Executive Director

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We have an excellent opportunity for anExecutive Director in Baltimore Maryland! This position engages top-level corporate executives across the territory to cultivate their involvement as leadership volunteers strategic partners and board members while overseeing a team of approximately 7 staff members responsible for field campaign development.

This role will have an annual revenue target of approximately $with growth anticipated each fiscal year. We operate in a fast-paced sales-oriented environment with the primary responsibility of building relationships to generate revenue in support of our mission.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President the Executive Director serves as the strategic and operational leader for the market responsible for driving its overall vision performance and longterm growth. This role oversees the development execution and continuous evaluation of the Baltimore strategic plan ensuring alignment with the organizations broader goals and priorities.

The Executive Director plays a pivotal role in strengthening and expanding fundraising capacitycultivating both unrestricted and restricted field-campaign revenue with a focus on sustained scalable growth. Success in this role requires building and empowering highperforming teams developing strong volunteer leadership and fostering a culture of accountability innovation and collaboration.

As a key member of the Eastern States Team the Executive Director ensures the objectives are fully integrated with regional strategies and contributes to the collective achievement of Association-wide goals.

This hybrid position is based in the Baltimore metro area and the work is done wherever it is most effective in the field at home and in collaboration meetings with your team.

We offer a base salary with the potential to earn an incentive up to 25% of your base pay. The potential incentive is based on achieving certain revenue targets and triggers.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful you will have access to Heart U our award-winning corporate university as well as additional training and support locally.

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As the Executive Director responsibilities include:

• Devise and implement the strategy and direction for the Baltimore markets unified health and revenue efforts while assuming bottom-line responsibility for the markets income and community health impact goals.
  
• Guide and direct the team to achieve key performance indicators.

• Hire direct train and evaluate staff toimplement a comprehensive strategic plan that includes a strong development strategy to improve aggressive growth in unrestricted revenue. This includes consistently meeting and exceeding revenue goals. Ensure alignment with the organizations mission and goals. Collaborate with colleagues and teams across the market to identify and increase cross-functional opportunities.

• Develop and manage a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of top-level corporate executives who will guide volunteer leadership and initiatives.
  
• Build powerful partnerships with volunteers community and corporate leaders sponsors and other internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Develop profiles on the top businesses associations organizations agencies etc. within the assigned market with a documented plan to secure their involvement.

• Build relationships with key corporate leaders who can support initiatives and secure their engagement in key roles.
  
• Meet with assigned staff to review programs and procedures and recommend changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

In this role you will report to the Region Senior Vice President and will lead a team within the Baltimore market. Youll need to travel daily within the market.

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• Five (5) years minimum prior relevant experience and at least five (5) years of supervisory experience.
• University/College degree or equivalent experience
• Experience recruiting engaging and activating executive-level corporate and medical volunteers
• Demonstrated track record in building effective teams of staff and volunteers
• Demonstrated track record in setting and achieving aggressive goals on a sustained basis.
• Ability to influence others to action through creating a shared vision and sense of ownership and personal accountability.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills including large and small group presentations group facilitation and training. Skill in written communications to include clear and concise narrative reports evaluations and similar narrative pieces.
• Ability to read comprehend and analyze revenue metrics as well as fundraising reports. Skill in the use of spreadsheet/database analysis.
• Ability to do daily local travel requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis.
• Basic knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office used for word processing email presentations and spreadsheets.

These are the skills we prefer to see:

• Experience in attracting recruiting managing and evaluating staff and volunteers including a volunteer board.
  
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field.
• Advanced knowledge and skill with Microsoft Office and Salesforce.
• Related experience with the American Heart Association or another national voluntary health organization.
• Knowledge of the American Heart Associations mission and programs.

The expected base pay range is $112000 to $140000. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials may apply to the pay range. American Heart Association reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range.

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• Compensation Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. Thats why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments as needed.
  
  
• Performance and Recognition You are rewarded for achieving success through annual salary planning and incentive programs; this position is incentive eligible based on achieving certain targets.
  
  
• Benefits We offer a wide array of benefits including medical dental vision disability and life insurance along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being we also offer an employee assistance program employee wellness program and telemedicine and medical consultation.
  
  
• Professional Development You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. Heart U is the Associations national online university with more than 100000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
  
  
• Work-Life Harmonization The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year which includes several days off at the end of the year.
  
  
• Tuition Assistance - We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities or for potential future positions in the organization.

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