Updates on our Executive Search
/August 22, 2018
As many of you know, Friday, August 3 was Nichole June Maher’s last day as Northwest Health Foundation’s president. In case you didn’t know, here’s our original post about her transition to a new role.
Since Nichole’s departure, we’ve received a lot of questions about what this means for Northwest Health Foundation. We’re writing this post to answer some of those questions.
1. Do you have an interim president?
We do not. Our board and staff agreed on a shared leadership model during the transition. Our Vice President of Strategy & Public Affairs Jesse Beason and Director of Programs Jen Matheson are leading program operations, and our Vice President of Finance Jason Hilton and Operations Manager Stephenie Smith are leading internal operations.
2. How are you going about hiring a new president?
Northwest Health Foundation’s board of directors formed an ad hoc search committee to guide our search for a new president. The search committee solicited and reviewed proposals from executive search firms and selected Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group LLC. NPAG will conduct a search for NWHF’s next president with input and support from our board and staff.
3. Are you accepting applications yet?
Not quite yet. Right now, the search firm is drafting and editing a new position description. They plan to open the position to applications in September and conduct outreach and interviews through December. [Now we are! Please see below. - 9/10/18]
4. When will the new president start?
We hope the new president will start in early 2019.
We’ll continue to add updates to this post as we have them. Thank you for your patience as we work through this transition!
September 10, 2018
Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group is now accepting applications for Northwest Health Foundation's next president. The position description is available on their website.
November 19, 2018
The executive search is going well, and we hope to name our new president in early 2019.
January 2, 2019
Happy New Year! We’ll announce our new president on January 22.
January 23, 2019
Our new president and chief executive officer is Jesse Beason! Read the announcement from our board chair.