Executive Director

Healthy Peninsula is a nonprofit community health organization located in coastal Hancock County, serving the nine towns of the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle (Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Deer Isle, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Stonington, and Surry).

The mission of Healthy Peninsula is to mobilize, support, and collaborate with community partners to improve the health of all residents of the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle/Stonington. Our work addresses complex community health needs in three initiative areas - Healthy Aging, Healthy Eating, and Healthy Families - with diverse approaches that respond directly to community identified priorities.

Healthy Peninsula has five total staff members – four part‑time staff and a full‑time executive director. Through outreach, collaboration, community connections, and the slow work of building trust, Healthy Peninsula has become a dependable, creative, and capable partner in creating an engaged, connected, and empowered community where all residents can live, learn, and age safely and in good health.

The Executive Director will join Healthy Peninsula's dedicated staff and Board of Directors, during an exciting time. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will provide the organization with strategic leadership and program support, while developing the organization's next phase of strategic planning. The Executive Director will be responsible for effective organizational, operational, financial, and fundraising strategies and processes;

community, donor, and volunteer engagement; and managing a highly skilled staff. The Executive Director will collaborate with community partners to further Healthy Peninsula's unique role as an engaged community partner on diverse programmatic activities, as well as a community convenor focused on strengthening community health in our 9‑town region.

• Determines staffing needs for individual programs or grant sources. Recruits, orients, trains, and supervises staff, volunteers, and/or temporary employees or consultants.
• Assure appropriate allocation of staff hours to funding sources.
• Attends training and meetings as determined with Board of Directors and assures ongoing professional development for self and Healthy Peninsula staff and volunteers.
• Completes annual staff evaluations.

• Collaborates and coordinates with local health and social services agencies, community groups, municipalities, and residents or volunteers, to meet organizational and programming goals or objectives. Cultivates relationships with current and potential partners.
• Serves, in collaboration with the staff and Board of Directors, as a spokesperson for Healthy Peninsula at community, regional, or state venues. Actively educates community members and partners on HP mission and programming.

• With Board Chair, coordinates bi‑monthly Board of Directors meetings, assuring minutes, agenda, and supporting documents are available. Works in collaboration with the Board Governance committee to orient new members and assists in the development of board packet materials.
• Collaborates and participates in the development of working Board Committees and serves as staff to those committee meetings.
• Assures administrative support and technical guidance, as needed, for various projects from Board committees.

• Identifies community health program‑related funding opportunities and develops proposals, with Board and staff participation, as needed.
• Works in collaboration with funding sources to navigate all aspects of grant applications and reporting processes.
• Supervises all staff efforts on secured program…