Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $225,000 - $275,000. In addition to salary, the ANA Enterprise offers incentive bonus compensation based on revenue and achievement of key strategic results. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance with optional Flexible Spending Account; short- and long-term disability, basic life, and AD&D insurance; Employee Assistance Plan; 401(K) retirement plan with employer match; transit and commuter benefits; travel assistance; wellness committee and initiatives; professional development opportunities; paid vacation and sick leave, and eleven paid holidays, plus a year-end paid office closure from December 25 – January 1. The Foundation Executive Director is a hybrid position based in Silver Spring, MD. Staff are on site two days per week.
Preferred Education:
4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
Employer will assist with relocation costs.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION
The ANA Enterprise is the family of organizations that includes the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation). The ANA Enterprise leverages the combined strength of each to drive excellence in practice and ensure nurses’ voices and vision are recognized by policy leaders, industry influencers, and employers. From professional development and advocacy to credentialing and grants, the ANA Enterprise is the leading resource for nurses to equip themselves with the tools, information, and network they need to excel in their individual practices. In helping individual nurses succeed — across all health care settings and specialties, and at each stage of their careers — the ANA Enterprise is lighting the way for the entire profession to succeed.
The American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) was established in 1955 as the research, education, and charitable affiliate of ANA. Since then, it has fought tirelessly to advance the nursing profession by raising funds to propel nurse-led research, provide education, and expand clinical practice to the benefit of the whole health care system.
The Foundation advances the nursing profession by serving as a thought-leader, catalyst for action, convener, and funding conduit. The Foundation identifies pressing issues facing nurses and collaborates with leaders both inside and outside the profession on solutions to provide financial resources needed to research, test, and amplify timely solutions that evolve the practice of nursing and transform health and health care for all communities.
MISSION & VISION
As the philanthropic arm of the Enterprise, the Foundation’s vision is to achieve 'a healthy world through the power of nursing,’ and this is more relevant today than ever. With an ever-changing health care landscape moving at rapid speed, nurses can revolutionize the approach to care for the better. The Foundation pursues this mission through the following:
Elevating the Profession of Nursing Globally
Engaging All Nurses to Ensure Professional Success
Evolving the Practice of Nursing to Transform Health and Health Care
With gifts and grants from generous donors, the Foundation invests in the wellbeing and success of individual nurses while championing the nursing cause throughout the health care system.
THE POSITION
The Foundation Executive Director provides visionary and strategic leadership in partnership with the ANA Enterprise CEO and the Foundation’s Board of Trustees to achieve the goals of the association. As an Executive Officer for the ANA Enterprise, the Executive Director will collaborate with leaders across the organization to develop strategy for programs and operations, ensure alignment with the strategic plan across all entities, and foster a culture of philanthropy to advance the organization, membership, and the profession.
The Executive Director reports to the ANA Enterprise CEO and manages a team of three direct reports including the Vice President of Programs, Director of Development, and the Operations Coordinator.
The Executive Director will be a creative and charismatic leader who can build upon the success of recent years to secure increased funding and partnerships to sustainably expand programs for nurses and the nursing profession. They must be an exceptional fundraiser, with the ability to identify and sustain relationships that will continue to bolster the Foundation’s mission. They must also be a dynamic leader capable of developing staff teams, providing strong business acumen, and demonstrating the ability to navigate short- and long-term plans for both the Foundation and the ANA Enterprise.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Executive Director will have the following responsibilities:
Enterprise Leadership [30%]
Collaborate across the ANA Enterprise – with the CEO, Executive Officers, Boards of Directors, and other volunteer leaders (board-sponsored commissions, committees, or task forces) – to develop and execute the goals of the ANA Enterprise Strategic Plan.
As a senior leader for the organization, identify opportunities to build, maintain, and enhance partnerships that will further the programs, goals, and mission of the ANA Enterprise.
Collaborate with the ANA Enterprise CEO and leadership team to support the Boards of Directors (ANA, ANCC and the Foundation) in their governance responsibility.
Ensure that colleagues across all entities of the ANA Enterprise understand, value, and support the work of the Foundation, and are able to advocate for the Foundation’s mission within their own networks.
Fundraising [60%]
Develop a comprehensive plan to diversify and increase funding in support of the Foundation’s mission, including distinct long-term strategies to engage and cultivate a robust base of individual, foundation, corporate, and government donors.
Cultivate and manage relationships with the Foundation’s most critical funders, engaging them more deeply with the Foundation and the ANA Enterprise; identify new partners with the potential to further advance the Foundation’s mission and programs.
Serve as an external representative for the Foundation and the ANA Enterprise at events, constituent and member programs, and with the media; work closely with the Chief Communications and Strategic Engagement Officer on all Foundation marketing and communications activity.
Ensure that funder relationships are managed and sustained across the Foundation development staff; mentor and support the ongoing professional development of fundraising staff.
Foundation Leadership & Management [10%]
With the Vice President of Programs, craft a future-focused, creative, and strategic vision for Foundation programs that moves beyond the pilot stage to long-term scalability and expansion.
Develop the annual budget for Board approval and prudently manage the organization’s resources.
Assist with Board development, including identification of potential Board members with significant fundraising capabilities; develop a strategic plan for identifying such potential Board members
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree; an advanced degree is preferred; or equivalent relevant experience.
A minimum of ten (10) years of senior level experience in nonprofit development with a successful history of fundraising, including membership, major gifts, corporate and planned giving, and development operations.
Passion for the mission of the Foundation and its role in supporting and advancing the nursing profession.
Ability and willingness to travel extensively.
Demonstrated experience with prospect research, donor relations, and stewardship programs to support a growing and complex development function.
Prior experience as a member of a high-performing leadership team; experience leading positive change and growth for a complex, multifaceted organization.
Success in all areas of nonprofit operations including staff development and management, budgeting, forecasting, and financial administration; comfort with relevant software to manage these activities.
Past experience recruiting, managing, and engaging a nonprofit Board of Directors.
Experience serving as guardian and spokesperson of an organizational brand, ensuring the consistency and appropriateness of messages across various media, targets, and communication platforms.
Enthusiasm for leading by example to motivate both staff and volunteers to achieve results with a small team.
A commitment to and passion for integrating diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging across all facets of an organization’s culture and mission; ability to foster DEIAB with boards and other stakeholders.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to relate comfortably with health care professionals, board and committee members, nurses, government officials, corporate and foundation leaders, philanthropists, community leaders, patients and the public.
Characteristics
Strong personal and professional integrity, with an ability to inspire confidence and cooperation; a motivator, leader, and capacity builder.
Strategic, creative, and visionary thinker, unafraid to take calculated risks to achieve greater impact.
Proactive and energetic partnership builder; charismatic and dynamic, able to convey a bold vision that fosters enthusiasm and support from internal and external stakeholders.
Ambitious, forward-thinking, and entrepreneurial thinker, grounded in the ability to get things done; able to balance developing and executing on a bold, strategic vision.
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