Dance the Night with A Dignified Home, Community Development Manager

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At A Dignified Home, nurturing potential is our mission. We achieve our mission by drawing on our humanity. Humanity made up of courage, determination, innovation, passion, empathy, and caring. These are the values that give us the advantage over homelessness.

Our work is important. And so are the people doing it. The people who work at A Dignified Home focus their diverse talents on our singular mission: to end the pain and the pointless trauma of homelessness. It is a calling. And the people who answer it are fulfilled. We value our volunteers around the globe that have stood with us through the years, and we will not rest until the fight is won. And that day is drawing nearer.

• Executes a portfolio of community-based events, with accountability for significant income targets, as well as event-related mission and advocacy activities.

• Ensures goal achievement through the effective leadership, engagement, empowerment and mobilization of event volunteers.
• Accountable for the achievement of income performance targets for a portfolio of community-based events.

• Responsible for effectively and efficiently completing activities and meeting target deadlines in order to execute successful events.

• Implements best practices for event revenue growth; drives and encourages creativity and innovation at the event level.

• Monitors financial expenditures and progress against budgetary plan and takes appropriate measures to meet top line and bottom line goals ensuring a high return on investment in meeting revenue targets.

• Engages, recruits, trains and manages relationships with community volunteers to ensure successful events execution.

• Engages the community to drive increased event participation; including event committee, teams, team members, sponsors, host families, foster parents, and youth. * Actively collaborates with Community Development Partners to engage constituents from corporate and distinguished partners, in events through event sponsorship and participation.

• Utilizes available tools and processes to maximize event results, including online fundraising.

• Utilizes and responds to customer experience survey, comparative event and success factors data.

• Facilitates volunteer retention and ensures meaningful volunteer recognition.

• Utilizes defined processes to ensure timely and accurate event data entry.

• Ensures compliance with A Dignified Home policies, including employment, risk management, event and cash handling, and financial controls.

• Models and fosters behavior that establishes a culture that values the staff/volunteer partnership, and is consistent with the values, goals, and objectives of A Dignified Home to create an atmosphere of trust, cooperation, accountability, empowerment, and dedication to the mission.

Position Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. One year related experience preferred.

Demonstrates Community Development Competencies:

• Action oriented - Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Attracts top talent - Attracts and selects the best talent to meet current and future organizational needs.
• Being resilient - Rebounds from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Builds networks - Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Customer focus - Builds strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives engagement - Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Balances stakeholders - Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ensures accountability - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Other skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work successfully in a diverse team environment.
• Ability to recruit, train and motivate community-based volunteers.
• Demonstrated ability in handling multiple priorities, project management and meeting deadlines; strong planning and organizational skills.
• Proven relationship building, persuasion and influence skills.
• Strong customer service orientation, with extensive experience in effectively addressing and resolving issues with constituents.
• Ability to proactively monitor and adjust activities to respond to changing circumstances and priorities to meet goals, proactively address issues as they arise and mitigate risks associated to events.
• Outcome driven; strong project management ability.
• Able to work through others to accomplish goals.
• Strong market, community and constituent perspective.
• Remains composed under stress, handles responses to criticism tactfully and delivers on organizational commitments.
• Broad knowledge of the overall structure, programs, and services of A Dignified Home including policies and procedures.
• Proficient in computer-based information systems.
• Ability to lift 30lbs and engage in set up/take down of event equipment.

We are committed to providing staff volunteers with fulfilling opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact in their local communities.