Division Administrator – Community Center

About the Job:

You will be leading, managing and ensuring the fiscal health of the Community Center to advance and ensure proper recreation and community building for the Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Nation and the Community.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing a team of professionals to advance and ensure the proper recreation goals and community interaction for infants to elders of the Forest County Potawatomi Tribal Nation through the identification and creation of optimal programing.
• Conducting annual budget cycles with the utilization of grants, service contracts (caterers and adjunct faculty), donations, fund raising, facility rental and planned giving.
• Preparing, reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing data that supports the creation and execution of the division master strategic plan, including but not limited to short and long-term goals, employee engagement, marketing and customer enrollment, revenue generatin and fund raising, budgets and grant funding, key performance indicators, and other measurable outcomes.
• Ensuring standard operating procedures are aligned with divisional strategy, FCP policies and in coordination with other division strategies.
• Developing appropriate financial and programmatic metrics to build accountability, measure results and optimize programs’ impacts.
• Establishing a marketing plan to drive member participation, celebratory events, tournaments, and speaking engagements through efforts of print, audio, video, and electronic media to attain and maintain financial self-sustainability. Ensure the team is participating in appropriate events, conferences, and meetings with a booth or materials to drive the marketing efforts.
• Ensuring divisional employee effectiveness through recognition, coaching, counseling, skill advancement, performance evaluation, and corrective action. Ensure good leaders become great leaders. Establishing and executing a succession plan for all leadership positions to be held by FCP Tribal Members. Promotion of continual learning is key to the culture of the organization.
• Ensuring all grant funds, contracts and agreements are properly executed.
• Serving as a mentor, coach, and positive role model for ethical behavior.
• Representing Forest County Potawatomi Community Center at appropriate venues as spokesperson, and often as teacher, presenter, or facilitator.
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with community organizations, especially other Tribal Nations, schools, and other organizations.
• Enforcing Forest County Potawatomi preference system in all hiring, training, and decisions such that all FCP Tribal members have first preference. Indians have second preference, spouses of tribal members have third preference, and individuals with Potawatomi ancestry or ties have fourth preference, to promote employees to ensure the future and welfare of the next generations.
• Ensuring that qualified Forest County Potawatomi Community members be placed in training positions to manage all tribal departments and enterprises and to facilitate self-reliance and self-governance.

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Recreation, or related field with 5 years of field-related leadership experience; or less education with 10-15 years of field-related leadership experience.
• Background in a non-profit organization, preferably 3-5 years in a community center where fundraising, budgets and community objectives are balanced.
• Thorough hands-on experience with budgeting (preparation, decision-making, and reporting), strategic planning, and oversight of tactical execution.
• Thorough understanding of community development activities, event management and broad-based recreation.
• Proven marketing experience driving increased revenue and participation.
• Experience with grant applications and management, service contracts, fund-raising, facility rental and planned-giving strongly preferred.
• Ability to identify, analyze, disseminate, and develop creative response models to address community wide issues and challenges, in coordination with other divisions and Executive Council.
• Must successfully pass all applicable background checks and drug screens.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Public Administration, Recreation, or related field with 3 years of field related experience.
• CPR/AED/First Aid Certification

Benefits You’ll Love:

• Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off annually
• 3 weeks of paid holidays
• Premium free health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Short term disability
• Life insurance
• 401k with match