Executive Director - Greater Atlanta

americanredcross; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

American Red Cross in Atlanta, GA seeks an Executive Director for the Greater Atlanta Chapter to lead community relations, fundraising, and strategic operations. You will advance humanitarian programs, build partnerships, and guide chapter staff to deliver core services across 12 metro counties.

As the chapter's external face, you will shape stakeholder engagement, donor development, and volunteer recruitment while ensuring resilience and equitable access to disaster response and community

Job description

Please use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox when accessing Candidate Home. By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?

Join us-Where your Career is a Force for Good!

Job Description:

This position involves very little operational responsibility. It is an external-facing, community relations and fundraising position. It is a plus if the successful candidate has established connections within the community.

WHY CHOOSE US?

Joining the American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

Where Your Career is a Force for Good!

We are currently seeking a professional, innovative and enthusiastic Executive Director for Greater Atlanta, based in Atlanta, GA.

The Greater Atlanta chapter serves 12 metro counties: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Paulding and Rockdale.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Chapter Executive Director (ED) serves as the primary community facing leader and facilitator for the American Red Cross at the chapter level. As a facilitative meta-leader, the ED, in partnership with functional supervisors , convenes, aligns, and empowers cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver core services, deploy secondary services where needed most, and strengthen community resilience. The ED represents the organization publicly, leads collaborative chapter planning with and alongside the community, and stewards strategic relationships to achieve regional program, revenue, volunteer recruitment & engagement, blood collection, and community engagement goals.

The American Red Cross Greater Atlanta Chapter is seeking a dynamic, community-centered Executive Director to serve as the face, voice, and catalyst of our mission across one of the nation's most diverse and vibrant communities.

This is a unique opportunity for a visionary leader who thrives on building relationships, mobilizing resources, and inspiring collective action. As the chapter's principal external leader, the Executive Director will elevate the Red Cross presence across Greater Atlanta-engaging donors, volunteers and community partners to advance humanitarian impact and long-term resilience.

This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE GOOD

Community Leadership & Representation

• Primary community facing leader of the American Red Cross -maximizing presence, connectivity, and recognition of Red Cross contributions in the community.
• Span organizational boundaries and bridge silos for coordinated community response ("unity of effort").
• Ensure upward, downward, and outward connectivity-coordinating stewardship across Programs, Communications, and Fundraising.

Chapter Planning & Regional Framework

• Participate as a member of the Regional Leadership Team to support achievement of regional program, revenue, volunteer recruitment & engagement, blood collection, and community engagement goals.
• Lead the chapter planning process and drive progress toward plan objectives. Convene and align cross-functional teams and external stakeholders across sectors (government, nonprofit, business, faith) to co‑create chapter plans with shared outcomes, roles, and accountability.
• Use data and community voice to prioritize where secondary services are deployed to close gaps, strengthen resilience, and improve equity of access to Red Cross services.

Revenue & Fundraising

• Lead the chapter in supporting the achievement of the region's revenue targets
• Meet the assigned individual fundraising target which includes,
• Meet the annual chapter board members' give and get campaign goals,
• Maintain assigned donor accounts as defined by the Region’s ???
• Actively participating in influencing fundraising in conjunction with the Chief Development Officer.
• In partnership with the CDO, recruit, develop, and support philanthropy committee members who have philanthropic influence in the community and will actively play a leadership role in fundraising.

Strategic Relationships & Elected Officials

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