EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 The Executive Director is a key leader within NAM. NAM is a dynamic organization with ambitious plans to change the paradigm of how addiction and mental health is treated. NAM is entering into a rapid growth phase and needs expert business guidance. The Executive Director is responsible for overseeing, developing and executing the strategic plan of the organization in a dyad together with the Medical Director, Dr. Harbir Singh Gill. Key duties include oversight of program delivery, operations, research, marketing and fund development, and community outreach. This position reports directly to the NAM Board.

Working in NAM leadership is a deeply transformative setting. He or she must be willing to recognize the need for, and to do substantial work on self to address blocks to fully tap their potential to implement the vision. All of the below duties are to be undertaken as a dyad with the Medical Director, as well as leadership team, where appropriate. Deep alignment to the NAM Mission, Vision and Pillars (MVP) and collaboration is crucial to success in this position.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Organization Mission and Strategy:  Works with board and staff to ensure that the mission is fulfilled through programs, strategic planning, research, marketing and community outreach.

  • Responsible for implementation of NAM’s programs that carry out the organization’s mission, vision and pillars

  • Responsible for strategic planning to ensure that NAM can successfully fulfill its Mission into the future. This involves moving towards a full spectrum, contained and crisis-capable organization servicing the spectrum of mental health and addiction that fulfills the mandate of “Holistic Recovery for All”

  • Responsible for the enhancement of NAM’s image by being active and visible in the community and by working closely with other professional, civic and private organizations

  • Oversee the development and maintenance of strategic partnerships together with leadership and clinical team. Creatively problem solve with the NAM MVP in mind

Board Governance:  

  • Ensure relevant annual paperwork and appropriate resolutions are passed. Working smoothly and proactively with an operationally involved board is crucial to the success of this position. This includes supporting the deliberations of the board, its officers and its subcommittees

  • Maintain close alignment with the priorities of the Board and Founder

Financial Performance and Viability:   Develops resources sufficient to ensure the financial health of the organization.

  • Responsible for the fiscal integrity of NAM, to include submission to the Board of a proposed annual budget and monthly financial statements, which accurately reflect the financial condition of the organization

  • Responsible for fiscal management that generally anticipates operating within the approved budget, ensures maximum resource utilization, and maintenance of the organization in a positive financial position

  • Ensure that relevant legal, HR and accounting requirements are followed by liaising with relevant legal and accounting agencies or professionals

  • As NAM is a growing agency, the executive director must examine and report activities involving risk and seek guidance on managing these

  • Plan and Participate in fund development activities

Organization Operations:  Oversees, together with the Medical Director, and implements appropriate resources to ensure that the operations of the organization are appropriate.

  • Oversees for the hiring and retention of competent, qualified staff

  • Responsible effective administration of NAM operations

  • Oversees agreements, and other instruments made and entered into and on behalf of the organization

  • Establishing employment and administrative policies and procedures for all functions and for the day-to-day operation of the nonprofit organization

  • Involved with overseeing relevant volunteers Review and approve contracts for services

  • Other duties as assigned by Board / President that are relevant to our mission and partnerships

Required Qualifications/Skills

  • A bachelors level degree is required, with additional education as an asset in relation to leadership and self development

  • You are encouraged to apply for this role if you are passionate about NAM’s Mission and Vision and able to align yourself with NAM pillars as listed below

  • Experience with board development, policy management, strategic planning and fundraising is required. Where there is less experience, this is acceptable if a strong willingness to learn in a self-directed manner is critical.

  • Experience with budget development and implementation for multiple projects running simultaneously

  • Familiarity with South Asian stakeholders is an asset

  • Punjabi language (spoken) is an asset, but is not a requirement

This is a fulltime position. NAM is a flexible employer to reasonably accommodate other priorities of the Executive Director to optimize quality of life.

Salary will be negotiated based on individual applicant’s experience and attributes, but generally range will be between $70,000 to $80,000 per annum. 

All interested applicants are encouraged to send their resume along with the cover letter to hsgill@namrecovery.com by Monday, July 10, 2023.

NAM Mission, Vision and Pillars

Mission

Holistic Recovery for All

Vision

NAM serves as a catalyst globally acting locally to drive transformation of individuals, systems and culture to promote holistic recovery for all. NAM envisions a future where communities themselves look after their own vulnerable and marginalized through the principles of Love and Seva (selfless services). NAM believes this is the essence of our identity as humans, and where there are blocks to this, NAM will catalyze resolution of these.

Pillars

Catalyst Culture

A catalyst transforms through its very presence. NAM as an organizational catalyst requires that all aspects of NAM individually be continually evolving into catalysts themselves. We adopt a coaching paradigm – for self and others. Coaching will be the common language of communication at NAM, internally and externally. All of our staff and volunteers will learn to receive and provide coaching, both for those for seniors and juniors. In a catalyst, the whole is as important as the individual, and the individual is as important as the whole; and so everyone has something valuable to contribute and through coaching we will all be able to function in our unique potential. Self therapy is the constant refinement of one’s self as a catalyst, and at NAM we need everyone to participate.

The Qualities of a Catalyst are: Uncompromising Truth, Beyond Fear and Hate, Belief in a Human’s Unlimited Potential, Creative, Love for  self and others, Humble and willing to unlearn unhealthy habits and relearn healthy ones,

Seva

Seva goes beyond volunteering. It translates from Gurmukhi to “Selfless Service”, and is at the essence of how a catalyst functions. Just its presence causes change to occur, without needing anything in return. Seva can only be inspired, never forced. NAM needs the Seva of all those involved in it, whether they are patients, families/friends, volunteers, staff or leadership.

Win-Win Confidence

At NAM we know that there is a Win-Win to be had in every decision, big or small; if it is not apparent we simply wait and continue our Self Therapy process until it manifest. At NAM we make decisions for the highest good of all, and transcend the energetically inefficient mentalities of “win-lose” or “lose-win” both internally to our organization and externally to the broader society of people and organizations. NAM does not believe we have competitors; only collaborators-in-waiting.

Radical Willingness to Innovate

As insulin transformed the care of diabetes, NAM will be relentlessly develop interventions and conceptualization (also known as Tools and Maps) to dissolve blocks that keep humanity from realizing Holistic Recovery for All. These blocks are often spoken of in Addiction, Mental Health and Chronic Pain afflicting individuals and families; however at NAM though we recognize communicative value of labels, we operate on a treatment paradigm that can heal transdiagnostically by affecting root cause, such as trauma and the bio-psycho-social-spiritual determinants of health.

We have a high bar for the conceptualizations and interventions we develop and use at NAM, and the criteria we use to vet success is:

·        Simple – can be taught to a layperson, and practiced independently by people at home

·        No or low cost

·        Can capture the interest of who is skeptical

·        Amenable to “self multiplication” such as being teachable in a video on youtube

·        Based in Self Therapy

·        Unlimited thinking that questions every existing assumption

o   Transdiagnostic application beyond traditional labels of addiction, mental health and chronic pain

o   Intersectoral, combining different theories of understanding that span the bio-psycho-social-spiritual continuum [such as the many fields of psychology, neurology, physics, bioengineering, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, yoga, spirituality and religion]

·        Usable in the most challenging population

·        Easily integrated into different languages and cultures

·        Holistic in nature

·        Focused on dissolving blocks that prevent effective self therapy

·        Get stronger the more they are used with no side effects and unlimited growth potential through practice

·        Permanence – any progress or effort made cannot become undone through cessation of activity or relapse to previous pattern of being

·        Compatible with mainstream existing solutions [ie. can be added on top of other therapies]

·        Integrate crisis stabilization and recovery coaching

Data Driven

Drastically better outcomes are the only things that shift established systems of care. At NAM we will produce evidence of >10x better outcomes at <1/10th the cost. Skeptics make the best converts, and therefore we will welcome skepticism as an opportunity.

Self-sustaining

True innovation requires independence from pressures of fund-seeking. We believe in delivering value for money  through social enterprise and through contracted services, and then using these proceeds to deliver our Mission and Vision.