Executive Director

About Healthy Peninsula

Healthy Peninsula is a nonprofit community health organization located in coastal Hancock County, serving the nine towns of the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle (Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Deer Isle, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Stonington, and Surry).

The mission of Healthy Peninsula is to mobilize, support, and collaborate with community partners to improve the health of all residents of the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle/Stonington. Our work addresses complex community health needs in three initiative areas - Healthy Aging, Healthy Eating, and Healthy Families - with diverse approaches that respond directly to community identified priorities.

Healthy Peninsula has five total staff members – four part‑time staff and a full‑time executive director. Through outreach, collaboration, community connections, and the slow work of building trust, Healthy Peninsula has become a dependable, creative, and capable partner in creating an engaged, connected, and empowered community where all residents can live, learn, and age safely and in good health.

The Position

The Executive Director will join Healthy Peninsula's dedicated staff and Board of Directors, during an exciting time. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will provide the organization with strategic leadership and program support, while developing the organization's next phase of strategic planning. The Executive Director will be responsible for effective organizational, operational, financial, and fundraising strategies and processes; community, donor, and volunteer engagement; and managing a highly skilled staff. The Executive Director will collaborate with community partners to further Healthy Peninsula's unique role as an engaged community partner on diverse programmatic activities, as well as a community convenor focused on strengthening community health in our 9‑town region.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Personnel Management

• Determines staffing needs for individual programs or grant sources. Recruits, orients, trains, and supervises staff, volunteers, and/or temporary employees or consultants.
• Assure appropriate allocation of staff hours to funding sources.
• Attends training and meetings as determined with Board of Directors and assures ongoing professional development for self and Healthy Peninsula staff and volunteers.
• Completes annual staff evaluations.

Community Building

• Collaborates and coordinates with local health and social services agencies, community groups, municipalities, and residents or volunteers, to meet organizational and programming goals or objectives. Cultivates relationships with current and potential partners.
• Serves, in collaboration with the staff and Board of Directors, as a spokesperson for Healthy Peninsula at community, regional, or state venues. Actively educates community members and partners on HP mission and programming.

HP Board of Directors

• With Board Chair, coordinates bi‑monthly Board of Directors meetings, assuring minutes, agenda, and supporting documents are available. Works in collaboration with the Board Governance committee to orient new members and assists in the development of board packet materials.
• Collaborates and participates in the development of working Board Committees and serves as staff to those committee meetings.
• Assures administrative support and technical guidance, as needed, for various projects from Board committees.

Planning and Funding

• Identifies community health program‑related funding opportunities and develops proposals, with Board and staff participation, as needed.
• Works in collaboration with funding sources to navigate all aspects of grant applications and reporting processes.
• Supervises all staff efforts on secured program grant funding to ensure that objectives are met and reporting is timely and responsive.
• Seeks to expand opportunities for annual individual and corporate/business unrestricted contributions or other funding streams.
• Works in partnership with Board of Directors to create a Strategic and Development Plan.
• Works with the Development Committee to implement all facets of a yearly annual appeal campaign, including planning, mailing, development of promotional materials, and receipt and acknowledgement of donors.
• Establishes fiscal oversight and information management systems needed to appropriately record donations and coordinate mailing lists for annual appeal mailing.

Program Administration

• Works in partnership with Board Chair and Finance Committee to create an annual budget.
• Oversees allocation of wages and expenses and assures creation and monitoring of budgets for various funding sources.
• Ensures timely submission of contract and grant requirements for all funding sources.
• Maintains record keeping system in compliance with funding and contract requirements.
• Maintains process for annual program progress reports to Board of Directors.
• Provides annual reports relevant to the community, donors, and other key stakeholders.
• Administers all subcontracts with local organizations/businesses and agreements with independent contractors or temporary employees.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

Strong leadership skills

• Management and human resource experience
• Highly organized
• Ability to give support to staff, volunteers, Board members
• Understanding, flexibility, and empathy for staff needs (family, work)
• Skills/interest in getting to know staff's strengths
• Ability to balance staff mentoring and fostering autonomy

Familiarity with Community Health and non‑profit organizations

• Strong background around one or more of HP's Initiatives
• Interest in implementing and promoting HP's collective impact/community convening model
• Recognition of the importance of listening to community and pursuing community‑identified activities and projects

Development and fundraising skills

• Experience with grant writing and grant management
• Excellent writing and editing skills
• Interest or experience in taking a leadership role with donor fundraising
• Interest or experience in exploring new fundraising and donor‑development models

Strong communication skills

• Good listening and speaking skills
• Strong writer who can adapt messaging and tone for different audiences
• Ability to engage and work with a wide range of individuals and groups
• Comfortable with being the voice of the organization

Commitment to Collaboration (internallyand externally)

• Commitment to both community and organizational collaboration
• Ability to work as a team player
• Seeks and values ideas from staff and partners
• Participates in direct programming
• Facilitates brainstorming and collective decision‑making, rather than top‑down hierarchical management
• Comfortable with outreach and networking with partners and community members

Organizational Vision

• Agrees with HP's Mission Statement and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) philosophy
• Prioritizes the big picture and our role in holistic community health

Financial oversight and budgeting

• Training or experience with budgeting or accounting
• Familiarity with QuickBooks Online (or willingness to learn)

Familiarity with Healthy Peninsula's service area towns and communities

• Ideally a resident of the Blue Hill Peninsula area with local connections
• Experience with local and regional health/social services networks
• Intention to commit to ED position for more than two years

Technical skills

• Familiarity with social media and use of common platforms
• Knowledge and experience working with Word, Adobe Acrobat, Excel, Google, Canva, etc.
• Willingness to develop proficiency with HP's client & volunteer database (Assisted Rides)

Compensation & Benefits

Salary will be based on qualifications at a range from $70,000 to $80,000 per year. Benefits package includes recognized holidays, paid vacation/sick leave, paid family medical leave, retirement plan contribution, and reimbursement for work travel. The schedule is primarily in‑person at the Healthy Peninsula office in Blue Hill, with flexibility for some remote hours.

We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Healthy Peninsula is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to continual learning and growth to ensure that we effectively support all members of our staff, Board, and volunteers. To learn more about Healthy Peninsula and to read our full Statement of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, please visit