Executive Director - Just the Pill (Remote, US)

Overview

About Just The Pill Just The Pill (JTP) is a nonprofit founded in 2020. Our mission is to provide patient-centered medication abortion, contraception, and other sexual health care through telehealth and discreet package delivery. We offer funding, coordination, and thorough follow-up care to support abortion access with dignity and ease. Just The Pill serves patients in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming (including many patients who travel to receive care). Since founding, we have served more than 10,000 patients. We envision a future where abortion seekers can fully exercise bodily autonomy and experience reproductive justice with dignity and care, rooted in a long-term commitment to abortion access and adapting services to mitigate today’s restrictions and systemic barriers.

About The Opportunity Just The Pill seeks a dynamic, passionate, and values-focused Executive Director to lead our fully remote abortion care and sexual health clinic. This role requires a grounded, relational leader who can hold vision and strategy while delivering quality, people-centered patient care and maintaining a healthy, sustainable workplace. The Executive Director will lead with integrity and collaboration, balancing big-picture leadership with day-to-day operational oversight. The ideal candidate has a deep commitment to reproductive freedom, experience leading nonprofit teams and systems, and a leadership style grounded in reproductive justice values.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Strategy

• Translates Just The Pill's mission, vision, and values into priorities, goals, and strategies. Fosters shared accountability and responsibility across the organization for providing safe, inclusive, and high-quality patient care.
• Manages day-to-day operations, directly supervising three direct reports, creating and enacting standard operating procedures, and measuring progress on strategic goals.
• Develops and implements systems for identifying, tracking, monitoring, and reporting on key metrics, progress toward goals, and effectiveness of strategies. Regularly assesses alignment with values and strategic intent.
• Ensures regulatory and safety compliance across the organization, including coordinating with the Medical Director to maintain medical credentialing, certifications, licensure documentation, and quality assurance.
• Ensures digital systems and tools protect privacy, trust, and safety.

Budget, Fundraising, and Financial Management

• Ensures strong fiscal and administrative management of JTP. Partners with the Board and accounting team to monitor expenses, identify gaps, make budget recommendations, and prepare the annual audit.
• Aligns budget decisions with strategic priorities, ensuring resources serve mission, impact, and equity. Includes preparing an annual budget for Board approval, setting funding priorities, and establishing compensation guidelines.
• Oversees development and implementation of a sustainable fundraising plan, in collaboration with the Development Director.

Organizational Culture

• Aligns policies, practices, and norms with JTP's equity commitments and stated values.
• Collaborates with the Director of People and Culture to foster a supportive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.
• Builds systems that support sustainable work, including staff support, professional development, safety, boundaries, feedback, and learning.
• Uses data, including patient voices and movement context, to adapt strategy and operations in response to changing conditions (political, legal, funding, community, or organizational).

Collaboration and External Relations

• Identifies, cultivates, and sustains strategic partnerships; serves as lead representative with the Board of Directors, partners, coalitions, funders, aligned movements, and the public.
• Prepares and presents reporting for donors, funders, the Board of Directors, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with the Development Director to maintain strong relationships with funders and provide regular updates on impact and outcomes.
• Works with Communications to adjust messaging and engagement strategies in response to external challenges (e.g., legal or political shifts affecting reproductive health).

Requirements

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive leadership and supervisory experience in a nonprofit setting.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in sexual or reproductive health and/or reproductive justice, with a deep commitment to the organization's mission.
• Excellent communication and listening skills, ability to articulate vision and serve as JTP's primary spokesperson.
• Working knowledge of reproductive justice concepts, commitment to anti-oppressive principles, ability to work with people of varied backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.
• Ability to effectively manage and steward an annual budget of $4M+.
• Proficiency with technology and experience leading in a fully remote work environment.

Desired Skills and Abilities

• Community-oriented and inclusive leadership approach.
• Ability to understand and adapt to the emotional and political context of reproductive health work.
• Collaborative leadership within a leadership team, emphasizing transparency and shared problem-solving.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment.
• Familiarity with legal and regulatory processes for establishing medical service provision across multiple states and coordinating expansion beyond current service area.
• Familiarity with abortion shield law provisions and protections; ability to support expansion to a shield-law clinic.

Note to Potential Applicants

At Just the Pill, we believe a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us more relevant, creative, and resilient. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, body size, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure reasonable accommodations are available for applicants during the job application and interview process.

Deadline and Application Instructions

Please include a cover letter outlining your interest and why you would be a good fit, along with your resume submission. Work In Progress is a consulting firm collaborating with Just The Pill for hiring. If accommodations are required for applying or interviewing, contact Work In Progress at Questions about the role or application can be submitted via email.

The application deadline is March 27, 2026 at 5 PM EST. The projected start date is August 2026.

Benefits and Compensation

Compensation and Work Environment

• Annual Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000
• Work Environment: Fully remote (within the United States)
• Salaried, Full-Time, Exempt position, 40+ hours per week
• Benefits: 100% employer-covered Insurance Plans (Dental, Vision, Medical); dependent coverage at least 50% by employer; remote work stipend; Flexible Spending Accounts; Life Insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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