This position is open until filled and may close without prior notice and is subject to funding.

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KidsPeace, a private nonprofit, seeks an experienced and innovative leader to serve as Executive Director of the Bowdon Georgia campus to lead its excellent staff by providing exceptional administrative skills to further strengthen its innovative and successful program. The appointment for this executive position will be effective July 2024.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This position reports directly to the Vice President of Programs and has overall leadership responsibility for KidsPeace Bowdon Georgia Residential Programs.

Job Duties/Essential Functions

• Child Safety & Quality: Assure the safety of kids and the quality of programs consistent with the mission of KidsPeace and the Model of Care.
• Regulatory & Legal Compliance: Assure organizational compliance with all regulatory, accrediting, licensing, legal, and other authorizing bodies.
• Budget Targets and Service Delivery: Meet or exceed overall budget targets while maintaining effective operations and delivering quality services and outcomes.
• Lead Operations: Coordinate services to leverage synergies and create efficiencies, optimize operations’ ability to generate revenue via program expansion and enhancements, and through philanthropic and government sources.
• Growth Margins: Establish priorities and align resources to increase margins and focus growth in conjunction with organizational strategies. Oversee the process of new business development and program expansion; create and facilitate merger/acquisitions, strategic alliance, and other opportunities.
• Performance Improvement and Goal Setting: Lead the performance improvement process, which consistently evaluates and improves operational systems, inter and intra departmental coordination and efficiencies, corporate and client outcomes, and vital signs.
• Support and Culture: Build a culture that integrates the development of the organization and ensures standards consistent with KidsPeace philosophies. Work to enhance contribution to KidsPeace objectives, mission, vision, values, and model of care.
• Government and Community Relations: Assure success and meaningful participation in regional community relations through Boards of Associates, civic membership representation, and hosting visits from and conducting visits to federal and state officials.
• Fundraising: Ensure creation of regional capital, deferred giving, major gifts, and other related regional fundraising programs through donor identification, cultivation, and solicitation consistent with the KidsPeace model and culture of philanthropy.
• Customer Relations and Marketing: Assure excellent regional customer relations, participate in the development and implementation of a regional annual marketing plan, and contribute to the overall positive customer relations efforts of KidsPeace.
• Strategic Advisor: Serve as a key advisor to the Vice President for Programs on all matters of organizational operation and the projected impact of anticipated strategic actions on operations.
• All other duties as assigned by management.

Competencies

• Leadership: Able to initiate action, make good judgments, give direction, and motivate others.
• Communication: Able to give clear information— orally and in writing, listen effectively, negotiate, and get unbiased information. Able to communicate with all levels of staff in addition to internal and external customers.
• Benchmarking: Able to collect information on models of excellence from inside and outside the organization, apply that information to new situations, and bring about improvement.
• Developing People: Able to train, coach, counsel, delegate, appraise people and performance, and develop people so they can perform at a higher level or exercise a broader responsibility.
• Interdepartmental Cooperation: Able to form bonds with other associates outside the area of responsibility, analyze problem areas or area of potential cooperation, and work effectively on common concerns.
• Compliance: Understands and rigorously follows all compliance policies and procedures of KidsPeace.
• Self-Development and Feedback: Actively seeks constructive feedback and implements self-improvement plans that build on personal strengths and develop areas in need of improvement.
• Mission, Vision, and Values Aligned: Demonstrates passion for helping children and families facing crisis. Value integrity, excellence, and charity. Support organizational leadership and efforts to advance the mission.
• Quality Improvement: Regularly and proactively uses continuous quality improvement techniques, formal evaluations and feedback, and benchmarking to set new improvement goals and processes. Initiates effective improvement programs and serves on quality committees and teams. Demonstrates understanding of or has achieved formal training on PDCA, Six Sigma, TQM, CQI, or other form quality program.

Qualifications (Education, Training, and Experience)

• Master’s degree in Human Services or appropriate related discipline as well as significant and successful leadership experience in a multi-service, human services or related organizational setting of significant size and scope
• A minimum of four years’ experience in the childcare field
• Licensure as clinical professional strongly preferred
• Must be at least 21 years of age
• Valid driver’s license required
• SCM Observer level required

Bowdon, GA

Called the friendly city, Bowdon, in Carroll County, is located near the Georgia-Alabama state line just west of Carrollton, the home of the University of West Georgia. Bowdon is only an hour away from the bustling and exciting city of Atlanta. The City of Bowdon enhances the prosperity and quality of life of its citizens, while preserving its rural, small-town character. Bowdon strives to encourage diverse economic development and employment opportunities, while protecting Bowdon’s historic resources and the environment. A small town, Bowdon is known for being peaceful as well as pleasant. The town offers many amenities and attractions, including parks, historic sites, and recreational areas as well as shopping, dining, and entertainment options.