Position Description: Executive Director, SCB 

Standards Coordinating Body (SCB) Overview

The Standards Coordinating Body for Regenerative Medicine (SCB) connects the regenerative medicine community to the standards development process. As an unbiased non-profit organization [501( c)3], SCB is uniquely positioned to ensure that the stakeholders from academia, government, and industry have a say in the standards that will impact them as the technologies, business and practice of regenerative medicine grow. With buy-in from a range of stakeholder organizations from across the regenerative medicine community, SCB continues to pursue its mission to coordinate the accelerated advancement and improved awareness of standards and best practices that address the rapidly evolving needs of the global regenerative medicine industry.

Job Summary

We are looking for a full time, hands-on Executive Director to lead our team, reporting directly to the President of the SCB. In this role, you will partner with the Executive Committee and Board of Directors to successfully guide SCB to self-sustainability and fulfill its mission of bringing together the diverse regenerative medicine community around common standards.

The Executive Director will:

  • Develop and execute a marketing and fundraising strategy to foster awareness and convert stakeholder interest into actions and contributions

  • Engage with and coordinate efforts of SCB staff, Board Members, and committees, working groups and volunteers

  • Manage the organization’s administration and budget

  • Identify public and private revenue-generating opportunities and develop plans to obtain sustainable funding

  • Build the organization’s staff and capabilities and instill a positive culture in staff and collaborators

SCB is a dynamic and growing organization; therefore, the Executive Director will need to drive the organization’s strategy in close collaboration with all stakeholders to ensure the SCB’s long term sustained growth.

The ideal candidate will bring passion, integrity, a positive attitude, and the ability to translate strategic vision into execution. He or she will also bring experience and vision in building a not-for-profit organization through determinedly creating revenue-generating initiatives.

The successful candidate must be entrepreneurial, mission-driven, and enthusiastic about developing a thriving organization that is based on the momentum created by SCB’s achievements to date.

Responsibilities

Leadership and Strategic Execution

  • Advance 5-year strategy and associated annual plans in collaboration with SCB’s Executive Committee and implement the plan to execute, monitor, and communicate progress of SCB’s projects and activities to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization

  • Refine SCB’s strategic and business plans on a regular basis, in partnership with the Board, to ensure relevance and optimize plan success.

  • Coordinate and guide SCB’s portfolio of activities, projects, and other initiatives to enable their successful execution

Funding, Budget, and Administration

  • Establish opportunities for a sustainable funding pipeline via public and non-public sources

    • Establish industry partnerships to develop and deliver proposals, applications, or other pitches for funding such as membership, sponsorship, education, and advisory services

    • Coordinate submission to current public funders (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology) and new public funders (e.g., National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, international, non-governmental organizations) for contracts and grants

    • Leverage those opportunities to secure funding for sustained growth of SCB

  • Administer general responsibility for the ongoing financial viability of the organization, including developing, proposing, and managing an annual budget.

  • As delegated by SCB’s Executive Committee, represent SCB in negotiations with vendors, partners, government agencies, and others to create contract terms that would be most effective and advantageous for SCB

Management

  • Lead, manage, and guide the professional development of SCB staff, overseeing and supporting their implementation of SCB activities and projects.

  • Design, develop, implement, and continuously improve consistent approaches and practices for executing SCB’s mission in partnership with staff and with approval from the Executive Committee.

  • Support a healthy and strong organizational culture that includes support of and compliance with organizational best practices and applicable regulations.

  • Support the implementation of the SCB Board of Directors’ annual strategic and budget-planning process through attendance at all Board meetings. Coordinate the preparation, implementation, and timely follow-up from those meetings

Communications and Coordination

  • Represent SCB as a speaker or participant at community events or other activities to enhance SCB’s profile and enable implementation of its mission

  • Develop and maintain beneficial relationships with funders, partners, collaborators, advisors, vendors, and other stakeholders to support and advance the implementation of SCB’s mission

  • Foster effective teamwork with and coordinate activities of the SCB Board, Executive Committee, Sector Working Groups, the Advisory Committee for Standards Coordination, and staff

  • Ensure effective external and internal communications and support the development and maintenance of a strong SCB brand

  • Identify and inform the Executive Committee and the Board of internal and external developments that affect the organization or accomplishment of its strategic plan

Qualifications

  • At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, including:

    • Leadership experience in a not-for-profit organization [e.g., 501(c)3]

    • Experience in growing a team or organization including its related staffing and budget

  • Demonstrated abilities in non-profit management, marketing, or fundraising experience

  • Demonstrated success in:

    • Building organizational partnerships with a large range of stakeholders from industry, government, and non-government organization—both formal and informal

    • Negotiation and facilitation, including collaboration and consensus-building

    • Developing, monitoring, and achieving strategic objectives

    • Team building within an organization to achieve cross-functional goals

    • Managing a start-up organization, growing an organization, or leading an organization through change

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English—a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, high cultural awareness, and multidisciplinary project experience

  • Undergraduate degree; graduate degree in business, management, or related field preferred

  • Experience winning support from industry and academic executive leaders

  • Experience in cell or gene therapy, tissue engineering, or a related scientific or technical field, preferred

  • Self-directed and solution-oriented

Location & Travel

  • Washington, DC metropolitan area preferred

  • Travel expectations: 25-50% both nationally and internationally (pre-pandemic estimate to be adjusted as scientific and business event schedules readjust to new normal)

Interested applicants may apply at https://indeedhi.re/32ozFp4