Urban Alliance seeks Executive Director - $125k to $135k/year
Urban Alliance believes that all young people benefit from access to paid work experiences, professional networks, and the skills training needed to achieve economic mobility. As the Greater DC Executive Director, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage your leadership strengths, relationship building expertise, fundraising skills, and passion for youth development to help young people aspire, work, and succeed. This position is hybrid will report to the Greater DC office three days per week.
As the Greater DC Executive Director, you will lead Urban Alliance’s longest-running regional program team while joining the Executive Leadership Team alongside members of the C-Suite and regional executive director team in Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit. The Greater DC region includes Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Northern Virginia. You’ll lead a mission-focused, dynamic, and impactful regional team that works with hundreds of DC area youth each year across six school districts, while being supported by programming, development, evaluation, HR, communications, and operations teams from Urban Alliance’s national team. You’ll also develop, lead, and fundraise for, the Greater DC region’s new strategic plan, which is expected to more than double our impact over the next five years. This role is ideal for an individual with a proven track record of success securing large gifts and generating resources, and who enjoys both cultivating new relationships with funders, as well as strengthening and growing relationships with existing supporters and donors. Strong candidates will also be highly adept at developing or deepening strategic relationships such as OSSE, DME, DCPS, local workforce and youth development organizations, agencies, coalitions, etc. The leader will manage a program and team that works with hundreds of young people every year, and has a deep understanding of the needs, landscape, and key stakeholders of the DC area. This position currently directly reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).