Senior Vice President, Executive Director

City Year•Detroit, MI

7d•$155,000 - $165,000•Hybrid

About The Position

City Year is seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) of City Year Detroit. This position is an outstanding opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in Detroit. This seasoned executive is responsible for ensuring the site meets its impact, revenue, district partnership, and external relations goals. City Year Detroit stands to further its position in the community, and key to the site’s success is a leader and collaborator who is a natural coalition-builder, people developer, and influencer who leads with both tenacity and humility. Reporting to the Market President, this dynamic, visionary change agent leads 23 staff members and 110 AmeriCorps members serving in 17 partner schools. Additionally, the Executive Director works closely with City Year Detroit’s local board, comprised of civic leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. The Executive Director is accountable for a current annual revenue budget of approximately $8.8M while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure sustainability, growth, and scale. City Year Detroit attracts revenue from multiple sources, including local philanthropic and corporate donors, national corporate and philanthropic partnerships, school and district partnerships, the Federal AmeriCorps program, and state and local government sources. Serving as the primary champion of City Year's impact locally, the Executive Director leads efforts to keep students in school and on track while also ensuring the site's sustainability and continuity. The Executive Director represents City Year Inc. and City Year Detroit within the greater Detroit community by mobilizing powerful coalitions to catalyze greater educational opportunities for students. Additionally, the Executive Director is a Senior Vice President for City Year Inc.'s national organization and, therefore, strengthens the connection between City Year's national initiatives and Detroit’s local work. As Senior Vice President, the Executive Director also participates within the City Year global network to advance the mission by managing working relationships with staff at City Year's national office and helping to lead and set organizational strategy through network-wide project teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or comparable experience
Commitment to educational equity and belief in the potential of all students
Demonstrated success managing effective and engaged teams, including managing through multiple layers of leadership
Proven skills in influencing and motivating stakeholders; track record in fundraising from corporations, foundations, and major gifts and/or sales
Ability to connect programs to funding, creatively generating other resources, and building collaborative and strategic partnerships
Strong communication, listening, and public speaking skills needed to represent City Year's mission and vision powerfully
Ability to attend evening and weekend events
Ability to travel to in-person meetings in various cities quarterly (when safe to do so)
Authorized documentation to work in the United States of America
Criminal background history clearance to work with school-age children, depending on the position

Nice To Haves

Significant local non-profit, volunteer, or multi-sector experience preferred
An established cross-sector, local network a plus
Knowledge of Detroit Public Schools educational landscape preferred
Content knowledge of K-12 education, youth development, and/or community or national service a strong plus
City Year/AmeriCorps experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Leading and managing site staff and AmeriCorps members to ensure operational success and growth by generating resources and building support from the public and private sectors.
Serving as a vital link between the local Detroit market, the City Year Market Group, and the City Year national office.
Overseeing site supervision including the functional areas of student impact and school partnerships, revenue generation, expense management, management and retention of AmeriCorps members and staff, and site board development and relations.
Leading, coaching, and developing 23 full-time staff members contributing to high levels of satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
Establishing a dynamic culture that embodies core values of inclusivity and teamwork.
Further developing site human resources structures to ensure excellent and equitable hiring, performance support, and career advancement practices.
Ensuring the site delivers a transformational experience for all City Year AmeriCorps members by supporting members in feeling prepared and confident in their service and promoting member persistence from initial confirmation of acceptance to completion of service.
Ensuring high quality and commitment to the nationally developed Whole School, Whole Child service delivery model implemented by City Year AmeriCorps members in partner elementary, middle, and high schools.
Serving as the chief fundraiser leading site staff and local advisory board to motivate key influencers to generate the resources necessary to meet annual and long-term goals leveraging national revenue and stewardship strategies.
Developing a strategy to maintain a healthy, diversified, and growing revenue mix from private and public sources.
Identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and managing strategic relationships with corporations, foundations, family foundations, and individuals to build a sustainable private revenue portfolio resulting in annual revenues reaching toward or surpassing $2.4M.
Sustaining transformational partnerships with existing district and school leadership and, when necessary, cultivating new transformational partnerships with future school partners.
Ensuring City Year Detroit raises three percent more than it spends annually by managing a fiscally-sound budget, forecasting, expense management, and cash flow for a current site expense budget of $8.55M.
Recruiting, developing, and managing a diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged local advisory board to build and execute a multi-year site strategic plan focused on deepening the evidence of our impact with students and in schools, facilitating a rewarding AmeriCorps Member experience, local fundraising efforts, community engagement, and brand awareness while also contributing to the success of the national organization.
Ensuring cultivation and engagement of future board leadership.
Engaging local and national elected officials to support funding and policies for City Year and the national service movement.
Maintaining an effective and collaborative relationship with AmeriCorps state commission; overseeing the preparation of AmeriCorps grant applications and progress reports and meeting performance and compliance requirements associated therein.
Collaborating with City Year’s national recruitment and admissions team to ensure site recruits, selects, and admits AmeriCorps members within the regional framework, meeting quality, quantity, and inclusivity goals.
Partnering with site staff and local partners to ensure a strong cohort returns annually for a second year of service.
Ensuring the local alumni board's engagement to leverage alumni to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.
Leading the site in increasing visibility and brand awareness of City Year’s work in local and national media, social media, and marketing channels by developing and leveraging local relationships.