President/CEO

• Community Impact and Visibility: This person must have a deliberate external focus to ensure diversity, inclusion, and equity of community members, organizations, and stakeholders. He/she must understand the dynamics of local, regional, and national environments, and work on an agenda rooted in the community's own perception of its diverse needs and aspirations. This person must be visible, approachable, accessible to those in the community creating partnerships and awareness on the UWGC mission and impact. 
• Organizational Leadership: Develop and support high-performing teams within the organization at all levels. Build a diverse and authentic culture through their personal example and communicate consistently and frequently with associates. Responsible for the overall financial management of the organizational budget.
• Resource Development: Maintain and build meaningful relationships with external partners to ensure financial stability and resource management. The CEO must have an entrepreneurial mindset within the organization to improve and innovate the way the organization fundraises. They must anticipate the challenges with the United Way fundraising model and apply critical thinking to develop alternative solutions in advance of resource erosion.  
• Strategic Development: Maintain a sense of urgency and be pioneering in the creation and deployment of organizational strategies that are impactful, scalable and drive stakeholder alignment. Support strategic thinking both internally and externally across the non-profit landscape of Greenville County.  
• Thought Leadership: Provide thought leadership by collaborating with others to create innovative solutions to systemic problems facing Greenville County. Be courageous in challenging the status quo and push others to look at situations through a different lens and thinking. Utilize cross-sector relationships to solve “big” problems rather than isolated issues.  

Leadership Competencies

• Results Orientation: Focus on the attainment of measurable results. Catalyze others' commitment to the mission of creating real social change that leads to better lives and healthier communities. This will drive their performance and organizational decision making. Dedicated to shared and measurable goals for the common good; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad investment and impact.
• Great Communicator: The next CEO has to be a great communicator and above all else, must be able to simplify a very complex organization in regard to all the things it does in a language that people from all levels can understand. Engage and connect with a diverse audience through authentic communication. It is important that the new CEO listen, and be mindful of what, how and when they communicate across the community. 
• Team Builder and Uniter: Understands that people come before process and is astute in cultivating and managing relationships toward a common goal. Externally, understands the roles and contributions of all sectors of the community and can mobilize resources (financial and human) through meaningful engagement. Internally, ensures that the right people are in the right roles at the right times; fostering commitment, trust, and collaboration among multi-cultural leaders and stakeholders.
• Diverse Thinker and Inclusive: Continuously evaluates and improves the diverse thinking and approach of the organization and recalibrates associates to target inclusiveness in all areas; from hiring internally to partnering with diverse organizations externally, to maintaining a diverse set of opinions within organizational leadership. Needs to possess a deep understanding and demonstrated track record around diversity, inclusion and equity.
• Servant Leader: Continuously leads with a humble perspective, is flexible when needed, is willing to have difficult, authentic conversations and creates discipleship across the organization and community around impact and mission.  
• Strategist and Visionary: Possesses the innate ability to think strategically in order to be a visionary and a creative thought leader. Confronts the complex realities of the environment and simultaneously maintains a perspective towards a different and better future, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
• Calculated Risk Taker: Possesses a high-level of broad business and management skills that enables them to evaluate, and take calculated risks even when the action might create undesirable consequences while achieving an overall positive outcome.