# Chief External Affairs Officer

Purpose Common Future is seeking a Chief External Affairs Officer to serve as a senior executive leader responsible for building and sustaining the financial foundation and brand reputation that makes our mission possible. This is a pivotal role at a pivotal moment: as the landscape for equity-focused organizations grows increasingly complex and the need for durable, flexible funding becomes more urgent, Common Future needs a bold, relationship-driven leader who can match the ambition of our programmatic work with an equally ambitious funding and communications strategy. The Chief External Affairs Officer will own Common Future's revenue strategy across institutional philanthropy, individual donors, capital raising, and emerging revenue streams, developing a business model that supports both organizational sustainability and economic independence. Success in the role includes owning a $10M total annual fundraising goal, which includes $6 - 7M in operations and $3M in investment capital. The CEAO will hold a personal portfolio of funder and investor relationships, including high-net-worth and big-bet philanthropic prospects, and will be an active and visible presence in the field, t

- **Id**: 520572
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/common-future-chief-external-affairs-officer>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oakland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-30T22:50:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:41:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 103
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10096
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nonprofits & Foundations

## Company

- **Id**: 9001
- **Name**: Common Future
- **Domain**: commonfuture.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/common-future>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 162509
- **Max**: 188861
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 188861

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 102

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-08T00:26:11Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.5
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 102
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 188861
- **Is top pay**: no

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