth opportunities, constituent trends, market dynamics, and organizational performance.
• Advise the President and Executive Team on strategies that increase organizational reach, relevance, and mission impact.

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY & TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Lead and develop the marketing and growth function, ensuring alignment between enterprise strategy, governance, and execution.
• Build leadership capacity, organizational capabilities, and scalable systems that strengthen AGCI's long-term ability to grow and adapt.
• Establish performance expectations, operational standards, and accountability mechanisms that support organizational effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, data-informed decision-making, and mission-driven execution.

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

• Domestic travel is up to 10% as needed to support meetings.
• International travel up to 5% as needed.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Chief Growth & Marketing Officer provides leadership and oversight for marketing, communications, brand stewardship, constituent engagement, audience development, digital engagement, creative services, and related growth functions. The CGMO oversees and manages a department of seven employees and oversees departmental budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and performance management. The role is responsible for developing leaders, building organizational capability, establishing performance expectations, and creating scalable systems that support sustainable growth and organizational effectiveness.
GEOGRAPHIC FLEXIBILITY
The role requires proximity to a major international airport to accommodate travel and operational requirements.
Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, Organizational Leadership, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 12 or more years of progressively responsible leadership experience in marketing, growth, communications, fundraising, business development, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational growth strategies, brand development, audience expansion, and market positioning initiatives.
• Experience integrating marketing, fundraising, communications, digital engagement, and customer or constituent experience functions to achieve shared growth outcomes.
• Proven success leading teams, building organizational capabilities, and scaling systems, processes, and governance frameworks.
• Experience using data, analytics, and performance measurement to inform strategy, optimize channel performance, and drive measurable results.
• Experience working across cultures, global markets, or international organizations preferred.
• Nonprofit, humanitarian, ministry, or mission-driven leadership experience preferred.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Demonstrated executive leadership in growth strategy, marketing, brand stewardship, and organizational development.
• Expertise in audience development, constituent experience, digital engagement, constituent lifecycle strategy revenue enablement.
• Demonstrated ability to develop organizational capabilities, governance models, and operating frameworks that enable sustainable enterprise growth.
• Proven ability to develop and execute enterprise-wide growth strategies that drive constituent acquisition, engagement, retention, and organizational impact.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate data, analytics, and market intelligence into actionable strategic decisions.
• Ability to establish meaningful KPIs, measure organizational growth and marketing effectiveness, and use data to inform strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive-level decision-making and lead effectively through collaboration rather than direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across a complex, global, and matrixed organization.
• Proven success aligning diverse teams, building scalable systems, and driving organizational change and growth.
• Ability to communicate effectively across cultures and influence a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, executive presence, relationship-building, and communication capabilities.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Strategic Thinking
• Change Leadership
• Executive Presence
• Organizational Influence
• Talent Development
• Cross-Cultural Leadership
• Collaboration and Partnership
• Data-Informed Decision Making
• Mission Alignment

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business correspondence, complex reports, contracts, legal documents, and other written inquiries. Ability to write error-free business correspondence, reports, and presentations of materials. Ability to speak clearly, effectively presenting information, responding to questions from churches or religious leaders, international staff, employees, supervisors, donors/sponsors, clients, vendors, organization partners, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Requires proficient ability to plan, administer, and report budgets. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Calculates currency conversion, discounts, and interest, when needed.
COMPUTER AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
The job requires advanced basic computer skills, including logging onto systems, word processing, spreadsheet, report writing, project management, presentation creation/editing, database, use of the internet, and communication by e-mail. Requires knowledge of and use of AGCI's adoption database/software program and Donor Perfect fundraising database/software program.
REASONING ABILITY
Ability to work with and protect extremely confidential files and information and have the appropriate discernment regarding handling issues of varying complexity and sensitivity. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and can deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables. Has discretion to weigh the levity of an issue and pass it along to the appropriate party/leader within the organization, as needed.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS
Must possess a valid driver's license and the ability to supply appropriate documentation/identification to travel authorities when traveling domestically and internationally.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use stairways to climb multiple floors within an office building, use hands and fingers to keyboard or dial, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee must infrequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus, especially with frequent computer use.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the