Chief Executive Officer
Responsibilities
Leadership and Team-Building
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
Actively engage and energize HFH-NYS volunteers, board members, affiliate leadership, partnering organizations, and funders
Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; serve as ex-officio of each committee; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both board and committee operations
Hire, lead, coach, develop, and retain HFH-NYS’ high-performance personnel
Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents
Advocacy and Education
Actively engage in government relations, and general advocacy for affordable housing initiatives
Promote the work of the New York affiliates to the legislature and state government
Interface with other housing organizations to maintain knowledge of housing initiatives, represent Habitat affiliates’ point of view at a state-wide level, and provide assistance as appropriate
Training and Affiliate Development
Plan, organize, and host an annual state conference and additional trainings and retreats
Identify and solicit speakers to meet the relevant education needs of affiliate staff and volunteers
Coordinate with HFHI initiatives to ensure statewide network is informed
Identify affiliate growth opportunities and address these needs through available resources
Provide disaster planning and coordination
Resource Development
Interface with affiliates on capacity building opportunities
Solicit sponsorships for conference and other events
Develop, implement and manage strategic partnerships benefiting affiliates
Interface with HFHI to advocate for available HFH resources
Explore sustainability opportunities for the ASO
Work with staff to prepare applications for government grants and other funding opportunities
Management and Administration
Supervise the financial and administrational management of the HFH-NYS budget
Serve as liaison with HFHI
Facilitate affiliate, HFHI and other agency relations and communication
Ensure compliance with requirements of all grant contracts
Provide board and committee management and support
Lead the strategic planning process
Expected Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Leadership, facilitation, collaboration, partnership-building, and interpersonal communication skills
Hands-on management of a small team; willingness to assist where needed
Comfort with talking with funders and handling resource development opportunities
Knowledge of urban and rural affordable housing challenges and opportunities, the non-profit housing legal and regulatory environment, and knowledge and experience in residential real estate development, construction and finance, as specifically related to affordable housing
Written and oral communication skills, including public speaking and presentation, marketing, public relations, and advocacy abilities
Grant writing, grant management, and business development skills
Past success working with a board of directors with the ability to cultivate existing and potential board member relationships
Relationships: Specific Duties
Explore ways to work collaboratively with other non-profit organizations
Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with the following:
Internal: Board of Directors
External: Affiliate board and staff, donors, volunteers; statewide housing leaders; policy makers, including legislators and state agency staff members
Other duties may be assigned that would enable HFH-NYS to perform to the desired level of excellence
Education and Experience Requirements
Experience in advocacy at some level of local or state government
Experience in leadership of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate preferred
Experience and demonstrated success in business, training, or grants development
Experience in affordable housing, poverty issues, or community development preferred
College degree or equivalent business experience
Compensation:
Salary and benefits commensurate with education and experience, salary range: $90K-$120K
To Apply:
To apply, please email resume and cover letter to: [email protected]
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About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.