Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Chief Executive Officer

Reports to: Board of Directors (via Board President)

Salary: $160,000-$175,000

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, wellness plan, EAP, PTO, retirement

Hours: Full-time, Exempt, 40 hours, Monday through Friday with occasional weekend or evening work

Location: Vancouver, WA

Share believes every person counts. For more than 46 years, Share has been a cornerstone of Clark County's response to homelessness and hunger, working to make our community home for everyone. Share pursues a stronger community by building relationships, advocating for equitable access to housing and food stability, and empowering individuals and families to grow and thrive.

Share provides a spectrum of services including emergency and transitional shelter for individuals and families, permanent supportive housing, rental assistance with case management, street outreach, community cleaning initiatives, job skills training, and a comprehensive range of nutrition programs including hot meals, backpack and fresh food pantries, mobile pantry, and summer meals for children. Share's programs serve thousands of Clark County residents each year across multiple sites, staffed by a team of about 120 employees with an annual budget of approximately $10 to $15 million.

Share envisions a community without hunger, where all people have safe and adequate housing and the skills to enhance their quality of life. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to how Share serves the community and how the organization operates internally.

Share is in a moment of growth and opportunity. Over the past several years, the organization has expanded significantly in the scale and complexity of its programs, staff, and its reach across Clark County. That growth reflects the community's confidence in Share and the dedication of its staff, and it has positioned the organization to deepen its impact in the years ahead.

And the environment in which Share operates has never been more demanding. Shifts in funding, evolving government priorities, economic pressures, and growing community needs require organizations like Share, to have stronger internal systems, sharper prioritization, and more disciplined resource stewardship. The next CEO will join Share at a moment when operational excellence and adaptive leadership are not just organizational goals but community imperatives.

The CEO ensures that expanded capacity is matched by the operational systems, leadership infrastructure, and the skilled and supportive team needed to deliver high-quality services consistently and sustainably.

Share's Board of Directors is engaged and committed, with a strong focus on strategic stewardship and long-term organizational sustainability. The staff leadership team brings programmatic expertise and commitment to the mission.

You are a seasoned nonprofit executive who leads with intention and brings a systems-level perspective. You understand that sustainable mission delivery depends on clarity, strong management infrastructure, and consistent accountability at every level, and you have built those systems in complex, multi-program organizations. You build and develop strong leaders, right-size roles and workloads, and establish decision-making and communication processes that support alignment across a large and diverse team. You are as comfortable in operational details as you are partnering with a board of directors, and you bring the same steadiness and discipline to both.

You lead with a social justice orientation and understand how to put equity into practice through supervision, performance management, and the ways in which decisions are made and communicated day to day. You are drawn to frontline service work and to organizations that serve people experiencing homelessness, housing instability, and/or poverty. You bring humility and grounded judgment to the complexity and demands of mission-driven work.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) reports to the Board of Directors and provides overall organizational leadership with a strong emphasis on operational excellence, management infrastructure, staff culture and wellbeing, and governance partnership.

The CEO oversees a large and diverse staff team across multiple program areas and sites, including shelter and housing programs, outreach, nutrition services, and community initiatives. This role requires an executive who can build strong senior leadership teams, develop and sustain management infrastructure, ensure clear and consistent communication across the organization, and serve as a trusted presence for staff, the Board, funders, and the broader Clark County community.

Share has a Director of Philanthropy and a full development team in place. While the CEO maintains ultimate accountability for the organization's financial health, the day-to-day leadership of fundraising and development is carried out by that team. The CEO's primary focus is on the internal systems, leadership capacity, and organizational health that make sustained and high-quality service delivery possible. The CEO is supported in this work by staff leaders in finance and HR.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Infrastructure

• Provide executive-level oversight of all organizational operations, ensuring that programs, staffing, facilities, and administrative functions operate effectively, safely, and in compliance with all applicable regulations, contracts, and funder requirements
• Build and sustain consistent management infrastructure across the organization, including onboarding practices, supervision structures, role clarity, and performance expectations, to support accountability and long-term operational effectiveness
• Lead with proactive, disciplined management by establishing clear planning processes, decision-making frameworks, and accountability structures at every level of the organization
• Measure and assess the effectiveness of internal policies and operational processes on an ongoing basis, and provide timely and accurate reporting to the Board on organizational conditions and emerging priorities
• Ensure staffing levels across all program areas, including shelter and direct service environments, are aligned with safety, compliance, and service quality standards
• Oversee organizational risk assessment and mitigation across all programs and sites, partnering with program and administrative leaders to identify and address concerns in a timely manner
• Provide oversight of facilities and infrastructure, ensuring that physical environments across Share's multiple sites are well-maintained, safe, and appropriate for the programs they support
• Guide the development and execution of organizational strategy in partnership with the Board, ensuring that initiatives are aligned with organizational capacity, funding, and mission

Team Leadership, HR & Culture

• Operationalize Share's equity and inclusion commitments by embedding shared frameworks for accountability and equitable practice into supervision, performance management, and organizational decision-making
• Lead, develop, and support a senior leadership team across program and administrative functions, ensuring directors have the authority, resources, supervision, and support to lead their teams effectively
• Foster a healthy, inclusive organizational culture grounded in transparency, consistency, fairness, and staff wellbeing, where people at all levels are equipped and valued in their work
• Implement structured staff engagement processes, including regular listening sessions, feedback mechanisms, and consistent one-on-one practices, to support trust, alignment, and engagement across the organization
• Partner with HR staff to strengthen HR practices across the organization, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, conflict resolution, and consistent policy application
• Coach and support managers and directors on organizational matters, performance issues, and conflict management, ensuring that accountability is applied fairly and in alignment with Share's values
• Ensure that roles are appropriately scoped and that staff promoted into leadership positions receive adequate preparation, training, and ongoing support

Communication & Decision-Making

• Establish clear, inclusive, and consistent decision-making processes that keep staff appropriately informed and involved, and ensure that rationale and follow-through are communicated with transparency
• Build reliable communication structures across levels and teams that support alignment, shared understanding, and organizational cohesion
• Serve as the primary spokesperson and organizational representative with funders, community partners, government agencies, media, and the broader public

Board Governance & Partnership

• Partner closely with the Board of Directors to advance organizational priorities, strengthen governance practices, and build a productive and well-functioning governance relationship
• Support the Board in focusing on strategic oversight, long-term stewardship, and organizational sustainability as a mature governing body
• Provide timely, accurate, and decision-oriented information to the Board, including clear framing of priorities, risks, and decision points for the finances, organizational priorities, staffing, compliance, and strategic progress
• Collaborate with Board leadership to establish clear evaluation processes, goal-setting, and mutual accountability structures between the Board and the CEO

Financial Leadership & Stewardship

• Provide strong financial oversight in partnership with the Finance Director and Board, including budget development and monitoring, cash flow management, and oversight of complex funding streams including government contracts, grants, and philanthropic support
• Co-develop annual and programmatic budgets with the Finance Director to ensure that programs have adequate resources, appropriate staffing, and sound financial reporting structures
• Make disciplined decisions about staffing, program scope, and organizational investment grounded in financial reality and long-term sustainability
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, local and private funder, regulatory, and audit requirements,