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SalaryPosition: Executive Director, Genesys Works Jacksonville
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Salary Range: The target total cash compensation for this role is $125,000 to $140,000 based on experience and demonstrated accomplishments.
Genesys Works is a national leader in providing pathways to career success for high school students in underserved communities through skills training, meaningful work experiences, and impactful relationships. We are growing our impact by launching a new Genesys Works site in Jacksonville, FL in 2024, and are seeking an Executive Director to lead our work in Jacksonville.
Reporting to the Genesys Works National Office, the Executive Director will serve as the face of Genesys Works Jacksonville. In this role, you will lead the local team, drive fundraising, establish and maintain corporate partner relationships, school partnerships, and ensure successful execution of core Genesys Works program elements. Additionally, you will ensure the financial management of the site and develop a long-term path for our growth in Jacksonville.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with the Genesys Works Launch Team, develop a strategic plan with key checkpoints and timelines to launch a Genesys Works site targeting summer 2025.
- Develop and steward local relationships with major employers to secure internship commitments.
- Lead engagement efforts with local philanthropies and community organizations to secure space and funding for launch.
- Build collaborative relationships with secondary education leaders in Jacksonville, creating pipelines of potential students from local schools serving low-income and historically marginalized people.
- Establish strong ties with community and local government institutions to support collaboration with service providers and government agencies supporting students from low-income and historically marginalized communities.
- Recruit and hire team members, and directly or indirectly supervise, evaluate, develop, and retain them
- Provide guidance on professional responsibilities, priorities and time and resource allocation
- Design and implement professional development opportunities for staff, working closely with direct reports ensure professional development of team members
- Work with and through the team to achieve key program outcomes including goals for student performance, retention, and satisfaction
- Stay aware of the nuances of different corporate and market trends to develop the necessary training supports that ensure students make an effective transition from training to internships and deliver value at Corporate Partners
- Support, build, and share best practices for positive student outcomes across Genesys Works Sites
- Recruit, engage, and retain board members in the Jacksonville community who will support in securing internships from employers and philanthropic support from high-net-worth individuals and families
- Build relationships with executive sponsors at our employer partners who host the interns (and will provide GW Jacksonville with the majority of its revenue over time), ensuring you are familiar with these companies, what they do, what opportunities they offer our students, and what their expectations are
- Collaborate with senior leadership, Executive Directors, and board members as appropriate to open doors and close gifts, generating $600,000+ in philanthropic support annually
- Set strategy and direction to build and manage relationships with community leaders of workforce development initiatives to enable site growth and expansion
- Develop and manage relationships with senior school district and city government leaders focused on workforce development activities and enabling the ascension of young adults into careers
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate has the following:
- Experience in a management position with extensive experience in stakeholder relations and demonstrated success in team building and external relationship management
- Demonstrated knowledge, and preferably strong existing connections, to community organizations, high schools, employers, and/or philanthropies in the greater Jacksonville area
- Leadership style that is transparent and demonstrates innovation and creativity & ability to invest staff at all levels
- Skilled at creating and implementing engagement strategies with customers and partners within corporations, educational institutions, funders, and community organizations to accelerate support and enablement of an organization
- Past experience soliciting and closing 6-figure gifts, ideally for a college access, workforce development, or human services non-profit.
- Ability to build and leverage personal relationships and networks to create opportunities and engender external and internal support across different groups of stakeholders: funders, customers, school partners, boards, and community leaders
- Familiarity and involvement with the communities and student populations Genesys Works serves
- Experience managing financials, creating budgets, and analyzing business performance using internal and external data
- Skilled user of the Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- A passion for working with young adults, a strong belief in their potential, and a desire to increase their trajectory into professional careers and educational pathways
- Strong commitment to equity and inclusion
In our quest to be a nonprofit employer of choice, we offer:
- Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and qualifications
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off policy, (10) company paid holidays, and “Soft Close” between Christmas and New Year’s.
- 403(b) retirement savings plan with company match
- Communications allowance
- Focus Fridays and Flexible work arrangements
Commitment to Diversity
Genesys Works is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees. Genesys Works will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion among our staff and corporate partners are essential to successfully executing our organizational mission. As such, we seek to recruit, support, develop, and retain high caliber talent from a diverse candidate pool that both complements and reflects the students we proudly serve.
Commitment to Inclusivity
Genesys Works remains committed to fostering a more equitable, inclusive and united society. We stand in solidarity with members of the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities and seek partnerships that help dismantle the systems that lead to inequity in pursuit of a more just community.
The fabric of our country is made up of its people. The rich diversity of ideas, cultures and norms are what make this country unique, and it is what makes it resilient. For these reasons, there is no other country in the world that ensures the wide range of opportunities and freedoms for its citizens. It is the place people dare to make the impossible, possible in hope for a better future, not only for themselves, but for the generations that follow.
