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SalaryEasterseals South Florida (ESSF) has been serving families in South Florida for over 80 years. ESSF is a $15 million non-profit health and human services organization that provides exceptional services so that people living with autism, Alzheimer’s, and other disabilities can live, learn, work, and play in the community.
They provide exceptional services, education, and outreach for children ages birth to 22 years old, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, adult daycare and in-home respite for older adults living with Alzheimer’s and other memory disorders and their families.
Easterseals serves the individual, supports the family, and creates better opportunities for their clients to achieve lives of dignity, personal choice, and full acceptance and respect in the community.
Mission
Easter Seals of South Florida’s mission is to provide services that address equity and inclusion disparities for individuals with disabilities by enhancing education, advancing health, expanding employment, and elevating community.
We want every child in their Head Start, early education, and special education programs to reach their full potential and every adult living with Alzheimer’s or other memory disorder – and their caregivers – to live the fullest and most dignified life possible. Easterseals is responsive to the needs of each community – leading the way to 100% equity, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities and the greater community.
History
As America’s largest nonprofit health care organization, Easterseals is committed to the comprehensive health and wellness of the more than 1.5 million people it serves each year and is prepared to respond to the needs of the one in four Americans living with disability today with outcomes-based services for all disabilities throughout the lifespan.
Easterseals services include early intervention, inclusive childcare, medical rehabilitation and autism services for young children and their families; job training and coaching, employment placement and transportation services for adults with disabilities, including veterans; adult day services and employment opportunities for older adults in addition to a variety of additional services for people of all ages including mental health and recovery programs, assistive technology, camp and recreation, caregiving support including respite and much more
In the spring of 1934, the organization launched its first Easter "seals" campaign to raise money for its services. To show their support, donors placed the seals on envelopes and letters. Easterseals South Florida (ESSF) was founded in 1942 and was originally called the Crippled Children's Society. ESSF was the first to offer education to the children with disabilities at a time when they were not allowed in the public school system. Renting a church basement and hiring a teacher, a handful of students began attending classes. ESSF Board of Directors were instrumental in advocating the public schools in Miami. Since those humble beginnings, ESSF has expanded its mission to help people of all ages overcome or minimize the challenges of disabilities on activities of daily life.
Featured Programs
ESSF manages 11 sites with a program portfolio including:
Miami-Dade County
Our community is located along the southeast tip of the Florida peninsula. It is bound by Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Everglades National Park to the west, the Florida Keys to the south, and Broward County to the North.
Miami-Dade County has an incredible number of current ambitious community and social support initiatives including:
Position Overview
As key recipients of a transformative MacKenzie Scott gift in 2020, ESSF is uniquely positioned to further support and deepen the services provided growing the impact of people and families served.
With the support of an extremely capable, accomplished, and dedicated team, the President & CEO is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring a sustainable funding model is in place, and providing strategic leadership and direction in delivering on the ESSF mission. As ESSF looks to expand its overall impact and reach, they need an astute leader who can effectively steward the ESSF brand by clearly and compassionately communicating the value and interest of the organization and its critical presence to the media and broader community. Working with a tremendously supportive Board, the CEO must work to maintain and continue to raise the quality of programs and services offered, increase the number of people served, and expand sources of revenue with a focus on individual and corporate giving.
Key Responsibilities
Core Competencies
Organizational Leadership: Demonstrates strategic leadership balanced with authenticity, respect for others, and trust building within the organization, with the Board, and stakeholders. Proactively drives an organization to a higher level of performance, efficiency, and growth through inspiring action and commitment for best results.
Influence in the Marketplace: Has growth mindset, builds and cultivates network of relationships, is influential and leverages ESSF’s unique position to proactively increase visibility, reputation, and competitive advantage that generates interest, passion for investing in community. Successfully navigates the complex dynamics of local, regional, and national environment.
Grow Business and Revenue: Possesses a high-level of business acumen and broad management skillset, is effective at generating and growing financial support for the organization. Can raise funds by effectively engaging and linking a variety of donors (individuals, corporations, major giving, and other segments) and volunteers to inform and contribute to advancing the mission.
Mission-Focused: The top priority is to create social change that leads to better lives and healthier communities. This competency drives their performance and professional motivations.
Relationship-Oriented: Understands that people come before process and is astute in cultivating and managing relationships toward a common goal.
Collaborator: Understands the roles and contributions of all sectors of the community and can mobilize resources (financial and human) through meaningful engagement.
Results-Driven: Is dedicated to shared and measurable goals for the common good; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for direct impact.
Brand Steward: Understands his/her role in growing, protecting, and communicating out mission message and story.
Specific components of the CEO’s qualifications include:
Education
They provide exceptional services, education, and outreach for children ages birth to 22 years old, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, adult daycare and in-home respite for older adults living with Alzheimer’s and other memory disorders and their families.
Easterseals serves the individual, supports the family, and creates better opportunities for their clients to achieve lives of dignity, personal choice, and full acceptance and respect in the community.
Mission
Easter Seals of South Florida’s mission is to provide services that address equity and inclusion disparities for individuals with disabilities by enhancing education, advancing health, expanding employment, and elevating community.
We want every child in their Head Start, early education, and special education programs to reach their full potential and every adult living with Alzheimer’s or other memory disorder – and their caregivers – to live the fullest and most dignified life possible. Easterseals is responsive to the needs of each community – leading the way to 100% equity, inclusion, and access for people with disabilities and the greater community.
History
As America’s largest nonprofit health care organization, Easterseals is committed to the comprehensive health and wellness of the more than 1.5 million people it serves each year and is prepared to respond to the needs of the one in four Americans living with disability today with outcomes-based services for all disabilities throughout the lifespan.
Easterseals services include early intervention, inclusive childcare, medical rehabilitation and autism services for young children and their families; job training and coaching, employment placement and transportation services for adults with disabilities, including veterans; adult day services and employment opportunities for older adults in addition to a variety of additional services for people of all ages including mental health and recovery programs, assistive technology, camp and recreation, caregiving support including respite and much more
In the spring of 1934, the organization launched its first Easter "seals" campaign to raise money for its services. To show their support, donors placed the seals on envelopes and letters. Easterseals South Florida (ESSF) was founded in 1942 and was originally called the Crippled Children's Society. ESSF was the first to offer education to the children with disabilities at a time when they were not allowed in the public school system. Renting a church basement and hiring a teacher, a handful of students began attending classes. ESSF Board of Directors were instrumental in advocating the public schools in Miami. Since those humble beginnings, ESSF has expanded its mission to help people of all ages overcome or minimize the challenges of disabilities on activities of daily life.
Featured Programs
ESSF manages 11 sites with a program portfolio including:
Special Education
o The Wayne & Nicole Cypen School (including two child development centers, the elementary and middle school academy, and the culinary arts high school) provides expert and focused help for children with autism and other special needs so they can reach their fullest potential and make progress on their journey towards independence.
- Adult Day Care
o Older adults and seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) to spend their days in our centers with our caring staff while their caregivers work, so they can return to their families every evening rather than living in a nursing home.
- Head Start
o Provides high-quality, early-childhood education to preschool children living in low-income communities. Promotes school readiness by enhancing children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Provides support to families in the areas of education, mental health, and social services. 100% of children received preventative health care afterschool programs at 6 Centers.
- In-Home Respite
o Provides in-home assistance for elders too frail to leave their homes, which lightens the stressful and often detrimental burden shouldered by their caregivers so the family can continue living together under the same roof as they envisioned they would.
- Military & Veterans Services
o Provides support services to military and veteran families caring for a loved one who is disabled or chronically ill. Offers systems of care with viable options to allow current reintegration efforts through the help of the AmeriCorps respite program.
Miami-Dade County
From the coral reefs to the Everglades the unique subtropical environment of South Florida makes this area unlike any other in the United States. Miami-Dade County encompasses more than 2,000 square miles (larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware). One-third of Miami-Dade County is located in Everglades National Park.
Our community is located along the southeast tip of the Florida peninsula. It is bound by Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Everglades National Park to the west, the Florida Keys to the south, and Broward County to the North.
Miami-Dade County has an incredible number of current ambitious community and social support initiatives including:
THRIVE305 Action Plan- STRIVE305 Action Plan
- Building Blocks for Housing Affordability
- No Wrong Door
- We Are One Miami-Dade
- Surfside Strength
Position Overview
The President & CEO will be joining at a pivotal period marked by great institutional opportunity, need, and positive momentum from a programming, reputation, and historical community standpoint. Leveraging the existing strengths in place while propelling the organization forward, the new President & CEO will play a critical role in enhancing the visibility and support for this outstanding service provider that has been helping families live with dignity, respect, and independence for over 80 years. To this end, the President & CEO will support programmatic leadership, build stakeholder relationships, and effectively articulate the vision, mission and work to all community, current, and potential funders to expand the overall reach.
As key recipients of a transformative MacKenzie Scott gift in 2020, ESSF is uniquely positioned to further support and deepen the services provided growing the impact of people and families served.
With the support of an extremely capable, accomplished, and dedicated team, the President & CEO is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring a sustainable funding model is in place, and providing strategic leadership and direction in delivering on the ESSF mission. As ESSF looks to expand its overall impact and reach, they need an astute leader who can effectively steward the ESSF brand by clearly and compassionately communicating the value and interest of the organization and its critical presence to the media and broader community. Working with a tremendously supportive Board, the CEO must work to maintain and continue to raise the quality of programs and services offered, increase the number of people served, and expand sources of revenue with a focus on individual and corporate giving.
Key Responsibilities
Provide strategic oversight to financial and physical resources in a way that promotes and supports ESSF’s core values and missions for generations to come.- Partner with the Board on the strategic visioning and short and long-term planning to support the growth and expansion of the organization.
- Growing top line revenue, establish innovative sources of income, and drive sustainable growth.
- Leverage, develop, and retain a talented, diverse, and dedicated team to attain desired organization goals and results. Cultivate a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming culture.
- Lead collective impact outcomes by calling upon and collaborating with different businesses, non-profits, and philanthropic organizations.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with the Board of Directors, staff, community groups, and other related agencies.
- Serve as an inspirational leader within the Miami-Dade and South Florida communities and a proactive connector and facilitator of impactful programs.
- Build and sustain effective relationships with key Miami-Dade constituencies including local associations, peer organizations, government agencies funding sources, and the media.
Core Competencies
Visionary: As the Chief Mission Officer, the President & CEO has a clear vision for ESSF, confronts the complex realities of the environment and simultaneously maintains faith in a better future, providing purpose, direction, and motivation for all served.
Organizational Leadership: Demonstrates strategic leadership balanced with authenticity, respect for others, and trust building within the organization, with the Board, and stakeholders. Proactively drives an organization to a higher level of performance, efficiency, and growth through inspiring action and commitment for best results.
Influence in the Marketplace: Has growth mindset, builds and cultivates network of relationships, is influential and leverages ESSF’s unique position to proactively increase visibility, reputation, and competitive advantage that generates interest, passion for investing in community. Successfully navigates the complex dynamics of local, regional, and national environment.
Grow Business and Revenue: Possesses a high-level of business acumen and broad management skillset, is effective at generating and growing financial support for the organization. Can raise funds by effectively engaging and linking a variety of donors (individuals, corporations, major giving, and other segments) and volunteers to inform and contribute to advancing the mission.
Mission-Focused: The top priority is to create social change that leads to better lives and healthier communities. This competency drives their performance and professional motivations.
Relationship-Oriented: Understands that people come before process and is astute in cultivating and managing relationships toward a common goal.
Collaborator: Understands the roles and contributions of all sectors of the community and can mobilize resources (financial and human) through meaningful engagement.
Results-Driven: Is dedicated to shared and measurable goals for the common good; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for direct impact.
Brand Steward: Understands his/her role in growing, protecting, and communicating out mission message and story.
Professional Experience/Qualifications
The President & CEO must possess a high level of broad business, management, and mentorship skills coupled with the ability to generate resources, financial support, and awareness for the organization. The President & CEO must be a dedicated leader committed to shared and measurable goals for the common good - creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies for direct investment and impact. The CEO will be an experienced leader with a proven track record of strategic operational oversight and financial management of complex nonprofit organization coupled with a passion to ESSF’s mission and vision. The successful candidate will be astute business leader with an appreciation for the paramount role ESSF plays within the community.
Specific components of the CEO’s qualifications include:
Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to relate and engage with staff, leadership team, supporters, colleagues, and Board members.- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible strategic leadership experience overseeing business and financial operations of a nonprofit organization.
- Experience in articulating strategic goals and performance indicators to all levels of staff and Board.
- Understanding and experience in leveraging the expertise of executive team and functional staff leadership.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to mentor, motivate, and encourage dedicated and passionate staff around goals.
- Strong quantifiable success in fundraising across private, public, and governmental sectors.
- Proven management, business, and financial acumen within an organization of similar scale of complexity and funding models.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written, with an infectious enthusiasm for the Easterseals mission and the ability to engage and inspire others.
- Ability to plan organization-wide activities and work with the Board of Directors, Easterseals stakeholders, government agencies, community groups and others, as necessary.
- Knowledge of grant administration, contract negotiations/administration, community organizations and principles of marketing/public relations and media.
- Charisma and effective communication skills culminating in a strong advocate for the organization who will safeguard the mission of Easterseals.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher.
Compensation
- Compensation and benefits will be competitive and commensurate with experience.
Easterseals South Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer Dedicated to Building a Diverse Community. In support of their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, they strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. ******
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