President

The Afognak Native Corporation President sets overall strategic alignment across the enterprise, motivates leadership, and drives long‑term value creation of Afognak Native Corporation and its subsidiaries. The President reports to the CEO and (on a dotted line); to the Board of Directors and will collaborate with the executive leadership team to translate Board‑approved strategy into measurable financial, operational, and mission outcomes, ensuring alignment with Afognak’s ANCSA mission and vision.

The President provides enterprise‑level oversight and performance accountability across the organization, to ensure that executive leaders and operating entities deliver results consistent with strategic objectives, governance standards, and cultural values. This role also serves as the primary corporate representative to local, state, and federal government entities.

This role requires exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills. The President must engage with diverse stakeholders, including Shareholders, and represent the Corporation’s interests. The ability to foster collaboration, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and drive results will be paramount to success in this position.

While the preferred location for this position is Kodiak or Anchorage, Alaska, candidates based outside of Alaska may be considered if they are recognized and notable Shareholders. The role requires significant in-state engagement—approximately 50% of work time in Alaska—to ensure strong cultural and operational alignment.

A major focus will be maintaining a consistent presence in the Kodiak region to strengthen Alaska-based business opportunities. Additionally, the position will emphasize expanding the organization’s reach across broader markets and geographic regions to drive growth, integration, and overall success.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate is an accomplished and experienced executive with:

• Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Public Administration, Public Policy, Rural Development, or related fields; Master’s degree in a related field is preferred.
• Work History: A minimum of 10 years of business and financial management experience, with at least 3 years at an executive level.
• Indigenous Leadership: Respect for and a deep awareness of Indigenous Tribal governments, cultures, and protocols.
• Shareholder Development: A proven track record of accomplishments that grew Shareholder development, engagement, policy, communications, government affairs, advocacy, or related fields based on extensive knowledge and understanding of ANCSA corporate, ANILCA, Tribal, and Alaska Native community issues.
• Sugpiaq Alutiiq Community: Strong connections with Alutiiq communities and Alaska Native Shareholders so that they felt heard with the best interest of all Shareholders kept at heart.
• Leadership Capabilities: Built, motivated, and developed diverse, high-performing teams to meet an organization’s vision, mission, and goals by creating an inclusive workplace that respectfully fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation, and teamwork, and supports, constructive conflict resolution, both internally and externally. The ideal candidate will be charismatic leader who leads with an entrepreneur mindset, ensuring outstanding organization decision-making with a big picture in mind.
• Positive Leadership Reputation: Humble servant leadership skills and an untarnished reputation, who has led teams across multiple functions and capabilities in collaboration with other executives, Board of Directors, and team members is highly preferred.
• Integrity: High ethics and integrity as a mature professional who values compromise and can balance the needs of today alongside the needs of future generations. Demonstrated track record of maintaining independence from undue influence and effectively addressing needs and requests in a diplomatic and respectful manner.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills to speak publicly in a clear, calm, organized, and effective manner; display humble confidence; balance the need to be collaborative, team-oriented and influence and able to constructively challenge others with tact.
• PR & Advocacy: Effective engagement with diverse stakeholders, able to develop and implement policy strategies, communicate key messages, and navigate government relations.
• Demonstrated experience in change management, organization growth, and employee development initiatives.
• Diverse Businesses: Understand government contracting, commercial business and nonprofit industries, including risk management, performance management, principles, corporate compliance, regulatory requirements, and legal aspects of operations. Strong business-oriented focus on strategic growth with an understanding of operations, diversification, mergers, and acquisitions preferred.
• Judgment: Exercises good judgement, is resourceful, can make well-reasoned decisions with respect, confidentiality and discretion on corporation matters. A leader who is capable to strengthen relations and build relationships internally and externally.
• Internal Politics: Prior experience navigating internal corporate politics.
• Rural Alaska: Experience working or living in rural Alaska.
• ANCSA Lands: Knowledge of Alaska natural resources to include timber, logging, fisheries, hunting and subsistence programs.
• Non-Profit Grants: Knowledge and ability to identify and obtain grants and cooperative agreements to benefit Shareholders and non-profit partners in Alaska.
• Legislative Politics: Knowledge of political process at the local state, and federal levels. Prior experience, negotiating level of legislative structures would be considered an asset.
• Results Driven: A result-oriented leader, capable of leading a team to meet organizational goals, performance management principles, customer expectation and seek process efficiencies, while ensuring that all business decisions contribute to heritage, community and Shareholder relations, and produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge analyzing problems and calculating risks.

Preferred Qualifications or Skills:

• Shareholder Status: ANSCA corporate Shareholder status; Afognak Shareholder status is highly preferred but not a requirement.
• Enterprise Value Creation: Ability to translate strategy into measurable financial, operational, and mission outcomes.
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM): Experience using EPM frameworks, systems, executive scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, and analytics to drive accountability and results, with prior experience partnering with a CEO and board on enterprise-level strategies and performance governance preferred.
• Drive Strategic Positive Change: Driven strategic positive change from plan to disciplined execution both within and outside an organization to set a vision, build innovative solutions, and meet goals within a continuously changing environment. This leader should be capable of driving and creating innovations, staying informed about the external environment, and being attentive to trends, developments, and challenges.
• Corporate Governance: In-depth knowledge of corporate governance best practices is considered an asset. A leader who has successfully collaborated with an Alaska Native Corporation and or other board directors and other senior executives.
• Investments: Background in capital allocation, portfolio management, or investment governance.
• Complex Enterprise Structures: Experience operating in a holding-company or multi-subsidiary enterprise model.
• Analytics Analysis: Familiarity with advanced financial and operational analytics used for executive decision-making.