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Executive Director

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Sault Ste. Marie, MI, USA
Full-time

The United Way’s Executive Director’s top priority is to create real
social change that leads to better lives and healthier communities.
This drives performance and professional motivations.

Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Skills/Experience: 
  • RELATIONSHIP-ORIENTED The Executive Director understands that people come before process and is astute in cultivating and managing relationships toward a common goal.
  • COLLABORATOR The Executive Director understands the roles and contributions of all sectors of the community and can mobilize resources (financial and human) through meaningful engagement.
  • RESULTS-DRIVEN The Executive Director is dedicated to shared and measurable goals for the common good; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad investment and impact.
  • BRAND STEWARD The United Way director is a steward of the brand and understands his/her roles in growing and protecting the reputation and results of the greater network.
  • VISIONARY The Director confronts the complex realities of the environment and simultaneously maintains faith in a different and better future, providing purpose, direction, and motivation.
  • TEAM BUILDER The Executive Director ensures that the right people are in the right roles at the right times; fostering commitment, trust, and collaboration among multi-cultural leaders and stakeholders.
  • OUTWARD TURNING The CEO understands the dynamics of local, regional, and national environments, and works on an agenda rooted in the community’s own perception of its needs and aspirations. Communicating with Board, donors, staff, businesses and the public is key.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN The United Way Executive Director possesses a high-level of broad business and management skills and is effective at generating financial support for the organization. This includes implementation and compliance with Board and government policies/regulations.
  • NETWORK ORIENTED The CEO values the power of networks; striving to leverage United Way’s breadth of community presence, relationships, and strategy.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS REQUIRED:

  • Marketing knowledge -Leadership
  • Computer expertise -Organizational skills
  • Flexibility -Not for profit experience
  • Desire to help others
  • Supervisory/management experience -Communications – verbal & written

Organization Info

United Way Worldwide

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alexandria, VA, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1934
About Us
Mission: 

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We win by living United. By forging unlikely partnerships. By finding new solutions to old problems. By mobilizing the best resources. And by inspiring individuals to join the fight against their community's most daunting social crises.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Apr 13 2018
Active Until: 
May 13 2018
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit