Executive Director - CHNSC

Resilient Strategies; California; On-site; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Wellness & Sustainability Support

401(k) Retirement Account

Vacation + Holidays + Sabbatical

Job summary

The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC) seeks an Executive Director to lead strategy, fundraising, and operations for CHNSC and CA Collab Action, a 501(c)(3)/(4) nonprofit. You will partner with the Steering Committee, staff, and nail salon workers to advance health, safety, and rights.

The role requires eight to ten years of senior nonprofit leadership, and a track record of fundraising, governance, and coalition building.

Qualifications

• Eight to ten years of senior or executive nonprofit leadership experience.
• Experience in fundraising, grants management, and coalitions.
• Ability to balance strategic and operational responsibilities.
• Demonstrated collaborative leadership and staff development.

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary leadership and oversee CHNSC's 3-year strategic plan.
• Lead fundraising goals, donor cultivation, and grant reports.
• Set communications strategy and serve as public face of CHNSC.
• Build strategic partnerships and represent CHNSC in coalitions.
• Oversee financial management, budgeting, and compliance.
• Hire, supervise, and evaluate staff; promote inclusive culture.
• Support Steering Committee governance and fiscal oversight.

Skills

Executive leadership

Fundraising

Communications

Strategic partnerships

Strategic planning

Financial management

People management

Job description

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative Executive Director

About the Organization

The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC) is a statewide grassroots organization that addresses health, workers' rights, environmental and reproductive justice, and other social issues faced by its low-income, female, Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workforce. Our mission is to mobilize the nail salon workforce to transform the health, safety, and working conditions across the industry, building a sustainable, thriving, and equitable community.

Using a multi-tiered approach that blends community organizing, grassroots policy advocacy, and community-based research, CHNSC builds power of the nail salon community to develop solutions that benefit the nail salon workforce, their families, small immigrant- and refugee-owned businesses, and their communities. Our vision is a world where the nail salon community is healthy, safe, and thriving.

Position Overview

The Executive Director is responsible for the successful planning and operations of CHNSC, a 501(c)(3) organization, and CA Collab Action, a 501(c)(4) organization. The Executive Director is accountable to the Steering Committee, staff, and nail salon worker and owner members, who provide critical strategic, executive, and thought leadership. The Executive Director leads and executes the strategic plan and serves as the primary fundraiser while overseeing fiscal operations, human resources, operations, communications, and program management. The Executive Director models and guides organizational culture and values, and is the main public face for CHNSC's mission.

Responsibilities

Leadership, Strategy, and Management (20%)

• Provide visionary leadership, establish long-term strategies, and oversee the implementation of CHNSC's 3-year strategic plan, aligning systems, resources, and accountability structures to advance its goals.

• Ensure that CHNSC's programs advance strategic priorities, demonstrate impact, and meet applicable funder and compliance requirements.

• Champion and model CHNSC's organizational values while promoting them within organizational policies and practices.

• Build organizational leadership capacity by developing and empowering staff leaders, fostering team communication and cohesion, and supporting staff development.

Fundraising & Development (25%)

• Set and lead a diversified fund development strategy to strengthen long-term financial sustainability and align fundraising with organizational priorities.

• Establish and evaluate annual fundraising goals and priorities while ensuring successful implementation.

• Cultivate and steward strong, consistent relationships with current and prospective funders, donors, and funding partners.

• Oversee fund development systems and manage grant proposals and reports.

Communications & Narrative Strategy (10%)

• Set the strategic direction for CHNSC's communications and organizational narrative, ensuring alignment with its mission, advocacy, fundraising, and visibility.

• Serve as CHNSC's primary public facing representative while elevating the organization’s and staff leadership’s visibility in mainstream and ethnic media.

• Ensure that the organization’s communications strategy aligns with internal and external organizational, fundraising, advocacy, and programming priorities.

Collaborations & Strategic Partnerships (15%)

• Set and advance a strategic partnership agenda that expands CHNSC's influence, reach, resources, and impact.

• Position CHNSC as a respected voice and strategic partner in state and national coalitions, partnerships, and movement spaces.

• Serve as a spokesperson and thought leader on key advocacy issues, representing CHNSC through media, publications, panels, and other relevant platforms.

Financial Management & Sustainability (10%)

• Provide strategic financial leadership to ensure CHNSC's long-term financial health, sustainability, and capacity to meet current and projected program growth.

• Monitor annual budget and provide quarterly financial reports to the Steering Committee for approval.

• Work closely with the fiscal sponsor to ensure appropriate financial protocols, risk management, and compliance with all applicable IRS, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations, and funder regulations.

Personnel Management (10%)

• Ensure effective, equitable, and legally compliant human resources policies and practices that are aligned with CHNSC's fiscal sponsor.

• Set organizational staffing priorities that support recruitment, retention, and leadership development

• Hire, supervise, and conduct performance evaluations, and manage disciplinary and other personnel actions in accordance with CHNSC's fiscal sponsor's policies.

• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing work environment built on communication, trust, accountability, and shared purpose.

Steering Committee and Other Responsibilities (10%)

• Serve as the primary organizational liaison to the Steering Committee, building strong relationships with current, new, and prospective Steering Committee members.

• Facilitate effective decision-making by the Steering Committee including general oversight, strategic direction, accountability and fiscal oversight for the organization.

• Perform other duties consistent with the responsibilities and strategic priorities of the Executive Director role, as assigned by the Steering Committee.

Required Qualifications

We recognize that strong candidates may not meet every qualification listed and that leadership roles often provide opportunities for continued growth. We encourage applicants who bring many of the required qualifications and a demonstrated capacity to grow into the role to apply.

Executive Leadership and Organization Management

• At least eight to ten years of senior or executive-level nonprofit leadership experience, including management, fundraising, and coalition building.

• Ability to balance strategic and operational responsibilities, manage competing priorities, while successfully moving projects and campaigns forward.

• Demonstrated collaborative leadership skills, including team building, facilitation, conflict resolution, and effectively guiding teams through periods of environmental, political or organizational changes.

• Proven ability to foster an organizational culture that supports staff development, shared leadership, and organizational pride.

Mission, Values, and Issue Expertise

• Demonstrated experience in fields of health justice, environmental justice, reproductive justice, racial justice, workers' rights, immigrant rights, and other social justice issues, with commitment to advancing the health, safety, and rights of salon workers and low wage workers.

• Experience working with Southeast Asian, immigrant, and refugee communities.

• Experience in organizing, advocacy, and government relations, with knowledge of the public policies and conditions affecting nail salon workers, owners, their families, and their communities.

• Experience working in multiracial coalition and movement spaces to build solidarity and support collective action.

Funding and Revenue Development

• Demonstrated success as a fundraiser, including cultivating relationships and securing funding from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies.

• Success and experience with proposal writing and grants management.

Strategic Planning, Organizational Development, and Financial Management

• Knowledge of best practices in nonprofit operations and human resources management.

• Experience in strategic planning, development, and monitoring performance and operations benchmarks.

• Minimum eight to ten years of experience in nonprofit fiscal management, including budgeting, financial analysis, forecasting, and grant compliance.

Communications and Narrative Strategy

• Exceptional communication skills and ability to engage effectively with staff, Steering Committee, partners, funders, policy makers, and external stakeholders.

Other Requirements

• Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends.

• Proficiency with standard office and communication software and comfort working in a technology-enabled, multi-site environment.

• Fluency in English is required.

• Must be based in California or willing to relocate within an agreed‑upon timeframe.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency or proficiency in Vietnamese.

• Familiarity working with Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, immigrant, and/or refugee communities in California, particularly Orange County, Los Angeles County, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Residence near one of CHNSC’s two offices in Orange County or Oakland.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This position requires some amount of travel within California - up to 10% of time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

• The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and walk.

• The employee is regularly required to use hands to key, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.

• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, climb, and/or crawl.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Employment Terms

The Executive Director is a full-time, exempt position with a salary range of $130k - 165k annually, depending on experience and qualifications. CHNSC also provides a generous benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision

• Life and Disability Coverage

• Medical Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Dependent Care FSA

• Parking and Commuter FSA

• Gym benefit

• Employee Assistance Program

• Chiropractor and Acupuncture benefit

• 401(k) Retirement Account

• Wellness and Sustainability Support

• Vacation time starting at 10 days in the first year of employment and increasing 3.75 days per year in years 2 and 3

• Additional paid time off, including 2 personal days, 10 holidays, office closure for two weeks at the end of the year, and Wellness Fridays during the summer.

• CHNSC offers a three-month paid sabbatical after seven years of employment

EEO & Diversity Statement

CHNSC contracts with Resilient Strategies, LLC for backend and operational support, including hiring and employment. Resilient Strategies is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, caste-oppressed, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply. Pursuant of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.