JOB OPPORTUNITIES

New York City Executive Director

Start Date: July 2009
Job Location: New York City, NY

Description: Peer Health Exchange (PHE) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. Since our founding in 2003, we have trained 1,500 college student volunteers to deliver effective health education to 15,000 public high school students in New York City, Boston, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area. By 2012, our goal is to have trained 10,000 college students to reach 100,000 public high school students across eight cities, empowering these teens to make healthy decisions and building a strong base for future growth.

The primary responsibility of the PHE New York City Executive Director is to lead PHE in New York City. The PHE New York City Executive Director will do this by developing, managing, growing, and evaluating the PHE New York City Program, managing the New York City Program Associates, raising funds, managing and growing the New York City Board of Overseers, and providing fiscal and organizational oversight for the PHE New York City site. In 09-10, the New York City Executive Director will focus increasingly on raising funds and growing the Board of Overseers to support the PHE New York City site. The New York City Executive Director reports primarily to the National Chief Operating Officer and also the National Executive Director.

This is a full-time, management position with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Responsibilities
The PHE New York City Executive Director will:

• Oversee PHE New York City College and High School Sites by:
  • Developing, managing, growing, and evaluating PHE sites at New York City colleges and public high schools
  • Supervising volunteer recruitment, selection, training, and teaching
• Manage the New York City Program Associates to:
  • Develop PHE sites at New York City colleges by:
    • Supervising volunteer recruitment and selection
    • Leading the training of college students
    • Managing college student leaders on an ongoing basis
    • Evaluating volunteer performance
• Develop partnerships with New York City public high schools by:
  • Supervising the scheduling and implementation of PHE workshops in Partner High Schools
  • Collecting, analyzing, and reporting data for program evaluation
• Raise funds for the PHE New York City Site by:
  • Developing and managing relationships with individual, corporation, foundation, and public funders
  • Writing grant proposals and reports for funders
  • Soliciting individual donations through the annual giving campaign and major gift requests
  • Planning fundraising events
• Develop and manage the PHE New York City Board of Overseers
• Provide fiscal organizational oversight for the PHE New York City Site
• Assist with the development of PHE strategic plans

Qualifications
Peer Health Exchange is looking for a dynamic, driven individual who:

• Is committed to the Peer Health Exchange mission
• Has leadership experience supervising, managing, and training others
• Has experience and/or appetite for raising funds in a difficult economic environment
• Has a Bachelors degree or further degree
• Has strong verbal communication skills in order to communicate effectively with diverse constituencies including college students, high school partners, board members, supporters, and community members
• Has excellent public speaking, writing, and editing skills
• Is comfortable in a fast-paced, high-energy, entrepreneurial environment

Contact
Please submit a resume, a cover letter, and a writing sample (non-fiction writing, 3 pages or less) to the following email address: newyorkexecutivedirector@peerhealthexchange.org. Resumes without cover letters and writing samples will not be considered. More information about Peer Health Exchange can be found at www.peerhealthexchange.org.