Organizational Overview:
Recognizing the urgent need for a place where teens could learn, connect, grow, and have fun, Brookline natives Paul Epstein, a Brookline High School social worker and his wife Saskia, a non-profit director, engaged a group of Brookline leaders and teens to explore the possibility of creating a teen center in Brookline in 2005. The vision was to create a place where Brookline youth could spend their out-of-school time in a safe place with both formal and informal activities centered around academic enrichment, physical activity, and socio-emotional health. In this way, the Teen Center will meet the need of local teens for a constructive, entertaining, and affordable place to spend their out of school time and will be one of the only teen-only centers like it in the local area.
Since 2005, in collaboration with the Brookline Community Foundation, Brookline teens and community leaders have been working to move the vision of the Brookline Teen Center forward. In 2011, the organization received it's 501(c)3 status and began fundraising in earnest. BTC has signed a 25-year lease on 10,000 ftsq of space in Brookline Village, completed plans for its full renovation to meet program needs and secured more than $4.3M of pledges toward a $10M capital campaign to renovate its new home and sustain the organization.
For more information about the Brookline Teen Center, please visit www.brooklineteencenter.org
Position Overview:
The Brookline Teen Center is currently seeking its first full-time Executive Director to lead the organization through this essential start-up phase and ensure that once open, the center operates as a state-of-the-art program. The Executive Director will play a critical role in building the organization from the ground up, including developing programming, leading fundraising, and overseeing staffing, financial and operational management, and board development.
This position provides an extraordinary opportunity for a mission-driven non-profit leader to collaborate with a highly supportive group of community members to build an organization that provides essential programs for Brookline youth. The ideal candidate will be an outstanding relationship-builder, able to develop and sustain relationships with youth, staff, community members, Board members, and funders, as well as a strong staff and organizational manager, able to build and develop systems and programs to support the organization's mission and ensure its long-term sustainability.
Responsibilities:
Fundraising/Development
- Develop a strategic fundraising plan that will ensure that the organization will meet its significant fundraising goals, including completing the capital campaign to fund building renovation as well as ongoing operating support
- Identify and cultivate a variety of donors including individual, foundation, and corporate donors; expand donor base and increase the support provided by current donors
- Research new grant opportunities, write compelling grant proposals, and cultivate relationships with institutional donors
- Ensure the acquisition of in-kind corporate and individual contributions
- Plan and oversee several fundraising and cultivation events annually, including a major annual benefit
- Manage Board to meet fundraising goals individually and as a group
- Maintain donor database
Marketing/Public Relations
- Serve as one of the organization's primary spokespeople
- Develop opportunities to raise the organization's profile through ongoing networking, cultivation of media contacts, interaction with community and business leaders, corporate and foundation representatives and academic leaders; identify and cultivate local public relations and press opportunities
- Ensure that printed and online marketing materials are effective and compelling
- Create and execute effective social media strategy for the organization
Programmatic and Operational Management
- Develop and oversee all of the organization's programs and initiatives, ensuring consistency with BTC's mission, philosophy, objectives, and overall strategic vision
- Develop relationships/partnerships with other community organizations and vendors or individuals to provide programming
- Hire, supervise and support all staff, including conducting annual performance evaluations, maintaining a climate that attracts and motivates a diverse staff, and ensuring that sound human resource practices are in place
- Oversee and manage all aspects of day-to-day operations, including financial management, office administration, facilities management, human resources, compliance and insurance
Qualifications:
- At least seven years of success in complex organizations, with significant leadership experience
- Commitment to the mission and vision of BTC, with strong experience in youth development programs preferred
- An entrepreneurial spirit, energized by the challenge building an organization and developing programs to meet the needs of Brookline teenagers
- Proven track record of fundraising success, with experience identifying, qualifying, and cultivating individual prospects and conducting major gifts solicitations
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with a variety of constituents and present a compelling case for organizational support
- Ability to hire, lead and support a dedicated and passionate staff
- Outstanding organizational ability with focused attention to detail and follow-up
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, advanced degree preferred
- Ability to travel locally and work a flexible schedule
To Apply:
Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format and addressed to Allyson Biegeleisen, Search Consultant, at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1869 . Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The Brookline Teen Center is an equal opportunity employer.
About Commongood Careers:
The Brookline Teen Center has partnered with Commongood Careers to conduct the search for an Executive Director. Commongood Careers is a mission-driven search firm that supports the hiring needs of the nation's most innovative and high-performing nonprofit organizations. Since its founding in 2006, Commongood Careers has completed over 500 searches at 150 organizations in 26 states. Founded and staffed by nonprofit professionals, Commongood Careers offers personalized, engaged services to jobseekers and organizations throughout the hiring process, as well as access to a wealth of knowledge about nonprofit careers. Learn more about nonprofit jobs at Commongood Careers.
- Compensation: Based on expereince
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