About the Role
Role details below.
Responsibilities
- Provide ongoing strategic direction and professional leadership to the organization.
- Collaborate with the professional and volunteer teams to ensure sound implementation of plans and evaluation of impact.
- Be the public face and ambassador of the Federation to represent and advocate on its behalf with community and government organizations.
- Continue to build and diversify the fund development strategy with a particular focus on the Annual Campaign.
- Develop and actualize plans to enhance donor relations, increase and diversify giving, inspire and engage volunteers.
- Assure the management of all administrative aspects of the campaign including the campaign database.
- Grow the planned giving program, endowments and bequests, harnessing the generational transfer of wealth.
- Diversify the funding streams including grants and other potential revenue streams.
- Inspire, engage and manage lay leadership’s continual and dynamic involvement and oversee a plan for succession, as appropriate.
- Ensure that the committees, the board of directors, and the executive are provided with appropriate resources, support and information to maximize their contribution to the organization.
- Understand and strengthen the relevance of the collaborative lay professional partnership in providing strong leadership to the organization.
- Supervise all programmatic initiatives such as Margaret’s Legacy Holocaust Education.
- Cultivate good relationships with the beneficiary agencies.
- Determine annual allocations in collaboration with the lay leadership.
- Reassess and realign the programmatic initiatives to meet the changing needs of the community.
- Create an organizational structure that responds to the requirements of the strategic plan.
- Refresh and update the strategic plan in collaboration with the lay leadership.
- Recruit, train, supervise & mentor staff.
- Develop & manage the operating budget.
- Liaise with appropriate national/continental and international organizations to maximize access to services and entitlements and ensure that Hamilton’s voice is heard.
Requirements
- At least five years experience in a senior management position.
- Proven expertise and track record in fundraising.
- Combination of business/managerial experience and exposure to or working within a not-for-profit organization in a lay or professional role preferably in the Jewish community.
- Appreciation of, and commitment to, Israel and Jewish values and Jewish life.
- Superior interpersonal, management and organizational skills.
- A proven track record of effective staff management.
- Financial acumen.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a complex array of stakeholders – donors, colleagues, volunteers, civic leaders, law enforcement.
- A team builder, able to inspire, influence, and build credibility ensuring accountability and excellence.
- Strong collaboration and consensus building skills.
- Diplomatic, respectful, and able to manage conflict.
- Extremely organized and capable of multi-tasking.
- Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written.
- Energetic, proactive, flexible, decisive with an ability to sustain a positive organizational culture.
- Sound analytical and problem-solving abilities, with an ability to make decisions quickly.
- Ability to lead and manage in a crisis.
- Ability to lead change initiatives, developing support and buy in.
- Impeccable integrity.
- Flexible work schedule.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the Hamilton Jewish community.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits package
Compensation
Base salary range CAD 170K-190K plus excellent benefits package
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region)
Team
Structure: CEO oversees all staff and reports to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors through the (lay) President. Reports to: Executive Committee of the Board of Directors through the (lay) President
Additional Information
- The CEO will oversee all staff.
- The organization cohabits a new communal space called JHamilton with the Jewish Community Center (JCC) and other Jewish local communal partners.
- The CEO must represent the Jewish community in the broader Hamilton community including government bodies, faith-based and cultural organizations and law enforcement, especially in a post October 7 environment.
- The position requires sustaining partnerships and relationships with national and international organizations.
