Job Title: Executive Director
Organization: Child Care Resource Center, Inc.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Salary:
FT Regular
 
Job Description:
Executive Director
Child Care Resource Center, Inc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
 
Child Care Resource Center (CCRC), a leading nonprofit organization that
promotes the care and education of all children through advocacy and
programs that support families, professionals, and communities, seeks
applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director. The
cornerstones of CCRC's work include child care resource and referral
services, child care tuition assistance, family literacy programming, health
access, and training for child care providers and parents. All of CCRCs
programs target low to moderate income families who come from a diverse
range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds and for whom access to
education, skills development, child care, and health care is critical to
their personal and economic success. CCRC seeks a dynamic leader to serve as
the organizations Executive Director who can ensure that the center stays
vital and relevant for years to come. S/he must have a deep understanding of
and commitment to the compelling importance of early care and early
education and its benefit to children. The successful candidate will be an
entrepreneurial, proactive, charismatic and nimble leader who possesses both
the vision to inspire and the skills to lead an organization into its next
phase of growth.
 
ABOUT CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER:
Founded in 1971 as the first resource and referral (R&R) agency in
Massachusetts and one of the first in the United States, CCRC helped set the
foundation for the vast network of R&R's nationwide. R&Rs connect families
with quality licensed child care in their community, strengthen the field of
child care by providing recruitment, training and technical assistance to
child care providers, administer the state's voucher child care program and
collect and share child care data for community planning purposes. CCRC
collaborates with more than 50 community organizations to accomplish its
diverse programming. CCRC serves Greater Boston and extends its reach
through a contract with the Department of Early Education and Care which
specifically funds services in Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, Newton,
Belmont, Arlington, Wellesley, Weston, and Needham.
 
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Reporting to and working closely with the Board of Directors, the Executive
Director will be responsible for defining and executing strategic and
operating plans for CCRC. The Executive Director has an annual operating
budget of $1.8 million, which includes $760,000 in fiscally sponsored funds.
In addition, CCRC manages over $7.8 million in child care subsidy funds.
Responsibilities for the Executive Director include but are not limited to
overseeing all financial, managerial, facility and fundraising needs to
ensure that the organization has the necessary resources to continue to
provide exceptional services. S/he will need to be nimble in responding to
the changing landscape in early childhood education and R&R agencies. S/he
will be an articulate, persuasive, and charismatic advocate of CCRC and will
need to be both savvy about early childhood policy issues and politically
astute so that CCRC will continue to serve families and meet their changing
needs in the coming years.
 
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
This is an exciting opportunity for a leader knowledgeable in early
childhood development and community activist to encourage parents, families,
and caregivers to become more active participants in preparing their
children for a lifetime of learning. The successful candidate will be a
visionary and energetic leader with a proven track record of over five years
successfully managing a nonprofit and trajectory and who has a deeply held,
demonstrated respect and understanding of why early care and education
matters. S/he will have a proven track record in donor cultivation, new
revenue generation, and funder relations with a strong history of
successfully taking organizations to the next level of sustained
philanthropic support. S/he will have the drive to be involved in the
community, to listen to what is needed and to act skillfully to achieve it.
The ideal candidate will have a background in Early Childhood and an
unwavering commitment to the belief that all children deserve to and can
enter kindergarten prepared to thrive and a commitment to staff diversity
and an appreciation for its complexities in the broadest sense.
 
TO APPLY:
Applications should be sent to ccrc-ed@nonprofitprofessionals.com and will
be reviewed as received; interviews will be granted as interesting
candidates are identified. To be considered complete, applications must
include a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications, your
resume (in Word format), your salary history, and where you learned of the
position. Please write your name (i.e., Smith, Jane) as the only contents in
the subject line of your e-mail.
 
Additional information about Child Care Resource Center may be found at:
http://www.ccrcinc.org
A longer, more detailed position description may be found at:
http://www.NonprofitProfessionals.com/searches/ccrc-ed.htm
 
 
Child Care Resource Center is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to
build a staff
representative of the community it serves.
 
 
How to Apply:
 
Organization Web Site: www.NonprofitProfessionals.com/searches/ccrc-ed.htm
 
Email replies to: ccrc-ed@nonprofitprofessionals.com