Chief Executive Officer

Company: Foundation List
Location: Greensboro
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Chief Executive OfficerAbout Ready for School, Ready for LifeReady for School, Ready for Life (Ready Ready) is a collaborative effort to build a connected, innovative system of care for Guilford County's youngest children and their families to ensure that children are ready for kindergarten. Utilizing a collective impact approach, Ready Ready serves as the backbone organization for a group of community-based organizations serving families with children from prenatal through age 5 in Guilford County, North Carolina.Ready Ready is executing against a collective vision to coordinate, support, integrate, and elevate the work of partners to create population level change in kindergarten readiness.Ready Ready's focus on families and children is grounded in well-documented brain science and socio-economic research that demonstrates the value of high-quality experiences from the pre-natal stage through age eight. Studies show that when children enter kindergarten developmentally on track, their chances of success in school, reading well by 3rd grade, and life increase dramatically. Serving as a backbone organization for more than 300 sector partners, Ready Ready has built a collective vision for assessing what families want and need, connecting them with the right services at the right time, using data to drive decisions, and rigorously measuring outcomes and impact.Ready Ready enhances this direct service through its collective impact backbone (intermediary) role in guiding vision and strategy, supporting aligned activities, establishing shared measurement practices, building public will, advancing policy, and mobilizing funding.Ready Ready is built on core values and principles that guide the organization in all of its decision-making and strategy. Ready Ready believes in being family-led; inclusive; equity-driven; responsive to evidence; transparent; and collaborative.The OpportunityReady Ready is seeking a creative and purpose-driven leader to serve as its next Chief Executive Officer to move the organization into its next phase of impact. The organization is at a critical inflection point where initial efforts to build systems and capacity for partner organizations can serve as the launching pad for increased impact and long-term success. The new CEO will provide leadership and motivation to partners and staff to work towards bold community goals, demonstrating the unique value that a backbone organization can provide to an ecosystem.The CEO will report to a highly engaged Board, including partners from The Duke Endowment and other funders. A strong fundraiser, the new CEO will build on existing funder relationships and create new relationships to ensure long-term sustainability.The ideal candidate will be a proven and respected leader in the social sector, ideally with experience in a collective impact effort and/or as a leader in a backbone/intermediary organization. They will likely bring experience in the education and/or human/social services field, with demonstrated experience operationalizing a strategic plan and leading revenue generation efforts.Key responsibilities of the CEO include:

• Collective Impact Leadership:

• Provide visionary and collaborative leadership to the Ready Ready team, Board, parents, partners, and funders to ensure progress against bold goals.
• Build knowledge of and buy-in to a collective impact approach, demonstrating the value to individual partners and the system of care.
• Manage, align, and activate a network of community-based partners.
• Serve as an external face of the organization, building trust in Ready Ready through transparency, communication, and inclusion.
• Serve as a consistent voice in regional and state conversations regarding early childhood development.
• Oversee the continued development and implementation of an integrated data system.
• Organizational Leadership:
  • Inspire and motivate staff to execute against a complex set of organizational priorities.
  • Build and execute a staffing plan.
  • Provide strong and strategic financial and operational management.
  • Sustainability:
    • Partner with the Board of Directors to build and execute on a long-term sustainability plan.
    • Create and execute on a workplan to meet the goals of the sustainability plan.
    • Lead ongoing fundraising efforts.Candidate ProfileThe Ready Ready Board is open to considering a variety of professional backgrounds. As a successful candidate for the Chief Executive Officer role, you will bring many of the following professional qualifications and personal attributes to this role:
      • A Collaborative Leader
      • A Passion for the Mission
      • Executive Management
      • Community Orientation
      • Systems ThinkerCompensation & BenefitsThe salary range for this role is $200,000 - $225,000 with a benefits package that includes:
        • 100% employer paid medical, dental & vision for employee only
        • 401K with 4% employer match after vesting
        • 20 days of PTO annually and 13 paid holidays
        • Hybrid work scheduleReady Ready operates a hybrid schedule, with some in-person work in one of the shared offices in Greensboro or High Point, North Carolina and some remote work. The CEO will need to reside in Guilford County. Relocation assistance is available if needed.Ready Ready is a proud equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from women, minority groups, veterans, and people with disabilities.ContactKoya Partners l Diversified Search Group has been exclusively retained for this engagement. To apply, please submit a compelling cover letter and resume by .Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities.
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