Board of Directors

Alaska Board Match; Anchorage (AK); On-site; Full time

Job description

Careline Crisis Services, Inc.’s Board of Directors is legally and morally responsible for all its activities. Board members are responsible for determining agency policy and ensuring compliance in the following areas: Fundraising and Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Community Relations, and Organizational Operations.

Fundraising/Finance

• 1. Raising funds and/or ensuring that adequate funds are raised to support the organization’s policies and programs
• 2. Ensuring financial accountability of the organization
• 3. Overseeing an ongoing process of budget development, approval, and review
• 4. Managing and maintaining the properties or investments of the organization.

Human Resources

• Board members have three key responsibilities in this area:
• 1. Board membership (which includes recruiting new board members and providing existing board members with opportunities to grow and develop as leaders)
• 2. Executive Director accountability (which includes hiring, firing, and ongoing evaluation of the Executive Director)
• 3. Personnel policies (which include providing policy guidance about salaries, benefits, and grievance procedures)

Strategic Planning

• 1. Setting and reviewing the organization’s mission/vision and goals.
• 2. Planning for the organization’s future on a long-term and short-term basis.
• 3. Deciding and planning which services/programs the organization provides.
• 4. Evaluating the organization’s activities for alignment with the organization’s identified goals and objectives.

Community Relations

• 1. Ensuring that the organization’s programs and services effectively address community and client needs.
• 2. Marketing the organization’s services/programs.
• 3. Ongoing public relations (which includes an awareness that board members are always emissaries of the organization in the community)
• 4. Cooperative action (which includes occasions when the organization could/should take part in coalitions, joint fundraising, etc.)

Organizational Operations

• 1. Ensuring that the organization’s administrative systems are adequate and appropriate.
• 2. Ensuring that the board’s operations are adequate and appropriate.
• 3. Ensuring that the organization and legal structures are sufficient and appropriate.
• 4. Ensuring that the organization and its board members meet all applicable legal requirements.

Position Type

Board of Directors: Voluntary, legal governing body of a nonprofit.

Current areas of focus for board recruitment

Civil Rights / Activism, Community Relations, Finance, Legal

Closing Date

10/01/2026

Current Position Description

Board of Directors

Board of Directors’ Responsibilities

Careline Crisis Services, Inc.’s Board of Directors is legally and morally responsible for all its activities. Board members are responsible for determining agency policy and ensuring compliance in the following areas: Fundraising and Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Community Relations, and Organizational Operations.

Fundraising/Finance

• 1. Raising funds and/or ensuring that adequate funds are raised to support the organization’s policies and programs
• 2. Ensuring financial accountability of the organization
• 3. Overseeing an ongoing process of budget development, approval, and review
• 4. Managing and maintaining the properties or investments of the organization.

Human Resources

• Board members have three key responsibilities in this area:
• 1. Board membership (which includes recruiting new board members and providing existing board members with opportunities to grow and develop as leaders)
• 2. Executive Director accountability (which includes hiring, firing, and ongoing evaluation of the Executive Director)
• 3. Personnel policies (which include providing policy guidance about salaries, benefits, and grievance procedures)

Strategic Planning

• 1. Setting and reviewing the organization’s mission/vision and goals.
• 2. Planning for the organization’s future on a long-term and short‑term basis.
• 3. Deciding and planning which services/programs the organization provides.
• 4. Evaluating the organization’s activities for alignment with the organization’s identified goals and objectives.

Community Relations

• 1. Ensuring that the organization’s programs and services effectively address community and client needs.
• 2. Marketing the organization’s services/programs.
• 3. Ongoing public relations (which includes an awareness that board members are always emissaries of the organization in the community)
• 4. Cooperative action (which includes occasions when the organization could/should take part in coalitions, joint fundraising, etc.)

Organizational Operations

• 1. Ensuring that the organization’s administrative systems are adequate and appropriate.
• 2. Ensuring that the board’s operations are adequate and appropriate.
• 3. Ensuring that the organization and legal structures are sufficient and appropriate.
• 4. Ensuring that the organization and its board members meet all applicable legal requirements.

Position Type

Board of Directors: Voluntary, legal governing body of a nonprofit.

Current areas of focus for board recruitment

Civil Rights / Activism, Community Relations, Finance, Legal