Nonprofit HR

Chief Operating Officer

Nonprofit HR

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Directly leading the day-to-day operations of all functional teams that provide programs, products, and services to the general public, the full field of camp, and to our members.
  • Effectively driving the association’s operational growth by setting ambitious goals, establishing a strong culture of accountability, leading innovation that strengthens ACA’s value proposition, and creating an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Being an innovative, thoughtful, communicative, and productive member of the ACA leadership team.
  • Exhibiting strong organizational leadership to ensure ACA achieves its goals and objectives while being a strategic thought partner to the CEO.
  • Providing recommendations to the CEO regarding the growth and alignment of staff resources required to meet and exceed the strategic objectives of the organization.
  • Overseeing internal workflows and organizational development; ensuring communication and information flow throughout the organization, including with affiliate organizations, is efficiently managed to provide all employees and managers with current, pertinent, job-related information.
  • Ensuring that ACA’s practices and resources reflect an inclusive, welcoming, and culturally responsive environment and increasing ACA’s diversity of representation across the organization.
  • Fostering a relentless focus on aligning ACA’s programs, products, and services to the needs of the field of camp, keeping abreast of emerging needs and challenges.
  • Providing leadership to ensure effective hiring, training, motivation, and development of ACA staff and operational teams.
  • Given that ACA’s business model is built on volunteer support and leadership, creating and maintaining robust systems to recruit, train, support, lead, and recognize ACA’s local, regional, and national operational volunteers and volunteer committees.
  • Establish strategic internal and external communications systems to effectively drive understanding and achieve ACA strategic goals and objectives, incorporating marketing tactics and initiatives as required.
  • Representing ACA to key collaborators, partners, and allied organizations, building key relationships to further ACA’s strategic goals and objectives.
  • Along with the CEO and CFO, setting budget priorities and leading the development and implementation of ACA’s operational budget.
  • Ensuring that all association operations comply with federal, state, local, and/or company policies and regulations.
  • Keeps up to date on overall activities of ACA teams, identifying problem areas and taking corrective actions as needed.
  • Performing other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience; MBA or advanced degree in a related discipline preferred.
  • 10+ years of senior organizational leadership experience
  • Deep professional knowledge and experience in the camp field preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience in operational leadership and organizational management, including finance, budgeting, talent management, program development and delivery, and organizational systems design.
  • Proven ability to develop and effectively lead teams to achieve results focused on strategic imperatives and stakeholders’ needs.
  • Strategic vision and agility – able to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into the organizational plan; ability to translate strategy into action.
  • Demonstrable experience working with and managing volunteers in a member-based association.
  • Change management - experience and knowledge of best practices in executing transformation and change management throughout an organization.
  • Ability to effectively build organization and staff capacity, developing a top-notch workforce and the processes that ensure the association runs smoothly.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, and other relevant software.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
organizational managementoperational leadershipfinancebudgetingtalent managementprogram developmentorganizational systems designchange managementstrategic planningteam leadership
Soft Skills
organizational leadershipcommunicationstrategic visionagilityrelationship buildinginnovationaccountabilityproblem-solvingcultural responsivenesscontinuous learning
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA or advanced degree