About the role
The CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the ACS Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will lead one of the nation's most important and impactful nonprofit organizations, as well as its influential nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate. This visionary leader will partner with the ACS and ACS CAN Boards to set bold vision and strategic direction, inspire innovation, and provide dynamic leadership both internally and externally to advance ACS's mission of ending cancer as we know it for everyone.
The CEO will collaborate with the Boards to shape and implement the organization's strategic plan and ensure ACS's and ACS CAN's short- and long-term fiscal health. This leader will also play a critical role in driving impactful cancer programs and initiatives, and in fundraising, ensuring a successful capital campaign, cultivating major donors, and optimizing responsive digital channels to maximize sustainable revenue generation.
The CEO will oversee the leadership and management of ACS and ACS CAN, developing, inspiring, diversifying, and energizing the staff, volunteers, and other stakeholders on this journey to ensure the continued success and impact of the organization. They will foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, shared accountability, and mission focus.
As the primary representative and spokesperson and organizational steward, the CEO will build, strengthen, and sustain energizing relationships with volunteers, researchers, donors, healthcare organizations, policy makers, and the media. The CEO will also work to attract a new generation of supporters to fuel ACS's mission.
About the company
The American Cancer Society exists because the burden of cancer is unacceptably high. We are committed to ending cancer as we know it, for everyone. Through our mission pillar work in advocacy, research, and patient support, along with our development efforts, we are working to reduce these cancer disparities and advance health equity. We leverage our more than 110 years of expertise to invest in groundbreaking cancer research, sustain and grow vital patients, caregivers, and clinician support programs, and advocate for legislative priorities that help reduce the impact of cancer for people in every community. We challenge ourselves to expand our reach, better amplify the many ways our work impacts the people we serve and find new ways to help ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
