Co-Executive Director

The Opportunity

Kids in Common (KIC) is seeking a dynamic, collaborative, and creative leader to serve as Co-Executive Director (CED). The Co-Executive Directors work together to lead a nonprofit organization with a nearly 40-year history of always putting children and families first. A small organization filling a unique role, Kids in Common leverages partnerships and relationships to champion policies, investments, and practices that address social justice and equity and strives to ensure every child in Santa Clara County is safe, healthy, successful in learning and thriving in life.

The Co-Executive Directors (CED) work collaboratively to lead and manage the operations,activities, and partnerships of KIC. The new Co-Executive Director shall be expected to learn and support all aspects of the organization andas assigned, oversee and manage the day-today operations of Kids in Common including financial development, financial oversight and management, ensuring the achievement of programmatic goals and objectives, building partnerships and relationships with other organizations and businesses in the community, establishing and maintaining productive relationships with local government and other elected officials and establish and maintain an admirable reputation and productive track record of Kids in Common’s work in the community. The new Co-Executive Director will create and implement plans for fund development, create a donor strategy and manage

donor relationship activities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Working in conjunction with the Board of Directors, the Co-Executive Directors (CEDs) will provide the strategic vision and leadership necessary to ensure that KIC makes a deep and lasting impact for children and young people in Santa Clara County. In addition to executive oversight of operations, finances, fund development and HR, the CEDs will bring strong, relationship-based leadership to the cross-sector, partner-based, systems-focused work of the Children’s Agenda. Serving as an ambassador for what is best for children, the CEDs will lead in a manner that results in policies, investments and practices that are focused on what is best for Santa Clara County children and youth.

Strategic Vision & Leadership

• Partner with Board and executive level colleagues to develop and implement KIC’s long term vision and strategic direction.

• Center diversity, equity, and inclusion across all internal and external work.

Fund Development

• With the Board of Directors, design a resource development strategy to attract philanthropic support.

• Serve as head fundraiser by cultivating new donor relationships and “making the ask.”

• Secure financial resources required to achieve program objectives and to sustain the viability of KIC programs including through donors, grant development and contracts.

• Ensure that funded initiatives and programs are conducted in compliance with requirements of donors or funding source. Provide reports on such to the Board.

Program Oversight

• Manage the programs and initiatives of Kids in Common to assure the achievement of goals and objectives.

• Provide stewardship of the Children’s Agenda, building relationships with community partners and inspiring people to work for the common goal of creating a community where every child is safe, healthy, successful in learning, thriving in life.

• Oversee and implement special events, conferences and convenings. Community Building & Advocacy

• Serve as an ambassador for the work of the KIC and the Children’s Agenda.

• Learn about, promote, develop new, and strengthen existing partnership relationships with organizations, agencies and businesses that will enhance Kids in Common’s advocacy and project goals.

• Establish and maintain productive relationships with local government and other elected officials to promote Kids in Common’s issues.

• Serve as the primary spokesperson for KIC, the mission and value of collective data-driven work and speaking to vision and strategies that help to create a community where every child is safe, healthy, successful in learning and thriving in life.

• Establish and maintain an admirable reputation and a productive track record for Kids in

Common in communities served.

Finance & Administration

• Provide fiscal and administrative oversight to ensure compliance, organizational sustainability, and effective program operations. Oversee accurate accounting, reporting, and forecasting.

• Oversee the preparation of the annual budget in alignment with program objectives and responsibility ensuring timely financial reporting to the Board.

Board Engagement

• Provide administrative support to the Board of Directors including advising the board on policy and program issues, reporting information about the organization’s activities to the board, assisting board committees with program and fiscal policy development.

• Work with the Board Chairperson to develop meeting agendas. Prepare board materials and

attend board meetings.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Commitment to the mission of the Kids in Common programs.

• Commitment to equity and social justice. Understands structural issues and systems failures that lead to unjust racial and economic discrepancies in our child-serving systems.

• Ability to perform effectively in changing policy environment.

• Strong executive-level leader. Able to balance competing demands.

• Experience with fund development and fundraising from private and public sources. Able to communicate the value of the work of Kids in Common to potential donors.

• Exceptional problem-solving and negotiating skills.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Is curious about the conditions that hold poor results in place and what can be done to improve results for children, youth, and families.

• Able to seek out and interpret data to understand outcomes, drive decision-making, and tell a story.

• Ability to demonstrate empathy and diplomacy.

• Demonstrated understanding of non-profit leadership and ability to collaborate with a non-profit Board of Directors.

• Collaborative and team-oriented approach. Recognizes that sharing power with community partners will take the organization further.

•Commitment to equity and social justice. Understands structural issues and systems failures that lead to unjust racial and economic discrepancies in our child-serving systems.

• Engages with colleagues and network partners with integrity, empathy, kindness, humility, compassion, diplomacy, and loyalty.

• Passion for inclusion and relationship building and recognition of everyone’s contribution to addressing our systems challenges.

Additional Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in policy, law, education, organizational development, and/ or psychology, social service or related field.

• At least three years of high-level management experience preferred.

• Fluency in oral and written English is required. Bilingual skills are a plus.

• Fundraising and development skills and a high degree of sophistication in curating and executing a sustainable fundraising strategy with foundations, public sector, and major donors.

• Experience building and maintaining organizational partnerships, guiding programs, and independently leading complex projects required.

• Demonstrated commitment to public interest issues.

• Confident, engaging, and inspiring public speaker that can represent KIC’s work and elevate its profile, expand the impact of its work, and increase fundraising ability.

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environment.

• Demonstrates cooperation, empathy, and proactive, clear communication.

• Experience with financial oversight, including budgeting, planning, and reporting.

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to www.kidsincommon.org/staff.