Executive Director

Reporting to the board, the Executive Director directs all Progress Foundation staff, consultants and dayto-day operations, and leverages the board’s expertise and networks to increase government and private funding support. Additionally, the Executive Director is responsible for the organization’s budgets,finances, and financial strength, in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer; properties and infrastructure; programs and services; advocacy and policy positions; branding and communications;government

and community relations; and government grants and targeted fundraising.

The Executive Director will continue a public campaign to expand Progress Foundation’s residential treatment services in under-resourced communities, and promote the agency’s programs as better treatment alternatives to institutionalizing those with serious mental illness and other co-occurring disorders.

The Executive Director will continue to cultivate and develop highly skilled and motivated staff through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and training all staff in the social rehabilitation model, and empower bothstaff and board members to evolve in ways that benefit the organization and its clients.

The Executive Director will optimize benefits delivered to Progress Foundation and its clients through its physical and financial assets, staff, and programs. To assure operating, programmatic and financial strength, the Executive Director will diversify revenue, and manage financial risk to enhance funding stability, in consideration of potential changes to county, state, and federal funding.

Supported by the board and staff, the Executive Director will shape an organization esteemed by government and nonprofit executives across its service region, as the leader in trauma-informed, social rehabilitation crisis treatment services.

• Understand and successfully advocate for those with behavioral health treatment needs, and translate advocacy into programs, partnerships, facilities, staff competencies, and funding streams that provide for community-integrated, residential and supported housing treatment services
  focused on recovery, self-determination, and 24-hour independent living.
• Shape strategies to strengthen, fund, and advance Progress Foundation’s vision, values, programs, and services in conjunction with Progress Foundation’s board and staff, as funding commitments and policies affecting behavioral health care services continue to shift.
• Support a climate that attracts, retains, and motivates a diverse, high-quality staff; clearly defines staff roles; optimally utilizes and develops staff talents and skills, including required training and certifications, professional development opportunities, and organizational career pathways.

• Work with the staff and board to sustain and increase the organization's funding streams with public funders at the city and county, state, and federal levels.
• Work with the board to develop a donor solicitation strategy that broadens funding resources insupport of Progress Foundation’s work, with particular attention to individual, business, and foundation funding support.
• Raise funds for various purposes and from various sources.

• Serve as an advocate and effective spokesperson who builds public understanding and embracing of Progress Foundation’s work, and represents the organization before public bodies, boards,funders, and community organizations.
• Market Progress Foundation’s innovative programs to communicate their strong and measurable healing impact on those with behavioral health challenges, and strengthen existing and create new community partnerships…