Job Description

Doyon, Limited's mission is to continually enhance our position as a financially strong Native corporation to promote the economic and social well-being of our 20,000+ shareholders. We provide exceptional career opportunities for individuals who value professionalism, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence. We understand the importance of treating our employees well and the impact motivated employees have in helping us succeed in our vision to be the leader in all we do.

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

Doyon, Limited offers a highly competitive benefits package that makes up a significant portion of an employee's total compensation. Full-time regular-status employees are eligible to participate in the following benefits (these details are for information purposes and are subject to any policy or plan changes): 

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HAS)
• Life insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) Plan & Employer Match
• Profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance

JOB SUMMARY: The President & CEO serves as the chief executive leader of the Corporation, responsible for setting strategic direction, driving sustainable financial performance, preserving and advancing Alaska Native cultural values, and ensuring meaningful benefits to shareholders. This role provides vision, leadership, and executive oversight across all corporate operations, subsidiaries, and business lines, while maintaining strong relationships with the Board of Directors, shareholders, employees, tribal and village partners, and federal and state government entities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement long-term corporate strategies that support economic growth, diversification, and shareholder value.
• Guide the corporation in alignment with Alaska Native values, culture, and mission.
• Lead organizational planning, forecasting, and performance measurement.
• Ensure business decisions support sustainable resource management and responsible stewardship.

Governance & Board Relations

• Collaborate closely with the Board of Directors to support effective governance and strategic decision-making.
• Provide timely, accurate, and comprehensive information to the Board.
• Implement board directives and ensure compliance with Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) requirements.

Financial & Operational Oversight

• Ensure strong financial performance across all operations and subsidiaries, including profit-and-loss accountability.
• Oversee budgets, capital planning, risk management, and internal controls.
• Drive operational excellence, efficiency, and accountability across the corporation.
• Lead executive teams in meeting operational, financial, and mission-driven goals.

Shareholder Relations & Benefits

• Advance shareholder opportunity and wellbeing through dividends, jobs, training, internships, cultural programs, and economic opportunities.
• Ensure transparent communication with shareholders and descendants.
• Support shareholder development programs, including workforce readiness and leadership pathways.

Cultural Stewardship

• Uphold and promote the corporation’s Alaska Native values, heritage, languages, and commitments to future generations.
• Ensure operations respect cultural priorities, traditional lands, and community relationships.

Business Development & External Relations

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, partnerships, major investments, and strategic acquisitions.
• Represent the corporation with government agencies, tribal organizations, village corporations, industry partners, and the broader community.
• Advocate for the corporation on policy matters affecting ANCSA, Alaska Native interests, and regional priorities.

Organizational Leadership

• Build and sustain a high-performing leadership team and workforce.
• Foster an inclusive, respectful corporate culture aligned with Native values.
• Lead talent development, succession planning, and executive performance management.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, ethical standards, and corporate policies.
• Other duties as assigned

DOYON LIMITED CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Commitment to Excellence – Identifies what needs to be done and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations.
• Corporate Values - Understand, embraces, and integrates Doyon corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities.
• Customer Service – Identifies and responds to current and future client needs by providing excellent service to internal and external clients.
• Safety and Security – Promotes a safe work environment for co-workers and customers.
• Teamwork – Resourceful team player that builds, strengthens, and maintains collaborative relationships with others inside or outside the organization.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

• Analytical Skills - Visualizes, articulates and solves complex problems and concepts, and makes decisions that make sense based on available information.
• Communication Skills - Listens, writes, and speaks effectively, and positively relates and interacts with co-workers and others.
• Conflict Resolution – resolving issues using diplomacy and interpersonal skill.
• Creative Thinking – generating new ideas and innovative approaches.
• Decision Making - Makes choices or reaches conclusions by establishing objectives, gathering relevant information, identifying alternatives, setting criteria for the decision, and selecting the best option.
• Financial Management - Applies critical financial concepts and practices to establish and maintain realistic budgets.
• Leadership - Maintains a productive climate and confidently motivates, mobilizes, and coaches employees to meet high performance standards and goals.
• Management - Plans, organizes, directs, monitors, and controls a group of one or more employees or one or more entities to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.
• Networking - Establishes, maintains and utilizes a broad network of contacts (e.g., in a specific industry, in government, and the community) to monitor public and internal issues that affect our business.
• Planning and Organizing - Systematically develop plans, prioritizes, organizes and manages resources in order to accomplish business goals within a specific time period.
• Process Improvement – Manages, leads and enables the process of change and transition while helping others to deal with the process.
• Quality Management – ensuring standards, continuous monitoring, and organizational alignment.
• Risk Management - Assesses and quantifies business risks, then takes measures to minimize, monitor, and control them.
• Strategic Implementation/Thinking - Supports, promotes, and ensures alignment with Doyon's vision, mission and values.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a Doyon shareholder
• Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, finance, law, or a related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
• Executive-level leadership experience with a successful record overseeing complex organizations, business enterprises, or tribal/Native institutions.
• Demonstrated financial acumen, including strategic planning, budgeting, and enterprise-wide management.
• Strong understanding of ANCSA, Alaska Native communities, and the mission of Native regional corporations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working with Alaska Native shareholders, tribes, village corporations, or Native organizations.
• Background in corporate development, natural resources, government contracting, energy, real estate, or other relevant industries.
• Familiarity with federal/state policy issues impacting Alaska Native communities.
• Experience working with or supporting a Board of Directors.
• Demonstrated respect for and commitment to Alaska Native culture and values.
• Experience managing a significant business.
• Leading a major part of an organization and managing a moderate size P&L for an organization.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: The majority of work is performed in a professional office setting with a wide variety of people with differing functions, personalities and abilities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is generally sedentary, requiring routine walking, standing, bending and carrying items weighing less than forty pounds. [Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions].

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: It is Doyon’s business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities.

PREFERENCE STATEMENT:   Doyon grants preference to qualified Doyon Shareholders first, and second to qualified shareholders of other Alaska Native corporations that grant a similar preference in all phases of employment and training, which include, but are not limited to hiring, promotion, layoff, transfer, and training.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.

This job description is not an employment agreement or contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.

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