Chief Executive Officer

Executive Leadership and Organizational Management

• Provide thoughtful and visionary executive leadership that is inclusive, transparent, and empowering.
• Seek out opportunities to share with STOP’s board when it comes to Continuous Improvement for the organization.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the organization and ensure its overall successful long- term operations.
• Conduct strategic decision-making through utilization of performance metrics, innovative thinking and horizon scanning.
• Foster a culture to encourage collaboration between staff members, recognize positive contributions, and enable professional growth/development.
• Manage and motivate staff, overseeing processes such as hiring, separation, ongoing staff development, performance management, and compensation and benefits.
• Inspire a business-oriented, professional, results-driven environment across the organization.
• Perform general management duties overseeing the day-to-day operations of the organization.
• Establish goals, objectives, and operational plans in collaboration with the Board, staff, and other leaders.

Board Governance

• Maintain effective, regular and ongoing communication with the Board, ensuring awareness and transparency regarding STOP’s status/operations/issues/challenges.
• Provide monthly, effective and timely communications/reports that enable board members to fulfill their governance and stewardship responsibilities.
• Attend all Board meetings and provide reports and updates all current work, project timelines, and project and organizational progress.
• Diplomatically manage the Board as needed to build consensus, remind of outstanding deliverables, and request or offer support, as needed.
• Work closely and openly with the Board and its committees.

Development and Fundraising

• Develop and drive fundraising in collaboration with the Board as needed.
• Initiate, cultivate, and extend relationships with the organization’s portfolio of individual and corporate supporters.
• Steward all of STOP’s current financial donors.
• Champion efforts to develop new sources of funding through individual donations, corporate and foundation grants.

Financial Management and Administration

• Provide guided oversight of the administrative and operational functions of the organization in accordance with the mission, objectives, and policies.
• Prudently direct resources and manage all financials within budget guidelines and according to current laws and regulations.
• Assume fiduciary responsibility for the fiscal integrity of the organization.
• Build and administer the annual board approved budget.
• Monitor budget and manage daily financial operations to ensure maximum utilization of resources and optimum financial positioning for the organization.
• Ensure maximum resource utilization, budget management, and maintenance of the organization in a positive financial position.

External Relations and Communications

• Serve as chief spokesperson and represent the organization at public events, conferences, and partnership meetings.
• Approach and influence media, with authority, with developed key messages in a proactive and affirmative manner.
• Present and promote the organization and its mission, programs, partners, and members in a consistently positive manner.
• Ensure high visibility to prospects and the public and build interest in engaged philanthropy.
• Manage all aspects of the organization’s marketing and public relations.
• Actively foster new relationships and cultivate relationships with existing external partners.