CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (Woman CEO)

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Management:

• Ensure ongoing local 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.
• Provide strategic leadership and hands-on management for the administrative and operational functions of the organization in accordance with the mission, objectives, and policies.
• Actively engage and energize the team, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders.
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations and for the global rollout.
• Lead, coach, develop, and retainour high-performance senior management team.
• 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.

Fundraising & Communications:

• Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities.

Planning & New Business

• Design the global expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets.
• Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site.
• Be an external local and global presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and global replication.

Public Relations and Community Impact

• Develop and maintain relationships with diverse internal and external publics to advocate for women in technology holding leadership positions.
• Serve as the principal spokesperson in the community.
• Focus on the overall impact of the organization in the community, with particular emphasis on increasing our capacity to serve its intended population.
• Look broadly at community needs to review and ensure alignment of programs to need and mission and continued relevance to the vision.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree, with at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or globally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
• Expertise in operational management of a large organization including financial management, risk management, and human capital management
• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
• Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
• Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

Education:

• Masters (Required)

Experience:

• Senior leadership: 10 years (Required)
• Fundraising: 5 years (Required)
• Relationship management: 10 years (Required)
• Nonprofit management: 7 years (Required)