The United Methodist Children’s Home
of the North Georgia Conference
Position Title: Director of Special Events and Volunteerism
Department: Fundraising & Marketing
Reports To: VP of Income Development
Work Location: Decatur, GA
Are you ready to fully utilize your financial skills and experience to help transform an organization and make a real difference in the lives of others?
Come join our dynamic and growing organization with a strong legacy of organizational and financial stability. We provide meaningful, positive change that dramatically impacts the lives of children and families within the North Georgia community. Join this well-established Atlanta nonprofit organization focused on providing life changing family services for the Atlanta/North Georgia area. Fully utilize your hands-on skills and leadership experience to direct the Finance and Accounting Department of this dynamic, growing organization. Enjoy the challenge of working in partnership with a strong executive team and board members to drive transformational change. Fulfill your passion for the mission by building and implementing accounting best practices that will enable successful mission delivery in this top rated nonprofit. Become part of our team and experience the true joy of helping us effectively fulfill our mission: to help children to heal emotionally and spiritually, to unite families and to bring the wholeness of God’s love to each of them through Jesus Christ.
Organization
The United Methodist Children’s Home - An Exciting and Important Ministry
The United Methodist Children’s Home is a safe haven for children, youth and their families, and we have been since the founding of the organization in 1871. Our stable, resilient organization has a strong foundation and legacy as a steadfast source of hope and healing to those whom we serve.
We provide a loving and safe home for abused and neglected children in the state foster care system. Our service offerings include Foster Care and Adoption for children of all ages, Independent and Transitional Living for older youth, Nurturing Connections Second Chance Program for parenting teens and their babies, and Higher Education assistance.
We also work to prevent abuse and strengthen families and believe that the best way to provide a safe and loving home for a child is to help create that same safe and loving experience in his or her own family. Our family preservation services – Family Counseling, Parenting Classes, Financial Aid and residential Family Housing – help families stay together and become stronger. Our summer and after-school program, Jesse’s House, also provides a safe place for children. Whether through adoption, reunification, staying together or standing independently, we help our children, teens and families find their permanent home.
History:
The United Methodist Children’s Home has a rich history of serving children and families in our area. The Home was originally established in 1871 to care for children orphaned during the Civil War. Originally called the Methodist Orphans’ Home and located in Norcross, the Home moved in 1873 to our present location in Decatur. By the early 1930s, the Home was serving large numbers of children who could not be termed “orphans”; therefore, in 1934 the trustees approved changing the name to Methodist Children’s Home. Elementary students continued in the on-campus school until about 1950, when they were absorbed into the DeKalb County system.
In 1977, the United Methodist Children’s Home opened the first district office in Augusta to better serve children and families throughout north Georgia. The district office in Dalton opened in 1984, the office in Rome opened in 1996, and the office in Gainesville opened in 2006. Over the years, the Children’s Home began offering additional programs and services to children, teens and families.
In 2010, the United Methodist Children’s Home made significant changes to the program offerings, including the Family Housing program on our campus and the addition of a new program in 2011: Jesse’s House (an after-school program and summer day for under-served children). We also serve increasing numbers of older youth in our Independent Living and Transitional Living programs, and children and youth of all ages in Foster Care.
Today, we are again in the midst of exciting organizational change! UMCH is working to build increased awareness in the community for our programs and services and to increase funding designed to help us strengthen existing programs and services and provide new offerings to serve even more children and families in our area.
Mission:
To provide redemptive, healing services that bring meaningful change to the lives of children and families. Grounded by scripture and the tradition of the church, we seek to bring the wholeness of God’s love to persons through Christ.
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Vice President of Income Development, the Director of Special Events and Volunteerism is responsible for designing, building and leading event based fundraising, various special events and developing the base of volunteers for the UMCH. The Director is directly accountable for the achievement of event income goals & for the successful execution of event plans. Additionally, the Director will design and implement an effective volunteer program that supports all the efforts of the UMCH to not only include fundraising & special event events but assist in the delivery of program needs and day to day operational requirements. The Director of Special Events and Volunteerism will be a hands-on, results-oriented change agent who is a driven, creative, innovative thinker and servant-leader. Leadership experience, combined with a strong passion for the vision, mission and goals of the UMCH is critical to success in this role.
This position is located at UMCH headquarters in Decatur, Georgia, and the work is conducted in/out of an office setting. Local or regional travel will be required from time to time.
The ability to maintain a flexible work schedule which will include evenings and weekends is required.
**PLEASE NOTE: No relocation assistance is offered for this position.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
· Develops and implements successful event based fundraising and special events to achieve agreed upon goals of the UMCH.
· Designs, builds and implement a volunteer program to support all the needs of the UMCH. This includes fundraising events, special events, program delivery and day to day operational needs of the UMCH.
· Works to build a team environment to effectively represent the United Methodist Children’s Home and its mission in the community and participating in mission objectives as required.
· Will consistently demonstrate a servant leader’s approach to the challenges and opportunities that present themselves to the UMCH.
· Develops a system to measure and monitor progress in each area towards agreed upon outcomes. Routinely sharing updates and findings with key stakeholders to maximize results.
· Ensures that there is a clear process for data collection for event income & expense activity, along with updating both donor and volunteer records for CRM requirements.
· Monitor and manage the department budget to control costs and meet financial reporting requirements.
· Attends evening and/or weekend meetings and/or events as needed. Participates in conference calls and other trainings to maximize success of events.
Team Leadership
· Work with the VP of Income Development to establish annual goals and performance objectives for Fundraising & Special Events and Volunteer Development.
· Work with and develop staff skills.
· Provide leadership in strengthening internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment.
OTHER FUNCTIONS
Perform other duties and ad hoc assignments as defined by the VP of Income Development or the Executive Team
QUALIFICATIONS
Formal Knowledge & Skills
· Bachelor’s degree in Non-profit, Business, Communications or related degree required
· Minimum of 3 years successful event fundraising or related special event planning experience
· Minimum of 3 years of experience in developing and building a volunteer network
· Minimum of 3 years of experience in effectively managing staff and teams with experience developing roles and responsibilities, training and coaching staff to fulfill organizational objectives
· Experience in leveraging existing Internet and community resources to attract and develop strong volunteer resources
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, plus the ability to work in a team environment
· Strong creative problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
· Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively cultivating, developing and building strong relationships and motivating staff & volunteers across all functions and at all levels
· Strong interpersonal and communication skills; experience in effectively communicating key data, including presentations to senior management, board or other outside partners
· Demonstrated organizational and time management skills
· Must be able to handle multiple projects, review and prepare event schedules and meet critical deadlines
· Experience using a CRM tool to manage constituent and volunteer data.
· Experience building reports and analyzing output data and trends
· Experience managing a budget including reporting on performance metrics.
· Highly developed skills in speaking, writing, and problem solving are necessary.
IDEAL CANDIDATE ATTRIBUTES
• Strong passion and affinity for UMCH's vision and mission and constituents
• Self-directed problem solver who is effective at solving problems and reducing waste
• Innovative and change oriented leader, highly professional with ability and organizational expertise to effectively inspire staff and volunteers
• Relationship builder with flexibility and finesse to “manage by influence”
• Sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, board members, volunteers, donors, program participants and other supporters
• Influential, credible, confident persona with strong personal stature and authenticity
• Hands-on, detailed oriented leader who will work shoulder to shoulder with staff
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate, uncover, analyze and translate data into meaningful format that can be used to drive solutions
• Ability to make decisions and exercise good judgment with limited direction in a changing environment and bring order to chaos.
• Balanced approach to work
SUPERVISION RECEIVED/GIVEN
Direct Supervision Received: The Director of Special Events & Volunteerism will report to the VP of Income Development
Direct Supervision Given: N/A: Full-time Volunteer Manager
CONTACTS
Internal Contacts: Executive leadership, Board of Trustees, Fundraising & Marketing staff, Administration & Program staff, Program Participants
External Contacts: Donors, Volunteers, Media, and Vendors
LOCATION AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
This position is located at UMCH headquarters in Decatur, Georgia, and the work is conducted in/out of an office setting. Local or regional travel will be required from time to time.
The ability to maintain a flexible work schedule which will include evenings and weekends is required.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
United Methodist Children’s Home offers a competitive salary and benefits package including:
· Major medical insurance, plus dental and vision covered 100% for UMCH employees
· Discounted family medical coverage program
· Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
· Paid company holidays
· Vacation and sick days accrual program
· Defined contribution benefit pension program
· 403b plan
· Expense reimbursement program for mobile phone and mileage
HOW TO APPLY:
Click on the link below OR cut and paste link into your browser to visit the Online Career Center website where you may register, view a listing of our current open positions. Select this specific position and apply by submitting your resume and cover letter including salary history and requirements.
http://bit.ly/UMCHOnlineCareerCenter
United Methodist Children’s Home supports a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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