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Sample Executive Director Job Plan

corrective action is taken to maintain that atmosphere and to protect the charitable assets of

the organization.

Staff and volunteers: It is my responsibility to develop and lead a highly qualified and motivated

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staff, management structure and volunteer workforce, dedicated to achieving the mission of

(organization). and serving clients with empathy and respect. Staff and volunteers committed to

personal and professional development, working as a team and enjoying their jobs, are critical

to my success. My role is to empower staff and volunteers with the training, feedback, timely

information, resources and technical knowledge necessary to achieve board-mandated

outcomes. I will hold staff to the highest standards while treating them with respect, fairness

and dignity.

Donors: Without the financial support of the community, (organization) would not survive. It is

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my responsibility to engage current and potential donors in the future of (organization), by

building their awareness of the many ways that our organization can help fulfill their dreams,

by operating ethically and in the best interests of our donors, by ensuring the wise stewardship

of donors and their generous contributions, and by providing donors with acknowledgement,

information and recognition of their support in a way that builds lasting relationships between

them and (organization).

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Board of Directors: My success depends on a strong partnership with the Board and individual

directors to continue to build an organization that fulfills its mission and is worthy and

trustworthy of community support. I seek a collegial partnership with the board in developing

and implementing the vision, values and outcomes of (organization).

I welcome and expect open communications and timely feedback from the board on my

performance, in accordance with previously determined outcomes as mutually set forth in this

job plan. The board will instruct me through written policies adopted at board meetings, which

it may change as appropriate. As long as I use any reasonable interpretation of those policy

directives, I am authorized to establish all further policies, make all decisions, take all actions,

establish all practices, and develop all activities not otherwise the responsibility of the Board. In

turn, individual directors will respect director/staff boundaries by refraining from directing me

or the staff outside of board meetings or board-designated committee meetings. In those

interactions, directors will act only as advisors or volunteers to support staff efforts.

I shall communicate to the Board in a timely and sufficient manner to keep the Board informed

and prepared for its own work. I shall keep the Board informed of relevant trends, anticipated

media coverage (positive or adverse), material external and internal changes, particularly

changes in assumptions upon which any board policy has been or is being established.

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