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Executive Director

 

Job Description 

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for CCCC’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. He/She will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Management:

• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals

• Actively engage and energize volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders

• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local and national operations. 

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain CCCC's high-performance management team. Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

• Manages the organization, including all administrative and fiscal policies and procedures, maintaining the highest quality of operational and professional programming.

• Ensures that the school is appropriately structured and staffed. Hires, supervises, coaches, motivates, evaluates all staff to increase their professional development to align with program goals.

• Ensures that all California Dept of Education, Title 5 and Title 22 requirements are met. 

• Manages internal and external audits for program quality and standards. 

• Ensures compliance with all funding sources, including Federal, state and county contracts.  Making sure all reports are due on time.

• Invites and encourages family involvement  through parent workshops and volunteering.

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Fundraising & Communications:

• Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt

• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand

• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

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Planning & New Business:

• Design the national expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets

• Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site

• Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication

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Qualifications

The Executive Director will be thoroughly committed to CCCC's mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

• Advanced degree, with at least 6 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth

• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation

• Ability to effectively work and communicate with the AAPI community

• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget

• Preferred past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships

• Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills

• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning

• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people

• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed​

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Please send resume to jobs@childrencenter.org

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