Executive Director

The Executive Director of the Kings River Conservancy (KRC) works closely with KRC’s Board of Directors, providing direction and leadership toward the achievement of the Conservancy’s philosophy, vision, mission, strategy, goals and objectives. This position is responsible for developing an organization that understands, values, and supports diversity in its workforce and which utilizes that diversity as a path towards greater impacts in the communities KRC serves. The ideal candidate must be able to work independently to grow KRC from a grass roots level non-profit to a small to medium size 501(c)(3) enterprise within the first two years from hire.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Supervisory

• Develops, motivates, and leads a high-performance Executive Team (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer of BOD); provides mentoring as a cornerstone to the development of management staff
• Evaluates performance of the Executive Team for compliance with established policies and objectives of KRC
• Supervises assigned staff, interns and volunteers; recruitment, performance management and other personnel processes as funding is developed to fill anticipated additional positions within staff
• Ensure part-time staff are submitting hours to payroll as necessary (including seasonal or temporary positions)  
• Effectively manages leadership adherence to long term and short-term vision and organizational goals  
• Institutes and enforces corrective action plans when needed and monitors compliance

Fiscal 

• Works collaboratively with outsourced Human Resources and Finance staff to monitor expenditures
• Creates annual budget to be presented to the Board of Directors (BOD) for approval
• Oversees the management of KRC operations within the established budget guidelines
• Reviews financial reports to ensure they are in alignment with budget, organizational goals and objectives

Development

• Develop innovative approaches and funding sources for new programs in compliance with KRC’s mission, vision and strategic objectives
• Grant writing, relationship building within philanthropic community, revenue generation to support the growth of KRC
• Administers grants, including reporting and fiscal management
• Reviews the quality of all reports submitted to funding and any other external sources and ensures that reports are submitted on time

Governance

• Serves as Lead Staff to the BOD
• Collaborates with the Executive Team/Board to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes and personnel
• Prepares documentation and ensures the governance of the organization is properly maintained and assists the BOD in establishing necessary policy and decision-making to meet community needs
• Creation of the agenda for the monthly BOD meetings
• Provides the Board with timely information regarding the local, social and economic environment as it pertains to the KRC mission
• Approves KRC operational procedures, policies and personnel needs to ensure successful accomplishment of program and project objectives
• Ensures all practices are consistent and compliant with contracts as well as federal, state and local requirements
• Works with outside consultants to monitor compliance within KRC programs and projects
• Organizational Representation
• Establishes and maintains effective partnerships and communications with KRC’s key constituencies to build effective working relationships, including BOD, staff, clients, County, State, and Federal officers, and peer leaders
• Acts as spokesperson for KRC with leaders of all federal, state, county, community groups, program heads and agencies
• Meets with community leaders to ensure community engagement and satisfaction  
• Measures outcomes and feedback for the Conservancy and each service of KRC programs