Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BizLeadhers is an organization focused on empowering women entrepreneurs, and they are seeking a Chief Growth Officer to drive holistic growth across income, enrollment, and strategic partnerships. This senior leadership role involves architecting a cohesive growth strategy that ensures funding and attracts high-potential entrepreneurs into their programs.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end growth strategy across fundraising, partnerships, and sales/enrollment
- Build a predictable income engine combining donor funding + program participation
- Align mission, brand, and growth execution into a unified narrative
- Establish a high-performance culture of accountability across growth functions
- Develop and execute a diversified fundraising strategy (individual giving, corporate sponsorships, foundations, events, earned income)
- Build and steward relationships with donors, corporate partners, and ecosystem stakeholders
- Translate impact into compelling funding narratives and proposals
- Activate board and leadership in fundraising efforts and network expansion
- Oversee cohort enrollment strategy and execution
- Build and optimize a scalable enrollment funnel (lead generation → conversion → onboarding)
- Set and drive enrollment targets and revenue goals
- Ensure consistent pipeline of qualified women entrepreneurs (SBEs)
- Guide development of enrollment playbooks, conversion strategies, and outreach models
- Partner with marketing and CX to convert engagement into enrollment
- Identify and activate new growth channels and regional opportunities
- Ensure strong alignment between: Building awareness (marketing/events), Conversion (enrollment), Retention & advocacy (CX)
- Scale BizLeadhers’ presence as a high-value entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Lead and mentor a distributed growth team, including: Director of Growth, Fundraising / Partnerships leads
- Serve as a visible growth champion across the organization
- Enable leadership team and board to contribute to growth outcomes
- Shape and refine BizLeadhers’ value proposition
- Ensure consistency across: Sales messaging, Donor narratives, Partnership pitches
- Leverage entrepreneur success stories to drive both funding and enrollment
- Define and track core growth KPIs: Income (fundraising + earned), Enrollment and cohort fill rates, Conversion metrics, Partnership pipeline
- Establish lightweight systems for reporting, forecasting, and accountability
- Provide regular updates to CEO and Leadership Team
Skills
- Senior leader with experience across growth, fundraising, or partnerships
- Proven ability to build and scale revenue or growth functions
- Experience leading remote or volunteer-driven teams
- Strategic thinker with strong execution orientation
- Skilled in both relationship-building (donors/partners) and conversion (enrollment)
- Strong storyteller with ability to connect mission → impact → value
- Data-driven with experience managing funnels, pipelines, and performance metrics
- Deep commitment to women's economic empowerment
- Builder mentality—thrives in 0→1 and scaling environments
- Comfortable balancing ambiguity with accountability
- Energized by impact + measurable growth outcomes
- Background in startups, accelerators, incubators, or founder ecosystems strongly preferred
Company Overview
BizLeadhers is on a mission to empower small business entrepreneurs (SBEs) in underserved communities throughout the U.S. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in New York, NY, US, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.bizleadhers.org.