Executive Director - Southeast Indiana (Columbus, IN)

Job Description

The Chapter Executive Director (ED) serves as the primary community facing leader and facilitator for the American Red Cross at the chapter level. As a facilitative meta-leader, the ED, in partnership with functional supervisors, convenes, aligns, and empowers cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver core services, deploy secondary services where needed most, and strengthen community resilience.

Why Choose Us?

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

What You Need To Know

• Serves as the primary community facing leader of the American Red Cross – maximizing presence, connectivity, and recognition of Red Cross contributions in the community.
• Ensures upward, downward, and outward connectivity—coordinating stewardship across Programs, Communications, and Fundraising.
• Led the chapter planning process and drive progress toward plan objectives.
• Convene and align cross-functional teams and external stakeholders across sectors (government, nonprofit, business, faith) to co-create chapter plans with shared outcomes, roles, and accountability.
• Use data and community voice to prioritize where secondary services are deployed to close gaps, strengthen resilience, and improve equity of access to Red Cross services.
• Lead the chapter in supporting the achievement of the region’s revenue targets.
• Maintain assigned donor accounts as defined by the Regional Executive and CDO.
• Influence fundraising in conjunction with the Chief Development Officer.
• Manage a portfolio of strategic relationships: local elected officials, key community leaders & stakeholders.
• Support disaster responses locally, regionally, and nationally consistent with ConOps.
• Develop, support, and ensure the success of the Chapter Board of Directors in support of the Red Cross mission.
• Manage and ensure the board meets published board guidance for membership.
• Volunteer Leadership: Develop, lead, and manage a cadre of community volunteer leaders who serve as the face of the Red Cross in assigned territories.
• Support mission capacity building by developing and stewarding key community partnerships and support recruitment of volunteers.
• Team Member Partnerships: Serve as a partner team member to Communications and Fundraising teams to align messaging, stewardship, and campaign execution.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
• Management Experience: NA

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work on a team.

Travel

• May travel and participate in meetings and conferences throughout territory, state, and Red Cross system.

Salary Range

$80,000 - $82,000 per yr. You will be eligible to participate in an incentive plan based on annual individual and organization performance. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 15 days a year; based on FLSA status and tenure
• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
• 401K with up to 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term Service Awards and recognition

What Will Give You The Competitive Edge

It is a plus if the successful candidate has established connections within the community.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and any other applicable state and local laws.