Reporting to the Foundation’s Board, the President and CEO is responsible for the Foundation’s ambitious fundraising needs, its major and planned gift development, and its profile in communities. At this time of entrepreneurial opportunity, the CEO will provide strategic leadership and direction to a committed professional fund development staff, top-notch support to dedicated philanthropic volunteers, and collaborative interaction with the Hospital’s executive team and its clinical and academic leadership, in order to ensure common purpose and direction.

The Foundation Board is seeking an exceptional leader with a record of superior results, preferably in an executive fundraising role, who understands all the elements of a major foundation. Excellent planning and interpersonal skills will be essential. The successful candidate will be a good fit with the culture of CAMH, which is a culture of respect, dignity, innovation, openness and transparency, and accountability. It is a culture that blends science with care, and that emphasizes an holistic approach to working with the “complete” person. Some understanding of an academic health care setting would be desirable.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation (CAMH) seeks an outstanding transformational leader as its new President and CEO. This is a “once in a lifetime opportunity” in the field of fundraising for the right results-oriented development professional with superior communication skills. Through a revolutionary redevelopment of its 27 acres of land, CAMH is transforming its space in downtown Toronto into a nucleus for the study and care of mental health and addiction. CAMH has the support of both the Ontario and federal governments as it moves ahead with its bold redevelopment plans, and this public support has engendered unprecedented commitment from the private sector. The impact on mental health and addiction care will be felt around the globe.

Society is at the tipping point of transformation: in how communities are responding to mental health; in CAMH’s historic redevelopment into an “urban village,” where state-of-the-art clinical care, education and research facilities share space with shops, restaurants, a performing arts theatre, tree-lined streets and parks; and in the broad-based philanthropic support for mental health care issues. With a unique story to tell, and a singular one within this metropolitan environment, CAMH’s research funding alone has increased dramatically and includes highly competitive funding from U.S. granting agencies.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health was declared by the World Health Organization in 1999 to be one of four global centres of excellence in its field. It is based in Toronto, Canada, with community offices around Ontario. Formed in 1998, CAMH represents the consolidation of the following major mental health and addiction facilities: Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Queen Street Mental Health Centre, Donwood Institute, and Addiction Research Foundation. Unmatched in Canada in size and scope, CAMH has 328 physicians in its medical faculty, including more than 100 full-time staff. It has 620 patient beds, 21,000 unique patients, and 400,000 outpatient visits per year. It provides outstanding clinical care for people with mental health and addiction problems; conducts groundbreaking research, leading to new understanding and better addiction and mental health treatments; provides expert training to today’s and tomorrow’s health care professionals and scientists; influences public policy at all levels of government; and develops innovative education and health promotion strategies to transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH is a Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, working in collaborative partnerships around the world. Fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, it trains 25% of Canada’s psychiatrists. It is the largest training program for new psychiatrists in North America.

The Search Committee will begin consideration of candidates in August. Please direct nominations and applications, in confidence, to the address shown below.

Janet Wright & Associates Inc.
174 Bedford Road
Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2K9
Phone: (416) 923-3008
Fax: (416) 923-8311
camhfoundation @jwasearch.com