President High Point Community Foundation

Job Description

Career Opportunity

The High Point Community Foundation (HPCF) seeks a strategic grounded and communitycentered leader to serve as its next President guiding the Foundation through a pivotal leadership transition and into its next chapter of institutional growth.

After nearly three decades of relationshipdriven leadership HPCF stands at an inflection point. The Foundation is deeply trusted financially sound and rooted in High Points civic life but is now called to modernize its systems sharpen its strategic focus broaden its donor base and strengthen internal operations while honoring its legacy and community relationships.

Building on HPCFs strong foundation the next President will balance continuity and evolution while positioning the Foundation for an increasingly visible and impactful role in High Points future.

About the High Point Community Foundation

High Point Community Foundation is a placebased philanthropic organization dedicated to strengthening the High Point community by stewarding charitable assets supporting local nonprofits and connecting donors to causes that matter. The Foundation is widely respected for its integrity accessibility and longstanding relationships with donors nonprofits and civic leaders.

HPCF operates with a hightouch donor model manages a significant portfolio of donoradvised funds and administers competitive grantmaking programs addressing community needs including education literacy housing and economic mobility. The Foundation is entering a period of institutional evolution to ensure its practices systems and leadership model remain effective for future generations.

Reporting Structure: The President serves as the chief executive officer of the Foundation and reports to the 21-person Board of Trustees. The President provides leadership to staff partners closely with the Board and its committees and represents the Foundation to donors nonprofits civic leaders and the broader High Point community.

Total Staff and Budget: The Foundation operates with a staff of 5 (including the President) and a $1.5 million annual operating budget stewards $124 million in donor-advised funds and awarded $572200 in community impact grants in 2025.

Compensation: The salary is commensurate with experience and begins in the $225000 range. Benefits include medical and dental insurance 401K match and paid time off.

Working Environment/Location: Located in High Point North Carolina with strong community presence expected.

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Key Responsibilities of the President

Strategic Leadership and Governance

• Partner with the Board to clarify and advance a compelling strategic direction translating shared priorities into clear goals metrics and phased execution.
• Strengthen institutionsupported systems to support longterm effectiveness while preserving trust and culture.
• Establish clear governance rhythms decision rights and accountability structures.

Financial Stewardship and Operational Modernization

• Oversee budgets financial reporting compliance and investment stewardship in partnership with staff Trustees and advisors.
• Lead modernization of technology and systems (e.g. donor platforms data reporting) to improve donor experience transparency and internal efficiency.
• Strengthen financial sophistication and longterm sustainability while remaining sensitive to legacy donor expectations.

• Preserve confidence and continuity among core and legacy donors during and after the transition.
• Broaden the donor base by engaging younger and more diverse philanthropists and advisors.
• Expand philanthropic tools beyond donoradvised funds including initiative and purposedriven funds with careful pacing and clarity.

Grantmaking Community Impact and Learning

• Ensure grantmaking is fair transparent and aligned with clearly articulated community priorities.
• Guide the evolution of grantmaking toward more strategic outcomeoriented philanthropy.
• Promote learning evaluation and communication of impact for donors nonprofits and the community.

Community Presence and Partnership

• Serve as a visible trusted and approachable presence across High Points civic nonprofit faith business and philanthropic sectors.
• Build collaborative partnerships across sectors to address complex community challenges.
• Navigate High Points diverse and dynamic relationshipbased environment with respect independence and integrity.

Organizational Leadership and Staff Development

• Lead coach and empower a capable missionaligned staff team ensuring clarity of roles authority expectations and workflows.
• Foster a culture of trust clarity learning and followthrough while maintaining flexibility and respect for staff wellbeing.

• Senior executive leadership experience in philanthropy nonprofit or business; community foundation understanding desired.
• Strong financial acumen and comfort overseeing investments budgets and fiduciary responsibilities.
• Demonstrated success leading organizations through transition modernization and change.
• Deep understanding of communitybased philanthropy and crosssector collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to develop lead and manage a high-performing team setting clear goals fostering professional growth and building a positive organizational culture.
• Ability to honor legacy while confidently setting boundaries and making difficult decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills and a relational style with the ability to connect across generations and perspectives.
• Governance and board engagement experience.
• Familiarity with North Carolina or similar communities is a plus; deep High Point roots are beneficial but not required.
• A leadership style marked by integrity humility emotional intelligence and followthrough.

Professional attributes sought in the next President also include:

• Strategic and pragmatic
• Approachable grounded and credible
• Decisive without ego
• Curious and committed to learning
• Comfortable leading in complexity and ambiguity
• Credibility and trustworthiness

About High Point

High Point is a closeknit city of approximately 115000 residents in North Carolinas Piedmont Triad region. Long known as the Furniture Capital of the World the city has been actively evolving beyond its manufacturing roots into a more diversified economy that includes higher education healthcare logistics entrepreneurship and creative industries while still retaining its global identity through the High Point Market. Home to High Point University and a growing network of nonprofit business and civic institutions the community values leaders who are visible pragmatic and relationshipdriven. As High Point continues this economic and civic transition it offers a compelling environment for placebased philanthropic leadership focused on stewardship adaptation and longterm community impact.

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