DescriptionSenior Friendship Centers
is seeking a dynamic:
Executive Director
Senior Friendship Centers is seeking a dynamic and mission driven leader to serve as our Executive Director for Lee County operations. This leadership role will be for someone who knows Lee County deeply—its people, partners, stakeholders, and community priorities—and is ready to translate relationships into meaningful impact for older adults.
Reporting to the VP of Contracted Programs, the Executive Director provides visionary, strategic, and operational leadership to advance the mission, strengthen community impact, and ensure the long-term sustainability of Senior Friendship Centers’ Lee County operations.
The Executive Director will lead with our core values of compassion, integrity, collaboration, and respect. Applicants must live in Lee County Florida and already have deep connections within the community.
This is a full-time (40 hours/week), Monday–Friday position with occasional evening and weekend outreach events. We offer a robust benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage; generous paid time off; paid holidays; a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match; and—most importantly—the chance to do meaningful work with an organization that truly cares. If you’re ready to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you—apply today!
Essential Functions:
Strategic and Organizational Leadership:
- Provide visionary leadership to advance the organization’s mission, values, strategic priorities, and long-term sustainability.
- Lead day-to-day operations of all Lee County services and sites, ensuring safe, high-quality, mission aligned programming.
- Set annual goals, operating plans, and performance dashboards (quality, outcome, and client experience).
- Ensure strong systems for compliance, risk management, and continuity planning.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee Nutrition (All Counties) and Friendship at Home (Lee) programming and services to ensure quality, effectiveness, and compliance.
- Monitor financial performance and implement corrective actions as needed.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with community partners, funders, donors, policymakers, and stakeholders.
- Remain current with major funding legislation, contract regulations, and policies that affect service provision and/or the scope of Senior Friendship Centers.
- Works with VP Contracted Programs to oversee the monitoring of subcontractors for compliance with contract requirements. Resolve problems in service delivery when necessary. May develop and implement billing and/or tracking procedures for subcontractors.
- Administer service contracts and grants in accordance with rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. Responsible for interpreting, implementing, and assuring compliance with applicable regulations, policies, and procedures pertaining to appropriate programs.
- Attend staff meetings, training, and seminars as required.
- Must comply with all Senior Friendship Centers personnel policies.
- Must protect the safety and health of staff, volunteers, participants, and others by observing and following the safety and incident policies in the Employee Handbook.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work environment may vary between locations and include stairs, office space adaptation when traveling, and a moderate noise level.
- Senior Friendship Centers is a drug-free and smoke-free workplace.
Other Duties:
Please note: while this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the primary requirements of the job, this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. The board of governors reserves the right to add or remove duties, responsibilities, and activities at any time with or without notice when circumstances (e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.
QualificationsCompetencies:
- Superlative communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate as a leader.
- Ability to articulate organizational mission and purpose clearly and passionately to a variety of constituent groups.
- Excellent managerial skills and financially conversant skills with the ability to interpret key financial and operational data, and to take leadership over any department or program area.
- Ability to promote a culture of communication and collaboration among departments, programs, and geographic areas to create a spirit of unity in the organization.
- Thorough understanding of management and financial practices in all areas of operations.
- Exemplify leadership from a commitment to community, staff development, and organizational excellent.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
Education, Experience, Licenses, and Certifications:
- Bachelor or Master Degree in related field, or commensurate professional experience to provide the requisite knowledge, skills, and ability for satisfactory performance in this position.
- Extensive professional experience in leadership roles and three years of experience in social, cultural, and recreational services.
- Minimum of three years of executive experience, preferably with a non-profit organization.
- Experience developing and executing a strategic vision and planning process, and innovative, collaborative solutions to community matters.
- Experience as a collaborative community leader who has built and leveraged relationships in support of the community. Experience in public speaking and leading presentations.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Physical Demands:
- Must be able to lift 20 pounds.
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer and standing.
- Must be able to navigate various departments of a physical location.
Travel:
- Travel will be required as frequently as needed to support operations, fundraising and outreach.
- Must have reliable transportation.
- A valid driver’s license and proof of insurance are required for all work-related travel.
Additional eligibility requirements:
- Satisfactory clearance of a fingerprint-based, level II background screening and pre-employment substance abuse testing is required.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
Affirmative Action/EEO statement:
It is the policy of Senior Friendship Centers to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, employment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored employee activities.
All applicants must pass a Level 2 Background Screening. Level 2 background screening is Florida's highest level of background check. It is required by Section 435.04, Florida Statues for individuals working in positions of responsibility or trust. Level 2 screening helps ensure that people who care for children, seniors, and vulnerable populations are safe and trustworthy.
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