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Number of Positions: 1Work Location: 100% On-SiteCity Year is seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, and people-focused leader to serve as the Executive Director (ED) of City Year Miami. This position is an outstanding opportunity to play an integral role in advocating for and advancing public education in Miami. This seasoned executive is responsible for ensuring the site meets its impact, revenue, district partnership, and external relations goals. City Year Miami 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 7 staff members and 40 AmeriCorps members serving in 6 partner schools. Additionally, the Executive Director works closely with City Year Miami’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 $3MM while simultaneously securing the resources necessary to ensure the sustainability, growth, and scale.
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 Miami within the greater Miami 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 Miami’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.
Minimum Qualifications
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 recordin 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 torepresentCity 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
Responsibilities
The Executive Directoris responsible forleading 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. This executive serves as a vital link between the local Miami market, the City Year Market Group, and the City Year national office. Site supervision includes 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.
People and CultureLead, coach, and develo p7full-time staff members contributing tohigh levelsof 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 andequitablehiring, performance support, and career advancement practices.
AmeriCorps Member ExperienceEnsure 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 initialconfirmation of acceptance to completion of service
Student ImpactIn 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.
Private Sector Fundraising, Cultivation, and StewardshipServe 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 leveragingnational revenue and stewardship strategies. Develop a strategy tomaintaina 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 $1MM.
School/District Investments:Sustain transformational partnerships with existing district and school leadership and, when necessary, cultivate new transformational partnerships with future school partners.
Financial Management:Ensure City Year Miamiraises 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$2.3MM.
Board Member EngagementRecruit, 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 cultivationand engagement of future board leadership.
Government Relations and Public PolicyEngage 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
AmeriCorps Member RecruitmentCollaborate 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 returnsannually for a second year of service.
Alumni Engagement:Ensure the local alumni board's engagement to leveragealumni to support AmeriCorps members in service and continue their lifetime of service.
Marketing and CommunicationsLead 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 leveraginglocal relationships.
Preferred Qualifications
Significant local non-profit, volunteer, or multi-sector experience preferred
An established cross-sector, local network a plus
Knowledge of Miami 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
Competencies
In order to succeed in this role, an applicant must have the following competencies
Collaboration:Connects with stakeholders to identifyshared interests; partners with others to incorporate different perspectives toward a common goal.
Teamwork:Actively contributes to shared projects with the understanding that team success is personal success.
Understanding & Building Connection:Considers perspectives of others and cultivates relationships to strengthen interpersonal bonds with colleagues and external stakeholders.
Decision-Making:Uses appropriate contextand data to make sensible andtimelydecisions; displays sound judgment when faced with opportunities/challenges.
Learning:Strives to continuously develop and improve self, teams, and organization.
Accountability:Holds self responsiblefor actions and their impact on team, goals, and organizational mission.
Flexibility:Changes course quickly and thoughtfully when faced with new or unanticipated circumstances.
Managing Change Leads and/ordemonstratessupport for innovation; helps others successfully manage organizational change; holds others accountable for adjusting to change (if people manager).
Problem-Solving:Identifiesopportunities to make improvements; gathers information; connects related and unrelated concepts; integrates findings into actionable solutions.
Project Management:Organizes, prioritizes, tracks, and manages workflow and resources.
Strategic Thinking:Identifiesmultiple pathways to address complex and nebulous problems;anticipatesbarriers and opportunities; develops plans to address them.
Vision & Focus:Establishesa clear visionaligned with organizational goals; develops teams and activities tomaintainalignment.
Developing & Empowering Others:Creates opportunities for others to learn, develop, take action, and lead.
Managing Performance:Assigns, tracks, and prioritizes work to ensure high-quality outputs; inspires committed and positive action toward organizational goals.
Team Building:Leads individual contributors into becoming a cohesive unit; fosters belonging, collaboration, and inclusion.
Physical requirements
Ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and occasionally move about the workspace to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Manual dexterity for typing, writing, and handling office equipment
Visual acuity to read screens and printed materials
Hearing ability toparticipatein conversations and respond to phone calls
Occasional lifting or carrying of items up to 10–20lbs(e.g., office supplies)
Ability to communicate clearly in person, by phone, and in writing
Working Conditions
Operateson a hybridschedulelocatedat the Miami office
Willrequiretravel to client sites, school partner meetings, external andcompany events
Typical schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., with occasional extended hours as needed.
Noiselevel isgenerallymoderate
Requires a valid driver’s license for travel as part of job duties.
Must have reliable internet access for remote or flexible work arrangements.
Compensation
$155,000- $165,000Annually Commensurate with Experience and Location
Working at City Year
Benefits
City Year offers a comprehensive benefitspackage that helps our employees live their best lives and grow personally and professionally.
Employment at City Year is at-will.
City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
As an equal opportunity employer, City Year is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Application Instructions
Navigate to our City Year career page: Search for Jobs Submit your application by8/21
Click Apply tosubmityour online application. Please attach a resume and thoughtful cover letter on the "My Experience" page in the "Resume/CV" field.
Benefits
Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. 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. For more information, click here
Employment at City Year is at-will.
City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
City Year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of leaders. City Year AmeriCorps members provide support to students, classrooms and the whole school. Schools that partner with City Year are up to two to three times more likely to improve in English and math assessments, and the more time students spend with AmeriCorps members, the more they improve on skills that help students thrive in school and contribute to their community.
A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by AmeriCorps, local school districts and private philanthropy. City Year partners with public schools in 29 communities across the U.S. and through international affiliates in the U.K. and South Africa.
