REMOTE | FULL-TIME
Boulo is recruiting for a Director of Growth & Development for our client, an innovative nonprofit that embraces cutting-edge technology and the deep involvement of parents, community partners, and teachers to ensure children are prepared for kindergarten and a lifetime of economic mobility.
Employment Type: Full-time, open to Part-time 20+ hours
Flexibility: Remote, candidate must live in the southeastern states and travel to Birmingham once a quarter for meetings
Pay: $70,000 – $85,000 for full-time
Benefits: Premium health insurance, retirement matching (up to 5% after 3 months), paid time off (approximately 30 days), professional development funds, and a work-issued laptop
Our client is seeking a Director of Growth & Development to lead a number of innovative, high-stakes initiatives. The ideal candidate is a consummate self-starter who operates with empathy while maintaining high standards for both themself and others.
Our client is a nonprofit that supports the future stability and prosperity of Birmingham by focusing on our most precious resource—our children. Their innovative programs embrace cutting-edge technology and the deep involvement of parents, community partners, and teachers to ensure all the children in our community are prepared for kindergarten and a lifetime of economic mobility. Research shows that the earliest support for kids can have the most positive and cost-effective lifelong impact. You can join our client in ensuring that Birmingham can become the best city in America to raise a child under five.
Responsibilities of the Director of Growth & Development:
- Setting the vision, strategy, and goals for large-scale initiatives, managing all aspects of implementation, resource management, progress reporting, and stakeholder engagement
- Creating and editing high-stakes internal and external communications to ensure the highest level of persuasiveness, appropriateness, and polish
- Helping the Executive Director identify priorities and strategically align their time accordingly Creating, evolving, scaling and stewarding business processes related to strategic planning; project management; board meeting preparation & follow-up; action planning; fundraising
- Planning, organizing, and running meetings with internal and external stakeholders and owning follow-up action items with impeccable tracking in Salesforce, Asana, and email
- Managing the preparation process for new board member onboarding Developing an earned revenue strategy for the organization
- Working with an external partner to assess the feasibility of a capital campaign Pitching national media outlets on story placement
Requirements of the Director of Growth & Development:
- Self starter attitude: You’re eager and ambitious, and thrive on a challenge. When faced with inevitable problems, you quickly move towards thinking of solutions. You operate with a bias towards action and are motivated primarily by big picture goals, not immediate deadlines or manager requests.
- Executive communication skills: Whether it’s a board deck or talking points, you draft concise, compelling written materials. You don’t just write grammatically correct emails–you write emails that get responses. This strength extends to your presence… you’re comfortable serving as an organizational ambassador and excel in high-stakes meetings.
- Strategic planning: You have a proven history of taking things from “great idea” to “successful implementation.” You’re able to break down a big goal into key action items and track progress along the way to ensure a successful result. You excel at strategically allocating and managing a wide range of resources.
- Relationship building: You have genuine enthusiasm for building relationships with key stakeholders and form connections with others across lines of difference. You embody a customer service orientation towards all stakeholders, going the extra mile to make people who interact with Small Magic feel valued.
- Organization and execution: Tracking tasks and managing deadlines is second nature to you. You rarely drop balls and almost always send a thoughtful follow-up email (formatted par excellence) within 48 hours of the meeting. You have clear personal systems for managing information and action items.
- Commitment to equity and antiracism: You recognize ways that race and other identities intersect. You have a deep awareness of your own identities and welcome, reflect on, and act on feedback with an eye toward continuous learning about race, class, and other lines of difference. You understand the historical context for racial inequity (in Birmingham and beyond) as well as its current implications.
- History of accomplishing ambitious results while managing external-facing projects
Don't meet every requirement? Studies show that women and people of color sometimes don’t apply for a position that they’re interested in because they are missing a few of the requirements. If this role sounds exciting and you’re missing some requirements, apply anyways! You may have strengths and experiences in other areas that will enable you to thrive in this role and we won't be able to identify you if you don’t apply. You may be just the right candidate.
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