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Strategic Leadership and Governance

• Develop, implement, and monitor multi-year strategic, fundraising, and marketing plans in conjunction with the Board and Artistic Director, based on rigorous data and needs assessments.
• Support the development of multiyear artistic and pedagogical planning for the main stage, Chan National Queer Arts Center, and education programs.
• Facilitate Board training and development, ensuring that members are aware of best practices in governance, risk management, and ambassadorship.
• Assess the feasibility of the Chan National Queer Arts Center, ensuring that the Center aligns service provision with community needs.
• Identify emerging shifts in activism, the arts, and philanthropy to ensure SFGMC leads the way in mission-aligned, strategic partnerships.
• Create and implement, in conjunction with external marketing and communications teams, plans increasing awareness and visibility of all SFGMC activities.
• Embrace other strategic leadership and governance responsibilities as needed.

Organizational Sustainability & Revenue Generation

• Oversee the budget and cash flow preparation, reporting, and monitoring, in collaboration with the Director of Operations & Production, Board Treasurer, and Board Chair, and provide the Board of Directors with regular and accurate reports.
• Act as lead on major gift acquisition, relationship building, stewardship, and retention, working with the Director of Development to utilize donor data systems to grow mid-level giving at SFGMC.
• Remain current on trends in philanthropy, institutional giving, and government support.
• Develop strategies to grow audiences across all SFGMC programs, ensuring that development and marketing strategies and activities align.
• Seek out new performance, community engagement, and revenue-generating rental and partnership opportunities for the Chan National Queer Arts Center in consultation with the staff.
• Embrace other organizational sustainability and revenue generation responsibilities as needed.

Membership, Community, & External Relations

• Support membership needs, remain aware of shifting dynamics, provide transparent information, and engage members as ambassadors for SFGMC, working collaboratively with the Membership President.
• Act as principal brand ambassador for SFGMC and the Chan National Queer Arts Center, ensuring consistent application of brand values across the organization.
• Develop and implement plans, increasing awareness and visibility of all SFGMC activities in conjunction with external marketing and communications teams.
• Represent SFGMC locally, regionally, and nationally and ensure that SFGMC remains current on trends and developments in the arts, music education, community engagement, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.
• Act as principal government affairs liaison at all levels.
• Create a skills matrix with the Board Chair and Board Development Committee, on which to base recruitment, and identify gaps in knowledge, skills, and community representation.
• Embrace other membership, community, and external relations responsibilities as needed.

Team Leadership

• Recruit, train, nurture, and develop the team of staff and consultants, ensuring alignment with mission, vision, and values.
• Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined for team members.
• Lead collaboratively, engaging all colleagues in providing superb support to the members, artists, and volunteers.
• Participate in the DEI committee, ensuring that SFGMC remains at the forefront of best practice in this area.
• Ensure that human resource policies and procedures are applied consistently, and that all staff receive regular supervision and at least annual evaluation.
• Embrace other team leadership responsibilities as needed.

Traits and Characteristics

The Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus will be a mission-driven leader who balances artistic vision with organizational rigor. This individual will bring emotional intelligence and the ability to lead a complex, community-centered organization during a pivotal period of growth and reflection. The CEO leads with a deep commitment to SFGMC’s members and community, recognizing them as the organization’s foundation and greatest asset. Through inclusive, values-driven leadership, the CEO inspires trust, alignment, and shared ownership of the organization’s mission and future. This role calls for a leader who is both visionary and practical; someone with a passion for the arts, and the ability to balance external relationship-building and fundraising with internal operational excellence.

Other key competencies include the following:

• Strategic Focus and Leadership – The capability to honor and elevate the members, donors, audience, and community of SFGMC while motivating others with knowledge, enthusiasm, and direction.
• Diplomacy and Interpersonal Skills – The capacity to listen to multiple stakeholders carefully and respectfully, building rapport, communicating transparently, and relating well to an array of unique constituencies, both internally and externally.
• Time & Priority Management, and Goal Orientation – The clarity to prioritize, manage, monitor, and complete multiple complex tasks, mobilize wide-ranging resources, and deliver measurable outcomes within allotted time frames.
• Personal Accountability – The integrity to be answerable for personal and professional actions while readily modifying and adapting to change with resilience, flexibility, and humility.