Nonprofit HR

Executive Director

Nonprofit HR

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $133,200 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Provide visionary leadership and sustainable strategic direction for DanceSafe alongside the executive leadership team and board of directors, shaping a future that ensures mission fidelity while aligning infrastructure, strategy, and culture with DanceSafe’s mission, vision, values, principles, and organizational goals.
  • Lead DanceSafe through phases of organizational change efforts, growth, and evolution, aligning infrastructure, strategy, and culture with DanceSafe’s mission, vision, and goals.
  • Serve as a visible and trusted ambassador of DanceSafe, representing the organization’s mission, values, and harm reduction principles in public, media, and movement spaces.
  • Continue to cultivate DanceSafe’s role as both a public health leader and cultural participant, bridging community care with nightlife and festival culture.
  • Embody and promote accountability and alignment with DanceSafe’s cultural expectations, ensuring all volunteers and employees actively practice and embody our mission, vision, and values.
  • Uphold our community-centered approach, ideally drawing from experience with chapter-based organizational models.
  • Demonstrate organizational agility, responding and adapting to evolving needs, landscapes, and opportunities within the harm reduction landscape.
  • Build and operationalize comprehensive crisis response and risk mitigation plans, ensuring alignment across leadership, staff, volunteers, and contractors for proactive and coordinated action.
  • Lead financial planning, including forecasting, cash flow, scenario modeling, and cost modeling
  • Oversee annual and multi-year budgeting processes to support strategic priorities and long-term sustainability
  • Lead fundraising, donor relations, and diversification of revenue streams
  • Oversee HR systems and internal operations; ensure compliance; lead talent acquisition and retention
  • Represent DanceSafe externally to media, coalitions, conferences; advocate for harm reduction; build partnerships

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years in an executive leadership role, with at least 7 years as an Executive Director role with a successful and active track record: Leading nonprofit organizational growth—including expansion of programs, team, infrastructure, impact, and budget—with measurable, mission-aligned outcomes.
  • Stewarding successful non-profit fiscal strategy, operations, and health.
  • Fundraising, campaigns, donor programs, and securing large & major gifts
  • Program design and evaluation, with a strong ability to use data and community insight to inform decision-making and drive impact.
  • Building, managing, and mentoring high-performing, cross-functional teams in a remote or distributed environment.
  • overseeing and optimizing impactful digital infrastructure and omni-channel digital initiatives, including websites, tools and platforms (CMS, social & digital media, paid & non-paid marketing & communications, analytics & optimization, donation/payment processing, etc.), e-commerce systems, CRMs, and UI/UX strategies.
  • Exceptional emotional intelligence, cultural fluency, and cultural humility with high capacity to build trust, psychological safety, navigate conflict, and foster an inclusive, trauma-informed organizational culture.
  • Experience leading or working within a chapter-based organizational model.
  • Board Member experience in nonprofit and/or private organizations.
  • Direct experience in drug policy, public health, music industry, and/or harm reduction.
  • Proficiency with Google Suite, ClickUp, Slack, AirTable, Notion, Miro, and other remote office and collaboration tools