Executive Director – Society of St. Andrew

Career Opportunity

The Society of St. Andrew (SoSA) seeks a relational, faith-fluent, and strategic nonprofit leader to serve as its next Executive Director. The ideal candidate will be an accomplished fundraiser, an accessible and empowering people leader, and a disciplined organizational strategist who can preserve SoSA’s culture while strengthening systems, visibility, and long-term sustainability.

Mission: SoSA alleviates hunger by recovering fresh produce and other nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to hungry neighbors through a relational, faith-rooted, community-based model.

Reporting Structure: The Executive Director reports to a board of 17 directors and leads a geographically dispersed national organization with staff working across regional offices and remote settings. 

Scale: SoSA employs 35 full-time staff and 30+ part-time/seasonal staff. The annual budget is $4.1 million.

Compensation: The Executive Director salary is in the $105K range, commensurate with experience. In addition, SoSA offers health and dental insurance with substantial employer premium support and an HSA contribution, 401(k) eligibility with a 5% employer contribution plus up to 4% match.

Working Environment/Location: The position is based in Big Island, Virginia, with regular travel to regional offices and partner communities.

Key Responsibilities of the Executive Director

Mission, Strategy, and Board Partnership

• Partner with the Board of Directors to shape and execute SoSA’s strategic direction, including annual and long-range priorities
• Lead the organization through its next chapter with a disciplined focus on sustainability, clarity of priorities, and mission alignment.
• Help the board and leadership team navigate core tensions between growth and sustainability, regional autonomy and organizational consistency, and relationships and infrastructure.
• Serve as the primary ambassador for SoSA’s mission, values, and future direction with board members, donors, congregations, community partners, and the public. 

Fundraising and External Relations

• Serve as the chief fundraiser for the organization, building confidence and momentum with individual, congregational, foundation, corporate, and public-sector supporters.
• Strengthen and diversify revenue streams, reduce overdependence on concentrated or unstable funding sources, and help deepen SoSA’s culture of philanthropy across the organization.
• Sharpen SoSA’s external case for support, including its role in hunger relief, food waste reduction, environmental stewardship, and community building.
• Increase organizational visibility, messaging clarity, and market position in a more competitive nonprofit and food recovery environment.

People Leadership and Culture

• Lead, coach, and support a geographically dispersed staff with a leadership style that is accessible, relational, empowering, and accountable.
• Protect and strengthen the organization’s culture of care, trust, flexibility, and staff development during a period of transition.
• Address staff sustainability challenges by advancing retention, workload balance, role clarity, and shared leadership.
• Spend meaningful time with regional teams and partners to build credibility, understand field realities, and sustain a connected culture across locations.

Operations and Organizational Infrastructure

• Oversee day-to-day organizational operations and ensure effective execution across national and regional functions.
• Strengthen internal systems, standard operating procedures, cross-training, communication practices, and knowledge-sharing so that the organization is less dependent on individual heroics.
• Balance regional flexibility with the need for consistent expectations around safety, compliance, data practices, and other core standards.
• Ensure that SoSA’s infrastructure, technology, and internal workflows keep pace with its mission and scale.

Finance and Stewardship

• Provide sound financial oversight in partnership with the board and staff, including budget development, stewardship of resources, and ongoing attention to organizational sustainability.
• Align financial decisions with strategic priorities, staffing realities, and the long-term health of both national and regional operations.
• Support careful evaluation of growth opportunities, emerging programs, and investments so that new initiatives are matched to available capacity.
• Model thoughtful, transparent, and values-based stewardship of the resources entrusted to SoSA.

The Ideal Candidate Profile

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated success as an active fundraiser, with experience cultivating and securing support from multiple revenue streams, including individuals, faith-based communities, foundations, corporations, and grants.
• Senior leadership experience in a mission-driven nonprofit or similarly complex organization, ideally with oversight across strategy, people, operations, and resource development.
• Experience leading through organizational growth, change, or transition, with the judgment to balance opportunity with capacity.
• Ability to strengthen systems and infrastructure, including workflows, role clarity, cross-functional coordination, and accountability in a distributed environment.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed, multi-site, or highly relational field-based teams.
• Strong staff leadership and talent development skills, including coaching, delegation, team building, and fostering shared leadership.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate mission into compelling external messaging and internal alignment.
• Comfort operating in faith-rooted settings and engaging church-based constituencies while building bridges across diverse partners and communities.
• Financial management experience, including budgeting, stewardship, and aligning resources with strategy.
• Willingness and ability to travel nationally on a regular basis.

Attributes of the New Leader

• Relational and people-centered, with a leadership presence that builds trust and honors the human side of the work.
• Missionally aligned and inspired by SoSA’s distinctive model of hunger relief, food recovery, and community building.
• Faith-fluent, respectful, and comfortable representing a Christian-rooted organization in ways that are authentic and welcoming.
• Accessible, approachable, and visible.
• Flexible, adaptive, and grounded, with the ability to preserve SoSA’s humane culture while still setting clear expectations.
• Strategic and disciplined, able to set priorities, say no when necessary, and guide the organization toward focused, sustainable growth.
• Collaborative and empowering, with a commitment to developing others and distributing leadership rather than centralizing it.
• Resilient, steady, and mature in navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing demands.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree preferred.
• At least 10 years of management experience, preferably in the nonprofit sector.
• Experience obtaining grants and gifts and working closely with volunteers, boards, sponsors, partners, and donors.
• Competence in planning, budgeting, forecasting, and volunteer motivation.
• Agricultural industry knowledge would be strongly preferred.

About The Society of St. Andrew

The Society of St. Andrew is a nondenominational, faith-based nonprofit organization that has spent more than 40 years recovering healthy food and sharing it with hungry neighbors. Its grassroots, low-asset model emphasizes local relationships, direct service, and stewardship – moving food that might otherwise be wasted into communities where it is needed most.

SoSA’s strategic vision extends beyond pounds of food recovered. The organization sees its work as bringing people together, sharing healthy food, reducing food waste, and building caring communities. Internal stakeholders consistently describe SoSA’s relational model, food safety focus, and ability to bridge faith-based and secular spaces as core differentiators.

Want to know more? Visit https://endhunger.org/. 

About Big Island, Virginia

Big Island serves as SoSA’s headquarters, but the organization’s reach is national and the leadership role is inherently field-facing. The next Executive Director should expect a blend of headquarters presence, regional travel, and meaningful time in partner communities across SoSA’s footprint. 

Benefits

SoSA offers health and dental insurance with substantial employer premium support and an HSA contribution after 60 days; 401(k) eligibility with a 5% employer contribution plus up to 4% match after one year; paid sick and vacation leave accruing from day one; and 12 paid holidays.

How To Apply

Join The Society of St. Andrew and play a critical role in shaping its future while driving impactful change. To apply, scroll to the bottom of this page.  You will see instructions for uploading your compelling cover letter, resume, and salary requirements. Please provide all requested information to be considered. In case of any technical problems, contact talent@armstrongmcguire.com. No phone calls, please, and no applications will be accepted by email or directly from third-party posting sites.