Provides strong, innovative, collaborative leadership for United Way of Northern Utah in developing financial resources and in identifying and responding to community priorities in education, health and financial education. Creates and builds awareness of the United Way’s role in the community and assures involvement of its diverse constituencies. Maintains accountability for the overall operational and fiscal integrity of the organization within the policies set by the Board of Directors. The scope of this position is broad, requiring the President & CEO to establish and maintain significant relationships with persons at all levels within the public, private and voluntary sectors. These persons include nonprofit community partners, leaders of funding organizations, local government leaders, corporate executives, and representatives of the other United Way organizations.
Maintains a leadership role among United Way’s constituencies:
- Meets regularly with community decision makers, advancing both community interests and United Way interests.
- Addresses community groups.
- Maintains regular communications and oversees stewardship of all major donor groups.
- Participates on the state and national level in public policy activities that affect the mission fulfillment of United Way.
- Manages the recruitment and development of a Board of Directors representative of the entire community including business and industry, government, education, and health and human services.
- Works with the board to identify and initiate appropriate issues requiring policy decisions/actions and assures implementation.
Provides leadership in developing the financial resources to meet United Way’s mission:
- Establishes financial development goals with the Board of Directors.
- Develops creative strategies and plans for achieving financial goals and assures appropriate staffing of resource development team and campaign structure.
- Serves as the Chief Fundraising Officer devoting significant time (15%) to the cultivation and solicitation of Major and Transformational Gifts.
Establishes process of staff involvement in development of short and long-range planning:
- Analyzes and interprets existing conditions, opportunities and problems.
- Monitors the organization’s progress against Strategic Plan and Annual Work Plan.
- Staffs the organization with fully competent diverse professionals and delegates responsibilities/authority. Develops organizational work plan and monitors for implementation. Promotes continued professional development among staff and demonstrates and assures cultural competency of managers and staff.
- Creates an atmosphere that fosters the development of strong, effective teams and empowers staff through involvement and participation in decision-making.
- Establishes and ensures that the organization maintains open and honest communication both internally and externally.
Manages and directs activities of professional staff:
- Plans, organizes, implements and evaluates United Way fund-raising programs, within the framework of the campaign structure and in accordance with the principles of United Way fund raising.
- Maintains stewardship, accountability and reporting for financial and capital resources (including management of property), official records, operating budgets, and campaign collection and disbursement.
- Develops effective, integrated and efficient support systems for the organization, in such areas as computer services, staff and volunteer training, procurement, personnel and building management.
Supervisory Responsibility:
- This position has direct reporting responsibilities for a staff of six to eight professionals. Total staff is comprised of 20-25 employees.
These specifications are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered essential to the satisfactory performance of this job. Individual abilities may result in some deviation from these guidelines. To perform effectively in this position, the incumbent must have:
- Significant fundraising experience with a proven record of successfully cultivating and soliciting gifts and grants.
- Proven leadership; an ability to foster development of a common vision for United Way of Northern Utah among volunteers, staff, human service providers, business leaders and the community.
- Enthusiastic team building, demonstrated by a history of creating a climate among staff that fosters personal investment, excellence and a commitment to the goals of the organization.
- Effective utilization of volunteer resources, with demonstrated skill in handling the apparent paradox of both leading and being led by volunteers.
- Proven management skills, particularly in executing an established strategic plan, non- profit fiscal management, evaluation of personnel and programs and operating systems.
- Experience in negotiation and collaboration, skilled at developing effective partnerships while demonstrating understanding of and commitment to community-based collaboration.
- Demonstrated experience and ability in working with state and federal legislators on matters impacting United Way goals and community programs.
- A track record that indicates an ability to foster inclusiveness, working with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds and a commitment to United Way’s stewardship role in a community process in which people from varied situations can help shape a vision of a caring community.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-million dollar budgets.
- High standards of professional ethics and conduct.
- Excellent oral and written communication.
- Strong public speaker, comfortable speaking in front of large audiences.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
These requirements are met by any combination of education that typically includes a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field; additional post-graduate work a plus and ten years of work experience; recent service in a senior level executive position; a minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in a senior management position. Proven fundraising results, with experience in implementing complex resource development strategies are needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7-10 years working in education field (e.g. early childhood education, K-12 education, afterschool programming or mentoring, post-secondary education, etc.), or human services field.
- Experience in education/human services managing large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Experience in program design and implementation with a demonstrated track record of successful results for programs.
- Familiarity and history of service within the landscape of education, community. development and social services networks in Northern Utah (Weber, Box Elder and Morgan counties).
- Experience collaborating with local municipalities, county government and the state legislature.
- Familiarity with United Way network.
- Experience working on Federally funded and/or grant funded projects.
- Experience working with the Collective Impact framework and place based initiatives.
- Experience working with diverse populations.
Physical Activity: In the course of performing this work, the incumbent:
- Will spend substantial time standing, sitting, speaking and listening. Will regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Wage: DOE
Hours: Full-time exempt with competitive benefits package (health, dental, and 403B match of up to 10% after one year of employment).