The CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the ACS Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will lead one of the nations most important and impactful nonprofit organizations, as well as its influential nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate. This visionary leader will partner with the ACS and ACS CAN Boards to set bold vision and strategic direction, inspire innovation, and provide dynamic leadership both internally and externally to advance ACSs mission of ending cancer as we know it for everyone.
The CEO will collaborate with the Boards to shape and implement the organizations strategic plan and ensure ACSs and ACS CANs short- and long-term fiscal health. This leader will also play a critical role in driving impactful cancer programs and initiatives, and in fundraising, ensuring a successful capital campaign, cultivating major donors, and optimizing responsive digital channels to maximize sustainable revenue generation.
The CEO will oversee the leadership and management of ACS and ACS CAN, developing, inspiring, diversifying, and energizing the staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders on this journey to ensure the continued success and impact of the organization. They will foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, shared accountability, and mission focus.
As the primary representative and spokesperson and organizational steward, the CEO will build, strengthen, and sustain energizing relationships with volunteers, researchers, donors, healthcare organizations, policy makers, and the media. The CEO will also work to attract a new generation of supporters to fuel ACSs mission.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
The ACS and ACS CAN seek a visionary, strategic leader with multi-sector (private, public, and/or nonprofit) experience and a record of strengthening organizations, delivering breakthrough results, and setting the direction for sustainable growth and impact in the future. The CEO will have led organizations of significant scope, scale, and complexity, served multi-stakeholders, and established operating policies and procedures commensurate with the organizations reach and size. They will have a record of accomplishment leading organizational change to achieve a mission and strategic priorities, building agility into the workforce, and instilling a culture of accountability. This will require a leader who is innovative, dynamic, and courageous, and who understands how to cultivate relationships with leaders in healthcare and the scientific community, government, business, donors, staff, and volunteers. The new CEO will be an inspirational leader and a compelling voice for ACSs mission for myriad audiences. An understanding of the cancer space or broader health landscape is highly desirable. At ACS, our focus is the patient and their caregivers. While it is not required that the candidate have an MD or PhD, it is preferred that the ideal candidate have significant experience(s) with patients along any portion of the patients journey.
