Senior Vice President, Executive Director

About the role

The Executive Director (ED) of City Year Miami is a seasoned executive responsible for leading and managing the site staff and AmeriCorps members to ensure operational success and growth. This role serves as a vital link between the local Miami market, the City Year Market Group, and the City Year national office.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage site staff and AmeriCorps members to ensure operational success and growth by generating resources and building support from the public and private sectors.
• Serve as the chief fundraiser leading site staff and local advisory board to motivate key influencers to generate the resources necessary to meet annual and long-term goals.
• Ensure the site delivers a transformational experience for all City Year AmeriCorps members by supporting members in feeling prepared and confident in their service and promoting member persistence.
• Sustain transformational partnerships with existing district and school leadership and, when necessary, cultivate new transformational partnerships with future school partners.
• Manage the financial aspects of the site, ensuring City Year Miami raises three percent more than it spends annually.
• Recruit, develop, and manage a diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged local advisory board to build and execute a multi-year site strategic plan.
• Engage local and national elected officials to support funding and policies for City Year and the national service movement.
• Collaborate with City Year’s national recruitment and admissions team to ensure site recruits, selects, and admits AmeriCorps members within the regional framework.
• Develop a strong alumni board to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.
• Lead the site in increasing visibility and brand awareness of City Year’s work in local and national media, social media, and marketing channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Commitment to educational equity and belief in the potential of all students.
• Demonstrated success managing effective and engaged teams, including managing through multiple layers of leadership.
• Proven skills in influencing and motivating stakeholders; track record in fundraising from corporations, foundations, and major gifts and/or sales.
• Strong communication, listening, and public speaking skills needed to represent City Year's mission and vision powerfully.
• Ability to attend evening and weekend events; ability to travel to in-person meetings in various cities quarterly (when safe to do so).

Qualifications

• Authorized documentation to work in the United States of America.
• Criminal background history clearance to work with school-age children, depending on the position.

Skills

• Collaboration: Connects with stakeholders to identify shared interests; partners with others to incorporate different perspectives toward a common goal.
• Teamwork: Actively contributes to shared projects with the understanding that team success is personal success.
• Understanding & Building Connection: Considers perspectives of others and cultivates relationships to strengthen interpersonal bonds with colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Decision-Making: Uses appropriate context and data to make sensible and timely decisions; displays sound judgment when faced with opportunities/challenges.
• Learning: Strives to continuously develop and improve self, teams, and organization.
• Accountability: Holds self responsible for actions and their impact on team, goals, and organizational mission.
• Flexibility: Changes course quickly and thoughtfully when faced with new or unanticipated circumstances.
• Managing Change: Leads and/or demonstrates support for innovation; helps others successfully manage organizational change; holds others accountable for adjusting to change (if people manager).
• Problem-Solving: Identifies opportunities to make improvements; gathers information; connects related and unrelated concepts; integrates findings into actionable solutions.
• Project Management: Organizes, prioritizes, tracks, and manages workflow and resources.
• Strategic Thinking: Identifies multiple pathways to address complex and nebulous problems; anticipates barriers and opportunities; develops plans to address them.
• Vision & Focus: Establishes a clear vision aligned with organizational goals; develops teams and activities to maintain alignment.
• Developing & Empowering Others: Creates opportunities for others to learn, develop, take action, and lead.
• Managing Performance: Assigns, tracks, and prioritizes work to ensure high-quality outputs; inspires committed and positive action toward organizational goals.
• Team Building: Leads individual contributors into becoming a cohesive unit; fosters belonging, collaboration, and inclusion.

Benefits

City Year offers a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees live their best lives and grow personally and professionally. Employment at City Year is at-will. City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas. As an equal opportunity employer, City Year is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.