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Queen City Forward is seeking an Executive Director.

This is an opportunity to lead a local team, work with a strong, diverse board, grow a dynamic, high-impact entrepreneurial organization, and work with a state-wide support team dedicated to ensuring QCF’s success and connecting Charlotte’s entrepreneurial community with a network of change-makers throughout NC.

QCF’s Executive Director will be responsible for establishing and growing Queen City Forward as it strives to encourage, enable, and scale high-impact sustainable enterprises that create enduring social change in Charlotte and beyond. Queen City Forward is a non-profit Affiliate of Forward Ventures and will leverage and customize Bull City Forward’s model of sustainable enterprise development in Durham, North Carolina. For more information please see QCF’s Executive Summary and refer to www.bullcityforward.org.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in an exceptional manner. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This list of essential job functions is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.

• Fundraising (with support of Forward Ventures team)
• Board Relations
• Finances
• Maintain current year operating budget 
• Consistently rework future years budgets
• Produce and refine program budgets
• Partnership development throughout the Greater Charlotte community
• Strategic planning (with support from Forward Ventures team)
• Media relations
• Public relations
• Conferences
• Public Speaking
• Regional branding/marketing work (with support of Forward Ventures Director of Operations and Strategy
• Oversee Membership Manager and Resource Manager
• Program Oversight
• Membership Recruitment and Support (lead by Community Manager)
• Educational Programming (lead by Resource Manager)
• Site management (lead by Resource Manager)
• Social Events (lead by Resource Manager)
• Enterprise/talent recruitment, retention, and support (lead by Community Manager)

 Education, skills, and experience preferred: 

• Masters degree or above
• Proven skills in fund raising and financial management
• Deep knowledge of community needs and initiatives
• Strong relationships across public, private, and citizen sectors
• Passion for social entrepreneurship and systemic change
• Strong entrepreneurial drive and project implementation experience
• Start-up experience and know how
• Desire to participate in and champion Forward Ventures’ state-wide vision for communities of change

Timeline: Queen City Forward is looking to have an Executive Director in place by mid-August 2011. Please submit cover letters and resumes to jpsmith@bullcityforward.org by Thursday, July 21st.

 

Compensation: Compensation will be commensurate with experience and related to fund raising performance.

 

Contact: Forward Ventures Replication and Scaling Manager, contact John-Paul Smith at jpsmith@bullcityforward.org or call at (704) 562-1995.