President & Chief Executive Officer

Pay Range:

$209,188.00 - $500,000.00

Supervisory Organization:

Sr VP and Chief Human Resources Officer

Country:

United States of America

Address:

1401 PACIFIC AVE

City:

DALLAS, TX 75202

FLSA:

Exempt

Professionals:

01 - Official Administrator (EEO-4-United States of America), 1A - Officials and Executives (EEO-SubCategory)

General Summary:

General Purpose

The President & Chief Executive Officer (P&CEO) plans, administers, directs, oversees, and assumes full responsibility for the activities of the Agency and is accountable to the Board of Directors for the overall performance of the Agency in carrying out DART's mission. This P&CEO will build strong relationships with DART's service area cities and maintain those relationships with ongoing, frequent and transparent engagement by listening to their needs and adapting services to meet their expectations. As part of this, the P&CEO must continuously challenge DART's teams to adapt with innovative services that service area cities value commensurate to the sales taxes collected in those cities that fund DART. The P&CEO must be visible and engaged with DART regional partners, communities and stakeholders and represent the Agency at local, regional, state, and national levels.
This position is responsible for developing a positive organizational culture, leading the Agency's Senior Executive Team to provide excellent customer service throughout all its operations and programs. This position provides policy guidance, advice, and strategy to the DART Board of Directors regarding strategic policy and problem solving and assumes responsibility for implementing policy decisions made by the DART Board of Directors.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The following is a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the P&CEO. The P&CEO may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties as needed to successfully lead DART.

• Assumes full management responsibility for all of DART's activities and operations to ensure the implementation and achievement of DART's mission and goals to operate an integrated regional high-capacity transportation system serving the 13 service area cities in DART's service area that brings value to those cities where the transit sales tax is collected.

• Serves as the leader of the Senior Executive Team, assists in identifying key challenges and opportunities; reports to and interacts with the Board of Directors as necessary and appropriate. Provides leadership to the Agency's strategic planning processes and ensures effective alignment of all budgeted resources including talent, infrastructure, and funding to the Agency's mission and the strategic business plan.

• Builds and maintains a trusted, productive, transparent, and strategic relationship with the Agency's Board of Directors, internal staff, DART's 13 service area cities, local, state and national partners and supports the Board of Directors in accomplishing its role as the governing body of the Agency.

• Serves as the key internal leader, attracting, developing, coaching, and retaining high-performance team members; listens, observes, structures, leads, and empowers teams; participates in organizational design, provides guidance to the senior management team on goal alignment of all departments with established overall organizational objectives. Allows senior management space to be creative, solve problems and implement solutions.

• Oversees and participates in the development and administration of the Agency's operating and financial budgets; directs, monitors, and evaluates all aspects of the Agency's fiduciary responsibilities; approves the forecast of funds needed for staffing, equipment, materials, and supplies; approves expenditures and implements budgetary adjustments as appropriate and necessary.

• Manages the current and trending financial state of the Agency, operations and maintenance of the Agency; partners with and advises the Board and works with service area cities on DART's finances and how those sales tax dollars are being utilized to provide transit solutions needed for their communities.

• Leads DART's government and community relations activities; establishes working relationships with local elected officials, service area city leadership, legislators and congressional representatives at the state and federal level