Vice President, Community

Description

At Refined Technologies, we believe operating with an eternal purpose fuels excellence
. This guides everything we do; it gives us a purpose that is greater than ourselves. RTI is the leader in the chemical cleaning segment of the refining industry, providing patented chemistries, processes, and equipment for cleaning and treating units during shutdowns. While focused on clients, we are fueled by our mission to:
Honor God Always, Help People Develop, Pursue Excellence, and Earn a Profit.

We are a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial-minded organization full of servant-hearted leaders. Want to know more about our culture? Check out the RTI Playbook. If you're ready for your work to matter, we're ready to hear from you!

We're looking for a Vice President, Community to steward the experiences, relationships, and human touch points that preserve and strengthen RTI's culture as the company grows. This role turns RTI's mission and Playbook into meaningful human touch points across the full Artisan journey, while building external partnerships that extend RTI's influence as a redemptive, generous, and impactful business.

This is an integrative leadership role that works across the enterprise to protect what is distinct about RTI, strengthen the human experience of work, and translate ownership's convictions and legacy aspirations into durable strategies, partnerships, and practices.

The Vice President, Community is accountable for stewarding RTI's culture but is not solely responsible for creating it. Every leader at RTI is responsible for carrying culture through daily leadership. This role exists to equip, strengthen, and connect those efforts through care, community, mission, traditions, and shared experiences.

Culture Strategy & Stewardship

• Create and lead a multi-year enterprise culture and community strategy aligned to RTI's mission, Playbook, business strategy, and growth trajectory.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP People, executive leaders, and ownership on culture, community, care, mission activation, and legacy-building opportunities.
• Identify where growth, change, geographic dispersion, or business pressure could dilute connection or create a gap between stated values and lived experience; mobilize practical responses.
• Define a clear operating rhythm, annual priorities, governance, decision rights, and measures of impact for culture and community work.
• Partner with leaders to embed culture into everyday leadership practices, not only signature events or communications.

Mission, Generosity & Community Impact

• Lead RTI's generosity strategy in close collaboration with ownership, including philosophy, objectives, portfolio priorities, processes, roles, and responsible stewardship of budgets.
• Develop, recommend, monitor, and deploy grants, investments, sponsor ships, and other forms of support with clear rationale, diligence, and accountability.
• Build a thoughtful portfolio of local, national, and global partnerships that aligns RTI's resources, relationships, expertise, and Artisan energy to meaningful impact.
• Steward partner relationships from introduction and vetting through ongoing advocacy, care, evaluation, and, when appropriate, transition or conclusion.
• Represent RTI externally at partner gatherings, conferences, community forums, fundraising events, and redemptive-business networks.
• Use RTI's experience to encourage other organizations and entrepreneurs seeking to integrate faith, human flourishing, generosity, and business excellence.

Experiences, Traditions & Storytelling

• Own the strategy and intended outcomes for enterprise experiences that build connection, reinforce culture, and deepen shared identity; partner with others on…