PAAM Hires New Chief Development Officer

Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)

Friday, April 26, 2024

Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is thrilled to announce its new hire for the position of Chief Development Officer: James Robertson will begin in May.

Over his career, James has focused on building resilient, community-facing organizations that have the resources to grow in reach and effectiveness to deliver on their missions. Since 2016, he has served an independent advisor, consulting on fundraising, communications, and management strategy with nonprofit clients, including an 18-month development contract with the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod in Provincetown.

From 2010 to 2016, he served as Country Director of India HIV/AIDS Alliance in New Delhi, diversifying its funding streams, developing new relationships with individual, government, corporate, and foundation donors, and leading the organization to become the largest nonprofit provider of HIV services in the country. Earlier in his career, he worked at JSI in Boston, at the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in San Francisco, and at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge. Immediately following college, he taught art and art history at the Putney School in Putney, Vermont. During business school, he co-founded Reaching Out (ROMBA), the annual national conference for LGBTQ+ MBA students and alumni, now funded by more than 100 corporate partners and supporting for more than $5 million in student scholarships each year. 

Since 2020, James has been based full-time in Provincetown, where he enjoys open water swimming, dog parenting, and spending time with his husband Rick. He serves on the boards of Outer Cape Health Services and The Lily House and as a committee member for Yale School of Management’s Driving Purpose Capital Campaign. He has an undergraduate degree in Visual Studies (Art/Art History) from Dartmouth College, an MBA (Nonprofit Strategy) from Yale School of Management, and an MPH (International Health) from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.