Chief Executive Officer
🌍 Now Hiring: Chief Executive Officer
AIDS Services Coalition (ASC) – Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Full-Time | $110,000–$150,000 + Excellent Benefits
Apply by: August 15, 2025 | Start Date: Fall 2025
The AIDS Services Coalition (ASC) is seeking a visionary Chief Executive Officer to lead a dynamic, statewide nonprofit dedicated to housing, HIV care, and supportive services for marginalized communities. With a $5M+ budget, 30+ staff, and satellite offices across Mississippi, ASC is poised for transformational growth.
We’re looking for a leader who can:
✅ Guide a mission-driven team through growth and innovation
✅ Build strategic relationships and partnerships statewide and nationally
✅ Advocate for underserved populations
✅ Advance fundraising, housing development, and health outcomes
Minimum Requirements:
· Passion and self-awareness as a leader for social justice and the disenfranchised
· 5+ years in nonprofit leadership
· Advanced degree in social services or related field
· Experience with marginalized populations and Board engagement
· Strong personnel, financial, and program management skills
· Knowledge of HIV, housing, behavioral health
· Southern leadership experience
· Public speaking, research, or advocacy background
Ready to make a statewide impact?
Submit your resume, cover letter, and responses to required questions at:
👉 https://r2consults.llc/executive-searches/
Contact: Randall Russell, R2 Consults, LLC
Position Mission
To guide ASC through a critical leadership transition and ensure its continued growth and impact. The CEO will lead the Board and staff in building a future that secures performance on current programs and expands reach and resources throughout Mississippi. Internal management will require the majority of time up front as the transition and new funding become absorbed and the full staff is recruited, oriented, and trained.
Core Responsibilities
The Chief Executive Officer will:
- Lead the organization, ensuring alignment of staff, programs, finances, and policies with ASC’s mission
- Expand statewide relationships to ensure service access and program impact
- Grow contributed and contracted revenue annually
- Establish internal systems and standards for personnel, operations, and accountability
- Build and maintain an engaged, statewide Board of Directors
- Advocate for those served at local, state, and national levels
- Guide strategic planning, using data and community voice to set direction
- Operate using a “nothing about us without us” philosophy (listening to lived experience)
- Manage all organizational resources toward strategic goals
- Ensure transparent, high-quality communications across all audiences
- Oversee program implementation with quality, confidentiality, and outcomes tracking
- Deliver balanced budgets and accurate financial reporting
- Lead fundraising efforts from individual, corporate, foundation, and government sources
- Monitor staff performance and ensure strong supervision across all teams
- Direct hiring, retention, and staff development
- Manage ASC’s public image and messaging for mission alignment and impact
- Ensure compliance with all audit, grant, and reporting requirements
- Maintain and evolve the organizational vision through data, feedback, and collaboration
Required Qualifications
- Compassion, passion, and driven to cure discrimination and stigma
- At least 5 years in nonprofit leadership
- Knowledge of grants management and compliance
- Expertise in housing and/or HIV services
- Proven personnel management and organizational development experience
- Experience leading in the U.S. South
- Strong understanding of behavioral health issues (mental illness and substance use)
- Lived or demographic connection to the populations ASC serves
Preferred Qualifications
- Public speaking experience
- Background in social science research or advocacy
- Lived experience working in Mississippi and/or with impacted populations
- Start Date: Fall 2025
- Application Period: July 1 – August 15, 2025
- Salary Range: $110,000 – $150,000, with excellent benefits
Summary of Requirements
Applicants must have:
- A minimum of 5 years leading nonprofit organizations
- An advanced degree in social services or a related field
- Experience with marginalized populations
- Proven management of people and budgets
- Experience working in partnership with a Board of Directors
Ideal candidates will demonstrate leadership marked by compassion, connection, emotional intelligence, people management skills, and a commitment to self-awareness and lifelong learning.
Application Instructions
This national search is administered by R2 Consults, LLC
Please submit:
- Resume
- Cover letter detailing your interest, experience, and connection to social services leadership
- Responses to required application questions on website
Apply online at: https://r2consults.llc/executive-searches/
Address cover letter to: (DO NOT MAIL)
Randall Russell
R2 Consults, LLC
PO Box 166
Wanakena, NY 13695
Application Process – For questions or inquiries – email [email protected].
NOTE: PLEASE, save your cover letter and resume as follows in file name BEFORE UPLOAD. Thank you.
Lastname-Firstname-ASC Cover
Lasname-Firstname-ASC Resume
- Submit resume, cover letter, and application questions via the website
- Complete a 5–10 minute online assessment (link provided upon application)
- Based on materials and assessment, applicants will be placed into one of three groups:
- Group 1: Candidates selected for initial phone interviews
- Group 2: Qualified candidates held for potential future interviews
- Group 3: Applicants not meeting required qualifications
- Group 1 candidates may be asked to complete a written essay
- Finalists will be interviewed in person by the Search Committee
- The Search Committee will recommend a final candidate to the ASC Board
The Predictive Index (PI) will be used as part of this process. This assessment is the only U.S. Department of Labor- and EEOC-approved employment screening tool for evaluating innate characteristics. Applicants may request their assessment results.