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Executive Director 🔥


Job Purpose

The Executive Director is the key management leader of EEqual, as they oversee the administration, programs, and strategic plan of EEqual. Other key duties include fundraising, marketing, and community outreach. The position reports directly to the Board of Directors, specifically its executive committee. As the Executive Director of EEqual, they will be the leader in charge of developing and implementing strategy, goals, and objectives. You will be the key driver of fundraising and will be overseeing team operations. Your job is leading EEqual to be the best organization it can possibly be.

Buckets of Work

Vision, Mission, and Strategies (20%)

The Executive Director’s role has both strategic and operational components. Working with the board of directors and the staff team, the Executive Director must develop a shared vision for the future of the organization, build understanding around the current mission, and develop appropriate goals and strategies to advance our mission. The Executive Director will be the key leader when it comes to the handful of strategic decisions that will be made in the coming years. Undoubtedly, these decisions will be integral in establishing EEqual and its future.

Fund Raising and Resource Development (30%)

The Executive Director, in partnership with the board and appropriate staff, is responsible for developing and implementing appropriate fund-raising and financial development strategies, such as grant writing, business sponsorship development, and individual donor giving initiatives. The Executive Director and board use their combined strengths, knowledge, and relationships to help the organization achieve its objectives

External Liaison and Public Image (10%)

The Executive Director is a key player in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with the many groups that support the work of the nonprofit. Thus, the Executive Director should be actively pursuing and maintaining relationships with others in the community for the sake of furthering EEqual’s mission. You are also the main connection and line of communication between the Board of Directors and Staff. Finally, you should be ready to represent EEqual in a broad context and on varying platforms.

Internal Operations & Program Management (20%)

The Executive Director, in conjunction with the Chapter Network Director, Scholarship Awards Director, and Content Director, leads in carrying out the organizational mission by managing and administering the programs and services. This requires a thorough understanding of, and willingness to learn about, student homelessness as well as its technical, operational, ethical, and legal issues. In other words, they are responsible for the day-to-day management, ensuring that EEqual runs as effectively as possible.

Fiscal Management (10%)

It is the role of the Executive Director to oversee the planning and budgeting systems that are in place to ensure that income is managed wisely and that the organization’s goals and strategic plan serve as the basis for sound financial planning

Team Management (10%)

It is the Executive Director’s responsibility to ensure that qualified staff is hired to accurately monitor, assess, and manage the financial health of the nonprofit. The Executive Director is the core leader of the entire team, so they have to be every team’s support system and advisor.


Specific Responsibilities

  • Creating the strategic plan and EEqual’s 3 and 5-year goals and revising them every year. Oversee progress towards EEqual’s short-term and long-term goals by effectively breaking them down into actionable steps and delegating them to appropriate members with respect to EEqual’s organizational structure
  • Continually reevaluate EEqual’s practices and mission within our sector to guarantee everything we pursue effectively serves our purpose and act to correct any discrepancies between our current and desired state. In other words, be the key visionary for EEqual.
  • Serve as EEqual’s key networker and fund-raiser, helping to raise funds from as many places as possible to help make EEqual happen. This involves meeting with donors, preparing proposals, and being ready to advocate for EEqual in as many contexts as possible.
  • Own and embrace your role by creating and maintaining connections within and outside the issue of student homelessness. Everybody you meet/know could be a resource or an opportunity to learn. You just need to find out how. You are not just the Executive Director when you clock in.
  • You should be able to explain the who, what, where, when, why, and how of programming to a stranger just as well as you would be able to pitch them our development/fundraising strategy.
  • Ensure the organizational structure/culture allows all members to take ownership of and responsibility for their own work. You are a delegator, advisor, supporter, activator, and mentor. You are not a micromanager or a babysitter.
  • Be aware of how EEqual’s teams accomplish their work and what they are doing at all times.
  • For example, as the Executive Director, you should know how our scholarship program is being developed, what the current challenges are, and where the scholarship team is in the application process, but you shouldn’t be doing the job of the Scholarship Awards Director. You do not personally execute any of those specifics, but if needed, you should be informed enough to step in.
  • Understand how money is being raised and spent by properly tracking cash flow and how effectively it is being used to accomplish our mission.
  • As the leader and super communicator, you have the responsibility of understanding who you are working with, how to maximize their talent, and how to work together to achieve your desired goals. In other words, how do you activate people to accomplish goals while empowering them as leaders?
  • Understand accomplishments cannot be separated by the means used to achieve them. In other words, how you do it matters just as much as what you’re doing.
  • In summary, be ready to ask yourself every day: Where are we? Where do we want to be? Then, how do I, as the leader, help get us there?

Organizational Structure


Scope of Resources

  • EEqual has 13 Core team Members (Part-Time Volunteers)
  • 5 Scholarship Mentors
  • 9 Professional Partners Board Members
  • 18 Chapters across the USA
  • 4 Current Board Members; Anticipated 9-11 Board Members
  • Goal raise: Raise at least $300,000 in 2022

Requirements

Our Approach

We do not care where you got your degree from, or what kind of degree you got. We are invested in understanding you. Who are you? What’s the first thing you think about when you wake up? What makes you excited to be alive?

We want someone who is hardworking, passionate, creative, knowledgeable, sharp, and innovative.

Tangible Experience Required

  • Experience in the nonprofit sector is preferred.
  • Experience as a leader. (you do not need to have set up an endowment or launched a national campaign, but have you done something impactful in yoWe ur school, community, on your own? That is what we care about.)
  • Must be comfortable with and enjoy working with youth. We are by youth and for youth.
  • You will be working closely with teenagers who have all kinds of schedules that don’t always align with simple 9-5 work days. Flexibility is a must in order to be successful in this position.
  • Must have project management experience (did you manage or oversee a group of people at some point in your life? If you were a shift manager at Starbucks or a club president we want to know about it. )
  • Must have experience managing teams and leading groups of people towards a specific goal
  • A need to make an impact. We want to know if you want to change the world as much as we do.
  • Can you create big, bold, and brave ideas and make them happen?

Skills

Fundamentally, EEqual’s Executive Director needs to be an excellent:

  1. Problem Solver
  2. Communicator
  3. Delegator
  4. Visionary/(word for having initiative)

Narrowing in, they must be/have (a):

  • Initiative
  • EEqual’s biggest advocate, cheerleader, and hero no matter the circumstances
  • Professional and personal style consistent with the philosophy and team-oriented culture of EEqual
  • Forward Thinking, Solution-Oriented Mindset
  • Excellent Management and Organizing Skills
  • Powerful Team Developer
  • Strong Critical Thinking Skills
  • Understanding and being sensitive to people’s needs.

Benefits

  • Salary + Health Benefits
  • 100% remote. Work from home, Hungary, or a hut on the beach. Doesn't matter as long as you have Wi-Fi (and maybe some sunscreen).
  • Paid time off. We want you 100%, 70% of the time, not the other way around.
  • We will cover 1 round trip plane ticket (not during peak holiday seasons) to work in any location in the USA (excluding Hawaii, US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico)
  • Countless opportunities to grow—as a professional and a person

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