CEO Position Description

Summary

Reporting to and working closely with the Board of Directors, the CEO provides visionary and strategic leadership in building on CAN’s tradition of providing outstanding, innovative, and high-impact resources and programs for the family caregiving community. The CEO is a passionate, articulate, authentic champion for family caregivers in a highly visible, highprofile external role. In addition to business planning and aligning strategic initiatives with the current needs of family caregivers, the CEO identifies future opportunities for advocacy, partnerships, and funding, and develops, directs, and carries out strategies that ensure the organization’s financial and programmatic sustainability, including broadening the community of corporate partners and funders.

As the face of the organization, the CEO serves as a brand ambassador and the voice of family caregivers, interfacing with business leaders, policy makers, media, and others vital to advancing an aspirational agenda. Internally, the CEO inspires, empowers and leads a team, fostering a work culture that values and appreciates the uniqueness of individuals, their capabilities, insights, ideas, and contributions.

Primary Responsibilities

Leadership

• Lead the organization and continually evolve its vision to ensure mission advancement in a fiscally responsible manner, addressing and adapting to the changing health care environment and family caregiver landscape.

• Plan, develop, and execute initiatives that meet the needs of family caregivers, setting ambitious yet realistic goals, budgets, timelines, and deliverables that ensure continued programmatic excellence and growth.

• Oversee the organization’s finances, ensuring strategic and sustainable financial management, reporting, compliance, and adherence to best practices in nonprofit management and fund development; and business proposals that rest on sound reasoning, data-driven analysis, and consideration of alternative courses of action.

• Ensure that all operational and programmatic areas – community initiatives, caregiver programming and education, corporate partnerships, fund development, multimedia communications, and advocacy—meet the highest standards, are continuously improving, and are in compliance with all regulatory and professional guidelines.

• Oversee a team of eight—leading, motivating, and supporting these individuals as they carry out the organization’s work with high integrity, accountability, creativity, thoughtful analysis, sound judgment, professionalism, and a customer/client service orientation. Create a workplace culture that ensures staff feel listened to and valued.