Executive Director
About the Organization
Building Community in New Hampshire helps refugees and other immigrants navigate their way to safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, and connected lives in New Hampshire. Founded in 2009 by a group of refugees from Bhutan, BCNH now serves hundreds of clients from around the world. Our case managers, former refugees themselves, are from Congo, Haiti, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. Our deputy director is from Bhutan.
Even as immigration and refugee resettlement are under attack, we are expanding our services to those who are here: we are hiring a team of three to teach English to Afghan women and children. We anticipate revenues in 2025 of $869,000 and already have grants and contracts totaling approximately $600,000 in hand for 2026. The next executive director, nevertheless, will need to lead BCNH through a turbulent period for refugees and the nonprofits that serve them.
BCNH has an office on Elm Street in Manchester and satellite office in Nashua. The board is almost as diverse as the staff and dedicated to our mission. The current executive director is retiring in December after leading the organization for seven years.
About the Job
About the job
The Executive Director of Building Community in New Hampshire is responsible for all aspects of the nonprofit organization’s operations and impact: internal and external; short-term and strategic; finances, personnel, reputation, and resilience. The Executive Director needs to advance the organization’s mission with clarity, integrity, compassion, and vision. A full job description is posted at www.bcinnh.org.
Because the skills needed to succeed in those roles are so diverse, one of the most important requirements of the job is the ability to manage teams and to help their members flourish.
The Executive Director works at BCNH’s Manchester office. He or she reports to the Board of Directors: a “policy board” with no role in the day-to-day management of the organization or its staff.
Because BCNH serves refugees and immigrants from all countries, ethnicities, and religions, the Executive Director must foster through word and deed an inclusive operation and a diverse staff that strives for equitable treatment for all.
The Executive Director need not have come to the United States as a refugee or immigrant, nor is he or she expected to provide direct service to the organization’s clients.
Because immigration and refugee resettlement are inherently dynamic, subject to global conflicts and domestic politics, the Executive Director needs to develop the organization so that it can respond quickly to change.
Please send a cover letter and resume to Executive Director Richard Minard at rminard@bcinnh.org by September 19. Rick will distribute your materials to a committee of five board members who will review all applications and make decisions about which candidates to interview and hire.
We anticipate completing the process and hiring a new director by mid-October, giving the new hire time to work directly with Rick for several weeks before his retirement at the end of the year.
You can expect an emailed confirmation that we have received your application materials, but please do not expect further communication until the Board invites candidates for interviews.