Chief Executive Officer - Imperative Recruiting

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The North Star Community Partners are looking to add an experienced, dynamic and innovative leader to their executive team to serve as CEO for this emerging nonprofit based in Northern St Louis. Open to relocation, candidates nationwide encouraged to apply.

Organization
Mission: North Star Community Partners seeks to advance and elevate the underserved communities of North St. Louis through a collaborative ecosystem designed to cultivate social and economic change. The organization's key priorities are:

• Urban Revitalization

• Entrepreneurship, Workforce, & Business Development

• Education Services, Access, & Attainment

• Community Building & Social Infrastructure

Vision: North Star Community Partners envisions a healthy, equitable, and revitalized community throughout the Dr. Martin Luther King Drive corridor of North St. Louis.

Role Overview: As the Chief Executive Officer of this brand new collaborative non profit organization, the CEO’s role will involve strategic planning, fundraising, community engagement, and overseeing daily operations. This role will be responsible for setting the organization's direction, managing resources, building partnerships, and ensuring the mission is achieved effectively. Strong leadership, communication, and a passion for our cause is essential.

Primary Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate and timely analyses that capture and communicate fundraising results, variances, and performance trends

• Provide leadership to and manage the efforts of onsite and remote staff to ensure appropriate support of all departments

• Create annual objectives and goals

• Supervise the development of operations-based financial modeling

• Coordinate and leads annual budget reviews, monthly and quarterly reviews, and periodic forecast updates available to present to the board appropriately

• Build and maintain relationships with investors, funders, community partners and members

• Ensure that services and funding relationships are robust enough to meet or exceed strategic goals and objectives

• Approve system implementations and improvements based on strategic planning

• Retain and manage a diverse, highly qualified staff and volunteers by providing an uplifting work space at all times

Qualifications

• 10+ years in nonprofit management/leadership

• Strong supervisory and project management skills and experience.

• Strong organization and prioritization skills.

• High level of initiative and desire to meet specific goals.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in developing strategies and plans

• Ability to apply successful fundraising and networking techniques

• Strong computer skills, including Google Workspace, project management tools, CRM’s, etc.

• Superior customer service skills to both internal and external audiences.

• An analytical mind capable for ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking to solve problems

• An eagerness to help implement sustainable business practices.

• Ability to adhere to the highest ethical standards.

• Demonstrated empathetic disposition and positive attitude.

• Travel as needed to represent the organization during various events and engagements

• Eagerness to work as part of a team, both as a leader and in a supporting capacity, to expand the donor base and visibility of the organization.

Salary

$170K-$180K DOE

Candidates must be in the St Louis area or willing to relocate. Hybrid work environment.