Executive Director

The Executive Director will provide the strategic direction and leadership for River Run and will serve as a spokesperson, team leader, and mentor to the staff. The Executive Director will set the tone for the organization and provide leadership by creating a harmonious and effective workplace culture in which the contributions of staff and volunteers are recognized and valued while reaching organizational objectives.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will ensure high-quality and diverse film offerings in appropriate venues for the annual festival and year-round events. The Executive Director will provide fiscal oversight, ensuring that the organization operates within budget and pursues all available resources to enhance the organization’s long-term viability. The Executive Director will negotiate contracts while also supervising River Run’s marketing and media plans and production of all publications.

The Executive Director will actively engage and play a critical role in raising sustainable contributions for the organization.

Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Partner with the Board of Directors and its committees to create, refine, and implement a strategic plan for the organization, as well as help leverage their connections to additional fundraising opportunities.
• Provide consistent and transparent leadership across the organization and establish a sustainable strategy that encourages artistic innovation, fiscal responsibility, and organizational longevity.
• Institute and implement decisive action plans with the senior management team that include a clearly defined internal organizational structure designed to achieve strategic, operational, and tactical priorities, along with measurable goals.
• Serve as the principal spokesperson, ambassador, and advocate for the organization, fostering strong relationships and cooperative arrangements with elected officials, community and education leaders, and industry groups in support of River Run and its programming.
• Embrace other strategic and operational leadership responsibilities as needed.

Fiscal Oversight and Revenue Enhancement

• Create and manage the annual operating budget, ensuring the highest levels of financial accountability with proactive transparency in financial reporting with staff, Board members, and other stakeholders.
• Manage financial reporting systems, provide financial analysis, develop earned and contributed revenue forecasting models and scenario plans, and alternative revenue streams to supplement fundraising and ticket sales, and make recommendations to support decision-making.
• Oversee and guide all marketing and communication efforts to develop strategic marketing initiatives designed to create long-term engagement and increase attendance.
• Collaborate with the development team to strengthen long-term donor engagement strategies, increase individual donor, large gifts, government, foundation, and local and regional corporate support.
• Embrace other fiscal oversight and revenue enhancement responsibilities as

Programming and Community Engagement

• Enhance the programming of River Run International Film Festival in partnership with the Program Director to uplift the vision and mission of fostering a greater appreciation of cinema, increasing diverse audiences, and a deeper understanding of the many people, cultures, and perspectives of the world.
• Implement key strategies to make the festival a destination event through innovative thinking, new opportunities, fresh ideas, and new technologies to increase the profile of River Run, bringing it to the next level of creativity and artistic expression.
• Expand River Run’s presence in the broader field by representing the organization at national convenings, participating in collective lobbying efforts, and fostering relationships with local or national peer organizations that may result in producing partnerships and resource-sharing.
• Maintain a consistent presence with and engage the community by expanding the festival’s year-round activities and events, focusing on increasing visibility and reputation in the arts, education, culture, public,…