Executive Director (HW)

HOME WORKS; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

HOME WORKS! in St.

Louis, Missouri, seeks an Executive Director to guide the organization through an important leadership transition as its founder steps back while remaining engaged. You will translate vision into action, lead staff and partners, and build relationships with educators, donors, and community allies to advance the nonprofit's mission of partnering families and teachers for children's success.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in education or nonprofit settings with a track record of achievement.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Unwavering commitment to organizational excellence, DEI, and ethical standards.
• Ability to translate vision into actionable plans and foster stakeholder engagement.
• Capacity to work with a broad range of people and maintain professional presentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day management to fulfill the mission and partner with families and teachers for children's success.
• Transition the organization from founder leadership while maximizing continued involvement of the founder.
• Translate vision and priorities into an implementable action plan and lead staff, partners, and donors.
• Lead, inspire, delegate, coach, and support the staff team toward outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Support the Board of Directors and collaborate with the Chair to ensure effective governance.
• Build relationships to support fundraising goals and represent HOME WORKS! in the community.
• Oversee budgeting, HR, IT, outcomes management, and other operational areas.

Skills

Leadership

Communications

Strategic thinking

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Integrity

Job description

HOME WORKS! - a 12 year-old nonprofit with an innovative program that is nationally recognized as a leader in parent and family engagement - is hiring an Executive Director. The Board seeks an Executive Director who is invigorated by the opportunity to work with an entrepreneurial founder who will be decreasing her involvement in the organization but continuing to create and strengthen relationships. The foundation for a successful organizational transition exists: an innovative and recognized program model, engaged Board, motivated staff, a supportive and active community of educational partners and other stakeholders, and a commitment to organizational excellence.

Engaging parents in their children's education is absolutely critical to those children's success. National education research overwhelmingly supports the finding that students do better academically and socially when parents and teachers work together and children show up on the first day of school ready to learn. Too many don't. Most teachers and administrators consider parent and family engagement to be the "missing link," but are often unsure how to effectively connect with parents and families. HOME WORKS! helps forge that missing link, creating a positive structure within which parents and teachers can effectively partner for the good of their students.

Mission: HOME WORKS! partners families and teachers for children's success

Goal:The goal of HOME WORKS! is to improve the academic achievement, attendance, homework completion, and classroom behavior of struggling students by boosting parent and family engagement to encourage families to use parenting practices at home that promote student learning and school success

• All parents want the best for their children
• Families play a key role in a child's life path
• All children can learn
• Learning creates opportunities
• Individual differences must be respected
• Open, honest communication is essential
• A strengths-based perspective promotes respect, trust, and effective outcomes

Outcomes

• State test scores for math and communication arts increased for HOME WORKS! students compared to students who did not receive home visits
• Students who received home visits scored higher on national reading assessments than students who did not receive visits
• Math grades improved among 3rd to 6th grade HOME WORKS! students and declined for others
• Students who received home visits were less likely to miss two weeks or more of school (chronic absenteeism) than students who did not receive a home visit

An evaluation team is conducting a randomized controlled trial of the HOME WORKS! program with a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Department of Education). Results will be published in 2019

• # home visits: more than 25,000 since 2007, 2,576 in 2017-18
• # participating schools: 23
• # staff: 4 full-time & 8 part-time

The Board of Directors seeks an Executive Director with the ability to:

• Provide day-to-day management of the organization to fulfill its mission to partner with families and teachers for children's success
• Transition the organization from one led by a founder, while maximizing and leveraging the continued involvement of the founder
• Translate the vision and strategic priorities into an implementable plan of action, providing leadership for staff, educational partners, evaluation consultants, donors, and other stakeholders
• Lead, inspire, delegate, empower, coach & support the staff team
• Manage to outcomes for greater impact Foster and nurture a performance culture and one of continuous improvement
• Provide primary staffing support to the Board of Directors and partner with the Chair to set priorities for meetings, education, and action to ensure a highly functioning and involved Board
• Build and cultivate relationships in support of the fundraising goals of the organization
• Manage all aspects of the nonprofit's administration: budgeting and financial management, human resources, IT, outcomes management, etc.
• Positively and proactively represent HOME WORKS! to the St. Louis community
• Be on the forefront of education and parent and family engagement trends

Qualifications

• A track record that demonstrates leadership and achievement in an education or nonprofit setting
• Passion for achieving the vision and goals of HOME WORKS!
• Unwavering commitment to organizational excellence and diversity, equity and inclusion
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Unchallenged integrity, high moral and ethical standards, sound judgment
• Highly desirable: warm yet professional presentation style; an ability to work with a broad range of people; a sense of humor; and self-confidence