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BOARD RELATIONS AND STRATEGIC DIRECTIONServe as the primary liaison to the Board of Directors, keeping members informed on organizational progress, risks, and strategic decisions; participate actively in board and committee meetings; prepare reports; offer strategic counsel. STAFF LEADERSHIPLead and foster a values-driven workplace where staff are encouraged to lead from their strengths, show up authentically, operate in alignment with Green Umbrella’s equity commitments, including advancing racial equity in climate and environmental work, collaborate deeply, and give and receive meaningful feedback regularly.

About Green Umbrella Green Umbrella is a regional climate collaborative working to advance environmental sustainability, equity, and community well-being across Greater Cincinnati and as a recognized national leader in sustainability and climate solutions. Through partnerships with nonprofits, government, businesses, and community leaders, Green Umbrella leads collective impact initiatives that address complex challenges across energy, transportation, food systems, and climate resilience. The organization operates at the intersection of strategy and action, convening stakeholders, aligning efforts, and driving measurable progress toward shared goals. Green Umbrella is known for its values-driven culture, commitment to equity and justice, and ability to bring diverse partners together to create meaningful change. As the organization continues to grow its impact, it is entering a critical phase focused on executing its strategic priorities, strengthening financial sustainability, and deepening its influence across the regional climate ecosystem. Position Summary The Executive Director serves as the strategic and operational leader of Green Umbrella, responsible for advancing the organization’s mission, executing its strategic plan, and ensuring long-term sustainability. This role comes at a pivotal moment for the organization. With a strong strategic foundation, a highly engaged and values-driven team, and a respected position within the regional climate ecosystem, Green Umbrella is well-positioned to deepen its impact and influence. In partnership with the Board, the Executive Director will be responsible for making clear, timely decisions about organizational priorities. This role requires a thoughtful balance of internal leadership and external engagement, with particular emphasis on leading fundraising strategy, strengthening financial sustainability and elevating the organization’s voice across the climate and sustainability landscape. The Executive Director will lead internally by providing clarity, accountability, and support to staff, while maintaining the collaborative, people-centered culture that defines Green Umbrella. Externally, this leader will serve as a visible and credible representative, building strong relationships with funders, partners, policymakers, and the broader community. This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact, mission-driven organization at a moment of execution and growth, building on a strong foundation to drive meaningful results, expand influence, and shape the future of climate collaboration. Essential Functions STAFF LEADERSHIP<ul style="margin-top:4px"><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:27px;margin-left:8px">Lead and foster a values-driven workplace where staff are encouraged to lead from their strengths, show up authentically, operate in alignment with Green Umbrella’s equity commitments, including advancing racial equity in climate and environmental work, collaborate deeply, and give and receive meaningful feedback regularly. </li><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:27px;margin-left:8px">Preserve the organization’s collaborative, human-centered culture while reinforcing clear expectations, accountability, and role clarity.</li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Lead, coach, and develop direct reports, ensuring they are effectively supporting and developing their own teams. </li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Build leadership capacity across the organization and support continuity planning.</li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Maintain regular visibility and engagement with staff across all levels of the organization, ensuring accessibility beyond direct reports and fostering strong internal relationships.</li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Oversee an equitable and values-aligned people management approach, including hiring, onboarding, compensation, performance evaluation, and staff development. </li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Establish and reinforce clear performance expectations, feedback practices, and accountability systems that support staff success and organizational effectiveness. </li><li style="margin-right:48px;margin-left:8px">Strengthen internal systems, workflows, and processes to support organizational clarity, efficiency, and scalability.</li></ul>FINANCE and FUND DEVELOPMENT<ul style="margin-top:4px"><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:24px;margin-left:8px">Lead the organization’s financial stewardship and long-term sustainability, ensuring resources are aligned with strategic priorities and operational realities. </li><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:24px;margin-left:8px">Develop and maintain annual operating budgets, multi-year strategic planning budgets.</li><li style="margin-right:24px;margin-left:8px">Oversee financial operations including audits (when applicable), financial reporting, accounting policies, internal controls and compliance. </li><li style="margin-right:13px;margin-left:8px">Lead revenue diversification and fundraising strategy in alignment with organizational priorities.</li><li style="margin-right:13px;margin-left:8px">Cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors, funders, and strategic philanthropic partners.</li><li style="margin-right:13px;margin-left:8px">Oversee grant development and reporting efforts and ensure appropriate execution of grant deliverables and use of restricted funds. </li><li style="margin-right:13px;margin-left:8px">Cultivate and maintain trusted relationships with key philanthropic, member, and community stakeholders.</li><li style="margin-right:13px;margin-left:8px">Serve as a visible external leader and partner closely with development staff to advance fundraising goals.  </li></ul>POLICY MANAGEMENT<ul style="margin-top:4px"><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-left:8px">Ensure compliance with grant policies and procedures. </li><li style="margin-right:23px;margin-left:8px">Recommend, administer, and interpret policies/ procedures for the safe and sustainable operation of Green Umbrella.</li><li style="margin-right:46px;margin-left:8px">Ensure that staff are documenting and enacting policies and procedures for the safe, sustainable and efficient operation of Green Umbrella. </li><li style="margin-right:58px;margin-left:8px">Serve as the organizational signatory for contracts and engage legal counsel as needed. </li></ul>PROGRAMMATIC IMPACT<ul><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Lead execution of Green Umbrella’s strategic plan, ensuring clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and alignment across all programmatic areas. </li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Partner with Directors to translate strategy into actionable workplans and track progress towards goals. </li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Establish clear priorities and decision-making frameworks, including defining what work will be taken on based on capacity and strategic alignment, and communicating those decisions effectively across the organization.</li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Establish systems to evaluate program effectiveness, including resource needs, and ensure accountability for results.</li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Assess ideas for new opportunities for collaboration, growth, or staffed work through the lens of strategic alignment, organizational capacity, and long-term sustainability.  </li></ul>PARTNERSHIPS and PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT<ul style="margin-top:4px"><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:37px;margin-left:8px">Serve as a visible and credible representative of Green Umbrella with community leaders, elected officials, funders, and strategic partners. </li><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:37px;margin-left:8px">Shape and advance Green Umbrella’s strategic position within the regional climate ecosystem and as a national leader in climate and sustainability, identifying opportunities to expand influence, partnerships, and impact.</li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Represent the organization in media, public forums, and policy related settings, advancing Green Umbrella’s visibility, influence, and credibility in the regional climate field. </li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Amplify Green Umbrella’s collaborative success, along with those of our members and the region. </li><li style="margin-right:6px;margin-left:8px">Communicate complex climate, equity, and community issues in clear, compelling ways to a variety of audiences. </li></ul> BOARD RELATIONS AND STRATEGIC DIRECTION<ul style="margin-top:4px"><li style="margin-top:4px;margin-right:38px;margin-left:8px">Serve as the primary liaison to the Board of Directors, keeping members informed on organizational progress, risks, and strategic decisions; participate actively in board and committee meetings; prepare reports; offer strategic counsel. </li><li style="margin-right:37px;margin-left:8px">Support board governance by clarifying roles, strengthening policies and bylaws, and assisting in the recruitment and orientation of new members, and engaging board members as ambassadors and contributors to the organization’s success. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Advance the Strategic Plan through execution, monitoring, and transparent reporting on progress. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Partner with the Board and staff to assess and refine, while focusing on implementation. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">In partnership with the Board, shape and evolve the organization’s long-term vision, ensuring alignment with emerging opportunities, risks, and community needs.</li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Engage the Board as active strategic partners and ambassadors, supporting their involvement with external engagement, and organizational growth.</li></ul>ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP<ul><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Ensure strong alignment across programmatic, operational, development, and external functions.</li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Navigate organizational risk, uncertainty, and external challenges with sound judgment and steady leadership.</li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Guide the organization through change in a way that maintains trust, reinforces values, and supports staff through transition.</li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Identify opportunities for organizational growth, innovation, and increased impact over time.</li></ul>COMPETENCIES:<ul><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Execution and Operational Discipline: Ability to translate strategy into clear priorities, aligned workplans, and measurable outcomes. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Decision-Making and Prioritization: Makes timely, thoughtful decisions, including determining what work to advance, pause, or decline based on capacity and impact. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Financial and Fundraising Leadership: Leads financial sustainability through revenue diversification, donor engagement, and disciplined resource alignment. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Relationship and Ecosystem Leadership: Builds and sustains strong relationships across staff, board, funders, policymakers, and partners to advance collective impact. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Collective Impact Leadership: Effectively leads within a collaborative, multi-stakeholder environment where influence, alignment, and trust are critical. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Organizational Leadership and Alignment: Ensures clarity, coordination, and alignment across programmatic, operational, and external functions. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">People-Centered Leadership with Accountability: Balances a supportive, values-driven culture with clear expectations, feedback, and performance management. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Internal Communication and Transparency: Creates clarity through consistent communication, ensuring staff understand priorities, decisions, and direction. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Coaching and Leadership Development: Develops staff and builds leadership capacity across the organization. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">External Presence and Influence: Represents the organization with credibility and clarity, elevating its voice and positioning in the field. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Strategic Adaptability: Navigates complexity, ambiguity, and change with sound judgment and flexibility. </li><li style="margin-right:26px;margin-left:8px">Board Partnership and Governance: Engages the Board as strategic partners and supports effective governance and shared accountability.</li></ul>Supervisory Responsibility: This position supervises multiple positions, including Director and Manager level roles, including Senior Director of Programs and Climate Strategy, Director of Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Finance Manager, and Grants Manager. It also works closely with the Development Manager. May work to redesign/adjust the organizational chart and supervisory model in collaboration with senior leadership as necessary. Work Environment: This role operates within a hybrid work environment, with regular in-person engagement in the Greater Cincinnati region. Green Umbrella currently maintains a four-day work week as part of its operating model. The Executive Director, in partnership with the Board, will have the opportunity to assess and evolve organizational policies, including work structure and scheduling, to best support long-term sustainability and impact. This role requires flexibility in working hours to meet organizational needs, including periodic evening and weekend commitments and participation in community events and meetings. Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the staff member is regularlyrequired to talk or hear. This position is an office job but also involves a fair amount of work inthe community and at events; using hands to finger, push, pulling, handling or feeling; and reaching with hands and arms. Some minor lifting (< 25lbs) is involved. Travel: This role requires regular travel within the Greater Cincinnati region for meetings, events, and site visits, along with occasional out-of-town travel (approximately two to four times per year). Required Education and Experience: <ul><li style="margin-left:32px">A minimum of five (5) years of management experience across nonprofit, corporate, public, or mission-aligned organizations, with demonstrated leadership at a senior level; experience in sustainability, climate, environmental justice, or related fields preferred.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience leading, recruiting, managing and developing staff.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience in fund development across multiple revenue streams and grants.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Ability to collaborate effectively across sectors, jurisdictions, and organizations. </li><li style="margin-right:83px;margin-left:32px">Experience representing an organization to the public and elected officials. </li></ul>Preferred Education and Experience: <ul style="margin-top:3px"><li style="margin-top:3px;margin-left:32px">Proven experience in climate and environmental justice, sustainability. </li><li style="border:none;margin-left:32px">Dynamic public speaking presence. </li><li style="border:none;margin-left:32px">Comfort working with diverse populations.</li><li style="border:none;margin-left:32px">Experience growing mission-aligned organizational revenue and sustaining that growth. </li><li style="border:none;margin-left:32px">Strong financial acumen, including budgeting and analyzing financial reports. </li><li style="margin-top:3px;margin-left:32px">Well-networked in the Greater Cincinnati community.</li><li style="margin-top:3px;margin-left:32px">Possess exemplary interpersonal, oral and writing skills. </li><li style="margin-right:74px;margin-left:32px">Strong ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders. </li><li style="margin-right:74px;margin-left:32px">Passion for the mission of Green Umbrella. </li><li style="margin-left:32px">Self-directed and strong organizational skills. </li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience leading in complex, cross-sector, or collective impact environments.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience setting organizational priorities and leading through capacity constraints.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience building and maintaining high-trust relationships across staff, board, and external stakeholders.</li><li style="margin-left:32px">Experience leading organizations through periods of transition, growth, or stabilization.</li></ul>Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Classification: Exempt Salary Range: 100,000 - 120,000, commensurate with experience GREEN UMBRELLA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND VALUES DIVERSITY AT ALL LEVELS OF ITS WORKFORCE.   Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Nonprofit HR is committed to fostering and maintaining a work environment where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are fully integrated into everything we do for the benefit of our employees and the clients that we serve. To fully realize our goal, we prioritize our understanding of the complexities of DEI within our workforce to inform our approach to talent management. We believe that this guides how we do our work, advise our clients to operationalize DEI and position our content and educational opportunities help strengthen the talent management capacity of the social impact sector.Continue reading our about our commitment at nonprofithr.com/deinow.Powered by JazzHR

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