| Posted Date: |
7/11/2018 |
| End Date: |
8/10/2018 |
| Organization: |
Essex County CASA, Inc. |
| Contact Name: |
Arlene Shapiro |
| Phone: |
212.546.9091 |
| Email: |
AShapiro@pnpstaffinggroup.com |
| Web Site: |
www.casaessex.org |
| Address: |
212 Washington St Rm 912 |
| City, State: |
Newark, NJ 07102-2904 |
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| Description: |
Executive Director
PNP Staffing Group is partnering with CASA for Children of Essex County in their search for an Executive Director. CASA promotes the welfare of children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect or abandonment by providing a safety net of support, advocacy and mentorship. CASA trains and supervises volunteers to speak up for the best interests of these children in court, to ensure that each child has the opportunity to thrive by receiving needed services and assistance while helping to move the child towards a safe and permanent home. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Trustees and is responsible for the organization’s consistent achievement of its mission.
Duties & Responsibilities
Board Governance:
• Ensure that the Board of Trustees is kept fully informed in a timely and accurate manner on the condition of the organization and all-important factors influencing it.
• Guide the Trustees as they develop, support and maintain a strong, engaged and diverse Board.
• Encourage Board members’ active engagement in Board committee work and fundraising activities.
External Relations:
• Serve as the primary spokesperson for the organization to agencies, organizations, and the general public.
• Oversee the publicizing of the activities of the organization, its programs and goals.
• Establish sound working relationships and cooperative arrangements with community groups, organizations and the courts.
Financial Management:
• Be responsible for developing and maintaining sound financial practices.
• Oversee financial management of the organization.
• Ensure, in partnership with the Board, that adequate funds are available to allow the organization to perform its mission.
• Annually develop a budget, working with staff and the Finance Committee.
• Work with the Board Treasurer to provide monthly financial statements which accurately reflect the financial condition of the organization.
• Manage daily finances to ensure the organization operates within the approved budget and maintains a sound fiscal position.
• Implement the organization’s policies adopted by the Board.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local and other applicable rules and regulations.
• Develop and maintain effective internal controls.
• Oversee the annual audit in cooperation with the Finance Committee.
Resource Development:
• Together with the Board, develop the fundraising strategies of the organization.
• Working with the Board, increase, strengthen and diversify the organization’s
funding sources.
• Ensure active and on-going fundraising as well as development of new funding resources to sustain program activities.
• Oversee all staff resource development activities.
Program Development and Management:
• Assure that the organization has a long-range strategy that achieves its mission and toward which it makes consistent and timely progress.
• Provide leadership in developing and implementing programs and services consistent with the organization’s mission.
• Establish sound working relationships and cooperative arrangements with community groups and organizations, stakeholders, and partners.
Personnel:
• Be responsible for the staffing, recruitment, hiring, evaluation and release of all personnel, both paid staff and volunteers.
• Motivate and provide professional development opportunities for staff.
• Maintain a climate that attracts, retains and motivates a staff of top quality people.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• A bachelor’s degree and five plus years of senior nonprofit management experience.
• Knowledge of the juvenile justice system, trends in the field of child welfare and permanency planning for children. understanding of the dynamics of child abuse and neglect.
• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as demonstrated leadership experience, including ability to collaborate with and motivate Board and staff personnel.
• Demonstrated experience, success and interest in fundraising for nonprofits.
• Strong budget management skills, including budget preparation, analysis, decision-making and reporting.
• Ability to plan, organize, supervise, delegate and evaluate program operations.
• Knowledge of volunteer management a plus.
To Apply:
CASA for Children of Essex County has retained the search firm of PNP Staffing Group to recruit for the Executive Director position. Interested and qualified candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to:
Arlene Shapiro, Executive Recruiter, PNP Staffing Group at ashapiro@pnpstaffinggroup.com.
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The US Department of Justice has supported CASA advocacy since 1985 through its Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.