Executive Director
Executive Director: Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
Job Location: Hybrid; Concord, CA
Compensation: $90,000
Motus Recruiting and Staffing is proud to partner with Rainbow Community Center in its search for an Executive Director.
ABOUT RAINBOW COMMUNITY CENTER:
The Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County (Rainbow) was founded in 1995 to serve the well-being of the LGBTQIA+ Community in Contra Costa County. Founders wanted to develop programs to reduce isolation of LGBTQIA+ people and provide a space for community development. Rainbow continues to provide a safe and welcoming place building community among LGBTQIA+ persons and our allies through social programs, support groups, clinical services, training, special events, and emergency programs.
For more information on Rainbow Community Center, visit https://www.rainbowcc.org/
OVERVIEW OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROLE:
Rainbow is looking for a strategic and relational executive director with a strong development and fundraising background, who will lead Rainbow into its new era of service delivery, training, and multiple diverse programs. This position will supervise a team of two program directors and a total of 13-15 program staff to accomplish our value-driven mission. Rainbow Community Center currently has a $1.8 million operating budget.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Leadership, Board and Community Relations
- Be the organization’s primary point of contact with the Board of Directors.
- Represent Rainbow to the surrounding community with a focus on networking and community building in Contra Costa County.
- Play a pivotal role as a key public liaison within the LGBTQIA+ community and represent Rainbow.
- Utilize strong public speaking skills and a deep, ever evolving understanding of the issues and current events within the broader LGBTQIA+ landscape, to respond to and initiate opportunities for media engagement and thought leadership.
- In collaboration with the Board, lead the implementation of Rainbow’s Strategic Plan including but not limited to developing strategic, collaborative partnerships with local organizations, driving the agency toward greater diversified funding, and serving our most marginalized members of the LGBTIA+ community.
- Serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors and of the finance, strategy, and development committees.
- Ensure the Board remains productive and efficient, oversee administrative work related to ongoing Board activities and Board meetings and develop monthly reports in collaboration with senior staff.
- Meet weekly with the Board President to clarify priorities, make key strategic decisions, plan for and follow up from monthly Board meetings.
- Function as the person primarily responsible for ensuring Rainbow’s fiscal health and fundraising efforts.
- Supervise and partner with Rainbow’s Development Director on general development efforts.
- Significantly contribute to and lead efforts to diversify Rainbow’s revenue base, including in donor and funder cultivation (particularly major gifts and foundation cultivation).
- Be responsible for formulating and overseeing implementation of an annual development plan, and leading and participating in key fundraising, communications, and marketing activities in order to meet contributed revenue goals.
- Work to maintain government contracts and hold key relationships with key personnel within grantor agencies.
- Achieve diversified funding for the organization and when aligned with strategic planning, grow government contracts relating to mental health and/or other appropriate programs.
- Supervise the grant proposal process and reports for foundation, corporate and government fundraising, and grant management, in collaboration with the Director of Development and grants contractors.
- Ensure smooth department operations including overseeing staff and workflows, including support in data development.
- Ensure clear communication within and outside of the organization balancing honesty, transparency, and confidentiality, especially in matters that directly affect Rainbow’s clients, staff, and board members.
- Lead with a social justice lens and prioritize a workplace culture of inclusiveness, respect, and diversity.
- Collaboratively work alongside staff to design policies, procedures, and wellness-centered best practices to increase staff retention and sustainability.
- Support the empowerment and growth of staff through leadership development, community building, staff engagement, skill building and coaching.
- Oversee all internal operations, ensuring Rainbow continues to run smoothly, programs remain strong, and that staff and volunteers have what they need to accomplish our mission utilizing our values.
- Lead Rainbow’s staff, volunteers and community members.
- Work collaboratively and independently to apply for grants and funding opportunities as well as complete grant reports.
- Lead and organize fundraisers with staff, the Board, volunteers and community members and partners.
- Oversee and guide Rainbow’s organizational culture, policies and procedures, and support some essential internal Human Resources functions, including but not limited to: receiving staff feedback, responding to employee grievances, reviewing and granting leaves and/or work accommodations, recognizing promotions, and conducting any necessary terminations.
- Partner with accounting to oversee all budgeting, finance management, and employee payroll.
- Regularly evaluate the organizational structure to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- Oversee investment in inventorying, improving, and implementing better data collection, analysis and reporting practices, including with Simple Practice, our therapy portal, as well as Salesforce, our primary data tool.
- Cultivate a team-based environment by actively engaging and energizing Rainbow’s employees, volunteers, board members, committees, participants, and funders.
- Manager HR, hiring, offboarding, and health benefits, dental & vision & term life.
- Manage office, order office supplies, inventory office supplies and clean the center.
- Manage and handle all of Rainbow’s government and non-government accounts, such as IRS, EDD, State Fund Workers’ Compensation, non-profit insurance policies, State of California, PR&E, Comcast, and so on.
MINIMUM AND PREFERRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
- An MBA or MPA degree or equivalent work experience in leadership at nonprofit organizations.
- Demonstrated Commitment to Rainbow Mission, Vision, and Values
- 3+ Years Management Experience in Executive leadership roles.
- 5+ Years of experience in financial management and fundraising, securing four to five figure gifts from individuals, and five to six figure donations and grants from companies and foundations.
- 3+ Years of budgeting and finance experience.
- Experience in non-profit specifically supporting diverse, LGBTQIA communities.
- Experience and knowledge of relationship building to form strategic partnerships that align with Rainbow’s mission, vision, and values.
- Experience and knowledge of wrap-around services, including clinical mental health and case management, youth and seniors, HIV prevention and education, LGBTQIA+ training, youth housing, and volunteer management.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:
Rainbow provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental ability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, domestic partner status, age, military or veteran status and any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
Rainbow is committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in organization operations and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the organization, including supervisors and coworkers.
Rainbow believes that one of the significant areas our values are established and communicated in are within our hiring practices. We look to elevate and create opportunities for the most marginalized people in our society — namely Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), POC, LGBTQIA+ people, and all women. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of intersectional, marginalized communities. This is one expression and enactment as to how we transcend our lens from inclusive to expansive.
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.
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