Executive Director: Job Description

 

Overview
The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring that the Good Counsel Learning Center (GCLC) is fulfilling its mission, successfully pursuing its strategy and operating in an effective, sustainable manner.

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Reports to:
Board of Directors 

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Supervises:
Academic Director

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Governance 
The Executive Director serves as the staff liaison to the Board of Directors and is responsible for cultivating strong and transparent relationships with individual board members and the board as a whole.  To do so, the Executive Director should provide the board with accurate, complete and timely information on the organization’s operations and finances.  Additionally, the Executive Director should inform and advise the board on current trends, problems and opportunities important to GCLC’s mission, operations, and sustainability.

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In addition to being the staff liaison to the GCLC board, the Executive Director also serves as a liaison with the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, who founded the Learning Center.  Given that GCLC is an affiliated ministry of the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), the Executive Director is responsible for ensuring the SSND charism, educational vision and ideals are represented in the Learning Center’s work.  Additionally, the Executive Director is expected to be the primary steward of the Learning Center’s relationship with the SSND Ministry Office and Ministry Commission, apprising them of the Learning Center’s work and collaborating as appropriate.

Strategy
The Executive Director is responsible for supporting the GCLC Board to establish a strategic plan – and for successfully implementing the plan after its adoption by the Board.  The Executive Director also needs to be able to monitor the “on-the-ground” conditions for the marketplace and organization – and to offer suggested modifications to the strategic plan when warranted.

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Operations
The Executive Director oversees GCLC’s daily operations and collaborates with staff to ensure all programs are aligned with the organization’s mission and effectively run.  Additionally, the Executive Director should seek to foster a positive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment to support staff and volunteers in the discharge of their responsibilities.  

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Programming
In their role, the Executive Director manages the Academic Director – who is responsible for ensuring the creation and delivery of innovative, high-quality, and effective tutoring and workforce education programs.  The Academic Director is also responsible for the profit and loss of the tutoring enterprise and manages the Learning Center’s paid and volunteer tutoring staff.  The Executive Director is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the educational “products” offered by the Learning Center are meeting the changing demands and needs of the Community.

 

Business Development
The Executive Director serves as the public face of Good Counsel Learning Center and as such, is charged with cultivating customers for the organization’s tutoring services (targeting school-aged students) and workforce programs (targeting businesses that employ ELL individuals).  To be effective in this role, the Executive Director must be highly visible in the community, able to initiate conversations and meetings with prospective clients (parents or employers) and able to articulate and promote the Learning Center’s unique value proposition and return on investment.  

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Customer Relationship Management
After families and businesses become “customers” of the Learning Center, the role of the Executive Director is to ensure these relationships are retained and the Learning Center is continually responding to needs articulated by our customers.  

Financial Management
The Executive Director is responsible for establishing and managing the organization’s annual budget, managing its assets, ensuring sound financial practices are followed, and communicating the financial status of the organization with the Board on a regular basis.  

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Fundamentally, the Executive Director is responsible for ensuring that the organization operates in a financially sustainable manner.

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Fundraising
A key responsibility of the Executive Director is to create and lead the implementation of a comprehensive development plan capable of generating the funds needed to meet GCLC’s evolving need for private support. This plan should be focused on those strategies with the highest potential return on investment, including grant writing and individual major gifts.

The Executive Director will maintain relationships with key donors and stakeholders, execute major gift strategies, oversee annual campaigns and maintain the organization’s fundraising infrastructure (data base, correspondence, files, etc.).

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Compliance and Reporting
The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring the Learning Center complies with all relevant laws and regulations.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree 

• Previous experience in outward-facing roles (sales, relationship management, business development, fundraising, etc); fundraising experience preferred

• Experience in managing organizations and staff

• Experience managing financials, establishing budgets, calculating ROIs

• Familiarity with education and/or tutoring is beneficial