Executive Director

WorkFaith Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2018
Categories: CEO/Executive
Job Type: Full-Time
Employee Workplace: Unspecified
Job Description:

Work Faith Birmingham- Executive Director


Full Time Position

 

Benefits: Health Insurance, Retirement, Life Insurance Dental, Vision, Cell Phone

 

WorkFaith Birmingham (“WFB”) is an Alabama nonprofit corporation exempt from tax under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)3. WFB was established in 2013 as a Christian ministry to serve adults in transition, particularly those facing major employment barriers, who desire to work yet who were unable to secure and retain employment. WFB addresses workforce development by empowering participants with the skills, ethics, and values necessary to enjoy transformed lives through work and faith.

 

Position


The Executive Director serves as the Chief Executive Officer of WFB. The Executive Director is responsible for leading the ministry in the consistent achievement of its mission while overseeing the administration, staff, programs, strategic plan, and financial management. As Executive Director of a young and growing nonprofit, the Executive Director will be required to perform various tasks which may include, but are not limited to, community partnership development; employer relationship development; spiritual development for staff, boards, and clients; board and junior board development; facility oversight; financial management oversight; program oversight; administration oversight; and fundraising.

 

Responsibilities


Board Collaboration: Work with the Board of Directors to fulfill the mission of WFB.

  • Report directly to the Board of Directors. ?
  • Responsible for leading WFB in a manner that supports and implements the

WFB’s mission as defined by the Board of Directors.

  • Responsible for communicating effectively with the Board and providing, in a timely and accurate manner, all information necessary for the Board to function effectively and make informed decisions.
  • Responsible to collaborate with the Board and Junior Board to know how best to use their gifts, time, and talents to accomplish WFB’s mission.
  • Responsible to work with the Board and Junior Board to secure the necessary funding for WFB to accomplish it’s mission.

Mission, Program Development, and Strategy: Work with Board and staff to ensure that the mission is fulfilled through effective programs, strategic planning, staff effectiveness, and volunteers.

  • Responsible for the implementation and oversight of WFB’s programs and staff to ensure they carry out the organization’s mission successfully.
  • Responsible for strategic planning to ensure WFB graduates are able to secure and retain employment that leads to careers.
  • Responsible for maintaining a working knowledge of relevant information/research and significant developments that affect and inform the successful implementation of WFB’s mission. ?
  • Responsible to help develop and oversee a successful volunteer recruitment and implementation model that serves the ministry and the graduates.

 

Operations: Oversee and appropriate resources to ensure that the operations of the organization are appropriately aligned with Biblical standards and best accomplish the priorities of the ministry in a fiscally responsible way.

  • Responsible for the effective administration of WFB’s operations.
  • Responsible for the recruitment, employment, training, and release of all personnel, including paid staff, contractual labor, and volunteers. ?
  • Responsible for establishing employment and administrative policies and procedures and job descriptions (as needed) for all staff (paid, contractual, and volunteer), holding regular performance evaluations, and implementing mutually beneficial human resource practices. ?
  • Responsible for maintaining a climate that attracts, keeps, and motivates a diverse staff. ?

 

Financial Performance, Management, and Viability: Help develop sufficient resources and maintain financial oversight to ensure fiscal health and integrity of WFB.

  • Responsible for recommending and maintaining sound financial practices including submission to the Board of a proposed annual budget and monthly financial statements, which accurately reflects the financial condition of WFB.
  • Responsible for the management and oversight of the fiscal activity of WFB staff that ensures operating within the approved budget and ensures maximum resource ?utilization.
  • Responsible for providing strategic direction for grant development.
  • Responsible for supervision of day-to-day financial operations including payroll, tax compliance, ?expense reports, donor receipts, etc. ?

 

Community Partnerships/Awareness/Employer Relations: Develop partnerships within the Birmingham Community to fulfill the mission of WFB

  • Responsible for identifying, initiating, and nurturing strategic partnerships within the Birmingham community that help advance WFB’s mission by providing prospective clients to WFB, financial support for the mission, and employment opportunities for WFB graduates.
  • Responsible for all aspects of communication to the community to create greater awareness to churches, potential partners, potential clients, potential and current financial supporters, and potential and current employers.
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of all social media presence, website, communication pieces, press releases, newsletters, etc., that are needed for community partnerships and awareness.
  • Responsible to help develop and implement a marketing plan that keeps donors and prospective donors, and the community at large, aware of what God is doing through the ministry of WFB.

 

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About WorkFaith Birmingham

WorkFaith Birmingham is addressing three primary problems in the city of Birmingham. Problem #1: There are thousands of adults every year leaving transitional ministries, jails, and prisons in the Birmingham area. Many of them lack the support they need to obtain and retain employment. As a result, they often return to negative relationships, a life of crime, a life of self-medication, or a life of dependency on the government and others in order to survive. Problem #2: Many adults living in low-income and public housing communities of our city also lack the job search skills, ethics, values, and support they need to become gainfully employed with a sustainable income. Many dropped out of school or full-time employment at some point due to a life situation or challenge and now desire to move into employment, but they lack a clear path forward to reach their destination. They face many hurdles to become employed and often give up their job search feeling that it is a hopeless ambition for them. Problem #3: There are several organizations in the city that provide short-term workforce preparation for developing basic job search skills. They generally focus on resume development, basic interviewing principles, and potential job leads. There are longer programs like AIDT’s Ready To Work program that have several days of classes, certification programs, and skill development in order to increase job search success. These programs work well with self-motivated and educated adults, but many urban adults lack the necessary soft skills and educational skills that are required to succeed with them. The Solution WorkFaith Birmingham seeks to help address the complicated life issues of adults in transition by empowering them with the skills, support, values, avenues, and life perspectives they need to gain and maintain employment, and become productive contributors to their families, churches, and communities. Our two-week workshop teaches 12 Core Competencies in the Creative Job Search approach that has been used successfully with over 3,000 adults in Houston and Birmingham. Every participant learns how to correctly fill out applications, create a resume based on their work history and their skills and abilities, tell their story in 30 seconds, speak honestly and ethically about their past, develop a network of support for their job search, identify potential employers, research potential employers, and much more. Every participant participates in mock interviews and observes other mock interviews so they can be prepared with confidence when they go to job interviews. At our workshop we also seek to equip participants with the ethics and values they will need to retain employment and obtain careers. We incorporate 25 Core Values into our curriculum that includes things like punctuality, workplace safety, honesty, respect, forgiveness, teamwork, problem-solving, and personal responsibility so our graduates will be prepared to face the many challenges associated with work. Since WorkFaith Birmingham is a Christian ministry, we also teach a Biblical worldview about life, work, ethics and values, and how work fits into God’s overall good design and purpose for our lives. We do not coerce anyone to become a Christian and you do not have to be a Christian to participate in our program, but we do believe individuals with Christian ethics and values will become employees that any employer would desire to hire. We do present the gospel clearly to each class. We also seek to provide a volunteer "Encourager" to graduates as needed from the Christian community across the city. Encouragers are friends who meet with a graduate twice a month to encourage them through their job search and work-related issues, provide godly counsel as they work through life’s problems, provide prayer support for them as they move forward to fulfill God’s good design and purposes for them, and encourage local church participation. After graduation, our jobs coach meets with and coaches our graduates throughout their job search flooding them with job leads so they can work the creative job search process that they have learned in our workshop. “ By God’s Grace, over 80 percent of our graduates have obtained employment and continue employment after one year. Also, even though over 50 percent of our graduates have criminal convictions in their backgrounds, we have less than two percent recidivism rate of any of them returning to prison.
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