Executive Director

Executive Director

The Executive Director provides hands-on leadership for a community-serving organization in King William, Virginia. The role focuses on community engagement, fundraising, grant development, daily operations, and Board-approved organizational and capital initiatives.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director turns organizational priorities into measurable results while demonstrating initiative, sound judgment, strong communication, relationship-building, accountability, and consistent follow-through.

• Build relationships with residents, community leaders, businesses, civic groups, institutions, donors, and prospective supporters.
• Lead community outreach, volunteer engagement, partnerships, and collaborative initiatives that advance organizational goals.
• Develop and implement fundraising strategies involving individual giving, major gifts, sponsor ships, events, and institutional support.
• Identify and cultivate donors and funding partners; participate in meetings, presentations, and solicitations.
• Prepare funding requests, sponsorship proposals, campaign materials, and cases for support, while maintaining donor records and stewardship activities.
• Research and pursue public, foundation, corporate, and institutional grants; manage grant calendars, applications, budgets, deadlines, reports, and renewals.
• Develop funding strategies for approved facility improvements, renovations, construction, acquisition, and expansion projects.
• Track fundraising, grant, and capital-project progress and present significant opportunities, risks, and recommendations to the Board.

• Implement Board-approved priorities and coordinate programs, committees, volunteers, personnel, and operational activities.
• Develop work plans, timelines, priorities, and accountability measures while maintaining organized operational and financial records.
• Support budget development, monitor authorized spending, grant restrictions, and available resources, and coordinate with authorized finance and administrative personnel.
• Provide weekly Board reports covering accomplishments, priorities, fundraising, grants, community engagement, capital projects, financial or operational concerns, and matters requiring action.
• Support Board meetings, complete required follow-up, identify operational barriers, and recommend solutions.
• Follow established authorization procedures for contracts, expenditures, funding commitments, and public representations.
• Do not make unauthorized financial or contractual commitments on behalf of Enterprise or the assigned organization.
• Promptly escalate significant financial, operational, legal, reputational, safety, or governance concerns.

• Protect confidential financial, donor, Board, personnel, contractual, strategic, and organizational information.
• Access and disclose confidential information only as authorized.
• Secure physical and electronic records, passwords, financial information, and system access.
• Follow applicable privacy, information-security, and records-management requirements and promptly report confidentiality, security, or financial-control concerns.

Participate in required orientation, training, and professional development related to Board governance, financial controls, fundraising, grant compliance, confidentiality, records management, workplace safety, community engagement, and applicable Company policies.

• Regular sitting, standing, walking, computer use, telephone communication, and document review.
• Ability to attend Board, donor, community, and fundraising meetings and travel locally as…