Executive Director

American Red Cross

Chapter Executive Director leading community engagement for American Red Cross. Facilitating teams, managing relationships, and achieving regional goals.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeSan Antonio • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $76,000 - $89,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Chapter Executive Director (ED) serves as the primary community facing leader and facilitator for the American Red Cross at the chapter level.
As a facilitative meta-leader, the ED, in partnership with functional supervisors, convenes, aligns, and empowers cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver core services, deploy secondary services where needed most, and strengthen community resilience.
The ED represents the organization publicly, leads collaborative chapter planning with and alongside the community, and stewards strategic relationships to achieve regional program, revenue, volunteer recruitment, Board and community engagement goals.
Participate as a member of the Regional Leadership Team to support achievement of regional program, revenue, volunteer recruitment & engagement, blood collection, and community engagement goals.
Lead the chapter planning process and drive progress toward plan objectives.
Use data and community voice to prioritize where secondary services are deployed to close gaps, strengthen resilience, and improve equity of access to Red Cross services.
Lead the chapter in supporting the achievement of the region’s revenue targets – Meet the assigned individual fundraising target which includes, Meet the annual chapter board members’ give and get campaign goals, Maintain assigned donor accounts as defined by the Regional Executive and CDO.
Actively participating in influencing fundraising in conjunction with the Chief Development Officer.
In partnership with the CDO, recruit, develop, and support philanthropy committee members who have philanthropic influence in the community and will actively play a leadership role in fundraising.
Manage a portfolio of strategic relationships: local elected officials, key community leaders & stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Four-year college degree (BS/BA) in Business, Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Finance or non-profit administration or equivalent experience required.
Prefer Master’s degree in the field of community organization, public or business administration or non-profit management.
Minimum of 5 years related experience.
Demonstrated ability to exercise good and timely judgment in complex situations.
Demonstrated ability for strong communications and influencing skills along with public speaking and writing.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement fundraising strategies.
Demonstrated ability to build sustain community relationships/partnerships.
Proven experience in influencing others and building relationships.
Influential Leadership experience is a must!
Proficient with MS Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Familiarity with federal state and local employment laws.
Knowledge of Salesforce is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental Vision plans
Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
PTO: Starting 15 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
401K with 6% match
Paid Family Leave
Employee Assistance
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

fundraising strategiescommunity organizationpublic administrationnon-profit managementbusiness administrationcommunicationsmarketingpublic relationsdata analysisequity of access

Soft Skills

influencing skillsstrong communicationpublic speakingwritingjudgment in complex situationsrelationship buildingleadershipcollaborationcommunity engagementstrategic thinking