Operations Committee Member - Mental Health Nonprofit

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Background

• Heads Up for Harry is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and advocating for mental health awareness and resources among adolescents, young adults, and their community of support

• The organization was established in Atlanta, GA in 2018. Over the last three years, Heads up for Harry has served in the capacity of coordinating and leading over a dozen speaking engagements at local high schools. The purpose of these engagements has been to engage with students on the topics of mental health, mental illness, warning signs, and how to encourage conversations around these matters.

• In 2020, Heads up for Harry began a new strategic planning initiative. Coming out of these planning sessions, the organization is looking to continue to expand, take shape, and mature as a nonprofit entity in the local community. The driving 5 year vision of Heads up for Harry is for growth in impact, so fewer students are dying from suicide, by expanding awareness work into public schools and colleges, and linking those in need to appropriate mental health resources. Co-creating programs with students and partnering with others to deliver programs and measure outcomes and impact.

Area of Need

• We are looking to establish a new committee of volunteers within the organization. We are looking for 3-5 volunteers to be active members in the following areas 1) Programming planning and operations 2) Community relations, outreach, and marketing

• From past experience, time commitment to committees tends to range to 2-3 hours / week.

• We would love for all committee members to volunteer for medium to long-term 6 months or longer to help carry on initiatives within the organization.

Volunteer Competency Areas

We are looking for a variety of skillsets to fulfill the various missions of this committee. Thus, we welcome applicants with experience in any and all of the following areas.

• Non-profit program planning
• Marketing and communications
• Relationship management
• Program and project management
• Mental health programming

Outcomes for these formed committees

The Program, Operations and Planning Committee is accountable for developing and leading the Board's participation in all of the organization’s planning, and program development and coordination, in this capacity:

• Monitor implementation of the strategic plan, including working with the Staff in monitoring and reporting progress of the annual action plans developed by the Executive Director.
• Develop an annual program plan that includes coordinated program delivery from the partnering agencies.
• Support the annual program planning, including networking to support expansion of programs into new environments as well as supporting the development of speaking engagements to adapt to these new venues.
• Supporting execution of the logic model developed for Heads up for Harry to support improved mental health outcomes among young adults in our catchment area.

In addition, we are also supporting community relations and marketing within this committee to help HU4H be received in a positive light by the public by engaging with other organizations with similar causes as ours, as well as corporate sponsors, will help further the HU4H mission. In this capacity:

• Develop an annual marketing and community relations plan, including a master calendar for organization promotion and strategies for student recruitment.
• Develop an annual Communication Plan - including communication with members.
• Ensure that the organization’s image is regularly updated, including the brand and keeping board and members updated on the organization’s efforts and activities.
• Manage and oversee relationship building with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversee and participate with community outreach