Executive Director

Got Green is searching for an Executive Director who will foster strategic leadership and active commitment to reflection, joy, care, and rigor. We are looking for an Executive Director with deep experience in community organizing, grassroots campaigns, organizational development, staff support & supervision, and management of base-building programs. ⁣

The Executive Director is a full time, exempt position and is responsible for Got Green’s overall leadership, strategic direction, and staff management duties.

Classification: Full time, Permanent

Reports To: Board of Directors

Supervises: Deputy Director, Operations Manager, and all staff on the Power Building Team

Compensation: $105,000 salary; Medical & Dental; 401k; Wellness ($2k) & Home Office Stipends ($3k)

Work Week: GG aspires for a full-time work week of 30 hours - with significant paid time off.

Job Duties & Major Responsibilities

Base-Building & Team Management

Steward Got Green’s base building strategy as the lead of the Power Building Team - including strategic alignment, work-planning, task management, and staff support. The Power Building Team is responsible for recruitment, member development, grassroots education, language justice development, and more. The ED will actively collaborate with and coach Power Building staff on core base-building activities - canvassing, one-on-ones, house visits, member meetings, curriculum development & training, charting & data organization, and development of community leaders.

Strategic Leadership

The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for Got Green’s strategy and organizational development. Responsibilities include stewarding strategic planning, staff support & management, public speaking, Board development, major funder relations, assessment of political landscape, and overall organizational health. The Executive Director and Deputy Director will work together on many core leadership responsibilities.

Support & Supervision

Provide staff with intentional support and supervision via consistent check-ins, collaborative work-planning, task management and accountability, leadership development plans, and coaching. Responsible for working directly with and supervising Deputy Director, Operations Manager, and the three organizer staff on the Power Building Team. Provide leadership in nourishing a work culture of connection, growth, direct communication, and emotional well-being.

Qualifications & Competencies

Got Green’s Executive Director must bring a combination of lived experience, professional expertise, and principled leadership that aligns with our values of racial, economic, and environmental justice. The following knowledge, skills, and abilities are necessary for success in this role:

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

These competencies are essential for effective leadership and alignment with Got Green’s mission:

• Community Organizing: Significant experience organizing working-class Black and Brown communities (including proficiency in door-knocking, house visits, one-on-ones, and member leadership development).
• Base Building: Proven skill in managing community organizing programs & grassroots membership structures.
• Strategic Leadership: Ability to provide strategic clarity, align teams around organizational goals, and lead through periods of change or uncertainty.
• Justice Frameworks: Demonstrated commitment to racial, economic, and environmental justice, ideally with an understanding of housing justice and its intersections.
• People Management: Commitment to equitable management practices and experience supervising and developing staff.
• Work Planning: Competence in creating and guiding organizational goals, timelines, & collaborative workplans.
• Campaign Strategy: Experience leading grassroots campaigns including strategy design, power-mapping, and action planning with community members.
• Emotional Intelligence: Deep self-awareness, ability to welcome feedback, embrace generative conflict, and promote reflection and healing in leadership.
• Public Speaking & Representation: Confidence and clarity in representing the organization to partners, coalitions, media, and community audiences.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

These competencies support growth, adaptability, and leadership sustainability, though they are not required at the time of hire/can be developed/directed:

• South End, Mutli-lingual, and Tenants: Experience organizing communities in southeast Seattle, organizing multi-lingual immigrant communities (top non-English languages in our base are Somali, Vietnamese, Oromo), organizing tenants.
• Organizational Development: Strong experience in nonprofit operations, including staff structure, personnel policy, decision-making frameworks, and nurturing an inclusive organizational culture.
• Finance & Fundraising: Familiarity with nonprofit finance, budgeting, fundraising and maintaining strong relationships with funders and major donors.
• Adaptability & Innovation: Comfort with adopting or co-developing new strategies, models, or structures in response to community or organizational shifts.
• Performance Reflection: Willingness to engage in annual reviews of skills and competencies, and to support a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Scope Flexibility: Ability to take on related responsibilities outside a strict role definition, in alignment with the evolving needs of the organization.

A Day In the Life of Got Green’s Executive Director

• Early Morning: Check email, read the news, and consult the org’s strategic plan (as you review your work-plan, update your weekly/daily tasks, and review the work plans of those you supervise).
• Mid Morning: supervision check-in with Member Organizer, where you thoughtful discuss the membership recruitment plan they’ve been working on - providing direct & clear feedback, sharing about best practices (from effective grassroots membership models), and supporting the Member Organizer with curiosity & intention.
• Mid Day: Attend lunch time virtual presentation about the state of public housing, where leading organizers & expects present on the threats and opportunities for tenant organizing.
• Early Afternoon: Brief check-in with Deputy Director, Campaign Director, & Operations Manager to review the program report and financial report in the lead up to the Board of Directors meeting.
• Late Afternoon: join Power Building Team on their house visits with tenants – these conversations are to prepare (volunteer) tenant leaders to successfully organize their neighbors to join an upcoming action. Engaging tenants with a sense of belonging & solidarity, validation of fears & the significance of taking risks, and strategic clarity.
• Evening: Meet with Board of Directors - provide updates on our base-building & campaign work, share financial report, discuss the onboarding of new members, and actively nourish the leadership of the Board Chair - who is facilitating the meeting, outlining next steps, and assigning fellow Board members meaningful tasks & roles.
• As not all days will look quite like this, this outline provides a broad snapshot of the type of day-to-day work that will be expected of Got Green’s future Executive Director.

Further Notes on Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: The ED will have a salary of $105,000. All other full-time staff are paid a flat $86k/yr. In addition to salary, all staff receive an additional home office stipend ($3k/yr) included in paycheck, and reimbursement for wellness expenses ($2k) & childcare/eldercare expenses ($2.5k).
• Benefits: medical, vision, dental benefits (with partial family coverage), 401k, & free transit pass
• Paid Time Off: accrual of 7 weeks of vacation/sick/holiday PTO in the first year. And an additional 3 weeks of PTO for scheduled office closures (one in summer and two end of year). Lastly, GG offers sabbatical & parental leaves.
• 30 Hour Week: At the beginning of the pandemic, Got Green adopted a full-time work week of thirty hours without cut to pay/benefits/PTO and with more sustainable work plans. GG continues to aspire for a thirty hour work week. With this said, the Executive Director should expect to be working between 30-40 hours a week.

Got Green strongly encourages applications from those who live, work, and contribute to working-class Black & Brown communities in south Seattle or who have experience with and connections to Black & Brown communities, working-class communities, immigrant communities, and communities in south Seattle. Got Green is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage people of color, immigrants, bilingual people, women, members of LGBTQIA+ and gender non-conforming communities, and people of all and under-represented backgrounds to apply.

To apply, please send info@gotgreen.org an email with “Executive Director” in the subject line.

Be sure to include a cover letter, resume, and at least two references.

The priority deadline to apply is July 31st, 2025.