Executive Director

As the leader of Right Moves for Youth (RMFY), the Executive Director is responsible for overseeing the administration, programs, community relations and strategic plan of the organization while maintaining its long-standing integrity and representation. Primary responsibilities include serving as Chief Executive Officer, liaison between the Board of Directors and the staff, and forward-facing representative of the agency with corporate/civic groups, educational institutions, donors, stakeholders, and the general public. Other key duties include but are not limited to fundraising, marketing, and community outreach.  

Essential Responsibilities                                                                                         

• Executive / Strategic Leadership Actively engage and energize RMFY volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders.
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; serve as ex-officio member of executive committee; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout.
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain RMFY’s high-performance leadership team.
• In collaboration with strategic stakeholders, design and maintain the strategic plan.

Mission / Program Effectiveness

• 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 the strategic goals.
• Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents, including periodic publications.

Fundraising & Financial Management

• Serve as a partner for the Development team in the community, with donors, partners and volunteers, when needed and appropriate
• Ensure sufficient revenue generation and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and strategic objectives.
• Develop and present annual budget for board approval.
• Provide daily oversight of budget.
• Identify potential donors while interacting with families and community partners.

Community Relations & Communications

• 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.
• Serve as a partner for the Development team in the community, with donors, partners and volunteers, when needed and appropriate.
• Coordinate and participate in meetings with key leaders, partners, volunteers, donors, etc.
• Serve as an active role at events hosted by RMFY by being present, thanking donors, participants at the events, etc.
• Build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, human services, education, social work, or related field.

• Minimum of five years of senior leadership experience.
• Demonstrated transparent and high integrity leadership.
• Ability to convey a vision of RMFY’s strategic future to staff, board, volunteers, and donors.
• Ability to work independently and decisively while engendering a cooperative spirit with the Board of Directors, staff, volunteers, donors, collaborative partners, media, and the community at large.
• Ability to design and execute a data-driven, goal-oriented strategic plan.
• Ability to recruit, develop, retain, and collaborate with staff.
• Knowledge of fundraising and donor cultivation strategies unique to the nonprofit sector.
• Strong leadership abilities including planning, delegating, program development, and task facilitation.
• Ability to collaborate with and motivate board members and other volunteers.
• Ability to interface with and engage diverse groups for the benefit of the mission.
• Understands financial targets and budget goals.
• Ability to cultivate partnerships with community-based organizations.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional public speaking skills.
• Ability to exercise discretion while managing confidential information.
• Demonstrated commitment to youth and youth issues.

Physical Demand and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an Executive Director to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to see, stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer.
• Ability to drive using reliable transportation locally throughout Mecklenburg County and surrounding areas.
• Ability to reach, stoop, kneel, and exert up to 25 pounds independently.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
• This job may involve occasional standing and/or walking for extended periods of time, climbing stairs, and walking up inclines or on uneven terrain.