Executive Director
Portland, Oregon - Added Sep 13th, 2023
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Executive Director
Williams Russell Project
Job Location: Remote
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 annually
Motus Recruiting and Staffing is proud to partner with Williams Russell Project in its search for an Executive Director.
ABOUT WILLIAMS RUSSELL PROJECT:
The Williams Russell project is a collaborative effort between a community-based Williams Russell CDC, Prosper Portland, Legacy Health, and the City of Portland.
Institutional racism made it illegal and difficult to own land as a minority, and with few options beyond the least desirable areas of Portland, African Americans primarily settled in the northeast quadrant of the city. Given the area’s long-standing history of African American residents and businesses, the City of Portland, Prosper Portland, and Legacy Health decided early on that the property should be returned to the community and that its development would be a community-led project with significant community outreach. The community-elected Williams Russell CDC non-profit board was established to define and drive a community-centered visioning and development process.
To learn more about Williams Russell Project, visit our website: https://www.williamsrussellcdc.org/
OVERVIEW OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROLE:
The Executive Director (ED) collaborates with the Board of Directors and Senior Managers to define the organization’s vision, while overseeing its daily operations at the Williams & Russell Community Development Corporation. This role entails strategic leadership, ensuring financial well-being, and providing guidance to the support staff.
Additionally, the ED manages and closely collaborates with the Senior Management Team (referred to as the “Team”). They report to the Board of Directors on matters related to strategy, policies, fundraising initiatives, and significant operational matters.
Salary range for the Executive Director: $130,000 - $150,000 annually
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Leadership Responsibilities
Integrity and Trust: Widely trusted; a direct, truthful individual; presents the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidence; admits mistakes; doesn't misrepresent self for personal gain.
Leadership: Effectively establishes and communicates a compelling vision and core purpose, fostering an optimistic outlook that encompasses possibilities beyond the present. Develops milestones and symbolic representations to garner support for the vision, ensuring it resonates with all stakeholders. Proficiently inspires and motivates entire units or organizations, fostering shared commitment.
Motivating Others: Creates a climate that encourages peak performance, motivating both direct reports and team members. Identifies and taps into individuals’ motivational triggers to maximize their contributions. Empowers others by facilitating and visibility. Exhibits leadership by example, generating a positive enjoyable work atmosphere, making them sought-after collaborators.
Positive Presence: Demonstrates, optimistic, and a vibrant energy that serves to motivate and inspire individuals and groups at all levels of the organization.
Strategic Agility: Future-oriented; accurately forecasting future consequences and trends. Displays extensive knowledge and broad perspective, effectively outlining credible visions of potential outcomes. Develops competitive strategies and innovative plans that push boundaries.
Drive for Results: Consistently and successfully exceeds goals; a consistent top performer; triple bottom line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems effectively; probes all fruitful sources for answers; sees hidden problems; excels at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
Organizational Agility: Understands the culture of organizations, and how to get things done through formal and informal channels; understands origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures.
Negotiating: Negotiates skillfully in tough situations internally or externally; works with minimum “noise;” wins concessions without damaging relationships; direct and forceful as well as diplomatic; quickly gains trust of all parties, treating them as partners whenever possible; has a good sense of timing.
Planning: Accurately assesses length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets clear objectives and goals; breaks down work into steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
Building Effective Teams: Promotes team cohesion by seamlessly integrating individuals into teams, cultivating a strong sense of unity and enthusiasm among team members. Celebrates achievements and handles setbacks openly, encouraging transparent communication. Empowers individuals to take ownership of their work and outcomes, defining success in the context of the entire team. Nurtures a sense of belonging and camaraderie within the team.
Delegation: Effectively delegates tasks and decisions, both routine and significant, with clarity and confidence. Distributes responsibility and accountability broadly, demonstrating trust in individuals’ capabilities to perform their work independently and to completion.
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about whom they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, or protected veteran status.
Williams Russell Project
Job Location: Remote
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 annually
Motus Recruiting and Staffing is proud to partner with Williams Russell Project in its search for an Executive Director.
ABOUT WILLIAMS RUSSELL PROJECT:
The Williams Russell project is a collaborative effort between a community-based Williams Russell CDC, Prosper Portland, Legacy Health, and the City of Portland.
Institutional racism made it illegal and difficult to own land as a minority, and with few options beyond the least desirable areas of Portland, African Americans primarily settled in the northeast quadrant of the city. Given the area’s long-standing history of African American residents and businesses, the City of Portland, Prosper Portland, and Legacy Health decided early on that the property should be returned to the community and that its development would be a community-led project with significant community outreach. The community-elected Williams Russell CDC non-profit board was established to define and drive a community-centered visioning and development process.
To learn more about Williams Russell Project, visit our website: https://www.williamsrussellcdc.org/
OVERVIEW OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROLE:
The Executive Director (ED) collaborates with the Board of Directors and Senior Managers to define the organization’s vision, while overseeing its daily operations at the Williams & Russell Community Development Corporation. This role entails strategic leadership, ensuring financial well-being, and providing guidance to the support staff.
Additionally, the ED manages and closely collaborates with the Senior Management Team (referred to as the “Team”). They report to the Board of Directors on matters related to strategy, policies, fundraising initiatives, and significant operational matters.
Salary range for the Executive Director: $130,000 - $150,000 annually
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Leadership Responsibilities
- Accountable for cultivating an environment and culture centered around fulfilling the organization’s mission ensuring a positive and healthy experience for both members and staff.
- Forges collaborative relationships with organizations that share a common vision and provide complementary services, actively seeking opportunities for collaboration to advance joint goals.
- Provide guidance for operational plans and budget processes, encompassing staffing and allocation of operating resources to attain projected objectives.
- Engages with the Board to collaborate on planning, communication, and involvement of board members, staff, and the wider community
- Significant ED time will be allocated to fundraising efforts aimed at sustaining programs and operations for the organization’s long-term growth.
- Creating and overseeing grant processes, which may involve exploring innovative avenues for revenue growth that align with core values.
- Ensuring maintenance and expansion of the Donor and Member base.
- Managing accounts receivables/payables
- Responsible for managing human resource functions, including staff recruitment, supervision, performance evaluations, and enduring staff adherence to responsibilities.
- A bachelor’s degree. Higher degree in a relevant subject area (e.g., city planning, real estate, or business) preferred.
- Demonstrated executive leadership experience in a high growth organization of comparable size; long range organizational planning; and nonprofit leadership experience strongly preferred.
- Sophisticated working knowledge of affordable housing development and finance.
- Experience leading and motivating Staff, boards, and volunteers.
- Experience in managing projects with multi-stakeholder inputs, preferably in an affordable housing and community development context.
- Strong written and oral communication skills; experience communicating effectively with a wide variety of audiences, internally and externally.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing strategic plans.
- Experience with the management of client/community collection of demographic information
Integrity and Trust: Widely trusted; a direct, truthful individual; presents the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidence; admits mistakes; doesn't misrepresent self for personal gain.
Leadership: Effectively establishes and communicates a compelling vision and core purpose, fostering an optimistic outlook that encompasses possibilities beyond the present. Develops milestones and symbolic representations to garner support for the vision, ensuring it resonates with all stakeholders. Proficiently inspires and motivates entire units or organizations, fostering shared commitment.
Motivating Others: Creates a climate that encourages peak performance, motivating both direct reports and team members. Identifies and taps into individuals’ motivational triggers to maximize their contributions. Empowers others by facilitating and visibility. Exhibits leadership by example, generating a positive enjoyable work atmosphere, making them sought-after collaborators.
Positive Presence: Demonstrates, optimistic, and a vibrant energy that serves to motivate and inspire individuals and groups at all levels of the organization.
Strategic Agility: Future-oriented; accurately forecasting future consequences and trends. Displays extensive knowledge and broad perspective, effectively outlining credible visions of potential outcomes. Develops competitive strategies and innovative plans that push boundaries.
Drive for Results: Consistently and successfully exceeds goals; a consistent top performer; triple bottom line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems effectively; probes all fruitful sources for answers; sees hidden problems; excels at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
Organizational Agility: Understands the culture of organizations, and how to get things done through formal and informal channels; understands origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures.
Negotiating: Negotiates skillfully in tough situations internally or externally; works with minimum “noise;” wins concessions without damaging relationships; direct and forceful as well as diplomatic; quickly gains trust of all parties, treating them as partners whenever possible; has a good sense of timing.
Planning: Accurately assesses length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets clear objectives and goals; breaks down work into steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
Building Effective Teams: Promotes team cohesion by seamlessly integrating individuals into teams, cultivating a strong sense of unity and enthusiasm among team members. Celebrates achievements and handles setbacks openly, encouraging transparent communication. Empowers individuals to take ownership of their work and outcomes, defining success in the context of the entire team. Nurtures a sense of belonging and camaraderie within the team.
Delegation: Effectively delegates tasks and decisions, both routine and significant, with clarity and confidence. Distributes responsibility and accountability broadly, demonstrating trust in individuals’ capabilities to perform their work independently and to completion.
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about whom they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, or protected veteran status.
Job ID: 11724