Seattle Executive Director

Back on My Feet is a national nonprofit that uses the power of running and community to help people experiencing homelessness and addiction transform their lives. Operating across 14 markets, we meet members where they are — before sunrise, on the road, in community — and challenge them to do something hard together. That challenge is where transformation begins. Since our founding, we have believed that when you change how someone sees themselves, you change what they believe is possible.

Running is how we start. The rest follows.

Everything we do is guided by four anchors. They are not aspirational — they are operational.

We measure success by transformation, not activity. The Executive Director is the local owner of that standard. Every program decision, every partner conversation, every day-to-day call must be traceable to one question: are we creating transformation that wouldn't happen without us?

Running is not a feature of our program. It is the mechanism through which transformation begins. The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring running stays structurally central to local delivery — not as a requirement on paper, but as a living, daily practice that members, volunteers, and staff experience as real.

Real transformation happens in communities, not across them. The Executive Director is the face of BoMF in their chapter: embedded, trusted, and accountable. The chapter should feel like BoMF. It should also feel like home.

Back on My Fe et runs on people. The Executive Director is responsible for the humans who make this possible in their chapter: members, alumni, volunteers, and local staff — ensuring they are supported, developed, and connected to something larger than any single chapter.

The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for leading the local chapter to achieve program objectives, fundraising targets, and managing and growing the annual local budget in alignment with Back on My Feet's Four Strategic Anchors:
We Drive Real Impact, Running Is Our Foundation, We Build Local Roots for Lasting Impact, and Our People Are the Movement. This role oversees a team of local staff, manages the stewardship of the local Advisory Board, and operates within a matrix structure: reporting to the VP of Program through their Territory Director for mission and delivery, and to the Partnerships team for revenue.

The Executive Director is the operational leader of their chapter. They own day-to-day program delivery, local fundraising and development, partner and volunteer relationships, and team performance. They are not managers waiting for direction. They are a local owner, accountable for the full P&L and mission outcomes of their chapter.

• Own and drive local implementation of the BoMF program model, ensuring running is structurally central to all member touchpoints, from Circle Ups (BOMF’s community based running practice) to workforce development.
• Strengthen and expand BoMF's local presence by cultivating new facility partnerships and deepening engagement with existing partners, ensuring sustained growth in program KPIs.
• Oversee delivery of BoMF's workforce development program; grow and strengthen partnerships with referral agencies, corporate partners, and employment partners to provide members with needed support and services.
• Ensure program model fidelity. If running culture drifts, energy erodes, or standards slip, the ED owns the identification and correction of that drift at the local level, in coordination with the VP of Program and Chief Running Officer.
• Source and share member stories, outcomes, and…