Executive Director

Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Greater Portland
Immigrant Welcome Center in the search for an Executive
Director.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive
Director will provide day-to-day leadership of the Center, enabling
it to serve as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the
immigrant community through language acquisition, economic
integration, and civic engagement.

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, founded in 2018, is
a non-profit dedicated to strengthening the immigrant community by
helping newcomers acquire the language and other skills necessary
to participate fully in Maine’s economy and civic life. A variety
of programs have been developed by Greater Portland Immigrant
Welcome Center, with the support of community partnerships, to work
towards achieving these goals.

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center provides vital
programming to ensure Greater Portland’s thriving immigrant
community fully reaches its civic, economic, and social potential.
Through the iEnglish Project, the Greater Portland Immigrant
Welcome Center provides regional business leaders with the
opportunity to enhance the economic mobility of their current and
future workforce by investing in adult English instruction. The
Center’s Community Integration Initiative actively supports Maine’s
immigrants’ engagement in the civic processes that carry such high
stakes for their lives currently through three main components:
Citizenship Assistance Fund, Your Vote Matters campaign, and
capacity building. The Food Security and Nutrition Initiative for
New Mainers partners with local organizations and interacts
directly with immigrant families to facilitate access to federally
funded food assistance programs and aims to provide culturally
appropriate nutritional information in multiple languages. Women
Lead is a program run by women for women, that empowers immigrant
women to reach economic self-sufficiency through the pursuit of
their professional, entrepreneurial, and/or educational goals. The
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center leverages local and
regional experts and economic development initiatives to facilitate
technical support, mentoring, access to capital, and know-how for
immigrant-led business. The Business Hub was created to help
immigrants understand, navigate, and thrive as an integral part of
the Maine business community.

All applications must be accompanied by a cover letter and résumé.
Cover letters should be responsive to the mission of Greater
Portland Immigrant Welcome Center as well as the responsibilities
and qualifications presented in the prospectus. A bachelor’s degree
in finance, accounting, or management or an equivalent combination
of education and experience is preferred for this position as is at
least ten years of non-profit experience working with people from
diverse ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic, and cultural
communities. Lived experience and knowledge of the immigrant
experience is strongly preferred. Greater Portland Immigrant
Welcome Center will consider candidates with a broad range of
backgrounds. If you are excited about this role and feel that you
can contribute to the Center, but your experience does not exactly
align with every qualification listed above, we encourage you to
apply. 

The salary range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000
annually.

To apply for this position, visit:
https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/1379.