JOB OPPORTUNITIES
New York City Executive Director
Start Date: September 2010
Job Locations: New York, 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 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. In the 2010-2011 year, we will write our next strategic plan, building off of our success to date and charting the course to increase our impact dramatically in the years ahead.
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, raising funds, managing the New York City Program Associates, developing and managing the New York City Board of Overseers, providing fiscal and organizational oversight for the PHE New York City site, and assisting with the development of strategic plans. In 2010-2011, the New York City Executive Director will focus increasingly on raising funds and developing the Board of Overseers to support the PHE New York City site. The New York City Executive Director reports to the National Chief Operating Officer.
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
- 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
- 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
- Develop and manage the PHE New York City Board of Overseers
- Provide fiscal and 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 at least five years of leadership experience supervising, managing, and training others
- Has experience and/or appetite for raising funds in a difficult economic environment
- Has a Bachelors degree; MBA or other 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
- Is willing to make a multi-year commitment to lead PHE in New York
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. No phone inquiries will be accepted.
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