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Executive Director

Northwest Arkansas

Role: Executive Director

Organization: National Nonprofit

Location: Must live within 50 miles of Bentonville, AR

Category: Full-Time/Exempt

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RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide strategic leadership, creating and executing fundraising strategies to reach position specific annual fundraising goals from corporations; works to grow additional sources of revenue

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Establish effective Community Leadership Board (CLB) to achieve organizational goals and objectives

  • Enable and support effective volunteer leadership recruitment, stewardship, and engagement

  • Create a shared vision and sense of ownership and accountability with volunteers and staff

  • Support the development of a high-performing CLB by applying the organization's Targeted Recruitment Process, an ongoing process of identifying, recruiting, and activating an influential, financially strong and diverse volunteer leadership base to champion the success of the organization

  • In partnership with the CLB, establish business plan to achieve organizational strategic priorities, drive aggressive revenue growth, and execute the mission in the community

  • Maintain effective communication with the CLB to inform of progress, opportunities, issues, and challenges and establish gap plans to course-correct and achieve financial targets

  • Provide and guide staff support for all CLB committees to enable committee success

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Demonstrate Leadership and Effective Management

  • Model organizational leadership competencies to staff. Set high goals for personal and team accomplishments; tenaciously work to meet or exceed goals while seeking continuous improvement

  • Align staff resources to maximize performance

  • Develop annual performance expectations with staff that includes goals, objectives, inputs, and outcomes

  • Communicate effectively and inspire others to high performance; promote accountability; remove barriers; support others to be creative and action-oriented; anticipate needs before they appear

  • Manage staff in a manner that supports a productive, professionally competent work force in an environment respectful of personal well-being and cultural diversity

  • Proactively inform and assure understanding of Area activities and outcomes with the Regional Director and others as appropriate

  • Continuously work to assure Area alignment with the Region, Division, and National strategic direction and established policies and procedures

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Increase Area Revenue

  • Develop and drive a focus for exponential revenue growth

  • Establish strategies and tactics to achieve and exceed revenue targets

  • Manage personal portfolio of high priority corporate and major gift prospects

  • Apply best practices and innovative ideas to optimize special events fundraising

  • Build diversified revenue streams beyond special events including corporate partnerships, foundations, retail campaigns, individual/major gifts and clubs and organizations funding

  • Collaborate with colleagues across the Region and organization to identify and maximize opportunities across the organization

  • Identify and steward community foundations and state grants to fund the work of the organization

  • Ensure effective stewardship strategies are deployed to maintain and further engage donors

  • Develop annual budget, monitor expenditures and income, and forecast financial performance accurately

  • Provide periodic financial summary statements to the CLB

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Position the organization as a leader in disease prevention and management

  • Develop a thorough understanding of organizational, community, and key stakeholder priorities, needs, and barriers to identify appropriate partners and form alliances that significantly accelerate the development of strategic partnerships that facilitate the distribution and implementation of the organization's education and programs into the communities being served

  • Position the organization as the key voice on strategic task forces and disease coalitions at the state and local level as well as with heads of important civic organizations and faith leaders

  • Identify, engage, and integrate community partners to deliver the organization's community-based programs as developed by the Scientific, Medical, and Mission Division

  • Create an advocacy strategy and build relationships with state and local government officials

  • Develop effective and ongoing relationships with media

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QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8-10 years of non-profit management

  • Established success in fundraising and non-profit leadership

  • Proven record of success management and revenue growth

  • Knowledge of product marketing/sales concepts

  • Outcome-driven with ability to respond to changing circumstances and priorities

  • Ability to manage and motivate groups and individuals

  • Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

  • Strong market, community, and constituent perspective

  • Proficient in computer-based information systems

  • Ability to work some nights and weekends

  • Must live within 50 miles of Bentonville, AR

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It is the policy of the organization to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  

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To apply or inquire, please send your CV via email to: recruiter@brightstreetsolutions.com

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