Senior Vice President, Executive Director

City Year • Denver, CO

14h • $150,000 - $155,000 • Onsite

About The Position

City Year is seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) of City Year Denver. This position is an outstanding opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in Denver. This seasoned executive is responsible for ensuring the site meets its impact, revenue, district partnership, and external relations goals. City Year Denver stands to further its position in the community, and a 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 9 staff members and 45 AmeriCorps members serving in 6 school partnerships. Additionally, the Executive Director works closely with City Year Denver’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 $4MM while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure the sustainability, growth, and scale of the site. 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 Denver within the greater Denver 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 Denver’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

• Strong ability and experience in the behaviors listed above
• 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)

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop 9 full-time staff members contributing to high levels of satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
• Establish a dynamic culture that embodies our core values of inclusivity and teamwork.
• Further develop site human resources structures to ensure excellent and equitable hiring, performance support, and career advancement practices.
• Ensure 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.
• In partnership with senior site staff and regional support staff, the ED will ensure 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.
• Serve 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.
• Develop a strategy to maintain a healthy, diversified, and growing revenue mix from private and public sources.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and manage strategic relationships with corporations, foundations, family foundations, and individuals to build a sustainable private revenue portfolio resulting in annual revenues reaching toward or surpassing $1.4MM.
• Sustain transformational partnerships with existing district and school leadership and, when necessary, cultivate new transformational partnerships with future school partners.
• Ensure City Year Denver 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 $4MM.
• Recruit, develop, and manage 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.
• Ensure cultivation and engagement of future board leadership.
• Engage local and national elected officials – Governor, Mayor, City Council, local and state school board representatives, State Legislature, and members of U.S. Congress - to support funding and policies for City Year and the national service movement.
• Maintain an effective and collaborative relationship with AmeriCorps state commission; oversee the preparation of AmeriCorps grant applications and progress reports and meet performance and compliance requirements associated therein.
• Collaborate 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.
• Partner with site staff and local partners to ensure a strong cohort returns annually for a second year of service.
• Ensure local alumni engagement to leverage alumni to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.
• Lead 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.
• Leading the City Year Denver Staff and AmeriCorps members through modeling a deep commitment to collaboration, the cause of educational equity, and producing impactful results.
• Advance the site by investing in people, culture, community, and partnerships while prioritizing inclusive and equitable systems, policies, processes, and practices.
• Coordinate the annual recruitment and admission of 50 City Year AmeriCorps Members through a partnership with the National Recruitment and Admissions team and local partners.
• Ensuring financial sustainability by growing the current community of champions and financial investors to meet existing revenue goals promoting the longevity of our work in Denver.
• Supporting local site board and recruiting diverse talent to the board to support future financial sustainability and growth while increasing brand awareness and recognition of City Year in the local community.
• Maintaining and deepening strategic community partnerships with organizations

Benefits

• Benefits for full-time employees include health insurance with Flexible Spending Account (FSA), paid vacation (PTO), holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.
• Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays.
• Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed