Executive Director

Job Description

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JOB SUMMARY:
Working with a Board of Directors, helps to crystallize a vision, and plan and execute a strategy for the newly formed, not-for-profit Learn4Life organization. Plans and directs all policies, objectives and initiatives for the organization. Responsible for development, promotion and operations; ensures all activities support the focus of the organization. Represents Learn4Life in the community and serves as spokesperson.

REPORTS TO: Learn4Life Executive Board JOB

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Engages in work of Learn4Life by recruiting and engaging partners, establishing and maintaining effective relationships and connecting organizations throughout the community
• Represents Learn4Life in its relationships with partners and the community
• Facilitates Learn4Life strategic planning activities, including identification of vision, mission, goals, community level outcomes and priority strategies. Connects strategy and vision with the needs of the community
• Organizes the team to efficiently and effectively achieve goals and to implement its related activities
• Champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas and new ways of conducting business
• Effectively garners resources and instills a team approach in working with community leaders and other organizational partners. Supports and solicits input from team members to move organization's work forward and to achieve its vision, mission and goals
• Leads, directs and has the ability to influence the work of others at all levels across multiple channels, often in situations without a reporting relationship; manages and assesses performance
• Provides advice and counsel to the Executive Committee
• Prepares key partnership spokespersons for speaking engagements
• Serves as key grant contact for Learn4Life during implementation phase
• Performs other duties as assigned

Skills

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelor’s degree. Advanced degree preferred

Experience: 8 -10 years experience in increasingly responsible leadership positions

Knowledge and demonstrated success with the following:

Organizational development; strategic planning; change management; project management; people management; educational policy and trends; budget planning, scorecard analysis and measurement.

Beneficial to have a working knowledge and relationships in the Columbus, OH community.

Very beneficial to have held a leadership position in multiple sectors; education, not for profit, government, business, etc.

Capability to work across the political spectrum

Competencies:
Excellent written and oral communication skills and strong interpersonal skills required.

Excellent organizational skills, political savvy and network skills; relationship building, connecting organizations to achieve common goals and being a team player

Company Description

LEARN4LIFE is a child-centered collaborative of educators, families, child- and family-service providers, the faith community, charitable foundations, and business, civic and elected leaders united by a common vision and a common goal.

Our Vision:
Columbus will have the collective determination to ensure that every child receives the support he or she needs at home, in school and from the community to succeed in education, from birth through high school and beyond – and to acquire the knowledge and skills needed for good jobs and a productive life.

Our Goal:
• Create a culture of achievement that has broad community support and gives every child the opportunity to succeed.
• Empower and inspire all students to recognize and follow their paths to success.
• Actively address and remove non-academic barriers to learning.
• Support efforts to take promising practices to scale and eliminate unnecessary duplication of effort.

Learn4Life will be established as a 501c3 organization and is aligned with the Columbus 2020 initiative, which seeks to create new jobs and raise the city’s per capital income. It is responding to the challenge posed by that initiative – that most of Columbus 2020’s targeted jobs will demand higher levels of educational achievement, and that by 2018 nearly 60 percent of Ohio jobs will require some postsecondary education.

Posted: January 27, 2011

Type: Full-time

Experience:  Director

Functions:  Education, Management 

Industries:  Non-Profit Organization Management 

Job ID:  1372125