JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Bay Area Executive Director
Start Date: January 2010
Job Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
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 over 1,500 college student volunteers to deliver effective health education to over 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 Bay Area Executive Director is to lead PHE in the Bay Area. The PHE Bay Area Executive Director will do this by developing, managing, growing, and evaluating the PHE Bay Area Program, managing the Bay Area Program Associate, raising funds, managing and growing the Bay Area Board of Overseers, and providing fiscal and organizational oversight for the PHE Bay Area site. In 09-10, the Bay Area Executive Director will focus increasingly on raising funds and growing the Board of Overseers to support the PHE Bay Area site. The Bay Area Executive Director reports primarily to the National Chief Operating Officer and also to the National Executive Director.
This is a full-time, management position with a competitive salary and benefits package.
Responsibilities
The PHE Bay Area Executive Director will:
- Develop, manage, grow, and evaluate PHE Bay Area College Sites by:
- Developing PHE sites at Bay Area colleges
- Supervising volunteer recruitment and selection
- Leading the training of college students in leadership skills (managing a peer group), teaching skills (public speaking, facilitation, and classroom management skills and health information
- Managing college student leaders on an ongoing basis
- Evaluating volunteer performance
- Collecting, analyzing, and reporting data for program evaluation
- Maintaining a network of administrative, faculty, and student leader contacts
- Develop, manage, grow, and evaluate PHE Bay Area High School Partner Sites by:
- Developing partnerships with Bay Area public high schools
- Supervising the scheduling and implementation of PHE workshops in Partner High Schools
- Collecting, analyzing, and reporting data for program evaluation
- Maintaining a network of high school administrator, principal, and teacher contacts
- Raise funds for the PHE Bay Area 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
- Manage the Bay Area Program Associate
- Develop and manage the PHE Bay Area Board of Overseers
- Provide fiscal oversight for the PHE Bay Area Site by:
- Developing and implementing PHE budgets
- Managing and reporting PHE assets, revenue, and expenditures
- Provide organizational oversight for the PHE Bay Area Site by:
- Overseeing PHE office systems and technology
- Overseeing PHE legal and insurance policies
- 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 (your best non-fiction writing, 3 pages or less) to the following email address: bayareaexecutivedirector@peerhealthexchange.org
Resumes without cover letters and writing samples will not be considered.
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