Executive Director

Help build a more sustainable and peaceful word. The Institute for Humane Education (IHE), headquartered in Surry, ME, seeks a full-time executive director to lead our unique non-profit that brings people the knowledge, tools and motivation to create a humane world. Comprehensive humane education connects the issues of human rights, animal protection, and environmental preservation and provides learners with the skills to create positive change in the world.

We offer graduate level training in humane education, humane education courses and workshops for teens through adults, in addition to working to advance this field in the educational system and within social movements.

Qualifications: 

Applicants will ideally have the following qualifications:

• Fundraising: Proven track record of increasing fundraising through mix of major donor cultivation, grant writing, general appeals, and events.
• Leadership and personnel management: Ability to inspire, develop, and oversee staff. Past supervisory responsibilities for staff of 3 or more people. Experience with remotely located and part-time staff a plus.
• Marketing, program management, and publicity: Demonstrated results increasing program participation and revenues and gaining media exposure.
• Finance: Understanding of nonprofit financial reporting, developing and managing a budget, overseeing financial transactions, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Strong writing skills: Ability to create clear, accurate, compelling communications to donors, foundations, program participants, newsletter recipients and web and blog visitors.
• Board management: Experience with appropriate reporting, engaging board members in oversight activities, managing board-led fundraising efforts, helping run board meetings, and recruiting effective board members.
• Planning, analysis and monitoring: Skill in strategic planning processes with board and staff, including recommending priorities and goals, assessing results vs. plan and determining course corrections.
• Interest in and commitment to humane education issues: Basic understanding of human rights, animal protection, and environmental preservation issues and the connections between them. Strong interest in continuing to learn more. Commitment to modeling humane and sustainable values.
• Education experience: Experience and/or knowledge of K-12, higher ed, alternative education and/or education reform, including understanding of challenges to bringing humane education into schools and curricula.
• Computer skills: Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word and, to a lesser degree, PowerPoint. Expertise in Filemaker, graphic design software and html helpful but not required.

Compensation: $44-50K

To Apply: 

Please fully acquaint yourself with our organization through our website and send resume, cover letter, and referrals to Zoe Weil.

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