EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
New York, NY
JOB DESCRIPTION
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for FREE's staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Management:
Fundraising & Communications:
QUALIFICATIONS
The ED will be thoroughly committed to FREE’s mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:
WHO WE ARE
Freedom House Reentry Education and Employment Corporation (FREE) is a nonprofit organization providing reentry services to formerly incarcerated adults, veterans, and caring social services for their children. FREE is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in California and New York.
New York, NY
JOB DESCRIPTION
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for FREE's staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Management:
- Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
- Actively engage and energize FREE’s volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders.
- Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout.
- Lead, coach, develop, and retain FREE’s high-performance senior management team
- Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents.
Fundraising & Communications:
- Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion
- Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand
- Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities
QUALIFICATIONS
The ED will be thoroughly committed to FREE’s mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:
- Advanced degree, an MSW and LCSW with at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
- Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation.
- Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
- Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
- Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
- Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
- Have passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
- Serve as executive editor for the organization's website
- Oversee organizational response to inquiries about FREE
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with exceptional attention to details.
WHO WE ARE
Freedom House Reentry Education and Employment Corporation (FREE) is a nonprofit organization providing reentry services to formerly incarcerated adults, veterans, and caring social services for their children. FREE is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in California and New York.
