President & CEO

President & CEO Position Summary

The President & CEO serves under contract to the Board of Directors. The CEO is responsible for ensuring Travel Lane County’s destination marketing and management programs achieve excellence in growing overnight stays for a vibrant, year-round, countywide economy in alignment with community values. This position has traditionally assumed a strong community, regional, and statewide leadership role on a variety of boards and committees relevant to Travel Lane County’s mission.

This position is responsible for:

• Ensuring an informed and strategically engaged Board of Directors

• Developing and maintaining an effective working relationship with board members

• Securing an approved current multi-year strategic plan

• Staffing all board activities

• Overseeing all operating issues, including organizational and program procedures

• Supervising budget preparation, implementation, and management

• Overseeing financial systems and reporting, assuring legal and policy compliance

• Proposing, implementing, and supervising the annual work plan

• Ensuring the annual work plan aligns with the strategic plan

• Leading and directing all program areas

• Supervising the development of all collateral and advertising

• Assuring robust HR systems and practices, hiring, supervising and evaluating of all staff

• Ensuring a highly skilled, innovative, engaged, and effective staff        

• Overseeing membership sales and member relations

• Ensuring an approved current stakeholder relations and advocacy plan is in place and implemented

• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with city,  county, state, and federal elected officials,    and community leaders

• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with Travel Oregon, Willamette Valley Visitors Association, Oregon Coast Visitors Association, other destination marketing and management organizations, and area economic development organizations

• Overseeing media relations and serving as Travel Lane County’s official spokesperson

• Providing and/or overseeing public testimony when and where appropriate

• Ensuring fulfillment of, and adherence to, the rolling Lane County Grant Agreement

• Personally presenting semi-annual reports (oral and written) to Lane County

The search committee is seeking candidates with the following:

1.  Knowledge of and experience in the tourism and  hospitality industry sector.

2. Individual Characteristics – including effective judgment, continuous improvement, professionalism,  integrity responsiveness, creativity, decisiveness, initiative, and political awareness.

3. Interactive Skills – including team building, consensus building, communication, networking, liaison role, cooperation, persuasion/negotiation,   listening ability, and customer service.

4. Leadership – including inspiring, visionary, trusted,  accountable.

5. Work Output – including efficiency, quality, quantity, and effectiveness.

6. Management – including directing, motivating, work habits, personal ownership and accountability.