Community For Hope

Executive Director Job Description 

What is Community for Hope?

A nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and response. 

Hours Required:

20 hours per week max or 80 hours per month max.  You can make your own hours depending on activities and your schedule. 

Fee: 

      $20 per hour (may change) 

Benefits/Insurance: 

      None provided 

Executive Director Reports to: 

      Community for Hope Board of Directors 

Executive Director Overall Role:

To lead and manage suicide prevention, intervention and response activities consistent with the group’s strategic plan as well as community expectations.  This includes fund raising, recruiting CFH volunteers and finding community resources to educate various populations about suicide risk factors and warning signs, and to link people and resources together.  The Executive Director is a proactive, visible leader who can develop volunteers at all levels of participation, as well as interface with community leaders, to help sustain and expand CFH programs. 

Basic Requirements:

      Good public speaking skills

      Knowledge of how to use a computer and Power Point

      Good organizational skills

      Good management skills

      Strong interest in working with suicide education, prevention and response

      Bachelors degree in appropriate major 

Additional skills:

We would prefer to hire a licensed professional counselor, social worker, psychologist, thanatologist, or suicidologist.
 

Specific Responsibilities: 

Promote awareness/educate that suicide is a serious problem in our community, state and nation. 

Develop, implement or facilitate suicide prevention strategies that address the needs of the various constituent groups within the community 

Develop, implement or facilitate training opportunities that teach (a) what to look for regarding warning signs and risk factors associated with suicidal behavior, (b) how to intervene/be helpful to someone in distress, and (c) local resources. 

Foster ease of access to sources of help for those in need and promote linkages between community medical, mental health, human service, substance abuse providers and those persons in the community who need these services. 

      Promote opportunities to address the needs of survivors of suicide. 

Promote efforts to reduce access to lethal means of self-harm. This could be included in all trainings and education opportunities and may pair CFH with police staff, safety experts, hospital staff, parent educators, poison experts and mental  health providers, to name a few.