Executive Director

About the role

Creative York inspires the community through arts education, gallery experiences, and outreach programs. With a focus on at-risk children in the City of York, the organization’s award-winning Art in the Parks summer program features art-making activities that teach social skills, teamwork, and positive self-expression to more than 600 children yearly. The non-profit also serves a broader audience through free art exhibits and many other mission-related activities. Creative York is proud to be inspiring creativity in their community for over 30 years.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve strategic goals
• Actively engage and energize Creative York volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain high-performance employees
• 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
• Represent Creative York to the public; personally build and nurture relationships with political, corporate and civic leaders primarily in pursuit of new financial resources
• Personnel Management: lead responsibility for management of staff; identify, interview, and hire staff; oversee pre-employment interviews, reference checks, salary guidelines; orient new staff; conduct probation and annual evaluations; identify need for and conduct corrective action interviews; conduct staff meetings; ensure staff perform at peak potential; report to Board and Executive Committee on staffing status, including compliance with personnel budget targets; lead administrative staff and support Board in fundraising, development, special events, marketing, PR & press, budget & finances, customer relations
• Marketing & Promotion: final responsibility for organization’s comprehensive marketing plan; ensure marketing dollars allocated to best targets for programs and events
• Office Management: supervise office operations and functions; ensure office functions follow explicit workflow with appropriate checklists
• Fiscal Oversight: develop annual budget for Board review and approval; monitor administrative budget with Treasurer and Board; review and authorize all invoices and expenses; monitor financial position; alert to financial issues needing Treasurer/Board action; ensure timely and accurate tax reporting and payments (payroll, gross receipts tax, 990); work closely with Creative Director regarding grant writing and submission, and identification of additional revenue opportunities
• Advocacy: represent Creative York at public input meetings including State and local appearances; support other local arts and cultural organizations

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the non-profit sector
• 4-year degree in related field preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a supervisor or manager required
• Excellent computer skills and proficient in Microsoft Office tools, Social Media, Email, customer/donor database systems; experience with WordPress/blogging is a plus
• Knowledge of grant writing and the grant writing process
• Experience in program and contract development, public relations, budget and finance issues, and board relations
• Strong leadership, management, and coaching skills
• Valid Driver’s license

Skills

• Demonstrated ability in operational management and direction
• In-depth familiarity with all aspects of non-profit business operations
• Ability to manage staff and deal effectively with personnel issues
• Pleasant and friendly demeanor
• Ability to collaborate with Executive Committee, Board, staff, vendors, and community representatives
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Attention to detail, initiative, and follow-through
• Confidentiality, dependability, and effective work habits
• Data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening ability
• Strategic thinking and planning