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Primary Responsibilities

1. Staff Management & Team Culture

• Collaborative Leadership:  Work in close partnership with the Resident Scholar as a core leadership model, ensuring shared strategic alignment.

• Staff Support & Mentorship: Guide, coach, and manage core staff  and volunteers, fostering a culture of open communication, trust, and professional growth.

• Workplace Sustainability: Maintain a healthy internal culture by ensuring clear roles, realistic workloads, and a supportive environment for the team.

• Personnel Development: Manage the recruitment, onboarding, and performance evaluation of new team members as the organization grows.

2. Community Partnerships & Program Delivery

• Seattle Ecosystem Partnerships: Build and maintain collaborative relationships with local organizations, includingbMuslim organizations, community initiatives, interfaith coalitions, arts groups, and local non-profits, to expand Wasat's programming and local impact.

• Program Alignment: Provide operational oversight to the Programs Coordinator on daily execution and the Resident Scholar on content, ensuring all events and initiatives reflect Wasat’s mission and high standards.

• Amplifying Our Narrative: Collaborate with the Marketing Coordinator to shape Wasat’s storytelling, ensuring our digital presence and outreach resonate with authenticity, reflect our core values, and invite the broader community into our shared spaces.

• Community Engagement: Serve as a primary representative of Wasat alongside the Resident Scholar, sharing the organization's mission with the public, funders, and local stakeholders, leaders, and officials.

3. Fundraising & Development

• Fundraising Strategy: In partnership with the development team, design and lead an annual fundraising plan focused on cultivating lasting relationships with individual donors, major supporters, and foundations.

• Development Team Oversight: Manage and guide the development team, providing strategic direction for their fundraising activities and campaign execution.

• Grant Management & Governance: Oversee the development team's grant execution, ensuring proposals align with Wasat's vision, deadlines are tracked, and reporting requirements are met, while the team handles the daily operational and writing work.

• Donor Stewarding: Partner with funders and major stakeholders, ensuring all contributed funds are managed responsibly and in compliance with donor intent.

4. Financial Management & Governance

• Financial Stewardship: Partner with the organization's accountant to monitor cash flow, manage financial records, and ensure long-term organizational health.

• Budgeting: Develop and manage a realistic annual budget for Board approval that aligns spending with Wasat's programmatic goals.

• Board Relations: Serve as the primary liaison between staff and the Board of Directors, supporting board governance, assisting with meeting planning, and facilitating regular communication.

Qualifications

• Experience & Education: A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience); 3–5 years of leadership experience managing a non-profit organization, department, or grassroots initiative.

• People Management: Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing staff or volunteers in a close, collaborative team environment.

• Financial Acumen: Practical experience developing and managing annual budgets, tracking cash flow, and ensuring fiscal accountability.

• Fundraising Strategy: A proven track record of successful fundraising, donor stewardship, or high-level oversight of grant-funded initiatives.

• Mission Alignment: Deep personal alignment with Wasat’s mission and a commitment to exploring the American-Muslim experience through art, love, service, and learning.

• Third Space Nuance: A strong, empathetic understanding of the unique cultural sensitivities, spiritual landscapes, and diverse needs within contemporary American-Muslim community spaces.

Desired Skills

• Collaborative Leadership: Ability to work effectively within a shared leadership model alongside the Resident Scholar, balancing collaborative organizational alignment with distinct operational oversight and execution of staff responsibilities.

• Staff Oversight & Project Management: Capacity to provide clear direction, timelines, and execution parameters to the Programs and Marketing Coordinators, ensuring high-quality program delivery and authentic storytelling while supporting team autonomy.

• Development Team Oversight: Strong ability to provide strategic direction to a development team, with the skills to oversee grant management and campaign execution while trusting staff with daily operational writing and execution.

• Community & Relationship Building: Exceptional interpersonal skills with a natural ability to build trust, form coalitions, and sustain partnerships across Seattle’s diverse landscape of nonprofits, arts groups, and community organizations.

• People-First Approach: Skilled at creating a sustainable, inclusive, and transparent workplace culture that prioritizes staff well-being, clear boundaries, and balanced workloads.

• Adaptability & Resourcefulness: Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects autonomously, navigate changing priorities, and balance high-level strategy with hands-on, grassroots operations.

• Compelling Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to serve as an authentic public ambassador for Wasat and tailor messaging to diverse audiences, from community members to major institutional funders.

How to Apply: Please submit a Resume, a 2–3 minute audio/video recording and responses to the questionnaire at this link here [Online Application].

To respect your time, no additional portfolios, writing samples, or unpaid assessments are required at this stage. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.