Setting Strategy & Direction

• Collaboratively engage executive team and Board members in strategic planning

• Assure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of strategic plan progress

• Lead executive management in decisions about programs and services to grow, pursue, or eliminate.

• Stay abreast of environmental factors that impact the nonprofit and social services sectors and recalibrate agency activities and advocacy accordingly.
• Modeling and Setting the Association’s Culture, Values & Behavior

• Serve as the agency’s key spokesperson, actively and strategically promoting the organization’s mission with external audiences for the primary purpose of advocating for and securing resources to move the agency’s vision forward

• Nurture and maintain an agency culture of continuous learning and skill-building, proactively identifying opportunities for professional development.

• Clearly articulate and model the value of effective teamwork, camaraderie, and respect, and build commitment to the organization’s values and mission.

• Ensure that employment policies and practices reflect the culture and values of the organization.

• . Building Organizational Capacity and Leading the Executive Team

• Build long-term organizational capability by developing senior leaders through coaching and supporting their professional development via experience and other resources.

• Ensure that all team members have adequate resources and support to perform their jobs successfully

• Assure a talent management process that includes identifying future leadership needs and developing high-potential leaders

• Optimize organizational structure, making strategic staffing decisions through hiring and vendor contracting

• Focus team members on common goals, holding them accountable for effective collaboration and facilitating any resolution of Business Planning, Operational and Fiscal Health

• Work with the CFO and full executive team to develop a clear business plan(s) that implement the agency’s strategic plan and ensure agency’s budget builds toward long-term fiscal health

• Lead monitoring, evaluation and course correction of annual and strategic plans

• Support and participate, as appropriate, in securing program revenue

• Collaborate with the Chief Development Officer and Board of Directors to secure philanthropic and related revenue, including direct responsibility for a specific donor portfolio.

• Maintain appropriate financial controls and risk management strategies.
• Manage Key Stakeholder Relationships

• Keep the Board of Directors apprised of the agency’s work and issues affecting the pursuit of the vision.

• Represent the agency and direct its relationships and collaborations with other agencies, donors, community-based organizations, the government, and individuals.

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships and communications with the YWCA USA, YWCA’s Great Lakes Network, and Wisconsin-based YWCA associations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

1. Experienced business leader with 8 to 10 years of relevant experience and considerable knowledge of the non-profit sector.

2. Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree; advanced degree a plus.

3. Intelligent, articulate, well-organized, self-directed, politically savvy, and a team player.

4. Decisive and able to understand the "big picture" perspective.

5. ????Comprehensive knowledge of administration, including organization, procedural techniques, etc.

6. Demonstrated ability to strategize and build revenue streams.

7. Able to read and understand financial reports and spot trends, opportunities and issues.

8. Forward-thinking and creative

9. Able to easily meet, motivate, and persuade others.

10. Able to communicate, both in writing and orally with tact, diplomacy, and/or authority when necessary.

11. Able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

12. Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and similar software tools; able to prepare routine reports, correspondence, and compelling presentations.

13. Able to speak effectively before internal and external audiences: employees, donors, elected officials, etc.

Reasonable accommodations shall be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• Frequently required to walk

• Frequently required to sit for long periods of time in front of computer screen

• Frequently required to talk or hear

• Frequently required to drive and fly

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job:

• Noise level varies from low to high depending on the site office or event venue

• Frequently exposed to outside weather conditions

• Frequently fast-paced, can be highly stressful

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Provide leadership and advocacy focused on the agency’s vision for a thriving Southeast Wisconsin, maintain sound and agile mission operations, and collaborate with the Board of Directors to ensure the agency’s robust fiscal health.