Role OverviewThe Executive Director serves as ECA's most senior executive, working closely with two boards to guide the organization's strategy, finances, and future.
What You Will Do
The ED oversees day-to-day operations while keeping a steady eye on the big picture: strong programming, healthy finances, a thriving campus, and community connection.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This is a role for someone who is just as comfortable digging into a budget as they are presenting to City Council, and addressing an auditorium full of 700 patrons.
Requirements
- Proven experience as an Executive Director, CEO, or C-suite executive, ideally within a nonprofit or mission-driven organization
- Strong financial and business acumen, with hands-on experience managing budgets and building financial systems
- Successful experience working with and/or reporting to nonprofit or public boards, especially in organizations with more than one governing body or a complex structure
- Comfort operating within public sector rules and requirements, such as open public meetings and public records laws
- Cultural competence and humility, a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the ability to build trust and connect authentically with the many communities ECA serves
- A track record of leading organizations through periods of growth, change, or transition
- Strong project management skills, from day-to-day operations to larger capital or facility projects
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account
- Basic Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 12 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave and vacation
- Voluntary Supplemental Life & AD&D Insurance
- WA State Public Employees Retirement System
- Discretionary participation in a Deferred Compensation Program
- Hybrid work environment (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexible schedules
- Free parking on site
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