Chief Executive Officer - Boys & Girls Clubs of Alaska

Location

Hawaii | United States

Job description

The CEO is responsible for leading all areas of Club administration and operational development, enhancing the utilization of data analytics to facilitate continuous organizational transformation and advancement in the areas of financial performance, Club experience and impact to youth, community partnerships, advocacy, and philanthropy.

BGC – Alaska is a complex organization with 23 Clubhouses, a licensed childcare center, and an athletic program. Many of the Clubhouses are in extremely remote areas and off the road system, requiring methods of supervision, training, and evaluation that rely on a combination of in-person and electronic communication. Clubhouses are responsive to the needs of the community and embrace local culture, operating as drop-in, before and/or after-school programs that span the state. More than 6,000 children (ages 7 to 18) are served annually in Clubhouse programs. Childcare and Athletic programs are specific to Anchorage. Childcare is licensed by the Municipality of Anchorage and serves children beginning at age 6 weeks with a capacity of 168. Athletics programs annually serve another 2,000 youth (ages 4-18). All aspects of the operations were heavily impacted by COVID-19, and the organization has been in a rebuilding phase since 2021.

Key opportunities for the CEO include instilling and maintaining a culture of safety that permeates every level of the organization, facilitating the performance growth of the management team, driving engagement with staff, Board, volunteers, and communities, managing shifting priorities, identifying, and securing new funding opportunities while maintaining and growing existing funding profiles, and managing the overall safety/risk inherent in the organization.

Leadership

• Provide leadership in conjunction with the Board of Directors in the development of 5-year strategic goals.
• Provide strategic leadership consistent with goals approved by the Board of Directors and in meeting the Organizational requirements set forth by Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

  Financial

• Provide leadership and prudent management of revenue and expenses while protecting and advancing the financial well-being and performance of the organization, consistent with the constraints of the annual budget and goals set forth by the Board of Directors.

Operational

• Assure safe, clean, and well-maintained facilities and environments for Club members, staff, and volunteers.
• Assure that clubhouse, especially those in remote locations, are adequately resourced to conform with local, tribal, regional, and State requirements, as well as Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska and Boys & Girls Clubs of America standards of operations and membership requirements.

Program

• Facilitate the staff's ability to provide safe, consistent, and impactful programming in Clubhouses, Childcare, and Athletics programs, while mitigating barriers to participation.

Safety

• Strive for a zero-incident culture where children and staff are physically and emotionally safe.
• Ensure a culture of safety permeates the organization at all levels.

Personnel

• Direct the leadership team’s ability to recruit and retain high quality candidates for staff and volunteer positions.
• Provide continuous leadership, direction, accountability, effective and expansive training, competitive compensation and benefits, and adequate resources, building the capacity and enhancing the productivity of exiting staff and those coming into the organization.
• Ensure a safe, welcoming, and productive work environment, free of harassment and discrimination.
• Oversee Human Resource verification of every volunteer and staff candidate's appropriateness in meeting high standards of moral/ethical behavior required to work with children.

Fundraising

• Lead and implement an aggressive, results-oriented resource development plan consistent with the goals and strategies of the Organization, including seeking, stewarding, and growing donors/funders, including individual, corporate, foundation, trusts, grants, and event opportunities.
• Ensure financial sustainability by actively diversifying funding sources.

Board

• Be a valued partner of the Board of Directors by providing clear, complete, and transparent data and communication to Board members to ensure they can effectively, and safety operate in their role as fiduciaries.
• Assist in recruiting and orienting new Board members with recruitment focused on diversity in thought, skill, ethnicity, gender, and interests.
• Build collaborative, transparent work relationships with all Board members, encouraging engagement.
• Assure the effective facilitation of Board and committee meetings, including scheduling, providing agendas, recording minutes and resolutions.
• Facilitate Board member fundraising activities.

Thought Leadership

Business Insight

• Has an in-depth understanding of how Alaska businesses work and how non-profits make money.
• Is the first to spot possible future policies, practices, and trends and apply them to the organization.
• Consistently apply a business driver and marketplace focus when prioritizing actions.

Financial Acumen

• Transforms financial information into actionable business intelligence through analysis and integration of quantitative and qualitative information.
• Identifies and monitors key financial indicators to gauge performance, identify trends, and put forward strategies that will impact results.

Decision Quality

• Decisively makes superior decisions, even when based on incomplete information or in the face of uncertainty.
• Actively seeks input from relevant sources in order to make timely and well-informed decisions.
• Skillfully separates opinion from facts.
• Is respected by others for displaying superior judgement.

Balances Stakeholders

• Serves as a liaison and maintains frequent interactions with a broad and inclusive set of stakeholders.
• Takes a proactive approach to form and influence stakeholder expectations.
• Effectively aligns the interests of a diverse and inclusive set of stakeholders.

Cultivates Innovation

• Moves beyond customary ways of doing things; pushes past the status quo.
• Continually assesses the market potential of innovative ideas or solutions.
• Finds and champions the best creative ideas and actively moves them into implementation.
• Builds excitement in others to explore creative options.

Strategic Mindset

• Sees the big picture, continually imagines future scenarios, and creates strategies to sustain competitive advantage.
• Is a visionary and able to articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods and communicate those to others.
• Formulates a clear strategy and maps decisive steps that will clearly accelerate the organization toward its strategic goals.

Results Leadership

Resourcefulness

• Gets the utmost out of available resources and secures rare resources others are unable to get.
• Adapts quickly to changing resource requirements.
• Enjoys multi-tasking; applies knowledge of the organization to advance multiple objectives.

Plans and Aligns

• Focuses on highest priorities and sets aside (or delegates) less critical tasks.
• Lays out a thorough schedule and steps for achieving objectives.
• Makes implementation plans that allocate resources precisely and equitability.
• Anticipates obstacles and develops actionable contingency plans.
• Uses milestones to diligently track and manage the progress of the work.

Ensures Accountability

• Assumes responsibility for ensuring the accountability of others (trust and verify).
• Promotes a sense of urgency and enforces individual accountability in the team.
• Works to establish explicit performance standards.
• Is totally informed of what is going on and knows where things stand.
• Provides balanced feedback at the most critical times.

Drives Results

• Sets aggressive goals and has high standards.
• Pursues everything with energy, drive, and the need for a timely finish.
• Persists in the face of challenges and setbacks and motivates others to continue to excel.
• Always keeps the end in sight; excites staff to put in extra effort to meet deadlines.

People Leadership

Collaborates

• Models collaboration across the organization.
• Facilitates an open dialogue with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders.
• Balances own interests with the interest of others.
• Promotes high visibility of shared contributions to goals.

Builds Networks

• Consults with a vast network of internal and external stakeholders.
• Connects the right people and groups to accomplish goals.
• Works through formal and informal channels to build broad-based relationships, support, and vision.

Develops Talent

• Views talent development as an organizational imperative.

• Consistently uses multiple methods to develop all staff and volunteers.
• Stays alert for developmental opportunities for the entire organization.
• Readily articulates the value and benefit of stretch assignments to staff.

  Builds Effective Teams

• Defines success in terms of the whole organization and its team members.
• Recognizes that leveraging each team member’s unique background and perspective is critical to achieving current and long-term goals.
• Rallies team members behind common goals.

Communicates Effectively

• Delivers messages in a clear, complete, and concise manner.
• Actively listens and checks for understanding.
• Articulates messages in a way that is broadly understandable.
• Adjusts communication content and style to meet the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Encourages the expression of diverse ideas and opinions.

Drives Vision and Purpose.

• Articulates a completing, inspired and relatable vision.
• Communicates the vision with a sense of purpose for the future well-being of the organization.
• Makes the vision sharable by everyone.
• Instills and sustains organization-wide energy for what is possible.

Self-Leadership

Instills Trust

• Gains the confidence and trust of others.
• Honors commitments and keeps confidences.
• Expresses self in a credible and transparent manner.
• Models high standards of honesty and integrity.

Manages Ambiguity

• Is energized and solution-driven when faced with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Makes significant progress and remains calm and composed, even when things are uncertain.
• Manages the risk that comes with moving forward when the outcome is uncertain.

Resiliency

• Stays focused and composed in stressful situation.

• Maintains a positive attitude and forward-thinking approach despite troubling circumstances or setbacks.

• Takes constructive action to navigate difficulties or obstacles.
• Is viewed as a source of assurance in high-stress situations.

  Education and Experience

Degree from an accredited college or university required (Master’s degree preferred) with at least 8 years senior management experience.

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