Job Description
About Just the Pill
Just The Pill (JTP) was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2020. Our mission is to provide patient-centered medication abortion, contraception, and other sexual health care through telehealth and discreet package delivery. We offer funding, coordination, and thorough follow-up care to support abortion access with dignity and ease. Just The Pill is currently serving patients in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming (including many patients who travel to receive care). Since our founding, we have served more than 10,000 patients.
We envision a future where abortion seekers can fully exercise bodily autonomy and experience reproductive justice with dignity and care. Our vision is rooted in a long-term commitment to abortion access, adapting our services to help mitigate harm from both today’s harsh restrictions and the systemic barriers.
About The Opportunity
Just The Pill seeks a dynamic, passionate, and values-focused Executive Director to lead our fully-remote abortion care and sexual health clinic.
This role calls for a grounded, relational leader who can hold vision and strategy while delivering quality, people-centered patient care and maintaining a healthy, sustainable workplace. The Executive Director will lead with integrity and collaboration, balancing big-picture leadership with day-to-day operational oversight.
The ideal candidate brings a deep commitment to reproductive freedom,experience leading nonprofit teams and systems, and a leadership style grounded in reproductive justice values.
Just the Pill - Executive Director - Key Roles and Responsibilities
Team Leadership and Strategy
- Translates Just The Pill’s mission, vision, and values into priorities, goals, and strategies. Fosters shared accountability and responsibility across the organization for providing safe, inclusive, and high-quality patient care.
- Manages the day-to-day operations of the organization, including directly supervising three direct reports, creating and enacting standard operating procedures, and measuring progress on the organization’s strategic goals.
- Develops and implements systems for identifying, tracking, monitoring, and reporting on key metrics, progress towards goals, and effectiveness of strategies. Regularly assess whether services and operations are aligned with stated values and strategic intent.
- Ensures regulatory and safety compliance across the organization, including working with the Medical Director to maintain all medical credentialing, certifications, licensure documentation, and quality assurance.
- Ensures digital systems and tools are used in ways that protect privacy, trust, and safety.
Budget, Fundraising, and Financial Management
- Ensures strong fiscal and administrative management of JTP. Works in partnership with the Board and accounting team to monitor the organization’s expenses, identify gaps, make budget recommendations, and prepare the annual audit.
- Aligns budget decisions with strategic priorities, ensuring resources are used in service of mission, impact, and equity. This includes preparing an annual budget for approval by the Board of Directors, setting funding priorities, and establishing compensation guidelines.
- Oversees the development and implementation of a sustainable fundraising plan, in collaboration with the Development Director.
Organizational Culture
- Ensures policies, practices, and norms align with JTP’s equity commitments and stated values.
- Works with the Director of People and Culture to foster a supportive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.
- Works with the Director of People and Culture to build and maintain systems and practices that support sustainable work, including staff support, professional development, safety, healthy boundaries, feedback, and learning.
- Uses data, including patient voices and movement context, to adapt strategy and operations in response to changing conditions (political, legal, funding, community, or organizational).
Collaboration and External Relations
- Identifies, cultivates, and sustains strategic partnerships; Serves as the lead representative of Just the Pill with the Board of Directors, partners, coalitions, funders, aligned movements, and the public.
- Prepares and presents reporting for donors, funders, the Board of Directors, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Works with the Development Director to ensure strong relationships with funders and regular updates on impact and outcomes.
- Works with the Communications team to adjust messaging and engagement strategies in response to external challenges, such as legal or political shifts affecting reproductive health.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7-10 years of progressive leadership and supervisory experience in a nonprofit setting
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working or volunteering in sexual or reproductive health and/or reproductive justice, with a deep commitment to the organization’s mission.
- Excellent communication and listening skills, ability to articulate vision and serve as JTP’s primary spokesperson.
- Working knowledge of reproductive justice concepts, the desire to center anti-oppressive principles, and the experience to work effectively with people of varied backgrounds, abilities, and experiences.
- Ability to effectively manage and steward an annual budget of $4M+
- Proficiency with technology and experience working and leading in a fully remote work environment.
Desired Skills and Abilities
- A community-oriented and inclusive leadership approach
- Ability to understand and adapt to the emotional and political context of reproductive health work
- Ability to work effectively as part of a leadership team, prioritizing transparency, shared responsibility, and collective problem-solving
- Ability to hold and prioritize multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment.
- Familiarity with legal and regulatory processes for establishing medical service provision across multiple states; ability to coordinate the expansion of Just The Pill beyond our current service area.
- Familiarity with abortion shield law provisions and protections; Ability to spearhead Just The Pill’s expansion into supporting patients as a shield law clinic.
Note to Potential Applicants:
At Just the Pill, we believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, creative, and resilient organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, body size, or any other legally protected status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities who request reasonable accommodations are able to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Deadline and Application Instructions
Please include a cover letter outlining your interest and why you think you’d be a good fit for this role along with your resume submission.
Work In Progress is a consulting firm carrying out the hiring process in collaboration with Just The Pill. If you require accommodations for either applying or interviewing for this role, please contact Work in Progress at [email protected]. To ensure equity, we do not take meetings with individual applicants outside of the formal hiring process, but you are welcome to submit questions you have about the role or application via email.
We will stop accepting applications for this role on March 27, 2026 at 5 PM EST. The projected start date for this position is August 2026.
Compensation and Work Environment
Annual Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000
Work Environment: Fully-Remote (within the United States)
Salaried, Full-Time, Exempt position, expected 40 hours per week or more
Benefits:
- 100% Employed-Covered Insurance Plans: Dental, Vision, Medical
- Dependent Medical coverage at least 50% by employer
- Remote work stipend
- Flexible Spending Accounts – Health & Dependent Care
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
