JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Boston Executive Director

Start Date:  September 2010

Locations:  Boston, MA

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 2,500 college student volunteers to deliver effective health education to over 25,000 public high school students in New York City, Boston, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.

The primary responsibility of the PHE Boston Executive Director is to lead PHE in Boston. The PHE Boston Executive Director will do this by developing, managing, growing, and evaluating the PHE Boston Program, managing the Boston Program Associates, raising funds, managing and growing the Boston Board of Overseers, and providing fiscal and organizational oversight for the PHE Boston site. The Boston Executive Director reports primarily to the National Chief Operating Officer.

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

Responsibilities
The PHE Boston Executive Director will:

• Develop, manage, grow, and evaluate PHE Boston College Sites by:
  • Developing PHE sites at Boston 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 Boston High School Partner Sites by:
  • Developing partnerships with Boston 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 Boston 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 PHE Boston Program Associates
• Develop and manage the PHE Boston Board of Overseers
• Provide fiscal oversight for the PHE Boston Site by:
  • Developing and implementing PHE budgets
  • Managing and reporting PHE assets, revenue, and expenditures
  • Planning, purchasing, distributing, and maintaining materials for College Sites and Partner High Schools
• Provide organizational oversight for the PHE Boston 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 experience and/or appetite for raising funds in a difficult economic environment
• Has a Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree preferred
• 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:bostonexecutivedirector@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.