Executive Director, PLF

The PLF Board of Trustees seeks an exceptional nonprofit professional to serve as their new Executive Director, responsible for the overall management of PLF, including all programs and business operations. Areas of responsibility include ensuring the organization is true to its mission and vision, fundraising, event planning, and public relations

Job Posting: Executive Director

Summary

The Paul Lammermeier Foundation (PLF) helps children in need reach their full potential by providing houses in Peru, centered on family and the Jesuit values of education and service to others.

The primary purpose of the PLF is to sustain the mission established by Paul Lammermeier: to support children and youth in Lima, Peru who are experiencing homelessness or without parental support. In houses centered on family and the Jesuit values of education and service to others, we provide funding for shelter, meals, education, spiritual formation, guidance and other needs for the residents to help support opportunities to further their personal development and growth. 

The PLF Board of Trustees seeks an exceptional nonprofit professional to serve as their new Executive Director, responsible for the overall management of PLF, including all programs and business operations. Areas of responsibility include ensuring the organization is true to its mission and vision, fundraising, event planning, and public relations. This is a contract position, directly accountable to the Board of Trustees through the elected Board Chair. The Executive Director must be able to adapt to a continually evolving environment and thrive in an autonomous, self-directed workplace.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Fundraising, including:
  • Support year-round fundraising efforts to support the mission
  • Organize and implement our annual Fall fundraising Campaign, including organizing volunteers
  • Event planning, including Annual Dinner and other community-building and fundraising events
  • Support & direct the Core Committee for our new Comprehensive Campaign, in tandem with the Campaign Chair and pro bono fundraising expert
  • Supervise and support minimum-time Development Associate, who processes gifts and supports ongoing communications for the organization
  • Plan and implement strategic donor recognition opportunities
  • Follow-up with donors, prepare and submit grant applications/funding proposals as appropriate
  • Collaborate with the Board to raise funds from the community
  • Maintain our donor database (Blackbaud’s eTapestry)
• Deepen & refine communications, from web presence to external relations, to maintain a strong brand:
  • Develop and create bi-annual donor Newsletter for publication
  • Develop and maintain Website, email & social media content
  • Collaborate with contracted marketing specialists for specific projects
• Strategic Planning & operational support:
  • Oversee organization’s Strategic Plan, ensuring objectives and outcomes remain consistent with the mission and vision of the organization
  • In collaboration with Board members and staff, ensure that identified goals, objectives and priorities are met and/or improving; report progress on initiatives quarterly to Board of Trustees
  • Develop, recommend, and monitor annual budget in collaboration with the Board Treasurer
  • Engage and energize, lead and direct volunteers, Board members, partners and donors
  • Assist the Board Chair in planning the agenda and materials for quarterly Board meetings
  • Support, maintain, and develop a strong Board of Trustees and Board Committees
• Collaborate with Asociación Casa Javier (ACJ), our partner organization in Lima who runs the houses:
  • Serve as a primary point of contact between PLF and ACJ
  • Meet monthly with ACJ’s Executive Director and at other times with ACJ Board and staff members
  • Request information from ACJ to best share our story: newsletter articles, pictures, statistics, etc.
  • Ability to travel to Lima for PLF preferred

Qualifications & Requirements

• Passion for mission, transparency and high integrity
• Alignment with Jesuit ideals
• Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, and task facilitation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and attention to detail
• Ability to interface and engage with diverse volunteer and donor groups
• Strong computer skills: Microsoft Office, donor database software (Blackbaud’s eTapestry), creative design skills for Newsletter, email and social media posts
• Fundraising/development experience preferred
• Writing and creative experience preferred
• Experience with a nonprofit organization preferred
• Proficiency in Spanish desired

Compensation/Pay Period  

Contract employment (1099)
Salary, based on experience, paid monthly

Hours

Flexible and seasonal depending on time of year, averaging 20-25 hours per week

• Peak seasons: Annual Dinner (late winter), Fall Campaign & year-end giving season, possible travel to Lima to support ACJ events

Some evening and weekend event and meeting attendance is required, in person and virtually

Response within 24-48 hours is expected 

Office

Virtual office

Office equipment required to be provided by contractor:

• Computer & printer, mobile smartphone
• High speed internet access
• Microsoft Office software

Online donor database software & Microsoft Office web-based tools provided by PLF.

If interested

Please submit a resume and cover letter to PLF Vice Chair John Wintz, at jenwintz@cinci.rr.com and PLF Development Assistant Kim Noe, at kim@lammermeier.org.