Chief Executive Director at Shelterforce Magazine

Hybrid/Remote within Oregon & Washington Office locations available in Astoria and Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.

Overview

Craft3 is one of the nation’s leading Community Development Financial Institutions, and the largest CDFI loan fund in the region. We center marginalized people in our work by investing capital in people, businesses, and communities across the Pacific Northwest. Craft3’s investments build household and business wealth, amplify community voice and agency, and create lasting networks of trust and mutual support. We work towards a future of shared prosperity across our region.

We are seeking our next Chief Executive Officer, a person who believes in delivering community-driven impacts and systemic changes in our region. We want a collaborative leader who is a strategic thinker, creates inclusive opportunity, and who is relentless in building a customer-focused organization that provides capital for those who need it most.

Craft3 is in a period of transition after years of significant growth. Our next CEO will know how to lead large organizations, manage through uncertainty, and be comfortable making and delegating decisions to strengthen the organization, its people, and systems to deliver maximum positive impact for the communities we serve.

Mission and Values

Craft3 is a nonprofit community development organization that uses capital, relationships, and voice to build a thriving, just and empowered Pacific Northwest. We invest in people, businesses, and communities, and work towards a future of shared prosperity across our region.

Essential Skills and Attributes

Craft3 is seeking a collaborative CDFI leader who knows how to lead large organizations, manage through uncertainty, and is comfortable making and delegating decisions to ensure forward progress. The new CEO should have experience strengthening and empowering organizations, people, and systems, and demonstrate commitment to leading on all aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. The ideal CEO is a person who believes in delivering community-driven impacts and systemic change in our region, a strong, strategic thinker who creates inclusive opportunity, and who is relentless in building a customer-focused organization that provides capital for those who need it most.

• Senior leadership/management experience: Ten years of senior management experience within the CDFI, community development or a related field; proven leadership capacity at a large organization; high tolerance for ambiguity; ability to balance mission and business objectives.
• Strategic leadership: Experience in leading/facilitating collaborative planning and decision-making processes to build stakeholder buy-in.
• Emotional intelligence; excellent people skills: Demonstrated emotional intelligence; track record of inspiring and motivating a team.
• Exceptional business & financial acumen: Experienced operator with an entrepreneurial track record of developing new and innovative loan products.
• Demonstrated leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion: A track record of recruiting, hiring, mentoring, promoting and directly supervising talent across multiple dimensions of diversity.
• Strong yet collaborative leadership: Steady, decisive, and collaborative leader who can bring people together.
• Effective communicator and relationship builder: Exceptionally clear and concise communicator with cultural competency.
• Successful track record of managing change: Experience managing the people, processes and technology shifts that occur when an organization undergoes rapid growth.

Job Requirements

• The ability to travel as needed, likely up to or over 20 percent of the time for industry events, customer, and office visits, as well as company events across Oregon and Washington.
• Must be able to pass criminal background and credit checks.

Compensation

$300,000 – $340,000 salary based on experience, plus potential of 10% performance bonus. Additionally, Craft3 offers a comprehensive benefits package that provides generous time off, supports good health for you and your family, and helps you save for the future.

Application Process

Craft3 has retained Glick Davis & Associates, LLC to facilitate this search on our behalf. To apply, interested candidates should e-mail their cover letter and resume as a single pdf file to: Craft3@glickdavis.com. The position is open until filled.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Craft3 is an equal opportunity employer. Diverse staff and perspectives advance our mission and help our organization thrive and grow. We encourage candidates who identify as one or more of the following to apply: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); women; LGBTQAI+; veterans; immigrants; working class; rural; and people with disabilities.

Reasonable Accommodations

Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.