Executive Director

Executive Director

United Way of Snohomish County

Position Description

For almost 85 years, UWSC has been working for a better Snohomish County. We are committed to listening, learning and working steadfastly to respond to the most pressing needs of our neighbors and friends. Our mission is to improve lives for families in Snohomish County by bringing people, resources, and strategy together, so that those families can live to their fullest potential for generations to come regardless of race, place, and ability.

We are searching for our next agency Executive Director, to put their visionary stamp on the growth and stabilization work that has been in progress for the last several years. This individual should be passionate about seeing families thrive, especially those with young children who face economic and racial barriers to success.

UWSC’s next Executive Director will have a track record of building and strengthening relationships with key community stakeholders including other nonprofit agencies, government partners, elected officials, and individuals who access the programs we support. The Executive Director must be willing to communicate our values of equity and integrity while navigating complex relationships with donors, funders, and community leadership.

The Executive Director will lead organizational strategy, budgeting, operational improvement, and be responsible for hiring, training, and evaluating staff. The individual will also be the lead for board management, helping to recruit, orient, and support new board members and the Executive Committee. They should be comfortable working with high-level volunteers and managing both up and down in organizational contexts.

This individual should be comfortable with ambiguity, flexible, and able to drive change. The organization is in the middle of transition, and the next leader will need to be someone who can hold space for the loss that change creates will being a cheerleader for the opportunity that such changes can bring.

We welcome candidates who:

• Demonstrate the skills, abilities, and experience needed for this role regardless of education and compensation history.
• Are inspired by our values of integrity, collaboration, innovation, equity, and outcome oriented.
• Are willing to grow in personal and professional learnings of social and racial justice.
• Demonstrate a commitment to improving outcomes for young children and their families experiencing systemic economic poverty.

Strengthen United Way’s presence and reputation in the community as a trusted partner, advocate, and leader by building positive working relationships with the board, staff, partners, government entities, funders, and the community at large.

• Oversee daily staff and program operations. Support, mentor and develop four (4) direct reports, simplify communications, and enhance productivity. Manage and develop high-performing teams of staff and volunteers setting and achieving strategic objectives.
• Increase fundraising revenue and develop strategy to generate positive operating income.
• Ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion are embodied in all programmatic work, community convenings, and board and staff policies and practices.
• Provide strategic, collaborative leadership focused on creating and implementing an innovative 3-year strategic plan.
• Assess organization opportunities and challenges that directly affect current and future program impact and communicate with key partners, staff and board as needed.
• Maintain accountability for the overall operational and fiscal integrity of the organization.
• Hold delicate balance of meeting donor needs and prioritizing a central focus on long-term family outcomes.
• Foster a positive and supportive organizational culture that improves staff morale, cohesion, and retention.

Engage board and committee members, individually and as a group, adapting historical practices to a changing environment and to thinking strategically to ensure decisions are made in the best interest of those served by UWSC.

• Actively participate in the strategic business planning process and…