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Overview Position Title: Executive Director Location: Saskatoon-based | Travel as needed to Prince Albert and other communities Our Client: STR8 UP is a lifeline, a movement, and a sacred space for transformation. STR8 UP supports individuals leaving gangs, addiction, and criminal street lifestyles behind. The organizations offices in Saskatoon and Prince Albert serve as hubs for mentorship, outreach, cultural programming, reintegration, and justice advocacy. STR8 UP is a community that walks alongside people as they reclaim their lives, their identities, and their futures. Grounded in the values of honesty, humility and accountability, STR8 UP embraces a trauma-based, anti-oppressive approach. The team is powered by deep lived experience and cultural wisdom, centering storytelling, reflection, and relationship in everything they do. The Medicine Wheel model guides their healing work, addressing the emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental wellness of each individual. STR8 UP is doing life-saving work, walking beside STR8 UP Members, 10,000 little steps at a time. The Opportunity STR8 UP is seeking a courageous, grounded, and community-committed Executive Director to steward the organization through its next chapter. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will act as an operational stabilizer, strategic thinker, and trusted relationship-builder. This is a role that require not just professional expertise, but a profound embodiment of the STR8 UP values. The incoming leader will have the opportunity to: Stabilize and support a growing organization with complex operations and deeply relational work at its core. Centre wellness and care for staff and Members, nurturing a healthy, values-based culture. Strengthen voice and visibility in the community and across sectors to advocate for meaningful systems improvement. Uplift the wisdom of lived experience as a guiding force in all decisions This is a rare and meaningful opportunity for a leader who understands that healing is a lifelong journey, and that transformation is possible when people are met where they are at with unconditional love, structure, and respectful support. Key Responsibilities As the Executive Director, you will work collaboratively and are responsible for: 1. Organizational Leadership & Culture Lead with STR8 UPs values of honesty, humility, and accountability. Create and sustain a healthy, trauma-literate workplace culture rooted in respect, collaboration, and belonging. Ensure role clarity, clear expectations, and support systems for staff and supervisors. Work in collaboration with key leaders to complete organizational development work in progress, build relationships, and enhance programming. 2. Operational Management Direct all aspects of the organizations operations, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational plans. Oversee administration, HR, data systems, facilities, and program delivery. Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and funder agreements. Lead the development and management of annual budgets and financial reporting. Ensure STR8 UP maintains a strong financially robust position with sound fiscal practices. Oversee all accounting, audit, and bookkeeping functions. Support recruitment, onboarding, performance development, and consistent policy implementation. Foster an environment of accountability that is relational and restorative. Take a transformational approach to HR practices that resonates and aligns with Member healing journeys. 5. Programs & Impact Provide leadership and oversight for STR8 UPs programs, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with funder expectations. Support staff in delivering meaningful, healing-centered work rooted in the STR8 UP approach. Strengthen data and evaluation practices to demonstrate and inform programming. 6. Community Engagement & Fund Development Serve as a visible and trusted representative of STR8 UP with funders, government, and community partners. Lead fundraising and grant development efforts in collaboration with the Board and staff. Enhance public awareness through media, storytelling, and presentations that honour the work, the people behind it, and those STR8 UP serves. Qualifications A values-driven leader with a heart for community and a deep belief in peoples capacity for healing. You are called to serve, not save. A systems thinker with experience holding complex organizational pieces people, programs, finance, compliance together in service of a bigger mission. A relationship builder who leads consistently with integrity, empathy, and humility. A confident communicator who can advocate for STR8 UPs work while consistently centering the voices of those with lived experience. A minimum of 5 years senior leadership experience in non-profit, social services, and community organizations. Experience with people leadership, HR, financial oversight, grant writing, and strategic planning. A deep understanding of trauma, systemic barriers, and the impacts of colonization particularly on Indigenous peoples. Comfort working with and learning from individuals with lived experience of incarceration, addiction, and gang involvement. Strong cultural humility and an active commitment to Truth & Reconciliation and the Calls to Action. Lived experience is considered an asset, as is experience working directly in community justice, outreach, and healing-based programs. About the Collective At Hughes Collective, we dont just recruit, we revolutionize how talent meets opportunity. Were not in the business of filling roles; were in the business of transforming careers and powering businesses with bold, game-changing hires. For candidates, this isnt just about your next job, its about uncovering your passions, amplifying your strengths, and unlocking your potential. Were here to connect you to a career that excites, inspires, and fuels your future. This isnt recruitment as usual, this is Hughes Collective. Bold. Authentic. Unapologetically different. Your next move starts here. Seniority level Executive Employment type Full-time Job function Strategy/Planning and Business Development Industries Non-profit Organizations and Civic and Social Organizations #J-18808-Ljbffr