Clinic Executive Director

Description

Position Summary

The Executive Director provides strategic, spiritual, operational, and community leadership for a Christ-centered pregnancy ministry which oversees pregnancy clinics serving women, men, and families in the Los Angeles County and greater Southern California. The Executive Director is responsible for advancing and expanding the ministry’s mission, strengthening its organizational and financial sustainability, developing its staff and leadership team, cultivating donors and community partners, and representing the clinic as a compassionate and credible pro-life voice throughout Southern California.

The successful candidate will be a mature Christian leader who is deeply committed to the sanctity of human life and is willing and able to serve publicly as a pro-life advocate in the State of California. This individual must be comfortable communicating the ministry 's mission with donors, churches, community leaders, ministry partners, governmental entities and other stakeholders while maintaining a compassionate, gracious, and Christ-centered approach.

A significant component of the position is fundraising and donor engagement. The Executive Director will work closely with the Board, development staff, and ministry partners to cultivate relationships, communicate impact, expand the donor base, and ensure the financial resources necessary to grow the clinic's ministry.

Essential Responsibilities

Executive & Strategic Leadership

- Provide overall leadership and direction for the ministry and its mission of saving babies and souls by leveraging a God given vision, Biblical values, and strategic priorities.
- Develop and execute short- and long-term strategic plans that increase the ministry’s ability to reach abortion-vulnerable women and families and expand its footprint throughout Southern California.
- Translate organizational strategy into measurable goals, operating plans, budgets, and performance expectations.
- Regularly evaluate clinic effectiveness, ministry impact, operational performance, staffing needs, and opportunities for growth.
- Partner closely with the Board of Directors, providing timely reporting, strategic recommendations, financial information, ministry outcomes, and organizational updates.
- Develop a healthy leadership culture characterized by accountability, collaboration, excellence, prayer, stewardship, and continuous improvement.

Fundraising & Donor Development

- Serve as a primary ambassador and fundraiser for the clinic. Developing authentic relationships with individuals who are passionate about advancing the ministry is of paramount importance.
- Build and maintain relationships with current and prospective major donors, churches, foundations, businesses, and community partners.
- Participate personally in donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and retention.
- Maintain an active portfolio of key donor relationships and regularly meet with supporters to communicate the clinic's vision, ministry impact, needs, and opportunities for partnership.
- Work with development staff and the Board to establish annual fundraising goals and execute a comprehensive development strategy.
- Provide leadership for fundraising events, donor communications, church engagement, major-gift initiatives, grant opportunities, and other development activities.
- Develop compelling presentations and ministry stories that demonstrate both the human impact and responsible stewardship of donor investments.
- Create a culture in which fundraising is understood as relationship-building, ministry partnership, and an opportunity to invite others into the clinic's mission.

Pro-Life Advocacy & External Relations

- Serve as a visible, articulate, and compassionate representative of the ministry and its pro-life mission within Los Angeles and throughout California.
- Develop relationships with churches, pastors, ministry leaders, pregnancy help organizations, community leaders, medical professionals, and other strategic partners.
- Communicate clearly and confidently regarding the dignity and value of human life, the services available to women facing unexpected pregnancies, and the clinic's commitment to supporting women, children, and families.
- Represent the organization at community events, churches, donor gatherings, conferences, media opportunities, and other appropriate public forums.
- Remain informed regarding cultural, regulatory, legislative, and community developments that may affect pregnancy clinics and the populations they serve.
- Work with appropriate legal, compliance, and ministry partners to ensure public advocacy and organizational communications remain consistent with applicable laws, regulations, nonprofit requirements, and clinic policies.
- Build relationships across the community while maintaining the ministry's biblical convictions and commitment to serving clients with dignity, compassion, and respect.

Ministry & Spiritual Leadership

- Model a growing personal relationship with Jesus Christ and demonstrate spiritual maturity in both leadership and decision-making.
- Champion a Christ-centered organizational culture characterized by prayer, biblical truth, compassion, integrity, excellence, and servant leadership.
- Provide spiritual encouragement and leadership to staff while supporting a workplace culture that recognizes the clinic's work as both professional service and Christian ministry.
- Ensure that the clinic's programs, communications, partnerships, and organizational decisions remain aligned with its Statement of Faith and ministry mission.

Operational & Financial Leadership

- Provide executive oversight of clinic operations, administration, human resources, development, finance, facilities, programs, and community engagement.
- Develop and manage the annual operating budget in partnership with appropriate staff and the Board.
- Ensure responsible stewardship of financial resources, donor contributions, equipment, facilities, and other organizational assets.
- Monitor financial performance and ensure appropriate internal controls, financial reporting, budgeting, and accountability practices.
- Ensure organizational compliance with applicable federal, California, and local requirements, as well as relevant healthcare, employment, privacy, safety, and nonprofit standards.
- Identify operational risks and proactively develop strategies to strengthen organizational sustainability.

Staff Leadership & Organizational Development

- Recruit, develop, lead, and retain a highly capable and mission-aligned team.
- Provide clear expectations, measurable goals, regular feedback, coaching, and performance accountability for direct reports.
- Develop organizational structure and staffing plans that support current operations and future ministry growth.
- Invest intentionally in leadership development and succession planning.
- Create an environment in which employees understand how their individual roles contribute to the clinic's overall mission and ministry outcomes.
- Partner with appropriate HR resources to maintain sound employment practices and a healthy, high-performing workplace culture.

Requirements

Required

- Bachelor's degree in business, nonprofit leadership, ministry, healthcare administration, organizational leadership, communications, development, or a related field; equivalent executive experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible leadership experience, preferably including experience in nonprofit, ministry, pregnancy help, healthcare, fundraising, or a mission-driven organization.
- Demonstrated experience leading teams, managing budgets, establishing organizational priorities, and achieving measurable results.
- Meaningful experience with fundraising and donor development , including direct interaction with donors and prospective donors.
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with major donors, churches, community partners, or other external stakeholders.
- Strong public speaking, presentation, relationship-building, and written communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to represent the clinic publicly as a pro-life advocate in California and clearly articulate the organization's mission and beliefs.
- Ability to navigate a complex cultural and regulatory environment with wisdom, professionalism, courage, and grace.
- Strong financial acumen and experience with organizational budgeting and financial oversight.

Preferred

- Experience leading a pregnancy clinic, pregnancy resource center, healthcare organization, Christian nonprofit, church ministry, or similar mission-driven organization.
- Experience personally cultivating and soliciting major gifts.
- Experience with writing and obtaining grants.
- Experience developing or significantly growing a fundraising program or donor portfolio.
- Established relationships within the Los Angeles Christian, philanthropic, nonprofit, or pro-life communities.
- Experience working with a nonprofit Board of Directors.
- Experience leading an organization through significant growth, organizational change, or expansion.
- Knowledge of California nonprofit and employment environments and familiarity with issues affecting pregnancy clinics and pregnancy resource organizations.

Faith & Mission Alignment

Because the clinic exists as a Christian ministry, the Executive Director is expected to enthusiastically support and advance its Christian mission.

The successful candidate must:

- Profess a personal faith in Jesus Christ and demonstrate an active and growing Christian faith.
- Affirm and support the clinic's Statement of Faith and Biblical values.
- Demonstrate an unwavering commitment to the sanctity of human life from conception.
- Be fully aligned with the clinic's pro-life mission and willing to represent that mission publicly.
- Demonstrate a heart for women and families experiencing unexpected or difficult pregnancies.
- Lead with humility, integrity, courage, compassion, wisdom, and prayer.

Leadership Profile

The ideal Executive Director is both a ministry leader and organizational executive . This individual can move comfortably between praying with staff, meeting with a major donor, presenting to the Board, speaking at a church, reviewing financial performance, addressing an operational challenge, and representing the clinic publicly.

The successful candidate will be:

- Relational: Builds genuine, long-term relationships with donors, staff, churches, partners, and community leaders.
- Mission-driven: Keeps the protection of life and service to women and families at the center of organizational decisions.
- Fundraising-oriented: Enjoys developing relationships with donors and is comfortable asking individuals to financially invest in the mission.
- Strategic: Thinks beyond daily operations and builds organizational capacity for future growth.
- Courageous: Is prepared to represent a pro-life Christian ministry in the complex cultural environment of Los Angeles and California.
- Compassionate: Communicates convictions with grace and demonstrates genuine concern for women, men, children, and families.
- Accountable: Establishes measurable expectations and follows through on commitments.
- Financially responsible: Treats donor resources with exceptional care and stewardship.
- Spiritually mature: Leads from a foundation of prayer, biblical wisdom, humility, and dependence upon Christ.

Physical & Travel Requirements

The Executive Director should maintain a visible, consistent presence at the clinic and throughout the Los Angeles community. Local travel is expected for donor meetings, church engagement, community events, fundraising activities, and partnership development. Occasional regional or national travel may be required for conferences, training, donor development, or ministry partnerships.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Religious Ministry

The ministry is a Christian religious organization and conducts its activities consistent with its sincerely held religious beliefs, mission, and values. Employment requirements related to religious belief and conduct should be administered consistent with applicable federal, California, and local law.