Executive Director for the Edgecombe County Public Schools Educational Foundation

Edgecombe County Public Schools

Job Description

Development Director for the Edgecombe County Public Schools Educational Foundation

OVERVIEW OF OPPORTUNITY:

The Edgecombe County Public Schools Educational Foundation President and Board of Directors seek to increase the capacity of the ECPS Educational Foundation (the Foundation) to fulfill the mission, vision, and strategic plan of Edgecombe County Public Schools, while also working collaboratively with community stakeholders to address pressing issues that impact all of Edgecombe County. Edgecombe County Public Schools will employ an Executive Director to staff the Foundation and lead this effort. This is a grant-funded position that will be in effect from

The Edgecombe County Public Schools Educational Foundation, established in 2018, is an independent, community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We work in integral partnership with the Edgecombe County Public Schools to realize their vision: All ECPS scholars will graduate prepared to design their own futures, navigate change, and make the world a better place.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain the infrastructure of the Foundation.
• Fundraising through individual donations and grants to support the Foundation and ECPS.
• Develop a strategic plan with specific goals and accountability measures, and manage Foundation operations and grant-funded projects to ensure those goals are met.
• Develop capacity-building and fundraising strategies to support the Foundation’s work, especially around the Scholar Teachers program, the demerger, and other emerging innovative initiatives with high value to the community.
• Network with corporate, faith-based, philanthropic, and community partners to find synergies between organizations that can serve as force multipliers for change in our Edgecombe community.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

•  Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree in education, business, non-profit management, communications, or a related field preferred
• Experience in public education, fundraising, and / or community relations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working for a non-profit or on a non profit board
• Experience managing finances and investments of an organization, over $500,000.
• Ability to build relationships with a diverse array of stakeholders
• Ability to develop ambitious goals, create plans to achieve those goals, and meet internal and external deadlines

KEY ACTIVITIES:

• Staff the ECPS Educational Foundation by overseeing all Foundation operations

• Develop capacity-building and fundraising strategies to support the Foundation’s work, to raise $500,000 annually by FY2025, as well as $100,000 in general operating support for the Foundation by FY2025

• Meet with key stakeholders to gather perspectives on the community, school system, and vision for the Foundation. Conduct a detailed community data analysis, needs assessment, and asset map by engaging stakeholders from the greater Edgecombe community

• Develop a community board and working groups that represent the diversity, perspectives, and priorities of Edgecombe County stakeholders

• Expand the foundation board of directors. 

• Create priority areas for the Foundation (such as teacher development, disconnected youth, workforce development, innovation, school and district transformation), and an action plan with specific goals and accountability measures

• Maintain and grow the endowment fund for the Scholar Teachers Scholarship program to $2 million. 

• Seek out, draft, and submit proposals to granting organizations to fund projects aligned with the Foundation board’s vision and priorities

• Continue to develop and maintain relationships with local, state, and national grantmakers

COMPENSATION:

• NC director salary scale

• 9% local supplement

• NC state benefits

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity.

Ability to motivate students.

Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment. Ability to perform general clerical duties.

Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom. Ability to operate common office machines.

Ability to maintain basic files and records.

Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.

Salary : $100,000 - $500,000