Executive Director

Job Overview

Job title: Executive Director

Company: Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse (CASDA)

Location: Superior, Wisconsin (serving Douglas, Ashland, and Bayfield counties)

Work model: On site community presence required. Hybrid available for focused work.

Salary: $80,000 to $90,000 (target range)

Start timing: June 2026 (target)

A pivotal moment for CASDA. CASDA’s next Executive Director will lead lifesaving services across Northwest Wisconsin with care, clarity, and operational strength, ensuring safety and advocacy remain accessible when people need them most. This leader will strengthen sustainability through fundraising, grants, and community visibility, while also supporting and stabilizing a mission critical team by improving systems, accountability, and measurable impact.

CASDA is a mission driven nonprofit serving survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of abuse across a large, rural region where distance, limited resources, and isolation can make help harder to reach. With a trusted footprint and a deep commitment to safety, dignity, and survivor choice, CASDA provides survivor centered, trauma informed services that meet people in crisis and walk alongside them toward stability and healing.

This role is for a leader who can hold both compassion and operational discipline at the same time. You will steward a mission critical team, strengthen the infrastructure that enables staff to thrive, and deepen financial sustainability through fundraising, grants, and community visibility. In partnership with the Board, staff leaders, community agencies, and donors, you will protect what makes CASDA distinctive while building the capacity and resilience needed for the next chapter of impact.

Mission and Impact

CASDA’s mission is to promote safety, empowerment, and freedom from sexual assault and domestic abuse through education, intervention, and social change. Across Northwest Wisconsin, CASDA delivers measurable, mission critical impact in a region where geography, limited transportation, and resource constraints create real barriers to safety. In the most recent year alone:

• Public Education Program: 6,356 attendees reached through 63 community presentations, in addition to broader media engagement efforts across the region
• Shelter Program: 5,137 days of safe shelter provided to 115 adults and 59 children fleeing abuse, with an average stay of 34 days
• 10,274 meals and 5,137 snacks served to individuals and families in crisis

Team and Governance

CASDA’s Executive Director partners closely with a volunteer Board of Directors and leads a mission focused staff team.

• Board of Directors: five members with the following standing committees:
  • Executive and finance committees
  • Ad hoc event and fundraising committees
• Staffing mix:
  • Staff team: 12 full-time roles and 4 parttime or variable-hour roles, including overnight and fill in advocates
  • Budgeted roles: Approximately 18 positions across shelter, advocacy, prevention education, legal services, outreach, and administration

What you will lead and deliver

• Survivor Centered Leadership and Service Excellence: Protect and advance CASDA’s trauma informed, survivor centered model across every decision, policy, and interaction. Ensure reliable, high quality service delivery across shelter, advocacy, legal, outreach, and education programs. Strengthen safety protocols, supervision, and risk management practices so survivors can access support quickly, confidently, and without unnecessary barriers. Core competencies: Trauma informed leadership, service delivery excellence, quality assurance, risk management.
• Organizational and People Leadership: Stabilize and strengthen a mission critical team through clear expectations, coaching, accountability, and follow through. Build a culture grounded in trust and performance that supports wellbeing, retention, and consistent practice in demanding, high intensity work. Core competencies: Team leadership, culture building, performance management.
• Financial Stewardship and Revenue Sustainability: Lead with strong financial discipline, ensuring budgets, forecasting, and controls protect services and support long term stability. Strengthen CASDA’s revenue foundation by advancing a practical sustainability plan, improving development systems, deepening funder relationships, and diversifying revenue in alignment with mission and capacity. Core competencies: Financial leadership, forecasting, revenue strategy, fundraising, grant stewardship.
• Community Leadership and External Relations: Serve as a trusted, visible leader across Northwest Wisconsin. Strengthen relationships with community partners, public agencies, healthcare systems, schools, law enforcement, and referral networks to improve coordination, expand access, and increase organizational visibility and credibility. Core competencies: External relations, partnership development, community leadership.
• Governance, Communication, and Crisis Leadership: Build a strong working partnership with the Board grounded in transparency, shared accountability, and forward looking planning. Communicate with steadiness and clarity during sensitive situations and organizational change. Provide timely updates and sound judgment that protect confidentiality, build trust, and support effective governance. Core competencies: Board partnership, governance alignment, crisis leadership, executive communication.

Ideal Experience

• Senior leadership experience in nonprofit, advocacy, healthcare, or adjacent human services sectors
• Demonstrated financial management and budgeting expertise
• Fundraising and grant strategy experience
• Team leadership in high intensity or crisis informed environments
• Strong communication and judgment in sensitive situations
• Commitment to trauma informed practice and survivor dignity

Benefits

• Health insurance for eligible full‑time employees, CASDA covers 75% of the premium
• Vision coverage, CASDA covers 100% of the premium
• Dental coverage available, employee paid
• Life insurance equal to annual salary after 90 days of employment
• Paid holidays, CASDA recognizes 10 paid holidays each year
• Personal days, 4 per year for full time employees and 1 per year for part time employees, after 90 days
• Vacation, accrues after 90 days, 10 days for 0 to 2 years, 15 days for 3 to 4 years, 20 days for 5 or more years
• Sick time, 1 day accrued per month after 90 days, up to 80 days maximum accrual
• Self care days, 4 per year
• Retirement, IRA eligibility after two years, with CASDA contribution up to 3 % of annual salary, discretionary

Financial Snapshot

To provide candidates with a transparent sense of organizational scale and budget context, CASDA’s financials are summarized below.

Fiscal year results

• 2022 actual: Total income $1,379,380; total expenses $1,456,294; net -$103,545
• 2023 actual: Total income $1,551,163; total expenses $1,530,321; net $22,876
• 2024 actual: Total income $1,503,483; total expenses $1,533,452; net $51,462
• 2026 budget: Total income $1,387,982; total expenses $1,479,053; net -$91,071

2026 revenue mix

• Government grants: $1,134,982 (82%)
• Foundation grants: $0 (0%)
• Contributions: $0 (0%)
• Earned income: $10,000 (1%)
• Investments: $5,000 (0%)
• Fundraising income: $69,000 (5%)

Strategic Priorities

• Ensure equitable access to survivor centered, trauma informed services across a large rural region, reducing barriers created by distance, transportation, limited resources, and isolation.
• Strengthen service continuity and referral pathways across the Twin Ports region, leveraging proximity to Duluth for specialized support while maintaining CASDA’s local trust and presence.
• Expand community visibility, prevention, and education efforts to increase awareness, strengthen safety, and promote earlier intervention across Northwest Wisconsin.
• Build long term organizational resilience through stronger infrastructure, sustainable staffing, and reliable systems that support consistent service delivery, confidentiality, and safety

About the Community

CASDA serves survivors and families across Northwest Wisconsin. Superior sits on the western edge of Lake Superior, connected to Duluth, Minnesota, and the Twin Ports region. Many leaders are drawn to the area for its access to outdoor recreation, a close-knit community feel, and a strong network of civic and social-service partners. Amenities include:

• Lake Superior shoreline and parks, including Wisconsin Point and regional trails
• Arts, food, and culture across Superior and Duluth, with year‑round events and festivals
• Access to regional higher education, including University of Wisconsin‑Superior and nearby institutions in Duluth
• Regional healthcare access across the Twin Ports, with major medical centers and specialty care in Duluth

Resource Links

• CASDA:
• City of Superior:
• Visit Superior and Douglas County:
• Superior Douglas County Chamber of Commerce:
• Visit Duluth:
• University of Wisconsin Superior:
• Duluth International Airport:
• Essentia Health St Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth:
• Aspirus St Luke's Clinic, Superior:

How to Apply

Please submit the following materials: Resume or CV and a brief cover note that speaks to your interest in CASDA and the impact you want to help deliver in the first 12 to 18 months.

CASDA is committed to equitable hiring. We welcome candidates who bring a range of lived and professional experiences, including transferable leadership from adjacent sectors.

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