Executive Director USA

Role: Executive Director USA
Reporting into: CEO

About Living Goods
Delivering Data Driven Care Door to Door to Over 6 million People:
Living Goods saves lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers who deliver care on call, making it easy for families in need to get their health needs met. Funders, governments, and public health leaders all recognize Living Goods as one of the most deeply impactful, efficient, and influential community health platforms. Living Goods serves as the principal community health and technology partner to three counties with a total population of over 100 million people.

• Saving Lives: Two independent randomized control trials show Living Goods is reducing child deaths by 25-30%. Where LG works, 95% of children are born in facilities, and 95% of kids fully complete their immunizations.
• Delivering at Scale: Living Goods supported CHW’s provide care for over 6 million people. LG serves as the primary community health and digitization partner to Kenya, Burkina Faso, and Uganda.
• Low Cost: Perhaps the greatest challenge in scaling community health is doing so at a cost that countries can afford. Living Goods delivers comprehensive community care, including compensation, supervision, medicines, and digital tools, for under $3 per capita annually.
• Technology Leadership: Over 10,000 health workers use LG’s Smart Health platform to provide accurate guided diagnoses, ensure timely follow-ups, and deliver performance data in real-time.
• Leading Funders: LG is supported by many of the leading global health funders, including: The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The Skoll Foundation, Elma Philanthropies, Virgin Unite, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, USAID, The Global Fund, and many others.

About the Role:
Living Goods seeks an exceptional and visionary leader to join our team as the Executive Director, USA. This role will be responsible for driving our organization's mission and impact by leading our external efforts, fundraising and business development, communications, and advocacy. As a member of the Living Goods global executive team, this position reports to the CEO and leads the fundraising/business development, communications, and advocacy teams. The role oversees an overall team of 20, including three direct reports at the head of function/Director level. Please note that this is also a global leadership role; some team members are based in Africa and Europe.
Due to its location, the Executive Director USA must be ready and able to act for/represent the CEO in the USA. The role also includes senior operational and administration responsibilities detailed below.
This role is for an experienced senior external strategist and team leader who knows how to partner with a capable CEO and larger leadership team, design and deploy systems, tools, and resources to position their team for success year after year. The Executive Director, USA must have strong leadership, management, organizational, and interpersonal skills, and an ability to inspire their team, work collaboratively across the organization, and leverage the wider leadership team.

Key Responsibilities
Fundraising:

• Create a fundraising vision and oversee a comprehensive fundraising strategy to support Living Goods' mission and growth, drive fundraising best practices across the organization, and galvanize a culture of fundraising in Living Goods. Work with leadership and development team to operationalize fundraising strategy and achieve annual revenue targets of approximately $25-30 million. Revenue streams include foundations and corporations, major gifts, as well as bi-lateral and multi-lateral funding.
• Routinely represent the organization to fundraising partners, including foundations, corporations, global institutions, and individual donors. Deepen Living Goods donor relationships with consistent and meaningful engagement opportunities.

Communications and Advocacy:

• Oversee the communications team to ensure Living Goods’ mission is compellingly and persuasively communicated across channels and ensure Living Goods' impact is recognized and celebrated. Oversee advocacy team to influence funding, policy, and practice across primary health care and promote community health workers, healthcare access, and equity.
• Act as a thought partner to the CEO and lead communications, external impact, and influence.
• Contribute to organizational leadership, bridging gaps between fundraising, communications, and advocacy teams and fostering increased collaboration and optimized workflow across departments.
• Participate in strategic planning, staffing, and budgeting.

Team Leadership:

• Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing cross-functional team of 20 total team members, including 4 direct reports, prov