Provide community leadership in addressing the root causes of poverty and stabilizing families through Agenda for Change goals and strategies. Create greater alignment, strategic focus, and shared measurement to accelerate impact areas and investment in the community. Coordinate and convene other community change makers, including volunteers, to increase understanding of and increase community involvement in achieving results through effective solutions and execution. Lead the strategic investment of UWDC’s financial and human capital to achieve measurable community-wide change and improve outcomes. Use data and lived experience to grow credibility, effectiveness and impact.
Success requires a commitment to high functioning partnerships with all areas of the organization and community. This position must exhibit a professional presence, encourage collaboration, and develop, promote, maintain and grow relationships. Stakeholders include staff, volunteers, corporations, foundations, United Way agency partners, health care, education, law enforcement, other non-profits, and local, state and federal government partners. Must have the professional presence and depth and breadth of experience to credibly represent UWDC and our community partners, both locally and nationally.
Community Impact, Strategic Collaborations (including grant writing and reporting, data and evaluation, and policy) and United Way 2-1-1 (24/7 Information and Referral).
Community Impact
- Manage alignment and deployment of the resources of United Way, including financial, volunteer, and collaboration opportunities.
- Spearhead key initiatives and business plans where United Way is leading or facilitating substantive human service changes in the community.
- Provide direction and leadership to staff, agencies, donors, and other stakeholders on the investment process redesign, which will prioritize strengthening families with children under 5 through holistic family supports and agency cross-system collaboration.
- Foster partner and agency relations activities including fully-participating agencies, donor designation agencies, and potential partnerships.
- Lead training and outreach to agencies including community assessment, diversity/ inclusiveness, outcomes, agency relations, investments, volunteer engagement, and initiative management.
- Develop and coach staff to support the Board, Vision Council, Community Solution Teams, Capacity Building Teams and ad hoc committees.
- Identify and monitor key indicators to measure the effectiveness of United Way community impact efforts and lead results reporting.
- Develop and implement the processes to assist other organizations in investing resources to the community in alignment with the Agenda for Change.
Strategic Collaborations
- Lead the development of major gifts through government grants, foundations, and proposals.
- Manage strategic initiatives by marrying donors’ gifts to objectives and outcomes produced through our agency relationships.
- Direct the establishment of Memorandums of Understanding that govern and produce specific outcomes.
United Way 2-1-1
- Provide leadership to 2-1-1, with support from the Executive Vice President Finance & Administration, ensuring continuation and growth of our community’s most comprehensive health and health services database, informing Community Solution Team(s) and/or staff of real-time community needs and prioritized care coordination for increased delivery of systems.
Agency Relations
- Support and evolve agencies to assume leadership roles in critical areas of human needs in our community.
- Nurture volunteers and staff to develop full partnerships with participating agencies.
- Establish staff services to cooperate with governmental units and assist agencies in obtaining governmental funds.
- Encourage cooperative efforts with other funding sources to address community problems and to meet changing needs in Dane County.
- Develop pathways for staff and volunteers to increase the effectiveness of diverse and inclusive communities and agencies.
Community Liaison & Governmental Relations
- Develop and implement governmental relations activities, including state and federal legislation, that may affect United Way, health and human services or the non-profit community.
- Provide leadership to the President & CEO to develop relationships with other organizational funders (e.g. the Madison Community Foundation), governmental units, and agencies.
- Attend and serve on National Committees/Task Forces regarding planning/ Community Impact.
- Provide technical assistance and training to other United Ways in Community Impact activities.
Executive Vice President Supervisory Duties
- Provide leadership and exceptional management to Community Impact staff and Vision Council volunteers by determining visions, priorities, focus areas, outcomes and community indicators.
- Manage external relations, community impact strategy, and issue management.
- Assure visibility, involvement, leadership, and results in critical health and human service issues in our community.
- Identify areas where potential issues and opportunities for improving the quality of life may emerge.
- Identify leadership roles for United Way in the community.
- Assure external relationships/actions are consistent with our vision/mission.
- Serve as point of contact for community issues and concerns, and engagement of Board leadership on significant external affairs.
- Recommend volunteer leadership for the Board, Vision Council and ad hoc committees.
- In collaboration with Marketing and Resource Development, authorize media contacts and approve issue positions and responses.
- Represent the organization for the President & CEO at community events, on committees, on delegations, on task forces, and at other occasions.
- At least ten years of professional leadership in the field of human service management.
- Managing large diverse staff.
- Demonstrated success with designing and delivering results on high-profile, macro-community initiatives or programs.
- Solid experience with developing and managing funding proposals/sponsorships, grant-making, program & data evaluation, and community research.
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse interests and communities to produce life-changing results.
- Experience with developing, designing, operating and improving systems and processes.
Skills
- Strong staff leadership and coaching skills.
- Exceptional ability to communicate clearly in written form, including formal reports and analysis.
- Well-developed technical and analytical skills related to human services planning and evaluation.
- Ability to present strategies and results in written, electronic and oral forms.
- Practical understanding of research and statistics, and the ability to articulate results.
- Ability to analyze problems and develop creative solutions.
- Advanced computer abilities.
- Proven track record of teaming with staff, volunteers, and a diverse group of stakeholders to get results.
- Ability to plan and manage multiple tasks.
- Ability to recruit, motivate and direct volunteers in a team environment.
- Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, flexibility, judgment, discretion and decision-making.
- Possess and exhibit a high degree of emotional competence and intelligence.
Salary: $101,000 to $120,000 per year