Executive Director
Classification: Exempt
Hours: Full-time
Compensation: Based on Experience.

Position SummaryReporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for Care Fresno’s staff, programs, fundraising, expansion, and execution of its mission. They will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.
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Primary duties and responsibilitiesLeadership & Management:

• Ensure ongoing program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals of staff members.
• Actively build connections with, and increase the service of, Care Fresno’s volunteers, board members, alumni, partnering organizations, church partners and funders.
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong board of directors; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations and expansion. Engage board’s support in fund development.
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain Care Fresno’s staff and leadership.
• Ensure effective systems to track progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and the community.
• Create curriculum and training specific to the goals and core values of Care Fresno; Ability to teach and preach to diverse audiences is essential to the position.

 
Fundraising & Communications:

• Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and expansion while maintain low-to-no debt.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities for growth.
• Oversee annual fundraising events.
• Must have experience with grant writing; Experience working with funding agencies is highly desired.

 
Partnership Development

• Must be able to communicate with diverse groups of people. Must have experience working with low-income communities and forming relationships with low-income & high-income churches and businesses while navigating issues of race and class disparities.

Qualifications
The ED will be thoroughly committed to Care Fresno’s mission and practice it in their personal lives within the community. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

• Advanced degree in related field with senior management experience; track record of effectively leading an outcomes-based and community-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth.
• Experience with program evaluation.
• A history of strong biblical education and experience teaching sound biblical studies
• An understanding and experience of best practices in community development.
• An understanding of and experience with cross-cultural engagement.
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget.
• Past success working with a board of directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships.
• Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills.
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Passion, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, self-directed and an extraverted preference toward engaging with diverse groups of people often.

 
Compensation: Full-time Salary & Benefits, TBD by experience & education.
 
 
For more information or send in an application, contact our Board Chair, Leslie Dau, at leslie@carefresno.org or
(559) 473-4746.
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