Executive Director

Pay Rate: $70,000 – subject to skillset, documented results, experience and overall fit

Founded in 1972, Wolf Park is a nonprofit research, education, and conservation organization in Battle Ground,
Indiana. For more than 50 years, Wolf Park has advanced understanding and respect for wolves and other native
species through behavioral research, public education, conservation, and exceptional animal care. The Park cares
for wolves, bison, foxes, and a turtle on more than 40 acres and is recognized for science-based cooperative care
and behavioral management that allow animals to voluntarily participate in husbandry and medical care.

Wolf Park is seeking an Executive Director to lead its next era. This is not simply an administrative leadership role.
The Executive Director will be responsible for strengthening the organization financially, developing its people,
transforming the Park and visitor experience, expanding fundraising and corporate partnerships, building
volunteerism, and ensuring that Wolf Park operates at consistently high professional standards while protecting the
animal-care practices and research legacy that make the organization distinctive.

• Leadership, Culture & Employee Development
• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing leadership team and staff organization with clear goals,
  accountability, feedback, and professional-development opportunities.
• Directly lead the Director of Animal Care, Director of Development & Engagement, Maintenance
  Coordinator, and part-time Behavioral Enrichment & Training Manager.
• Create a culture of collaboration, ownership, transparency, continuous improvement, safety, and respect.
• Establish meaningful performance-management, compensation, succession, and employee-development
  practices.
• Ensure departments work as one Wolf Park rather than as independent functions.
• Ensure consistent administration of organizational employment practices, personnel policies, employee
  records, benefits, compensation, and other core people processes.
• Lead the organizational onboarding of new employees, including organizational orientation, policies,
  culture, expectations, and required employment processes, before transitioning role-specific onboarding
  and development to the accountable supervisor.
• Own Wolf Park’s financial performance and lead the organization toward long‑term financial sustainability.
• Develop and execute a diversified revenue strategy encompassing admissions and programs,
  memberships, individual giving, major gifts, grants, events, corporate sponsor ships, partnerships, and other
  appropriate earned-revenue opportunities.
• Personally cultivate meaningful relationships with donors, prospective major donors, corporate leaders,
  foundations, and community partners.
• Establish annual fundraising and sponsorship goals, pipelines, activity measures, and results reporting.
• Prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets and provide the Board timely, accurate financial
  reporting, forecasts, risks, and corrective actions in coordination with the Wolf Park Board Treasurer.
• Park Transformation & Visitor Experience
• Lead a multi-year transformation of Wolf Park into an upgraded, compelling, mission-driven destination
  while preserving its authenticity and animal‑first culture.
• Develop priorities for facilities, habitats, grounds, signage, interpretation, amenities, technology, programs,
  events, and the overall guest journey.
• Use visitor feedback, attendance, revenue, membership, repeat visitation, and program performance to
  continuously improve the offering.
• Work closely with Development & Engagement, Animal Care, Behavioral Enrichment & Training, and
  Maintenance to ensure public experiences are educational, memorable, safe, operationally…