President & Chief Executive Officer

Prairie Band LLC; Kansas; On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie Band LLC seeks a President & CEO to provide strategic leadership and financial oversight, reporting to the Board. This onsite role entails guiding long-range goals, policies, and plans while working with the Sr. Leadership team to execute the mission.

The CEO will drive revenue growth, ensure fiscal discipline, and maintain strong governance with the Board. Travel is occasional, and the position demands a high level of integrity and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's in business with 10+ years of related experience in senior management.
• Ten years of senior management experience (Director level or above).
• 5+ years of federal program, 8(a) and contract management experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and financial oversight aligned with the organization's mission.
• Collaborate with the Board and senior leadership to set long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.
• Communicate with the Board in a timely, clear manner and exercise high-level problem solving and decision making.
• Oversee operational controls and drive revenue growth targets by at least 15% annually.
• Maintain strong relationships with the Board, donors, government, and the community.
• Attract, develop, and retain a high-quality workforce; promote ethical standards and trust.
• Represent the organization to government bodies, accrediting agencies, and media.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies regarding data and operations.
• Lead budgeting processes and ensure financial discipline and profitability across all companies.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Financial oversight

Board liaison

Public speaking

Risk assessment

Budgeting

Negotiation

Change management

Team development

Education

MBA preferred

BA in Business Administration

Job description

Description

The President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) serves the organization by providing strategic leadership and financial oversight and direction. This position reports to the Board of Directors and is an onsite position with occasional travel required.

The CEO is also responsible for working with the Board of Directors (Board) and the Sr. Leadership team to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies. The CEO communicates with the Board in a timely manner and exercises high-level skills of problem solving and decision making in matters that have a major impact on the ongoing success of the organization.

Major Duties

• Ensures that quality and staff safety is a top priority at every level in the organization.
• Responsible for oversight for financial discipline and the importance of financial balance to achieve the mission and vision.
• Develops, communicates and leads the implementation of the strategic plan in a manner consistent with the organization’s mission, vision and values.
• Review, develop and maintain operational controls for all companies.
• Develop strategies and implement for minimum of 15% increase in revenues overall per year.
• Develop strategies and implement systems to increase profitability across all companies.
• Ensures a positive working relationship with the Board founded on honesty, trust and collaboration.
• Sets an organizational tone that attracts, retains, motivates and develops a highly qualified workforce.
• Maintains an open, honest, trusting and collaborative relationship with senior leaders and develops future leaders within the organization.
• Represents and promotes the interests and image of the organization to the government, accrediting bodies, prospective donors, the media and the community at large.
• Committed to continually improving personal leadership performance.
• Establishes a unifying vision and culture across the organization.
• Seeks partnerships that help achieve the organization’s mission and vision.
• Maintains open lines of communication and a strong rapport and professional working relationships at all levels.
• Combines strong ethical judgment with technical and management skills and exhibits values of fairness, honesty and compassion.
• Performs additional duties as assigned by the Board.
• Has hiring and firing authority for the organization. Consults with the Board of Directors prior to hiring or firing key personnel, including CFO or COO.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration highly preferred, or Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field with 10+ years of supplemental experience in related field required.
• Ten (10) years of senior management experience (Departmental Director or above), five (5) of which are as a top-level executive (Vice President or above).
• 5+ years of federal program, 8(a) and contract management required.
• Knowledge of marketing, finance, quality, change management and risk assessment.
• Experience developing and implementing budgets.
• Highly motivated, organized, accurate, detail oriented with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrates the highest degree of trustworthiness, sound moral judgment, and ethical behavior, with a clear understanding of the impact and consequences of their decisions and actions.
• Manages all data and operations in strict adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies, ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive information.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective interpersonal relationships with all levels of management, employees, business, government and community officials and the general public.
• Effective public speaking skills
• Skill in maintaining effective governing board relations, interpersonal skills, communications, strategic and financial planning and leadership.
• Skill in problem solving, negotiations and issue identification in employee situations.
• Ability to organize, plan, execute, control and evaluate programs and activities of the organization with multiple constituencies.
• Team building skills and the ability to effectively gain consensus among multiple constituencies.
• Ability to prioritize and manage work effectively and efficiently to accomplish tasks while managing multiple projects at the same time and delivering friendly service.
• Must have the ability to respect diversity and individual needs.
• Collaborative team player who listens to and appreciates the input and ideas of all stakeholders.
• Possesses good public relations skills, with evidence of ability to work and communicate with people to ensure effective internal and external relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to manage multiple projects and programs.
• Brings a high level of maturity, professionalism, personal responsibility, humor and humility that earns the respect, support and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders and partners.

Work Environment

Professional and deadline-oriented environment in an office setting.

Interaction with staff and customers.

Additional duties:

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee holding this position. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.

Indian Preference Exercised

Prairie Band, LLC is subject to Title 22: Employment Code of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In accordance with Title 22, this position is designated as a TIER 2 position. Preference will be given to individuals to the extent required pursuant to Section 22-2-4(B).

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