Executive Director
The Isle au Haut Community Development Corporation (ICDC) seeks to hire a new Executive Director. The current ED is retiring in the spring of 2025. This is a part-time executive position (minimum 20 hrs. per week) that serves the ICDC Board and Chair to advance the goals and objectives of ICDC.
Programs
Management of Existing Rental Properties:
- Property management (4 units) – lease agreements, rental collection, maintenance oversight
- New Tenant outreach and selection (with board recruitment committee)
MicroLoan Program: Review applications, underwrite, document, and manage loans (with board loan committee)
Expansion of Operations
- Oversight of existing re-modelling project and potential future projects.
- Grant writing (gov’t and foundations) to support long term program growth.
- Develop property management offering for non-owned properties.
- Plan expanded goals for MicroLoan Program (with board loan committee)
Administration
Organizational:
- Work closely with Board Chair to ensure regular meetings, material prep and task completion, provide executive summaries & reports to Board
- Support annual meeting planning and sub-committee work, update electronic document systems to provide Board member access
- Staff and contractor management
Financial:
- Develop and manage annual budgets
- Drive annual Fundraising appeal – Draft annual letter, maintain mailing and email lists, oversee community campaign
- Bookkeeping - managing financial transactions in Quickbooks
- Work closely with Board Treasurer to produce reports - Profit & Loss Statement (monthly), Balance Sheet (monthly), Cash Flow (monthly), Audit prep (annual)
Outreach and Public Relations:
- Communication: public information sharing
- Networking with Maine Island Coalition/Island Institute
- Manage Website and social media content
- Community outreach & interaction with other island organizations and Town government
- Develop & maintain relationships with various funding sources
ICDC’s mission is to support affordable housing and economic development on Isle au Haut. Our mission is critical to help sustain a vibrant year-round community on one of Maine’s last inhabited, un-bridged islands. We serve the needs of the Isle au Haut year-round community in the following manner:
“To assist in providing housing opportunities for year-round residents in assistance of the future economic development of the community of Isle au Haut. To further the economic development of the community, and to encourage, and assist in the settlement and resettlement of appropriate traditional resource-based fishing, aquaculture, agricultural, and other business opportunities on Isle au Haut. To improve the economic well-being of low to moderate income residents of Isle au Haut by encouraging such economic development and providing housing opportunities for such residents.” - from ICDC’s Bylaws
ICDC is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization comprised of a Board of Directors and Officers (15), a Clerk who also serves as legal counsel, a paid part- time Executive Director, a part-time maintenance supervisor on a monthly retainer and numerous volunteers.
The ideal candidate is organized, timely, detail-oriented, an effective communicator both orally and in writing, skilled in bookkeeping & budgeting (Quickbooks), grant writing, and has familiarity with website and social media content.
Position requires an average of 20 to 25 hours per week. Weekly hours may vary depending on workload.
- Initial annual base salary: up to $40,000, reviewed annually.
- Minimum weekly salary: up to $770, based on qualifications and experience.
Benefits:
- Single-person health insurance policy considered on a shared premium basis.
- Paid vacation: Three weeks annually during first five years of employment. Four weeks annually after five years, paid at current base weekly salary rate.
- Possible housing support
ICDC is an equal opportunity employer.
To Apply
Send resume with a cover letter and contact information to Bob Olney, ICDC Board Chair, at the following email address: