Chief Executive Officer

POSITION SUMMARY

Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming (GSMW) is seeking a visionary and dynamic Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to serve as a leader of leaders and change agent who can guide the council with passion, innovation, and a steadfast commitment to empowering EVERY girl. The CEO will lead the development and execution of the strategic direction and oversee all aspects of its operations, including community engagement, fundraising, membership development, operational excellence, property management, and fiscal responsibility. This inspiring leader will navigate both internal operations and external partnerships, fostering strong relationships across diverse communities and guiding the organization with strategic clarity, thoughtful leadership, and a bold, future-focused mindset.

Reports to: GSMW’s Board of Directors

Location: Billings, Montana

Candidate Profile:

Visibility & Impact

• Maintains strong visibility, approachability, and accessibility as a brand ambassador throughout the Council’s expansive geographic footprint.
• Ensures a deep understanding of the critical issues impacting girls today in order to advance relevant, high-impact programs and position GSMW as a premier voice for girls at the local, state, and national levels.
• Leverages data and prioritizes communities to nurture strategic relationships, increase awareness and access, and ensure growth in volunteer and membership engagement.

Strategic Leadership

• Partners with staff to lead change initiatives, identify opportunities for innovation, and ensure GSMW’s voice and presence is at the table.
• Executes the strategic plan, monitors progress, evaluates effectiveness, and adapts as needed.
• Spearheads business strategies, ensuring they align and remain consistent with the Council’s mission and core values.
• Works in partnership with GSUSA to advance national policy while ensuring GSMW’s voice and perspectives are represented in a unified way.

Fundraising & Financial Management

• Partners with fundraising staff and Board to ensure a robust, multi-layered fund development strategy is in place.
• Oversees and actively participates in initiatives that diversify and increase funding streams - individual, corporate, grants, and fee for service.
• Partners with the Board in pipeline development and stewardship opportunities to ensure long term organizational sustainability.
• Oversees the annual audit, annual financial planning, budget process and ensures all divisions operate within the approved budgets.

Program & Product Development

• Partners with key staff leads to oversee development and administration of the programs and products that support GSMW’s mission, vision, goals, and strategies.
• Helps remove barriers to participation, ensuring equal access and opportunity.
• Develops property growth plans allowing for impactful outdoor programming.
• Evaluates impact of programs, products, and membership driving strategies.
• Tracks impact and program progress ensuring KPIs are monitored for success.
• Aligns with GSUSA on national programming initiatives and guidance.

Talent, Culture, & Team Development

• Ensures employee metrics and yearly goals are clearly established and accountability is modeled and consistently upheld.
• Builds a culture of engagement and empowerment through steady communication and collaboration at all levels.
• Provides thought-leadership around modernized systems and meaningful processes that support volunteer recruitment and retainment.
• Ensures HR systems are up to date and proactively supports tracking yearly goals, objectives and performance.
• Motivates and leads a high-performance senior leadership team while ensuring all staff are empowered, heard, and led to grow.

Background: The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) and 15 years of progressive executive experience within the community impact or nonprofit industry. Throughout their professional career, the candidate will have demonstrated success in vision, collaboration, leadership, finance, fund development, managing diversity, community relations, planning, board relations, property management, and program delivery. They will be team-oriented, results-driven, and display a vision and passion for the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE), with a proven ability to lead change, address organizational challenges head-on, and build resilience across teams and stakeholders. They should be able and excited to travel throughout the region to meet with stakeholders, volunteers, alumnae, funders, and field staff.