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