Ignite! Utah Action, Executive Director
Jobs That Are Left · Salt Lake City, UT · 1 mo ago
$75k–$90k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use for each heading. Use
for each heading. Use - for lists. Use
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include sections only when posting has real specific content.
We need to extract content from posting.
Let's parse the posting:
- Title: Ignite! Utah Action, Executive Director (but we don't repeat as heading)
- Location: Utah-based, hybrid (Salt Lake City)
- Compensation: $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience
- Benefits: Unlimited paid time off, Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA), 401(k) including up to 4% employer match
- Deadline: Oct 5, 2026 (application details) but we drop application instructions.
- About Ignite! Utah: description.
- About the Role: description.
- Who we're looking for: list of traits.
- Preferred, But Not Required: list.
- Key Responsibilities: list of bullet points under subheadings (Organizational Strategy and Execution, Fundraising and External Partnerships, Team and Organizational Management, Operational and Financial Health)
- Location and Travel: description.
- Hiring Statement: EEO boilerplate (should be removed)
- Duplicated sections: many repeats.
We need to produce sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what content goes where.
- About the role: we have "About the Role" paragraph: "We are looking for a grounded, organized, and relationship-driven Executive Director to lead Ignite! Utah through its next stage of growth. This role is for someone who is energized by Utah, young people, and the long game of building civic power. The next Executive Director does not need to have done this exact job before, but they should be able to lead people, raise money, build trust, manage details, and keep a growing organization moving."
We can put that in
About the role
...
- Responsibilities: we have "KEY RESPONSIBILITIES" with subpoints. We can combine into a list.
- Requirements: maybe "Who we're looking for" traits (Passionate about Gen Z..., etc.) could be considered requirements. Also "Preferred, But Not Required" could be qualifications or skills.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred, But Not Required" list.
- Skills: maybe the specific skill sets like fundraising, financial experience, etc.
But we need to avoid thin sections. We should combine where appropriate.
We have Benefits and Pay explicitly stated. Schedule: not explicitly stated except mention of evening/weekend work expected during major programs, events, election seasons. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" (that's in Pay but we have actual range). Pay section: we have compensation range. So include Pay.
Benefits: we have list.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, duplicated lines, subscription prompts.
We must preserve all substantive information.
Let's extract substantive content:
**About Ignite! Utah** (description) - could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we have only About the role section allowed. Could incorporate into About the role paragraph.
**About the Role** paragraph we have.
**Who we're looking for** list:
- Passionate about Gen Z and our issues: you deeply understand the challenges and opportunities facing our generation
- Committed to civic engagement: you believe in the civic process, voting, and the power that it can bring to our communities.
- Experienced in equity and inclusion: you are dedicated to working with marginalized communities and know how to translate equity principles into programmatic and organizational decision-making.
- Relationship-oriented: you build strong and trusting relationships quickly and can be trusted to do what you say you will do.
- Willing to fundraise and promote the organization: you understand the importance of raising resources and building relationships to advance organizational outcomes.
- An inclusive manager: you are a thoughtful and self aware leader with experience managing individuals to achieve goals while fostering a sense of safety and belonging.
- Able to build a big tent: you understand the complexity of political organizing in Utah and the need to build diverse and unexpected coalitions to get things done for Gen Z.
- Strategic and innovative: you can discern information clearly, seize strategic opportunities for the organization, and take calculated risks.
- Flexible and adaptive: you are comfortable working in a start-up environment with some ambiguity, autonomy, and moving pieces.
**Preferred, But Not Required**:
- Understanding of Utah’s civic, political, nonprofit, education, or community landscape.
- Experience leading programs, campaigns, nonprofit initiatives, civic engagement work, community organizing, or youth leadership efforts.
- Fundraising and financial experience, including donor communication, grant writing, funder relationships, or revenue planning.
- Experience with 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), fiscal sponsorship, nonprofit compliance, campaign finance, lobbying, or election-related guidelines.
- Experience with voter registration, GOTV, canvassing, phone banking, texting, digital organizing, or civic education.
- Experience using voter engagement tools & data to inform strategy.
- Experience working with schools, colleges, or youth-serving organizations.
**Key Responsibilities** (with subheadings):
Organizational Strategy and Execution:
- Lead Ignite! Utah’s strategy, annual planning, and continued development of Ignite! Utah Action and Civic Spark.
- Spot and seize opportunities to advance organizational outcomes through programming, fundraising, and relationship building.
- Supervise the team and help turn organizational strategy into clear priorities, timelines, and accountability systems.
Fundraising and External Partnerships:
- Raise and steward a $500,000 budget with diverse and sustainable funding streams.
- Lead fundraising and external relations with donors, funders, partners, schools, campuses, coalitions, and board members.
- Direct all grant proposals and reporting to sustain partnerships with foundations, institutions, and individual donors.
- Represent Ignite! Utah publicly and tell a clear story about why Gen Z civic power matters in Utah.
Team and Organizational Management:
- Oversee core programs, including civic education, voter registration, preregistration, youth leadership, research, digital outreach, and issue education.
- Responsible for directly managing 3-4 program consultants to execute their goals and work plans through regular check-ins, feedback loops, and performance reviews.
- Build a collaborative and high functioning team of 6 contractors.
- Streamline efforts to improve organizational culture and wellbeing, maintaining Ignite! Utah’s values.
Operational and Financial Health:
- Responsible for the financial health of the organization, including accurately tracking revenue, expenses, monthly burn, and cash on hand.
- Lead the transition to an independent 501(c)(3) by establishing foundational systems such as human resources, payroll, board governance, and resource sharing agreements.
- Manage budgets, contracts, grant reporting, internal systems, and compliance needs in partnership with the board, fiscal sponsor, staff, and advisors.
**Location and Travel**:
- Ignite! Utah is a hybrid, Utah-based organization, with offices in Salt Lake City.
- The Executive Director should be available for in-person meetings, school and campus visits, donor meetings, community events, coalition spaces throughout the Salt Lake Metro area, and occasional statewide and national travel.
- Evening and weekend work should be expected during major programs, events, and election seasons.
**Compensation**: $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience
**Benefits**: Unlimited paid time off, Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA), 401(k) including up to 4% employer match
Now we need to map to sections.
We have:
- About the role: we can combine About Ignite! Utah description + About the Role paragraph.
- Responsibilities: list of responsibilities (maybe combine subpoints into a flat list or keep subheadings? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make a flat list of responsibilities. Could also keep subheadings as
? Not allowed; only for section headings. So we can just list responsibilities as - items.
- Requirements: maybe the "Who we're looking for" list (mandatory traits). That seems like requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred, But Not Required" list.
- Skills: maybe we could extract specific skill sets from responsibilities or preferred list, but we might combine into Qualifications. However we need to include Skills section only if there is real specific content. We could list skills like fundraising, financial management, team management, strategic planning, relationship building, etc. But we might avoid creating a thin Skills section if we already have Qualifications covering similar. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could omit Skills if it's thin. But we need to decide.
We have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections.
Schedule: we have evening/weekend work expectation.
Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We'll omit Skills.
Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience" in Pay? Actually Pay section should include the range; we can include the phrase but it's not filler; it's actual info. It's okay.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
About the role
... combined description ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Qualifications
- ...
...
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA)
- 401(k) including up to 4% employer match
Pay
$75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience
Schedule
Evening and weekend work should be expected during major programs, events, and election seasons; hybrid role based in Salt Lake City with occasional statewide and national travel.
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good.
Now we need to craft the About the role paragraph.
Combine About Ignite! Utah description and About the Role paragraph.
About Ignite! Utah: "Ignite! Utah is a statewide Gen Z civic engagement organization building political power, civic education, and leadership pathways for young people across Utah. We believe Gen Z is not just the future of democracy, we are the now! Through voter registration, preregistration, civic education, campus organizing, voter contact, digital outreach, candidate and issue education, and statewide research, Ignite! Utah works to make civic participation accessible, relevant, and powerful for young people. Ignite! Utah is currently growing through two aligned entities: Ignite! Utah Action, our 501(c)(4) civic engagement and advocacy organization, and Civic Spark, our nonpartisan civic education program, which is in the process of becoming an independent 501(c)(3)."
About the Role: "We are looking for a grounded, organized, and relationship-driven Executive Director to lead Ignite! Utah through its next stage of growth. This role is for someone who is energized by Utah, young people, and the long game of building civic power. The next Executive Director does not need to have done this exact job before, but they should be able to lead people, raise money, build trust, manage details, and keep a growing organization moving."
Combine into a paragraph
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to extract content from posting. Let's parse the posting: - Title: Ignite! Utah Action, Executive Director (but we don't repeat as heading) - Location: Utah-based, hybrid (Salt Lake City) - Compensation: $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience - Benefits: Unlimited paid time off, Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA), 401(k) including up to 4% employer match - Deadline: Oct 5, 2026 (application details) but we drop application instructions. - About Ignite! Utah: description. - About the Role: description. - Who we're looking for: list of traits. - Preferred, But Not Required: list. - Key Responsibilities: list of bullet points under subheadings (Organizational Strategy and Execution, Fundraising and External Partnerships, Team and Organizational Management, Operational and Financial Health) - Location and Travel: description. - Hiring Statement: EEO boilerplate (should be removed) - Duplicated sections: many repeats. We need to produce sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content goes where. - About the role: we have "About the Role" paragraph: "We are looking for a grounded, organized, and relationship-driven Executive Director to lead Ignite! Utah through its next stage of growth. This role is for someone who is energized by Utah, young people, and the long game of building civic power. The next Executive Director does not need to have done this exact job before, but they should be able to lead people, raise money, build trust, manage details, and keep a growing organization moving." We can put that in
About the role
...
- Responsibilities: we have "KEY RESPONSIBILITIES" with subpoints. We can combine into a list. - Requirements: maybe "Who we're looking for" traits (Passionate about Gen Z..., etc.) could be considered requirements. Also "Preferred, But Not Required" could be qualifications or skills. - Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred, But Not Required" list. - Skills: maybe the specific skill sets like fundraising, financial experience, etc. But we need to avoid thin sections. We should combine where appropriate. We have Benefits and Pay explicitly stated. Schedule: not explicitly stated except mention of evening/weekend work expected during major programs, events, election seasons. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" (that's in Pay but we have actual range). Pay section: we have compensation range. So include Pay. Benefits: we have list. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, duplicated lines, subscription prompts. We must preserve all substantive information. Let's extract substantive content: **About Ignite! Utah** (description) - could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we have only About the role section allowed. Could incorporate into About the role paragraph. **About the Role** paragraph we have. **Who we're looking for** list: - Passionate about Gen Z and our issues: you deeply understand the challenges and opportunities facing our generation - Committed to civic engagement: you believe in the civic process, voting, and the power that it can bring to our communities. - Experienced in equity and inclusion: you are dedicated to working with marginalized communities and know how to translate equity principles into programmatic and organizational decision-making. - Relationship-oriented: you build strong and trusting relationships quickly and can be trusted to do what you say you will do. - Willing to fundraise and promote the organization: you understand the importance of raising resources and building relationships to advance organizational outcomes. - An inclusive manager: you are a thoughtful and self aware leader with experience managing individuals to achieve goals while fostering a sense of safety and belonging. - Able to build a big tent: you understand the complexity of political organizing in Utah and the need to build diverse and unexpected coalitions to get things done for Gen Z. - Strategic and innovative: you can discern information clearly, seize strategic opportunities for the organization, and take calculated risks. - Flexible and adaptive: you are comfortable working in a start-up environment with some ambiguity, autonomy, and moving pieces. **Preferred, But Not Required**: - Understanding of Utah’s civic, political, nonprofit, education, or community landscape. - Experience leading programs, campaigns, nonprofit initiatives, civic engagement work, community organizing, or youth leadership efforts. - Fundraising and financial experience, including donor communication, grant writing, funder relationships, or revenue planning. - Experience with 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), fiscal sponsorship, nonprofit compliance, campaign finance, lobbying, or election-related guidelines. - Experience with voter registration, GOTV, canvassing, phone banking, texting, digital organizing, or civic education. - Experience using voter engagement tools & data to inform strategy. - Experience working with schools, colleges, or youth-serving organizations. **Key Responsibilities** (with subheadings): Organizational Strategy and Execution: - Lead Ignite! Utah’s strategy, annual planning, and continued development of Ignite! Utah Action and Civic Spark. - Spot and seize opportunities to advance organizational outcomes through programming, fundraising, and relationship building. - Supervise the team and help turn organizational strategy into clear priorities, timelines, and accountability systems. Fundraising and External Partnerships: - Raise and steward a $500,000 budget with diverse and sustainable funding streams. - Lead fundraising and external relations with donors, funders, partners, schools, campuses, coalitions, and board members. - Direct all grant proposals and reporting to sustain partnerships with foundations, institutions, and individual donors. - Represent Ignite! Utah publicly and tell a clear story about why Gen Z civic power matters in Utah. Team and Organizational Management: - Oversee core programs, including civic education, voter registration, preregistration, youth leadership, research, digital outreach, and issue education. - Responsible for directly managing 3-4 program consultants to execute their goals and work plans through regular check-ins, feedback loops, and performance reviews. - Build a collaborative and high functioning team of 6 contractors. - Streamline efforts to improve organizational culture and wellbeing, maintaining Ignite! Utah’s values. Operational and Financial Health: - Responsible for the financial health of the organization, including accurately tracking revenue, expenses, monthly burn, and cash on hand. - Lead the transition to an independent 501(c)(3) by establishing foundational systems such as human resources, payroll, board governance, and resource sharing agreements. - Manage budgets, contracts, grant reporting, internal systems, and compliance needs in partnership with the board, fiscal sponsor, staff, and advisors. **Location and Travel**: - Ignite! Utah is a hybrid, Utah-based organization, with offices in Salt Lake City. - The Executive Director should be available for in-person meetings, school and campus visits, donor meetings, community events, coalition spaces throughout the Salt Lake Metro area, and occasional statewide and national travel. - Evening and weekend work should be expected during major programs, events, and election seasons. **Compensation**: $75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience **Benefits**: Unlimited paid time off, Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA), 401(k) including up to 4% employer match Now we need to map to sections. We have: - About the role: we can combine About Ignite! Utah description + About the Role paragraph. - Responsibilities: list of responsibilities (maybe combine subpoints into a flat list or keep subheadings? The instruction: Use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make a flat list of responsibilities. Could also keep subheadings as
? Not allowed; only
for section headings. So we can just list responsibilities as
- items.
- Requirements: maybe the "Who we're looking for" list (mandatory traits). That seems like requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred, But Not Required" list.
- Skills: maybe we could extract specific skill sets from responsibilities or preferred list, but we might combine into Qualifications. However we need to include Skills section only if there is real specific content. We could list skills like fundraising, financial management, team management, strategic planning, relationship building, etc. But we might avoid creating a thin Skills section if we already have Qualifications covering similar. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could omit Skills if it's thin. But we need to decide.
We have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections.
Schedule: we have evening/weekend work expectation.
Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We'll omit Skills.
Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience" in Pay? Actually Pay section should include the range; we can include the phrase but it's not filler; it's actual info. It's okay.
Now produce HTML.
Structure:
About the role
... combined description ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA)
- 401(k) including up to 4% employer match
Pay
$75,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience
Schedule
Evening and weekend work should be expected during major programs, events, and election seasons; hybrid role based in Salt Lake City with occasional statewide and national travel.
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good. Now we need to craft the About the role paragraph. Combine About Ignite! Utah description and About the Role paragraph. About Ignite! Utah: "Ignite! Utah is a statewide Gen Z civic engagement organization building political power, civic education, and leadership pathways for young people across Utah. We believe Gen Z is not just the future of democracy, we are the now! Through voter registration, preregistration, civic education, campus organizing, voter contact, digital outreach, candidate and issue education, and statewide research, Ignite! Utah works to make civic participation accessible, relevant, and powerful for young people. Ignite! Utah is currently growing through two aligned entities: Ignite! Utah Action, our 501(c)(4) civic engagement and advocacy organization, and Civic Spark, our nonpartisan civic education program, which is in the process of becoming an independent 501(c)(3)." About the Role: "We are looking for a grounded, organized, and relationship-driven Executive Director to lead Ignite! Utah through its next stage of growth. This role is for someone who is energized by Utah, young people, and the long game of building civic power. The next Executive Director does not need to have done this exact job before, but they should be able to lead people, raise money, build trust, manage details, and keep a growing organization moving." Combine into a paragraph
- items.
- Requirements: maybe the "Who we're looking for" list (mandatory traits). That seems like requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred, But Not Required" list.
- Skills: maybe we could extract specific skill sets from responsibilities or preferred list, but we might combine into Qualifications. However we need to include Skills section only if there is real specific content. We could list skills like fundraising, financial management, team management, strategic planning, relationship building, etc. But we might avoid creating a thin Skills section if we already have Qualifications covering similar. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could omit Skills if it's thin. But we need to decide.
We have Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections.
Schedule: we have evening/weekend work expectation.
Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We'll omit Skills.
Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience" in Pay? Actually Pay section should include the range; we can include the phrase but it's not filler; it's actual info. It's okay.
Now produce HTML.
Structure: