President and Chief Operating Officer

Mission:Leadership is honored to partner with Wild Ops in the search for a mission-driven, operationally strong, and spiritually grounded leader to serve as President & Chief Operating Officer.

Wild Ops exists to bring hope, healing, and brotherhood to combat veterans—helping those who feel isolated rediscover purpose through faith, community, and shared experience in the outdoors. This is a calling for a leader who can steward a deeply relational mission while building the systems, structure, and scale needed to reach more veterans in need.

A key focus for this role will be strengthening organizational infrastructure and expanding capacity—someone who can lead day-to-day operations, develop sustainable growth strategies, and help increase the number of “ops” to meet the overwhelming demand from veterans seeking healing and connection. This leader will work closely with the founder and board to translate vision into execution, ensuring that Wild Ops continues to deepen its impact while scaling its reach.

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If you’re a Kingdom-minded leader with a passion for operational excellence, team leadership, and serving those who have served, we’d love to connect—or feel free to share this opportunity to help us find the right leader.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

The successful candidate will bring executive-level experience in business leadership or Christian nonprofit leadership, a proven track record of substantial fundraising, and a genuine personal passion for the outdoors that aligns with Wild Ops' wilderness-based healing model.

CHARACTER

• Personal Alignment: Must fully embrace and personally model evangelical Christian faith, living out biblical principles in leadership and daily life.
• Outdoors Affinity: A genuine proclivity for being an outdoorsman, with personal experience and enthusiasm for wilderness activities, adventure, and nature immersion—essential to authentically leading and representing an organization centered on faith-based healing through outdoor experiences.

COMPETENCIES

• Resource Development: Demonstrated history of successful fundraising, including a strong necessity and proven ability to raise and sustain hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) annually in donor support for the organization.
• Networking: Exceptional networking skills with an established, wide-ranging network of donor contacts within Christian nonprofit and evangelical circles.
• Financial Stewardship: Be ready to embrace and execute the gold standard for evangelical ministry accountability, Seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship™ of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
• Organizational Scale: Experience managing organizations with more than 20 personnel (including paid staff and/or substantial volunteer teams).
• Donor Discernment: A consistent record of discernment, accepting donations from sources fully aligned with evangelical Christian values.
• Volunteer Leadership: Expertise in human resource development, including recruiting, training, and sustaining volunteer support staff to amplify organizational capacity.
• Communication Skills: Strong expertise in public speaking, marketing, and compellingly communicating the organization's mission, methods, and values to donors, supporters, veterans, and the public.
• Board Experience: Proven experience working collaboratively with Boards of Directors, including preparing materials and delivering quarterly reports and recommendations.
• Additional Expectations: Willingness to travel as needed for donor cultivation, program oversight, or organizational events; strong strategic discernment to guide Wild Ops through its next chapter of growth and transition.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior executive leadership (e.g., President, CEO or Executive Director) in a faith-based nonprofit serving veterans, military personnel, or similar at-risk populations or executive leadership in a marketplace setting with a personal affinity for veterans and those who have sacrificially served our nation.
• Demonstrated ability to scale an organization while protecting the culture of an organization or business.
• Familiarity with combat challenges, including PTSD, transition difficulties, and the transformative role of faith and outdoor brotherhood in healing.
• Hands-on experience with outdoor programs, adventure facilitation, or wilderness-based ministry initiatives is preferred but not a necessity.
• Prior leadership of an organization that regularly met the Seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship™ of the ECFA.