The Executive Director provides overall leadership and management of Catholic Charities programs and ministries and related administrative, financial, human resource, quality assurance, risk prevention, and relevant service delivery operations. The Executive Director is the chief operating officer of the corporation and serves under the authority, and as an agent, of the Board of Directors.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Oversee all agency service operations and ministries, including program and service functions, service standards of practice, catholic engagement activities, and assigned program and ministry Directors and Managers.
• Service as principal staff and agent of the CCI Board of Directors.
• Manage essential administrative functions necessary to advance agency mission, including financial administration, human resource functions, quality assessment and improvement, risk management, and program specific operations.
• Hire, assemble, support, and develop a Leadership Team of qualified and mission focused Program and Department Directors and Managers to assist with agency management and operating integrity.
• Direct and oversee revenue generating operations and initiatives to ensure funding sufficient to deliver superior, mission driven service performance.
• Assure fiscal and service-related accountability, transparency, reporting, and oversight.
• Assist the Bishop and Board of Directors in the development of strategic plans and operational goals and objectives that advance agency mission. Ensure implementation and adaptation of all such plans in an open and transparent manner.
• Foster an organizational culture that is open, trusting, honest, supportive, collaborative, and mission driven.
• Foster a growth mindset to innovate and explore expanding role and reach of CCI, while adhering to CCI’s mission.
• Ability to nimbly and innovatively serve a geographically and demographically diverse service area.
• Serve as the principal voice and representative of the agency and the liaison between Catholic Charities and the local Church, agency stakeholders, clients, service partners and collaborators, and wider community.