About the Role
The CEO will work closely with the Board, leadership team, staff, community partners, funders, and donors to forge strategic direction, increase technology-enabled operational excellence, strengthen financial sustainability, and heighten cross-program collaboration to ensure the delivery of innovative, responsive, and exceptional services to highly diverse constituencies.
Responsibilities
- Forge strategic direction
- Increase technology-enabled operational excellence
- Strengthen financial sustainability
- Heighten cross-program collaboration
- Ensure delivery of innovative, responsive, and exceptional services
- Serve as the public face of Dixon Hall
- Lead teams effectively
- Manage labor relations
- Manage government relations
- Steward funders and donors
- Develop community partnerships
- Lead fundraising efforts
Requirements
- Demonstrated senior executive leadership or Board volunteer experience within a complex, multi-site not-for-profit or public sector service delivery organization
- Expertise in at least one of Dixon Hall’s program areas
- Strong understanding of diverse urban communities
- Excellent communicator internally and externally
- Effective in team leadership
- Effective in labor relations
- Effective in government relations
- Effective in funder and donor stewardship
- Effective in community partnerships
- Effective in fundraising
- Strategic and creative thinker
- Understands the power of sound research and data
- Financially astute leader
- Able to translate plans into measurable achievement
- Accountable
- Attentive
- Operates with transparency
- Caring and trusted leader
- Ready for the task of making thousands of lives better
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Operational excellence
- Financial management
- Cross-program collaboration
- Service delivery innovation
- Public relations
- Team leadership
- Labor relations
- Government relations
- Funder stewardship
- Donor stewardship
- Community partnership development
- Fundraising
- Research and data analysis
- Financial acumen
- Performance measurement
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior executive leadership
- Board volunteer experience
Salary/Compensations
- TBD
About the Company
- Dixon Hall is a multi-service, charitable organization committed to empowering the lives of the most underserved, marginalized and at-risk communities in downtown East Toronto.
- Across 32 sites, its dedicated team of 330+ helps thousands of individuals overcome barriers to stability and well-being through comprehensive programs in supportive and deeply affordable housing, shelter, employment, settlement, youth, seniors’ services, and a Music School.
- By addressing critical and social challenges and fostering connections, Dixon Hall creates lasting community impact, building a more inclusive and resilient city for all.
- Dixon Hall is funded by all levels of government, individual donors, and corporate partners, and works to create lasting solutions to end poverty, social injustices, and isolation through comprehensive, accessible, and innovative services.
- With nearly a century of continual adaptation to evolving needs, Dixon Hall is now entering an important new chapter of increasing scale, operational complexity, and opportunity.
Equal Opportunity
- Dixon Hall is dedicated to fostering an inclusive selection process and work environment, guided by its Race Relations and Employment Equity Policies.
- If selected for an interview, please inform the search consultants of any accommodations you may require during the interview process.
- To achieve its goal of inclusivity and diversity, Dixon Hall actively seeks exceptional candidates from varied backgrounds and with lived experiences.
- Individuals who self-identify as being from marginalized communities, including Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and those from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community or who have experienced homelessness, are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Dixon Hall is dedicated to fostering an inclusive selection process and work environment, guided by their Race Relations and Employment Equity Policies.
- If selected for an interview, please inform the hiring manager or the People and Culture team at peopleandculture@dixonhall.org of any accommodations you may require during the interview process.
- To achieve their goal of inclusivity and diversity, Dixon Hall actively seeks exceptional candidates from varied backgrounds and with lived experiences.
- Individuals who self-identify as being from marginalized communities, including Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and those from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community or who have experienced homelessness, are strongly encouraged to apply.
