President

• Organizational Directives are components of the United Way of Florida Strategic Plan that require competencies that are complementary to and must be aligned with the Responsibilities & Core Competencies.

Statewide Partnerships/Corporate Development

• Supporting Campaign & Impact - Develops and supports strategic corporate and non-profit partnerships that enhance United Ways’ individual and collective fundraising and community impact and that provide increased United Way access to information, partners, and resources that intersect with their local community impact priorities.
• Increasing capacity- to work together as a network to help support all United Ways of Florida to be successful especially in changing and challenging times.
• Leverages capacity of the state-work with United Ways throughout the state and United Way Worldwide as a connector, convener, information disseminator, and influencer to ensure all United Ways are thriving and changing lives in their communities.
• Leveraging Partnerships - Cultivates statewide corporate, philanthropic, and impact partnerships grounded in existing local United Way relationships that generate new or improved benefits for Florida’s United Ways.
• Raising ALICE Awareness – Uses the Florida ALICE Report to find alignment and create new opportunities for statewide partnerships that enhance local United Way fundraising potential and community impact priorities.

Leads/Directs Public Policy  

• Foster Relationships  -Ensures that relationships with elected officials and governmental agencies are fostered and maintained so governmental policy affecting expenditure of public funds complement United Way priorities and to ensure that all human service funds are spent as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Public Policy Agenda - Engages United Ways in developing and actively supporting a proactive, collective, United Way public policy agenda that supports United Way community impact efforts and heightens United Way visibility and awareness.  Is seen as an expert in health and human services.
• Supporting ALICE - Positions United Way as the state’s leading advocate for the ALICE Population by promoting public policies, investments and partnerships that create community-wide stability.

Provides Statewide Leadership

• Visioning & Strategic Thinking - Thinks long term, stretching horizons and challenging imaginations to develop an image of how United Way and the Florida (network/legislature/membership) should work, creating a vision that captures minds and energizes others to commit to the vision
• Problem Solving & Decision Making - Identifying, analyzing, organizing and solving problems and issues in a timely, effective manner; uses data and input from others to make sound, timely decisions even in the face of uncertainty
• Change Leadership - Champions change, demonstrating a willingness and ability to initiate, sponsor, and lead a change initiative through to completion
• Team Leadership - Builds own skills in team leadership, delegates effectively, and fosters teamwork
• Talent Development & Management - Develops individual abilities by coaching, mentoring, and advising; challenges others to improve; addresses performance problems, and grooms executive staff for advancement

Disaster Preparedness and Response

• Facilitating & Coordinating - Mobilizes the United Way network to share information, provide cross-state support, and coordinate disaster response efforts among United Ways, corporate and philanthropic partners, and disaster-focused organizations.
• Directly Supporting - Regularly interfaces with United Ways impacted by disaster to assist in securing required resources.
• Engaging & Informing - Positions United Way as a valued partner with key disaster response organizations and state emergency management entities to maximize pre-and post-disaster communication and coordination and to ensure timely provision of important information to United Ways.

Responsibilities & Core Competencies:

• Develops Impact Strategies, Resources & Builds Relationships
• Influence and Impact - Using influence techniques that appeal to reason, values, or emotion to generate enthusiasm for the work, commitment to task objectives, or compliance with orders and requests
• Political Astuteness - Ability to understand and operate effectively both within the political environment of the United Way movement and the community; uses political awareness to determine how best to get things done. Formulates strategies and communicates in an ethical and politically sensitive manner. Has a detailed working knowledge of and experience within the Florida political system
• Strategy & Product Innovation - Ability to identify innovative strategies to address community concerns, create products to address strategies, and find appropriate funding mechanisms
• Coalition Building - The ability to explain, advocate and articulate facts and ideas in a persuasive manner and to negotiate with individuals and groups both internally and externally to advance strategies
• Development and Investment of Resources - Understands fully the development and investment of resources required for statewide impact in the areas of education, income and health and thinks comprehensively about the public and private resources suitable to meet those needs
• Board Relationship Management - The ability to build and manage productive relationships with board members that will provide leadership and guidance for the organization
• Investor Relationship Management - Creates and sustains mutually positive investor relationships; works successfully to foster mutually-beneficial relationships that add value throughout the UW system