Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Job Announcement

HopeLink Behavioral Health

Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

(Oakton, Virginia; at least three days per week in the office)

(Posted: April, 2025)

HopeLink Behavioral Health has retained Slesinger Management Services to recruit an experienced nonprofit financial professional with strong financial management, accounting, and administrative skills to serve as chief financial and administrative officer, and to be part of the senior management team. This is an outstanding opportunity for a fast-growing nonprofit that in 2025 will have a budget of $22 million and a staff of about 375.

Applications will be accepted untilthis search is completed. To see if the searchis still active,please see www.SlesingerManagement.com.

The Organization

HopeLink Behavioral Health is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire hope and provide support for individuals and families experiencing crisis and behavioral health challenges. In northern Virginia – especially Arlington, Fairfax. and Loudon Counties, and Alexandria – HopeLink provides adults, youth, and families with a broad array of behavioral health services and supports.

HopeLink also provides suicide and crisis intervention services as part of the nationwide 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, the three-digit telephone number that connects people in crisis to a national network of crisis centers. HopeLink is a member of this network, answering 988 for Virginia, but also as a back-up to receive overflow calls from centers in the rest of the United States.

HopeLink’s origins date back to 1963, when the Northern Virginia Mental Health Association began to offer services to people who had been discharged from Western State Hospital, a hospital for the mentally ill in Staunton, Virginia. Over time, new services were added. For years it operated as the Social Center of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and then Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, or PRS. In 2014 it merged with CrisisLink, and in 2023 changed the name to HopeLink Behavioral Health to better reflect its full range of services.

HopeLink’s budget in 2025 is $22 million. Funding comes from government grants and contracts from the federal government, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and local counties; client fees; reimbursement from insurers (Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies); and donations from foundations, corporations, and individuals.

For more information about the organization, pleasego to www.HopeLinkBH.org.

(Please do not get confused by another nonprofit called “HopeLink” (at HopeLink.org), a social service agency near Seattle that is completely unrelated to HopeLink Behavioral Health in Virginia.)

The Position and its PrincipalResponsibilities

This position reports to HopeLink’s chief executive officer, Joseph Getch. Mr. Getch joined HopeLink in 2005, initially as chief financial officer. He subsequently became COO, and in 2020, CEO.

As part of the four-person senior management team – along with the CEO, COO, and chief clinical officer – the chief financial and administrative officer (CFAO) is responsible for providing leadership for the organization’s financial management, ensuring HopeLink’s fiscal health.The CFAO also oversees IT and facilities.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Ensuring that HopeLink’s financial management systems, including budgeting and tracking revenue and expenses, are carried out with a high level of skill.
2. Ensuring that all procedures and processes relatedto the organization’s financial management are updated when necessary, especially if future organizational growth requires improvements from current practices.
3. Leading a financeand accounting department that includes four other fulltime staff.
4. Serving as a strategic businesspartner to the CEO, the COO, other senior staff, and the board of directors, includingassessing the financialimplications of key opportunities and decisions the organization is considering.
5. Working with program staff to create, manage, and report on budgets for the various providers of funding, including government agencies.
6. Creating systems so that the annual financial audit, any required single audit for government funds, and the audit of the 403(b) plan demonstrate high-quality financial management.
7. Serving as primarystaff liaison to the board’s finance and investment committee, audit committee, and outside investment advisors.
8. Ensuring organizational risk management through cashflow forecasting, business insurance oversight, retirement system supervision, and local, state, and federal government compliance.
9. Planning and overseeing the organization’s use of information technology, including ensuring quality service from the outsourced IT provider.
10. Overseeing facilities management. HopeLink rents space for offices, owns a residential property, and operates housing programs in several locations in northern Virginia.

Desired Skills and Characteristics

As the personoverseeing HopeLink’s financial management and administrative services, the chief financial and administrative officer should be:

1. Deeply proficient in accounting, including strong knowledge of GAAP standards as well as evolving FASB rules for nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit experience, particularly in a behavioral health or crisis center setting, is highly desirable, but not required.
2. Highly experienced in financial management at organizations with budgets greater than $15 million.
3. Highly proficient with revenue that comes from federal and state government agencies, where the funding is typically for restricted purposes and has detailed compliance and reporting requirements.
4. Experienced with pricing and budget development for responding to competitive RFP solicitations for private and government grants.
5. Experienced with revenue generated by providing medical services to clients, where payment most often comes from Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies. Knowledge of revenue cycle management is desirable, but not essential.
6. Able to think strategically, providing the CEO, the COO, and the rest of the senior team and board with sound analysis and advice as the organization considers new opportunities and new ways of carrying out its mission.
7. Fully up-to-date with the best ways to use technology to make organizational systems operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.
8. Able to oversee the IT work carried out by an outsourced firm.
9. Able to keep up in a fast-paced, get-it-done-now environment.
10. A superb communicator, orallyand in writing, including presenting and explaining financialand other quantitative data to staff and board with varying levels of financial literacy.
11. Collegial and open. The CFAO must have a personality and work stylethat ensures that the internal atmosphere will be open and collaborative.
12. Comfortable with a hands-on job, understanding that the finance and accounting department is a five-person unit. This job is a blend of typical CFO and controller activities.
13. Fully supportive of HopeLink’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity.
14. Interested in and supportive of HopeLink’s mission, demonstrated ideally through professional, volunteer, or personal experiences.

Compensation

The anticipated salary will be $160,000 to $180,000, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

To Apply

Please e-mail the following:

1. A cover letter that explains:
   1. Why you are interested in this job; and
   2. Why you are qualified for this job.
2. An up-to-date résumé.

to search consultant Larry Slesinger, Founderand CEO of Slesinger Management Services, at

Larry@SlesingerManagement.com.

Please include “HopeLink” in the subject line.

Questions: Contact Larry Slesinger by email.