Executive Director

About CIELO (Centro Integral Educativo de Olympia) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote community, self-sufficiency, and leadership of the Latinx population in the South Puget Sound area by providing educational, mental health, social services, and cultural activities.

CIELO was founded in 1996 by a group of dedicated Latinas determined to address the need for access to mental health and social services in Spanish by Latinx immigrants in the region. Since then, CIELO has expanded its services and outreach to include Thurston, Lewis, and Mason County, providing hope to a vulnerable and underserved population.

CIELO serves a culturally vibrant Latinx community in Thurston, Lewis, and Mason Counties of Washington State. Our resolute team seeks a culturally competent and focused individual that will move CIELO forward in a collaborative and culturally relevant way for both the team and our community.

CIELO intends to educate, empower, and connect people with the resources they need to create better lives for themselves and their families. More than a resource center, CIELO is a hub for the community, where people form strong bonds with other immigrants, our staff, and the over 150 volunteers who make our work possible.

CIELO has grown in response to an ever-increasing need for our services by Spanish, Mam, and Qanjobal-speaking families.

CIELO is looking for a dynamic leader to take an organization poised for growth to the next level. If you share in our passion for CIELO’s mission, the community we serve, and have nonprofit leadership and management experience, and are ready to guide our dedicated staff, we welcome your application!

The executive director is heart-and-soul-committed to CIELO’s mission.

All viable candidates have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience; diversity/equity expertise; and the ability to communicate in both English and Spanish. We are seeking a transformational and visionary leader who views the world and everyone in it through a lens of diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging. An individual who has the personal courage and humility to hold themselves and all others in the organization responsible for embodying our purpose and values and, who is ready to help build our agency to support our staff, and every client we serve, to thrive.

Please note, relevant combinations of experience and higher education including lived, volunteer (paid or unpaid), or professional, that demonstrates the ability to perform the work, will be considered.

Responsibilities Leadership & Management of the Executive Director

• Have the proven ability to administer a complex budget, understand and present financial reports and trends, and ask the right questions to make effective decisions.
• Ensure that cultural competency practices are ongoing throughout all organizational programs, providing excellence in services through staff inclusion and development, consistent quality of financial and administrative oversight, transparent and effective internal communications, and thorough program systems assessment.
• Develop a dynamic team of leaders to design a people-first culture in our organization that is reflective of our purpose and values.
• Model courageous leadership and emulate cultural competency and humility to partner with staff across the organization; use holistic, creative, and strategic thinking to build a staff that leans in together to understand the worldview of diverse populations, address challenges thoughtfully and compassionately, resolve conflicts justly and collaboratively, listen and leverage each other’s ideas honorably, and collectively break down silos and barriers to continuously improve the systems and processes for CIELO’s future.
• Recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve CIELO’s strategic goals.
• Actively engage and energize CIELO staff, volunteers, partnering organizations, and funders.
• Collaborate with and support a strong board of directors; stay abreast of each committee’s tasks/actions.
• Lead, coach, develop, support, and retain CIELO’s team using personnel evaluations built upon reflective supervision.

Fundraising & Communications

• Know fundraising strategies, grant acquisitions, and or non-profit organizational financial management.
• Oversee revenue-generating activities to support existing program operations and future expansion while building reserves and sustainable financing of the organization.
• Work to maintain communications—from web presence to external relations- to create a stronger brand.
• Demonstrated ability to build alliances and maintain relationships with service providers, the Governing board, community leaders, and donors.

Strategic Planning

• Have prioritization skills and knowledge that represent the ability to anticipate future trends to develop short and long-range goals and objectives.
• Facilitate the strategic planning process, with the collaboration of the board and staff, for program expansion to better meet the needs of our Latinx community.
• Recommend ways to measure the success of a strategic plan, including quality management data collection and analysis, performance-based monitoring of grants, program goals, and objectives.

Financial and Contract Management

• Develop and maintain a positive relationship with funders, donors, and stakeholders.
• Assess agency and project budgets in collaboration with program and finance staff, and appropriate board committees.
• Participate in the Finance Committee to ensure understanding of current financial position; communicate information to the staff and board.
• Ensure that all programs and services comply with contractual parameters.
• Oversee proper recordkeeping of contracts and grants.
• Review, negotiate, and renew all contracts and extensions as needed; be familiar with all contractual obligations and commitments of the organization; ensure the submission of required reports and contract timelines are met.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, law, public health, health administration, social work, or a related field.
• Seven to Ten years of Operational/Leadership management level experience leading other leaders in a complex public or non-profit organization, strong ability to influence, create buy in and drive change at an organizational level.

Related work experience can be substituted year for year for education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation.
• Excellence in organizational management.
• Proven ability to coach staff and manage and develop high-performance cross-program teams.
• Demonstrated ability to set and achieve strategic objectives.
• Culturally competent leadership with deep community connections.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a budget with multiple funding streams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish, with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary skills.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Experience overseeing grant development or successful grant writing.
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and ability to self-direct.
• Bilingual or trilingual to effectively communicate with and serve our diverse community.

Supplemental information

How to Apply

Still Interested? We would love to hear from you! To apply, simply follow the directions on Indeed/LinkedIn or simply send your resume and letter of interest highlighting how you meet the qualifications for this role.

CIELO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $85,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Olympia, WA 98501: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Olympia, WA 98501