Executive Director - Northwest Arkansas

As Immerse Arkansas expands into Northwest Arkansas, we are looking for a strong executive director to launch and lead a new site as well as grow its impact. We seek a galvanizer, excellent implementer, systems builder, and a healthy leader with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. An effective executive director also carries a presence to guide the site’s community engagement, local fundraising, and key relationships with donors and stakeholders. 

The executive director is responsible for all components of Immerse Arkansas’ development, service delivery, and operations at the Immerse Arkansas site in Northwest Arkansas. This includes overseeing the delivery of supports to youth and families, leading strong and effective teams, ensuring smooth and effective operations, growing the organization’s presence, and implementing the site’s development efforts. This also includes leading the site to achieve a high level of impact in all organizational domains.  

Reporting to the CEO, the Northwest Arkansas Executive Director will:

  1. Oversee the launch and implementation of Immerse’s model to serve families and youth from crisis in Northwest Arkansas. Cast vision for the site’s future initiatives and community presence in tandem with support from Immerse’s BASE-Q team.

  2. Lead the organization’s regional fundraising presence and develop strong, external relationships with stakeholders and donors that further organizational growth and impact. 

  3. Provide guidance and vision casting to all site staff as well as direct supervision to program leaders. Ensure support to teams in order to create successful impact, smooth and effective site functionality, and strong, healthy teams.

Qualifications

All employees will be thoroughly committed to Immerse’s mission. The ideal candidate will embrace Immerse’s values of with, worship, and scrappy (visit our About Page to learn what this means!). All candidates should have the following qualifications and experience:

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in business, psychology, social work, or related field required. Masters Degree preferred. 10 or more years of business and/or nonprofit experience, with 7+ years supervisory/management experience and leading teams.

Preferred Qualifications: Passion to see youth from crisis succeed through the collaborative efforts of an array of stakeholders including staff, community members, government, families, and the young people themselves. Prior executive leadership and experience working with a board. Development and communications experience. Experience managing a federally or state supported program. Experience working with diverse funding sources.

Additional Qualifications:

  • Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to be a key leader in the organization’s regional presence and growth

  • Outstanding presentation and communication skills and the experience and proclivity to be an effective spokesperson, relationship builder, and fundraiser

  • Excellent coalition building skills with an ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders

  • Prior experience and success in development and fundraising 

  • Represent the organization well to the public and be enthusiastic about serving youth from crisis

  • Strong commitment to the professional development of staff; successful track record of recruiting and retaining a diverse and high-performing team

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and ability to lead and develop staff and volunteers 

  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment, and react calmly and effectively in emergency situations

Overview

Work Location: Northwest Arkansas

Job Type: Full Time

ABOUT IMMERSE ARKANSAS

Immerse Arkansas was founded in 2010 with the mission of helping transform youth from crisis into overcomers. The nonprofit organization serves youth between the ages of 14 and 24, whose past trauma and challenges have created barriers to becoming independent, healthy, successful adults.

Immerse Arkansas works with these youth and families to address the underlying trauma resulting from abuse or neglect. We believe that when we surround youth from crisis with unconditional relationships, a vision for their restored future, and tools that anticipate their needs and dreams, we create a climate for healing, growth, and transformation.

Immerse is a collaboration of redemptive innovators who pair ambitious faith with strategy in all pursuits, especially anything labeled as “impossible.” We’re hungry for healing for all, and we’re especially interested in those who have been counted out. We are looking for someone who fits our values of with, worship, and scrappy and who can fully embrace our statement of faith and affirmations. The Northwest Arkansas Executive Director is a full-time, salaried position.

To apply

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to mfinnie@immersearkansas.org with “Northwest Arkansas Executive Director” as the subject line of the email.

Morgun Wadley