Executive Director

Stonewall Columbus seeks an experienced, strategic, and community-centered Executive Director (ED) to guide the organization through its next chapter. Building on more than four decades of advocacy, service, and community leadership, the ED will help clarify Stonewall’s year-round role, strengthen its organizational foundation, and deepen its impact across Central Ohio. The next leader will inherit significant assets, including a committed staff and Board, an established Pride celebration, a highly regarded community center, and strong regional relationships.

Working with the Board of Trustees, staff, and community, the Executive Director will translate Stonewall’s mission and strategic vision into focused priorities, measurable goals, and shared accountability. They will strengthen internal communication, support staff development, and cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, and trauma-informed workplace. The ED will also enhance the financial, operational, human resources, compliance, and performance-management systems needed to support effective programs and long-term sustainability.

As Stonewall’s principal ambassador, advocate, and fundraiser, the Executive Director will build authentic relationships across the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. They will deepen engagement with Black, transgender, and other historically marginalized communities while cultivating donors, corporations, public officials, funders, and nonprofit partners. The leader will strengthen Stonewall’s position as a trusted convener, connector, and collaborative partner within Central Ohio’s LGBTQ+ ecosystem.

• Provide clear and steady organizational leadership, ensuring that Stonewall’s mission, programs, operations, and priorities remain responsive to the changing needs of Central Ohio’s LGBTQ+ community.
• Partner with the Board, staff, and community to clarify Stonewall’s year-round role and translate its strategic vision into focused priorities, implementation plans, measurable goals, and clear accountability.
• Assess organizational capacity and establish realistic priorities that balance innovation and growth with staff well-being, operational effectiveness, and long-term sustainability.
• Recruit, develop, support, and retain a talented and diverse staff; establish clear roles and performance expectations; and cultivate a trauma-informed workplace grounded in trust, transparency, inclusion, and accountability.
• Oversee Stonewall’s finances, administration, human resources, programs, facilities, technology, risk management, and organizational systems, ensuring effective operations and responsible stewardship.
• Develop the annual operating budget for Board approval; provide timely and understandable financial reporting; maintain appropriate internal controls; and ensure compliance with grants, contracts, policies, laws, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate programs and community impact using community input, participant information, and outcome data. Determine where Stonewall should provide services directly and where partnerships or referrals can produce greater impact.
• Strengthen and diversify revenue through individual and major-gift fundraising, institutional giving, corporate partnerships, sponsor ships, government support, earned revenue, and other mission-aligned strategies.
• Center inclusion, diversity, equity, and accountability (IDEA) throughout Stonewall’s culture, programs, partnerships, fundraising, communications, and allocation of resources.
• Serve as Stonewall’s principal spokesperson, ambassador, fundraiser, and advocate, representing the organization with community members, donors, businesses, the media, public officials, funders, and institutional…