Company description

Georgia Organics is a dynamic and team-driven nonprofit investing in organic farmers and community allies to cultivate a resilient, local food movement. Since 1997, the organization has served as a statewide leader in growing healthy foods, farms and families. Georgia Organics is now embarking on a new strategic plan rooted in five core values: farmer prosperity; soil health and environmental stewardship; anti-racism; community and collective impact, and climate action.

Job description

Georgia Organics is seeking an Executive Director to set strategy and vision, build the organizational culture and lead the senior team. The Executive Director will evaluate strategies, define priorities, and utilize impact metrics to ensure organizational accountability. Additionally, the Executive Director will assess and evaluate strategies, decide how the organization will differentiate itself from other like-minded organizations in the region, and will hire teams, set budgets, forge alliances and build partnerships to further the mission. The Executive Director is responsible for securing resources through fundraising and capital campaigns, budgeting and allocating resources appropriately to ensure the financial health of the organization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy, Finance and Planning

• Ensures organizational impact thought leading and meeting the mission and vision of the organization.

• Implement strategic plans, based on data-driven analytics, projections and financials.
• Manage Georgia Organic’s budget and ensure that it is a financially viable, sustainable organization with the resources to meet current and projected program growth.

• Working with the board and staff to build both the short- and long-term strategic plans including programmatic and financial goals and objectives.
• Assume responsibility for the fiscal integrity of the organization; ensure the organization’s financial stability and sustainability by maintaining healthy cash flow and adequate reserves.

Board Governance

• Maintain regular and ongoing communication to build strong relationships with the entire Board, providing leadership and support to members.
• Communicate effectively with the Board by providing members with all information necessary to continually function properly and make informed decisions in a timely and accurate manner.
• Attend all Board meetings and provide reports and updates on staff as well as all current work, project timelines, and project and organizational progress.
• Build consensus with the board on key issues and deliverables and implement Board policies and
• Work closely and openly with the Board and its committees, ensuring ongoing communication of risks, issues, as well as successes.

Leadership

• Build a high-performing, results-driven senior leadership team and play an active role in attracting, retaining and developing a best-in-class staff.

• Organize, motivate, and mentor internal team leaders to strategically grow the organization's impact, programs and fundraising to fulfill organizational goals and the mission.
• Manage and motivate staff, overseeing processes such as hiring, separation, ongoing staff development, performance management, compensation and benefits.
• Develop the organizational culture and promote transparency and collaboration throughout the organization.

Fundraising

• Build upon and track annual and multi-year fundraising plans.
• Drive development and fundraising in collaboration with the Fundraising Director, leveraging the Board as needed.
• Provide high level oversight to ensure that grants, appeals and other fundraising activities progress in a timely and effective manner.
• Initiate, cultivate, and extend relationships with the organization’s portfolio of individual, foundation, and corporate supporters.
• Lead systematic cultivation of major donors.

Communication and Media Relations

• Sponsor and/or co-sponsor special events designed to promote the mission of the organization.
• Represent the organization and serve as chief spokesperson publicly at events, conferences, and partnership meetings.
• Present and promote the organization and its mission, programs, partners, and members in a consistently positive manner.
• Ensure high visibility to prospects and the public.
• Build strong relationships with the organic farming community and other related affiliations including chefs, restaurant, and institutions that support the state’s organic farmers.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Ensure that all activities, programs and communications reflect Georgia Organics values to ensure that the activities and programs represent multi-culturalism, diversity and anti-racism.
• Act as the champion for diversity, equity and inclusion internally and externally, working towards becoming an anti-racist organization.
• Ensure that the organizational structure and decision-making process supports the involvement and empowerment of all constituents.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role at a statewide or regional non-profit preferred.
• Commitment to results and a 'can-do" mindset with emphasis on accountability.
• Experienced public speaker.
• Demonstrated diversity, equity and inclusion leadership experience.
• Experience at change leadership and change management.
• Strong motivational and staff leadership abilities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, that builds collaboration, alignment and buy-in.
• Ability to nurture personal and meaningful relationships with stakeholders and funders.
• Has integrity, an impeccable work ethic, and, when needed, a sense of humor.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION 

Georgia Organics is committed to an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.  We encourage applications from candidates diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation and ethnicity. 


COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The salary range for this full-time, Atlanta-based position is $90,000 - $110,000, depending on qualifications and experience, and includes generous benefits, a stimulating work environment, and delicious culinary experiences. Benefits include health insurance (currently 100 percent premium employer-paid), retirement investment options in a 403(b) tax-deferred account, and three weeks of paid time off in the first year plus holidays and the final week of the year.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, varies DOE, $90,000.00 - $110,000.00

Application instructions

Deadline

August 31, 2023