Eli’s Place

executive director

Position Overview

Organization: Eli’s Place

Title: Executive Director

Reports to: Board of Directors

Team: To be hired

Location: Guelph, Ontario

Compensation: $160,000 - $190,000

Is this you?

We are seeking a visionary and dynamic Executive Director to lead the opening and strategic growth of Eli’s Place, ensuring the delivery of exceptional, client-centred care and outcomes.

You are at the point in your career where you are ready for the responsibility and overall accountability of bringing an organization’s vision to life alongside a highly seasoned and experienced board.

You are deeply passionate about the transformative power of long-term residential (~6 months) therapeutic care with supported transition into the community to assist young adults facing severe mental illness. You understand the need and that 1 in 24 adults have serious mental illness and there are families desperately trying to find solutions and institutions to meet escalating needs.

You want to be at the forefront of inspiring hope, reducing stigma and raising awareness. You believe in the Eli’s Place model and how it will increase employment and education attainment and reduce crisis interventions, substance abuse and death by suicide.

You are great with people and at building relationships. You are comfortable working with senior volunteers and sophisticated stakeholders You understand Board Governance because you’ve (ideally) reported to a Board of Directors or have sat on a board yourself.

You have a strong operations background, and you have successfully hired and led diverse and dynamic teams and although you may not have direct experience being a clinical director, you ideally have management experience in the mental health, addictions, rehabilitation, and other residential setting space and understand health policy and legislation.    

If this sounds like you, click here to read the entire Position Profile.