InvestED Executive Director
Feiro Marine Life Center, Renton, WA, United States
InvestED, ED Job Posting
Qualifications and Attributes
- 5-7 years of progressive leadership experience, including relationship-based development, management of staff and organizational or program-level responsibility is preferred.
- Demonstrated success in fundraising and relationship-based development, including major donors, foundations or strategic partnerships.
- A self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with a genuine drive to grow organizational impact and a bias toward action.
- The ability to articulate a compelling vision for InvestED’s future and inspire donors, partners and staff around it.
- Experience leading organizational growth, change initiatives or operational transformation.
- A strategic, forward-looking mindset with the ability to translate vision into disciplined execution.
- Strong strategic thinking skills paired with the ability to prioritize, filter ideas and execute effectively.Ability to build systems and infrastructure that support scale without sacrificing mission integrity.
- Comfort with and curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI tools that can enhance fundraising, communications and program operations.
- Prior experience working effectively with a Board of Directors is preferred.
- Experience leading and developing teams with a leadership style grounded in clarity, trust and accountability.
- Financial literacy and comfort managing budgets and organizational operations. Prior ownership of P&L for an organization or group/team preferred.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Marketing and communications instincts, including the ability to articulate InvestED’s story compellingly across audiences.
- Ability to represent InvestED externally through community events, presentations and other public facing interactions.
- Familiarity with Washington’s education, nonprofit or philanthropic community is valued.
- Authentic commitment to InvestED’s mission and to advancing opportunity and belonging to students.