Executive Director; PPF

Headquartered in Santa Barbara with a second location in Santa Maria, California, Pacific Pride is the oldest and largest LGBTQ+ Center between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Initially established as a behavioral health counselling and referral center for gay men and lesbians, Pacific Pride currently provides a dynamic range of LGBTQ+ health, prevention, and social service programs to more than 10,000 people each year, representing the full diversity of Santa Barbara’s LGBTQ+ population.

Today’s Pacific Pride is a vital and integral part of Santa Barbara’s diverse growing LGBTQ+ community and a trusted provider of high-quality, culturally competent services not available anywhere else in the county.

Through advocacy, outreach, education, and community events, Pacific Pride strives to advance LGBTQ+ social justice and to create a climate where all LGBTQ+ people feel safe and supported. Pacific Pride offers counseling and mental health services for individuals, couples, and families, as well as extensive programming for queer youth, elders, and families. Pacific Pride also provides direct Health and Prevention services, including HIV/Hepatitis C testing and education, PrEP education, opioid overdose prevention services, and the only syringe exchange program in Santa Barbara County.

In addition, Pacific Pride leads LGBTQ+ competency trainings for schools, businesses, government agencies, and other direct service providers.

All Pacific Pride’s programs and services are available to anyone in need and are provided with one clear goal: to build a community where everyone is treated with respect and full equality regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status. For more information on programs and services please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

Pacific Pride has a current revenue budget of $1.2 million and a full-time staff of nine who work alongside nine part-time staff and counseling interns and numerous volunteers. The organization is supported financially through grants and contracts, individual donations, corporate sponsor ships, and an active calendar of special events. In addition to a yearly Proud Prom for more than 250 LGBTQ+ young people, the bi-annual Royal Ball gala, and a yearly Halloween benefit, Pacific Pride also produces Santa Barbara’s annual Pride Festival which draws nearly 4,000 LGBTQ people, allies, and supporters from throughout Southern and Central California.

Pacific Pride is governed by a 10-person, volunteer Board of Directors and actively partners with more than 60 different government, education, and nonprofit agencies to meet the ongoing and emerging needs of a diverse LGBTQ+ population. Pacific Pride aims to create a thriving and visible LGBTQ+ community and to prevent the transmission of HIV and HEP-C in Santa Barbara County.

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REPORTING

Reports to the Board of Directors. Oversees a full-time staff of nine, as well as part-time and counseling staff, interns, and volunteers.

The Executive Director will assume day-to-day operating and oversight responsibility for Pacific Pride Foundation, including Organizational Leadership, Resource Development, Community Building and Outreach, Financial Management, Staff Management, Program Management, and Board Relations. In partnership with the Board of Directors, the E.D. will oversee fundraising, development and refinement of service and advocacy programs, budgeting and financial planning, contract and grant compliance, and staffing/recruitment.

This position requires a compassionate and visionary leader with the skills and experience to lead Pacific Pride to new levels of growth, visibility, and impact. A primary accountability of the new E.D. will be to implement a new, three-year strategic plan that aims to establish Pacific Pride as the recognized leader on LGBTQ+ and HIV prevention issues in Santa Barbara County.

She/He/They will lead Pacific Pride with a particular focus on the following:

• Ensuring financial sustainability through growth and diversification of fundraising programs, capacity, and results
• Raising visibility,…