The hiring of our new Executive Director was conducted through a rigorous National Search Advocate process, aimed at ensuring a comprehensive, fair, and inclusive selection. This approach allowed us to tap into a diverse pool of highly qualified candidates from across the country. The National Search Advocate, an individual trained in mitigating unconscious bias and promoting equitable hiring practices, guided the search committee through each stage of the recruitment process. From the initial job posting to the final interviews, the Advocate worked closely with the committee to uphold the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This methodical and unbiased process has been instrumental in helping us find the best candidate to lead our organization into its next chapter. 9/19/23
Executive Director Job Description
NACPM Vision, purpose, values and commitments: NACPM envisions a primary birth care system in our country where all birthing people access care through a midwife, where birth place is the choice of the family, and where all childbearing people and their babies have thesame chance to be healthy. NACPM is the only professional association in the United States for Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) whose expertise is in providing midwifery care in community settings - such as homes, community clinics, and freestanding birth centers. NACPM’s purpose is to be a powerful, collective voice for CPMs. We strengthen and support excellence in the profession and influence birth health policy to ensure that all childbearing people and babies have a healthy start.
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Executive Director of NACPM leads the association towards achieving its vision, purpose, values and commitments. The Executive Director is responsible for the overall management of NACPM including all personnel, operations, financial management, strategic planning, project development, marketing, and fundraising efforts of the organization, to support and implement the mission. Additionally, the Executive Director holds primary responsibility for developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders, and serving as a policy advocate for the integration of CPMs in the maternity care system.
About NACPM:
NACPM is a small, virtual, non-profit professional membership organization. The Executive Director is currently the only full-time staff person. Personnel also include a part-time Operations Manager and part-time Chapter Program Manager, and other consultants hired on an as needed basis. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors, a committed and volunteer group of CPMs and CPM advocates.
Within the national perinatal health landscape, NACPM plays a vital role in representing CPMs. The incoming Executive Director has an exciting opportunity to shape and grow the future of this vital professional association. In collaboration with stakeholders, the Executive Director will play a key role in advancing innovation in perinatal health equity and reproductive justice.
Job Description
Title: Executive Director
FSLA: Overtime Exempt
Supervisor: Board of Directors
Directly Supervises: Operations Manager
Salary & Benefits: $90k-$110k/year DOE plus $10,000 annual healthcare stipend
*This is a remote position with some travel required.
Minimum Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university in nonprofit management, public health, or related field. Experience may be substituted for education.
One year of demonstrated experience in nonprofit management
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including public writing and speaking and the ability to interact effectively with people of diverse ideological and political positions
Demonstrated alignment with NACPM’s vision, purpose, values and commitments
Demonstrated understanding of the perinatal health care system in the USA, including the role of Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) and reproductive justice issues
Two years of demonstrated experience using digital communication, project management technologies, and familiarity with systems such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office systems, and file hosting service
Preferred Qualifications
A master’s degree or equivalent from an accredited college or university in nonprofit management, public health, or related field. Experience may be substituted for education.
Two years of demonstrated experience in nonprofit management including strategic planning, resource development, program developments, grants and contracts management, financial management, and staff management
Demonstrated experience and/or knowledge of the expertise of the Certified Professional Midwife in normal, physiologic birth in community settings
Familiarity with direct-entry midwifery education, training routes, professional issues, and core competencies
Experience with social media campaigns and engagement
Essential Job Functions:
Strategic direction and planning
Fundraising & Development
Organizational & financial management
1. Strategic direction and planning
Provide leadership in developing and updating the organizational strategic plan and goals with the Board and staff to align with mission and values of NACPM
Develop and implement a sustainable plan to grow the organization by increasing and supporting membership, increasing and supporting NACPM state chapters, increasing and diversifying funding sources, increasing staffing, hiring consultants etc.
Prioritize equity and justice across all organizational initiatives
Monitor significant developments and trends in midwifery, perinatal and public health policy, state level legislative efforts and threats to practice, and birth and reproductive justice priorities.
Develop and nurture collaborative relationships with key individuals and organizational stakeholders
Represent NACPM in written and oral communication in collaboration with Board
Devise and implement robust communication strategy in collaboration with Operations Manager, including social media, membership outreach, and webinar development
2. Fundraising & Development
Create a marketing and development plan with long and short-range goals, strategies, and measurements
Diversify and stabilize revenue from individual donors, foundations, and programs
Develop and nurture relationships with current individual donors and funders and cultivate new ones
Identify, research and write grants for programming and organizational operations, including salaries
Provide strategic direction and support to the Board in meeting fundraising goals
3. Organizational and Financial Management
Work with and support the Board, staff, members, state chapters, volunteers, and interns to fulfill NACPM’s mission
Develop and maintain systems to enhance organizational capacity (ex: Board Teams, State Chapters Program)
Direct program and project development and management
Develop member engagement plan - including communications strategy, continuing education programming, and volunteer & intern engagement
Supervise staff
Coordinate annual budget review process
Maintain responsible and transparent fiscal management, including financial policies and procedures
Assure budgetary, financial, and other legal and regulatory requirements and standards are met
Create and evaluate fiscal and financial reports, forms and data; analyze complex written documents
Assess NACPM’s operational, program, staffing, and fiscal needs
Recruit and manage consultants
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Ability to effectively use persuasion, education, and conflict resolution skills in various settings
Strong collaboration, leadership and interpersonal skills
Exceptional fundraising skills: donor cultivation and engagement, campaign building
Grant writing skills
Ability to analyze and evaluate data and complex written documents
Ability to create fiscal and financial reports, forms and data
Requirements
Computer/Phone/Internet access
Ability to travel an average of 5-7 days/month
Must be eligible to work in the U.S.
Email careers@nacpm.org with questions.