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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a seasoned non-profit leader, with 12 years of director and ED-level leadership positions. When I had my child, I stepped down from leadership to part-time SME roles so that I could have some work-life balance and be the type of parent I wanted to be during my child's early years. Now that my kid is thriving in Elementary School, and the pandemic is (largely) over, I'm refreshed & rejuvenated enough to be thinking about my next ED/CEO role.

I am not getting bites for ED/CEO roles, and I think it's because the steps down over the past few years seem like a backwards trajectory. Even though I am not currently in a C-level role, my SME role oversees a $16m/FY program (basically 8x the budget of the last NPO where I was ED).

Finally today, I just thought, what the heck? I'll get personal for a minute. I basically wrote in my cover letter what I put at the beginning of this post (along with all the skills I would bring to the organization, of course). I know it's job search 101 not to talk about family or being a mom in the cover letter or interview (or heck, sometimes even at work), but I have to think that explaining the shift and why I want back up the ladder has GOT to be better than the strategy I'm employing now, which is pretending the shift downward didn't happen.

What would you think?

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