Position Description: Executive Director

Organization

Founded in 2004, the mission of JW House is to keep families together during medical crisis by offering a welcoming home, just steps away from the hospital, and by providing a caring and compassionate environment that inspires hope.

For more information, please visit www.jwhouse.org

Position

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for JW House’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will initially develop deep knowledge of operations, policies, programs and development plans.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Management:

Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems. Recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve strategic goals
Actively engage and energize JW House volunteers, board members, event committees, partnering organizations, and funders
Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for expansion
Lead, coach, develop, and retain JW House’s management team. Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

Fundraising & Communications:

Expand revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion
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

Planning & Development:

Design regional and national expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets
Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site
Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication

Qualifications

The ED will be thoroughly committed to the mission of JW House. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

Advanced degree with at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-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
Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
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 planning
Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) designation desirable

How to apply

Send Cover letter and Resume to: Mark@jwhouse.org