Chief Executive Officer

BGC St. Alban’s, which celebrated its 75^th anniversary in 2024, is an accredited affiliate of BGC Canada, a national organization with more than 70 member clubs across Canada. Through accredited programs designed using an Asset Building model developed by the Search Institute, the Club provides life-changing programs, community-based services, and relationships with peers and caring adults to help children and youth develop the skills they need to succeed. With funding from various levels of government, BGC Canada, the United Way, foundations and donors, the Club serves approximately 2,000 children and youth annually, and 700 children and youth each day, through its 30 locations across the Greater Toronto Area, many in at-risk or underserved communities.

It is within this context that BGC St. Alban’s welcomes applications and nominations for the appointment of its Chief Executive Officer. 

Reporting to a volunteer Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer is accountable for the overall management and operations of the Club. The CEO is responsible for the organization’s $5 million budget, ensuring the Club’s financial health and the effective management of its resources. The CEO supports the Board’s development of the Club’s strategic direction in alignment with its mission, including increasing the Club’s funding sources, their diversity and community representation, addressing a disparity between funding for children and youth in the communities the Club serves, developing a growth model for its sites in York Region, and completing the launch of the Club’s new summer camp, Camp Howland. Working with a dedicated senior leadership team, the CEO encourages teamwork and initiatives across its 35 full-time and 170 part-time staff. Ensuring that the Club continues to deliver high-quality programming and services, the CEO cultivates and builds positive alliances with a multitude of constituencies, including community members, parents, volunteers, and its funders. As such, the CEO is actively engaged in revenue generation and fundraising activities, and the promotion of the club through speaking engagements, public relations, and other spokesperson activities.

As the ideal candidate, you bring a successful and progressive track record in senior leadership roles, ideally with experience as a Chief Executive Officer or Executive Director. Your tenure from comparable community-based non-profit organizations includes fundraising, financial management, board governance, staff leadership, community engagement and outreach. As BGC St Alban’s is a programs-based organization, you must have experience in initiating, planning, implementing, and evaluating community programs and services. Your leadership style is one that motivates, develops, and retains highly engaged and compassionate teams that are multigenerational and diverse. As a seasoned senior leader, you are well-versed in governance best practices and have experience reporting to, working with, or being a member of a voluntary board for a charitable organization. You are experienced acting as a spokesperson for an organization, and are comfortable engaging with members of the media, various levels governments, children and families, and for cultivating relationships with donors and funders. Candidates must be dedicated to BGC St. Alban’s values of creating a safe, accepting environment based on belonging and positive relationships.

To learn more about this impactful leadership opportunity with BGC St. Alban’s, please submit a comprehensive resume along with a cover letter in confidence to Jane Griffith (jane@griffithgroup.ca) and/or Caroline McLean (caroline@griffithgroup.ca). 

Salary Range and Compensation Package: A competitive salary commensurate with experience paired with a group benefits plan, including health and dental coverage, vision care, life insurance, and disability coverage (STD/LTD).

Location/WFH: As BGC St. Alban’s provides programs across its 30 locations in Toronto, candidates must be within daily commuting distance of its headquarters at 843 Palmerston Avenue and will be required on site multiple times per week.

BGC St. Alban’s welcomes and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities and persons of all sexual orientations and/or gender identities.

All qualified candidates are welcome to apply; however, priority will be given to those legally eligible to work in Canada.

BGC St. Alban’s and Griffith Group are committed to an inclusive, accessible and welcoming hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants. Please advise Jane Griffith (jane@griffithgroup.ca) should you require any accommodation to participate in the recruitment and/or assessment processes.