The Opportunity
South Asian SOAR is seeking an Executive Director to serve as a builder, strategist, and community leader—someone who has founded, built, or scaled organizations, initiatives, or movements, and who is a skilled facilitator and convener able to bring diverse stakeholders into alignment around shared goals.
This leader will combine compassion with conviction, bring a trauma-informed and survivor-centered leadership approach, navigate complexity with clarity, and have the confidence and skill to lead SOAR into its next phase as a strong national movement for ending gender-based violence.
This is a defining leadership moment for SOAR. The organization is moving from an early-stage, founder-led phase into its next chapter of growth and integration. The Executive Director will be responsible for building what comes next—clarifying structure where needed, strengthening systems and culture, and scaling impact without losing the relational, survivor-centered heart of the movement.
This role offers a rare opportunity for a values-driven, visionary leader to shape and grow an emerging national coalition—deepening regional and national impact, strengthening survivor- centered and member organization centered ' approaches across capacity building, leadership development, organizing, research, and advocacy, and helping define the future of culturally specific, survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence in the United States.
Reports To: SOAR’s Advisory Board
Direct Reports: Staff to be hired and supervised as the organization grows
Benefits & Salary: $130,000 – $150,000, commensurate with experience, plus benefits
Location: Virtual with 10 - 15% travel, as needed, across the United States
Target Start Date: May 2026
Overall Responsibilities
- Organizational Leadership and Strategy
- Fundraising and Development
- Program Strategy & Member Engagement
- External Relations, Advocacy & Movement Leadership
- Finance and Operations
The Candidate
The next ED will be a builder, strategist, and community leader—someone who combines compassion with conviction, can navigate complexity with grace, and has the confidence and skill to lead SOAR into its next phase as a strong national movement for ending gender-based violence. They will bring a deep commitment to survivor-centered work, racial and gender justice, and collective liberation.
Qualifications
Required
- Minimum of 7–10 years of relevant work experience
- Minimum of 3 years in leadership roles, preferably in the nonprofit sector
Preferred
- Experience within networks or coalitions facilitating organizational shared goals
- Experience with developing organizational structure, including board development, management and governance
- Experience hiring staff and building and developing teams
- Record of thought leadership, advocacy and media relations
- Demonstrated passion, understanding and alignment with SOAR’s mission to end GBV
- Proven ability to lead strategic planning and program design, development and scaling
- Ability to build relationships and partnerships across regions to amplify and connect grassroots/local efforts
- Experience with building in early-stage development or solo leadership
- Demonstrated fundraising success with cultivating individual and institutional donors
- Experience working in culturally specific, survivor-centered, or gender-justice organizations strongly preferred
- Comfort working in a fully remote, nationally distributed organization
