Executive Director - Sunday Friends
Stronger Consulting, United States
Job Description
Location: San Jose, CA (hybrid)
Target start date: Spring 2023
Salary Range: $110K-$135K
Who We Are: Sunday Friends (https://www.sundayfriends.org/), a highly-regarded nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based out of San Jose, California, is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and empathetic leader, fundraiser, and community builder to serve as its new Executive Director. For nearly three decades, Sunday Friends has served underserved families in San Jose through community-focused initiatives which aim to increase intergenerational economic mobility. Each year, we serve 300+ families, 1000+ unique members, through our 170+ educational life skills classes (including financial literacy, and digital literacy) and have received over 125,000 pounds of food and basic necessities for our families. We are driven by the hope for a better future!
Who We Serve: Families in San Jose who may have multiple generations living together supporting each other and wanting the best for their families and children to have a safe, healthy, successful life ahead. In our community, there is less access to resources, lower-performing schools, higher rates of unemployment, and higher crime which adds to stress. Together, we foster positive childhood development and elevate hope that through initiative and hard work, everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
About The Role: The Executive Director leads the strategic planning and execution, fundraising, marketing, community engagement, and staff management, overseeing a budget of $1-2 million, 2-5 full-time staff, and 4-10 part-time staff. Reporting to the Board of Directors, this full-time, salaried, mission-driven leader will ensure Sunday Friends executes its mission through strategic operations and development and providing inspiring outcome-focused direction to the staff and community. If you are ready for the challenge of leading a nonprofit with the most outstanding growth potential in the Bay Area and committed to supporting San Jose families’ upward mobility well into the future, we look forward to your application.
What You Will Do:
Leadership amp; Management
- Ensure excellent and consistent quality of the organization’s staff management, development amp; PR efforts, finance and administration, communications, and systems, with an unwavering commitment to the mission and the people it serves.
- Recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve organizational goals, while proactively identifying program and development opportunities.
- Cultivate key relationships with donors, grantors, families, partners, and government agencies.
- Actively engage and energize the nonprofit’s staff, volunteers, board members, partnering organizations, and funders.
- Support a strong Board of Directors, serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for current operations and future program expansions.
- Empower, lead, coach, develop, and retain nonprofit staff. Ensure a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment.
- Oversee operational support for the nonprofit’s program, including the management of in-kind donations and other logistics and supplies.
- Ensure effective progress management systems, effectively communicating progress and successes to the board, funders, and other constituents.
- Work with our HR partner on Human Resources functions, including hiring, performance reviews, etc.
Fundraising amp; Communications:
- Expand fundraising activities to fund the execution of the new organizational strategic plan, focusing on top area differentiators and client benefits.
- Drive the development strategy and execution, grant writing, major donor cultivation, and fundraising events.
- Amplify key client experiences and organizational accomplishments to major donors and key stakeholders.
- Deepen and refine all aspects of communicationsfrom web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
- Oversee and influence community communications, including: social media postings, direct mail letters, business letters to top donors, website updates, and staff communications.
- Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities.
Program Management:
- Provide supervision, support, and guidance for continuing program operations including program management, volunteer coordination, and education curriculum coordination.
- Ensure adherence to the organization’s daily activities and long-term plans to established policies and legal guidelines and to nonprofit’s values and culture.
Finance, Technology, and Administration:
- With our accountant and the Board