Executive Director – Nonprofit Social Innovation / Solidarity Economy

Executive Director of Common Good 🌎
Building a democratic economy, one community at a time.

Location: Remote
Compensation: $90,000-$105,000 salary, plus up to $75k in performance bonuses based on successful community adoption and system rollout milestones. All terms negotiable. The position is fully funded for the first year.

Reporting Structure: The Executive Director reports monthly to the board and supervises the staff.
Start Date: October 1, 2025
Deadline to Apply: September 1, 2025
To Apply: Send a cover letter and resume to Common Good Board <info@commongood.earth>. In your letter, briefly share why this role excites you, your experience of systemic oppression, and 2–3 concise strategies for how you might successfully engage a community in adopting the Common Good system.

About Us

Common Good® is the only nonprofit Money Services Business building social and financial infrastructure for the Solidarity Economy.

Our vision: We envision a society in which people gather locally to decide for themselves what their funding priorities should be, to advance a Common Good Economy — with plenty of money to fund those decisions.

Our mission is to design and establish the framework for that new economy by integrating a fast-growing mutual credit system with traditional bank accounts, to shift power away from big government and big business—back to communities, where people understand better what’s needed and care enough to fund it. This hybrid system gives today’s participants the experience of local economic sovereignty central to our vision of a Common Good Economy.

After 12 years of real-world testing, we’re ready to scale. We’re seeking a visionary Executive Director to lead that transition: working with a small number of fully-engaged communities to put the Common Good system into practice—building local power, resilience, and equity  fueled by collective vision, comprehensive economic data, and shared financial resources.

We’re a small, remote team strategically downsized to 3 part-time staff, governed by a volunteer board using sociocracy. We use the same principles internally: collaborative, values-driven, and always evolving.

More at CommonGood.earth.

The Role

You’ll shape strategy, grow and guide the team, and inspire partnerships. Your main focus will be to identify, recruit, and support three fully-engaged communities that will start rolling out the Common Good system by July 1, 2026. You’ll bring vision, clarity, and momentum, engaging a broad spectrum of community leaders—businesses, government officials, nonprofits, faith groups, educators, activists, and others—in a shared economic vision..

To succeed, you will need to be an outstanding communicator and relationship-builder, selling not just a system, but a vision and the confidence to pursue it.

You’ll report monthly to the board, with specific milestones and accountability, and supervise the staff—including our founder, who is stepping back from leadership but available to advise and continue software development for a maximum of two years.

What Hangs in the Balance

This is a pivotal year for Common Good. We have committed all of our assets to this next chapter, to support your leadership and bring the Common Good system to life in three fully-engaged communities.

This is not a rescue effort. It is a focused, strategic investment in expanding a proven system with full support from the board, staff, and founder. The benefit to participating communities – and potentially all communities – is enormous, as explained in our 7-minute video at cg4.us/video.

You will be well-supported by experienced staff, modern systems, and a strong foundation. What we need now is a leader who can turn readiness into traction, vision into trust, and trust into momentum—in community.

Responsibilities

You won’t carry out every task yourself, but you will ensure they are accomplished with excellence.

Leadership & Integration

• Evolve and hold a clear, compelling vision aligned with our mission
• Recruit and hire new staff as needed to meet program goals
• Coordinate and support collaboration among staff, board, and partners
• Lead with accountability, clarity, and empathy

Community Partnerships & Strategic Sales

• Identify, initiate, and develop collaborative, multilateral community partnerships
• Persuasively engage diverse community leaders
• Guide 3–4 initial communities through successful adoption and implementation at scale
• Sustain and nurture new and 2-dozen existing fiscal sponsorship partnerships

Strategy & Governance

• Propose policies and strategic direction for board consideration
• Maintain strong internal communication and role clarity
• Use sociocratic processes for team input while making final decisions as needed

Outreach & Representation

• Represent Common Good publicly with participants, potential partners, and media
• Promote a warm, inspiring, and accessible public image
• Prepare compelling presentations and articles
• Build visibility with optimism and compassion

Internal Systems & Oversight

• Ensure legal and regulatory compliance, contract management, and fiscal responsibility
• Propose and oversee annual budgets
• Oversee bookkeeping, payroll, audits, and required filings (990, MA Form PC, etc.)
• Ensure organizational documents, communications, and public-facing materials are accurate, clear, welcoming, and aligned with our values

Fundraising & Sustainability

• Prepare and submit three grant proposals per year
• Cultivate relationships with potential funders
• Additional fundraising is welcome but not required

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a leader who is both visionary and pragmatic—someone who can inspire, organize, and deliver.

You are likely a strong candidate if you are:

• Deeply aligned with Solidarity Economy principles.
  Experienced in accounting or finance—crucial to understanding and stewarding the Common Good system.
• A persuasive communicator with exceptional sales or enrollment skills.
• Experienced in community-building and cross-sector partnerships.
• Tech-comfortable, effective in leading a tech-integrated team.
• Clear, compassionate, and direct in your communication.
• Curious, self-directed, persistent, and passionate about follow-through and completion.

Preferred Additional Qualifications

• Experience with democratic governance models
• A background in movement-building, systems thinking, or “building the new society in the shell of the old”
• Familiarity with both tech and human systems design
• A sense of humor, intellectual humility, and delight in wrangling creative collaboration for social change

We Welcome You

We especially encourage women and people of color to apply. We value emotional intelligence, unconventional career paths, and lived experience of oppression. If this sounds like a role where you would thrive—even if you don’t meet every requirement—we’d love to hear from you.

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