Senior Vice President, Executive Director

City Year • Full-time • Hybrid in Jacksonville, Florida, United States • $140,000 - $150,000 / year • 1m ago

Fast Facts

City Year is searching for a Senior Vice President, Executive Director for City Year Jacksonville, who will lead efforts to advance public education and manage a $5MM annual budget while advocating for diverse partnerships and educational equity.

Responsibilities: The Executive Director will lead site staff and AmeriCorps members, generate revenue, sustain school partnerships, and engage community stakeholders to ensure educational success for students.

Skills: Candidates should possess strong leadership skills, experience in managing teams, proficiency in fundraising, and exceptional public speaking abilities to advocate for City Year's mission.

Qualifications: Ideal candidates will have a commitment to educational equity, experience in multi-sector collaboration, and a deep understanding of the local educational landscape.

Location: This position is located 100% on-site in Jacksonville, FL, with the potential for some travel for meetings in various cities quarterly.

Compensation: $140000 - $150000 / Annually

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

City Year is seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) of City Year Jacksonville. This position is an outstanding opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in Jacksonville. This seasoned executive is responsible for ensuring the site meets its impact, revenue, district partnership, and external relations goals. City Year Jacksonville stands to further its position in the community, and a key to the site’s success is a leader and collaborator who is a natural coalition-builder, people developer, and influencer who leads with both tenacity and humility.

Reporting to the Market President, this dynamic, visionary change agent leads 16 staff members and 70 AmeriCorps members serving in 9 school partnerships. Additionally, the Executive Director works closely with City Year Jacksonville’s local board, comprised of civic leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Executive Director is accountable for a current annual revenue budget of approximately $5MM while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure the sustainability, growth, and scale of the site.

Serving as the primary champion of City Year's impact locally, the Executive Director leads efforts to keep students in school and on track while also ensuring the site's sustainability and continuity. The Executive Director represents City Year Inc. and City Year Jacksonville within the greater Jacksonville community by mobilizing powerful coalitions to catalyze greater educational opportunities for students.

Additionally, the Executive Director is a Senior Vice President for City Year Inc.'s national organization and, therefore, strengthens the connection between City Year's national initiatives and Jacksonville’s local work. As Senior Vice President, the Executive Director also participates within the City Year global network to advance the mission by managing working relationships with staff at City Year's national office and helping to lead and set organizational strategy through network-wide project teams.

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Executive Directoris responsible forleading and managing site staff and AmeriCorps members to ensure operational success and growth by generating resources and building support from the public and private sectors. This executive serves as a vital link between the localJacksonvillemarket, the City Year Market Group, and the City Year national office. Site supervision includes the functional areas of student impact and school partnerships, revenue generation, expense management, management and retention of AmeriCorps members and staff, and site board development and relations.

Our Executive Directors embody ourcore valuesand must have a firm belief that education has the power to help all students reach their full potential and a passion for increasing critical student outcomes such as student engagement and attendance, academic success, and preparing students forgraduation and success after high school.To successfully execute the job’s core responsibilities, a successful Executive Director mustdemonstratethe following behaviors:

Build and forge partnerships and coalitionswith diverse stakeholders to advance the cause of educational equity
Mobilize internal and external stakeholders towards a bold visionof how they canimpactthe lives of young people
Build and empower teamsto fully own their functions while driving accountability and personal responsibility for their success
Build community and foster a caring and supportive environmentwith a sense of connection and belonging
Demonstrate curiosity and humilityas a life-long learner who seeks out diverse perspectives and opportunities for self-improvement
Possess a deep sense of personal accountabilityto ensure the success ofbothCity YearJacksonvillelocally and City Year, Inc. nationally
Connect with and inspire diverse teams of AmeriCorps Members between the ages of 17 and 25

Through these lenses, the Executive Director will focus on the following primary areas of responsibility:

People and Culture:Lead, coach, and develop16full-timestaff members contributing tohigh levelsof satisfaction, engagement, and retention. Establish a dynamic culture that embodies our core values of inclusivity and teamwork. Further develop site human resources structures to ensure excellent andequitablehiring, performance support, and career advancement practices.

AmeriCorps Member Experience: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 frominitialconfirmation of acceptance to completion of service.

Student Impact:In partnership with senior site staff and regional support staff, the ED will ensure high quality and commitment to the nationally developed Whole School, Whole Child service delivery model implemented by City Year AmeriCorps members in partner elementary, middle, and high schools.

Private Sector Fundraising, Cultivation, and Stewardship: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 goalsleveragingnational revenue and stewardship strategies. Develop a strategy tomaintaina healthy, diversified, and growing revenue mix from private and public sources.Identify, cultivate,solicit, and manage strategic relationships with corporations, foundations, family foundations, and individuals to build a sustainable private revenue portfolio resulting in annual revenues reaching toward or surpassing$1.7MM.

School/District Investments:Sustain transformational partnerships with existing district and school leadership and, when necessary, cultivate new transformational partnerships with future school partners.

Financial Management:Ensure City YearJacksonvilleraises three percent more than it spends annually by managing a fiscally-sound budget, forecasting, expense management, and cash flow for a current site expense budgetof $5MM.

Board Member Engagement:Recruit, develop, and manage a diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged local advisory board to build and execute a multi-year site strategic plan focused on deepening the evidence of our impact with students and in schools, facilitating a rewarding AmeriCorps Member experience, local fundraising efforts, community engagement, and brand awareness while also contributing to the success of the national organization. Ensurecultivationand engagement of future board leadership.

Government Relations and Public Policy:Engage local and national elected officials – Governor, Mayor, City Council, local and state school board representatives, State Legislature, and members of U.S. Congress - to support funding and policies for City Year and the national service movement. Maintain an effective and collaborative relationship with AmeriCorps state commission; oversee the preparation of AmeriCorps grant applications and progress reports and meet performance and compliance requirements associatedtherein.

AmeriCorps Member Recruitment:Collaborate with City Year’s national recruitment and admissions team to ensure site recruits, selects, and admits AmeriCorps members within the regional framework, meeting quality, quantity, and inclusivity goals. Partner with site staff and local partners to ensure a strong cohort returns annually for a second year of service.

Alumni Engagement:Ensure the local alumni board's engagement toleveragealumni to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.

Marketing and Communications:Lead the site in increasing visibility and brand awareness of City Year’s work in local and national media, social media, and marketing channels by developing andleveraginglocal relationships.

InJacksonville, the top priorities include:

Leading the City YearJacksonvilleStaff and AmeriCorps members through modeling a deep commitment to collaboration, the cause of educational equity, and producing impactful results.
Advance the site by investing in people, culture, community, and partnerships while prioritizing inclusive andequitablesystems, policies, processes, and practices.
Coordinate the annual recruitment and admission of70City Year AmeriCorps Members through a partnership with the National Recruitment and Admissions team and local partners.
Ensuring financial sustainability by growing the current community of champions and financial investors to meet existing revenue goals promoting the longevity of our work inJacksonville.
Supporting local site board and recruiting diverse talent to the board to support future financial sustainability and growth while increasing brand awareness and recognition of City Year in the local community.
Maintaining and deepening strategic community partnerships with organizations

QUALIFICATIONS

Strong ability and experience in the behaviors listed above
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
Ability to connect programs to funding, creatively generating other resources, and building collaborative and strategic partnerships
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)
Significant local non-profit, volunteer, or multi-sector experience preferred
An established cross-sector, local network a plus
Knowledge ofJacksonvillePublic Schools andJacksonville’seducationallandscape preferred
Content knowledge of K-12 education, youth development, and/or community or national service a strong plus

TO APPLY

Theinitialdeadline to apply isFebruary 6andapplications will be accepted on a rolling basis after this date. The search process will move promptly, and candidates will be evaluated according to the order of submission. Please submityour cover letter and resume via the online application.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

The salary range for this position is $140,000-$150,00.Full-time employees are entitled to compensationcommensuratewith experience. Benefits for full-time employees include health insurance withFlexibleSpending Account (FSA), paid vacation (PTO), holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.

Benefits

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.

Employment at City Year is at-will.

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.