Chief Executive Officer

Job Summary

Sierra Staffing Group is proud to partner with an amazing and mission-driven non-profit organization to support their search for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished leader to guide a respected organization through its next chapter, overseeing mission impact, staff leadership, financial sustainability, fundraising, and community engagement while working closely with a committed Board of Directors.

• Assures the filing of all legal and regulatory documents and monitors compliance with relevant l laws and regulations.

• Helps the Board determine values, mission, vision, and short- and long-term goals.
• Helps the Board monitor and evaluate company’s relevancy to the community, its effectiveness, and its results.
• Keeps the Board fully informed on the condition of company and on all the important factors influencing it.
• Identifies problems and opportunities and addresses them; brings those which are appropriate to the Board and/or its committees; and, facilitates discussion and deliberation.
• Informs the Board and its committees about trends, issues, problems and activities in order to facilitate policy-making. Recommends policy positions.
• Keeps informed of developments in substance use treatment, human services, not-for-profit management and governance, philanthropy and fund development.

• Provides general oversight of all activities and assures a smoothly functioning, efficient organization. Chief Executive Officer may employ a Chief Operating Officer to manage the day-to-day operations.
• Supervises the Clinical Supervisor and oversees the Clinical team and ensures that company is appropriately licensed, follows all applicable laws, and maintains appropriate compliance to operate as a substance use treatment/recovery program.
• Assures program quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of standards and controls, systems and procedures, and regular evaluation.
• Assures a work environment that recruits, retains and supports quality staff and volunteers. Assures process for selecting, development, motivating, and evaluating staff and volunteers.
• Recommends staffing and financing to the Board of Directors. In accordance with Board action, recruits personnel, negotiates professional contracts, and sees that appropriate salary structures are developed and maintained.
• Specifies accountabilities for management personnel (whether paid or volunteer) and evaluates performance regularly.

• Helps the Board articulate its own role and accountabilities and that of its committees and individual members and helps evaluate performance regularly.
• Works with the Board President and President Elect to enable the Board to fulfill its governance functions and facilitates the optimum performance by the Board, its committees and individual Board members.
• With the Board President and President Elect, focuses Board attention on long-range strategic issues.
• Manages the Board’s due diligence process to assure timely attention to core issues.
• Collaborate with the Board officers and committee chairs to foster thoughtful input and active engagement.
• Recommends volunteers to participate in the Board and its committees.

• Promotes cost-effective programs and services by maximizing efficiency while maintaining acceptable quality standards.
• Supervises the Chief Financial Officer, oversees the fiscal activities of the organization including budgeting, reporting and audits.
• Works with Board to ensure financing to support short- and long-term goals.
• Assures an effective fund development program by serving as the Chief Development Officer or hiring and supervising an individual responsible for this activity.
• Helps guide and enable the Board, its fund development committee(s) and its individual Board members to participate actively in the fund development process.
• Helps the Board design, implement and monitor a viable fundraising plan, policies and procedures.
• Participates actively in identifying, cultivating and soliciting donor prospects.
• Assu…