The Mountain Home Montana Board of Directors is seeking an Executive Director to lead and elevate Mountain Home Montana to the next phase in our organization. This is an extraordinary opportunity for a compassionate, mission-driven, and experienced leader to fill this full-time position. The Executive Director will directly support their leadership team and provide indirect support to all of Mountain Home Montana staff. They will also work collaboratively with Mountain Home’s committed Board of Directors.
The Executive Director will oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of Mountain Home through strategic oversight, lifting up and empowering our dynamic staff, and ensuring the effective coordination and growth of our programs and services.
The Mountain Home Board of Directors is interested in hearing from candidates who offer a wide range of skills, professional and lived experiences, and perspectives. We are interested in connecting with candidates who have experience leading teams, extraordinary and proven fundraising abilities, and leaders that understand the importance of modeling a sustainable, compassionate, and efficient approach to work/life balance. We recognize a single candidate may not offer every desired qualification. The details provided below represent the general competencies, knowledge, and experience Mountain Home is seeking for this crucial member for our team.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S SCOPE OF WORK
Fundraising & Operational Excellence:
- Has high-level fundraising expertise and experience with successful direct donation asks of up to $75,000.
- Experience developing diversified resources of funding to ensure financial health of and meet fundraising goals for budgets over $1,000,000.
- Knowledgeable of fundraising principles, and experience with donor cultivation and stewardship to lead a development team.
- Strong business acumen, including financial and budget management, assessment and refinement of staff roles and responsibilities, and implementation of systems and practices designed to maximize Mountain Home service impact.
- Offers persuasive, effective, and solution-oriented communication strategies that respect different perspectives and support organizational needs.
Board Governance & Team Leadership:
- Experience working with and managing a Board of Directors. Demonstrated experience building strong community partnerships, managing collaborations, and in community engagement.
- The ability to manage a large team spread across numerous inter-organizational programs and model a sustainable work/life balance while providing oversight to the organization.
- Project management expertise that includes experience negotiating with outside partners and vendors.
- Experience training leadership and offering career development to ensure staff capabilities and growth opportunities.
- Values a team approach with the ability to lead in a collaborative work environment with curiosity and creativity. Able to create, hold, and respect boundaries when needed.
Strategic Vision & Collaborative Growth:
- Willingness to support and be the face of Mountain Home’s mission, vision, and organizational culture.
- Proven visionary and growth mindset with the ability to develop and articulate goals in a way that is motivating and inspiring to the team.
- Experience leading, designing, and implementing a strategic plan.
- Commitment and understanding of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and who to integrate those values into external and internal operations.
- Confident in building trust through vulnerability and transparency.
- Possess a working understanding of and commitment to the principles of trauma-informed care.
- Experience developing and implementing programs that are strategic, well-staffed, well-resourced, financially sound, impactful, scalable, replicable, and responsive to community needs.
- Knowledge of organizational management with the demonstrated ability to manage support staff and develop high-performing teams to achieve strategic objectives.
- Effective in nonprofit administration, meeting facilitation, consensus-building, organizational planning, and budgeting.
- Proven track record raising funds, increasing donor commitment, and giving programs.
- Able to show clear results in the areas of donor development, fundraising, grant writing, and public relations.
- Working understanding of – and commitment to – the principles of trauma-informed care.
- Persuasive and passionate communicator (both oral and written) with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Team Leader with commitment and ability to lead in a collaborative work environment across multiple stakeholders including Board of Directors, staff, and the population Mountain Home serves.
- Detail-oriented with strong strategic, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, and planning skills.
- Demonstrated experience with donor databases and financial management software.
- Ability to work with diverse groups and constituencies and have a strong commitment to supporting young mothers and their children.
- Committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in the workplace and the populations Mountain Home serves.
This position will remain open until the right candidate is hired.
Status: Exempt, Full-time
Pay Range: $105,000 - $120,000 salary per year
Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Short Term Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), SIMPLE IRA match of 3%, 25+ days of paid time off annually, paid sabbatical every 5 years, and much more!
Schedule: Monday - Friday with some evenings and special events
Location: in-office
Reports To: Board of Directors
Please visit our website for a detailed position profile and to apply!
https://mountainhomemt.org/about/careers/executive-director-position/
WHO WE ARE
Mountain Home is a fast-growing Missoula nonprofit whose mission is to provide a safe home and nurturing community where young mothers discover their strengths, and children thrive. Since 2000, we have built an effective, holistic model of care that integrates supportive housing, mental health care, employment and education support, trauma-informed childcare, and more. We work closely with young families, donors, and community partners to build brighter futures, two generations at a time. We are an organization that serves our community and our employees.
WHAT ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW
Mountain Home is an equal-opportunity employer, and we value having staff who come from communities of diverse perspectives and have lived experience. We encourage people of color, indigenous folx, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities to apply.
All offers of employment at Mountain Home are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.
All offers of employment at Mountain Home are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. The following factors will be considered for applicants with a criminal and/or less-than-ideal driving history:
- The nature of the conduct/behavior and its relationship to the position
- The recency of and circumstances surrounding the conduct/behavior
- The age of an individual at the time of the conduct/behavior
- Societal/cultural conditions that may have contributed to the conduct/behavior
- The probability that an individual will continue the conduct/behavior
- The individual’s commitment to rehabilitation and changing the behavior