Executive Director The Bronx Community Foundation
Executive Director The Bronx Community Foundation
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05-04-2025
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Job Description
Title: Executive Director
Work Location: Hybrid Bronx NY
Status: Full Time Exempt
Salary Range:Up to $175000 base salary. Eligible for discretionary annual bonus.
Reports To: Board of Directors
About the Bronx Community Foundation
The Bronx Community Foundation (BxCF) is the first and only community foundation in The Bronx solely dedicated to delivering resources to the entirety of the borough. The Foundation supports and invests in community power to eradicate inequity and build sustainable futures for all Bronxites.In 2020 The Foundation launched its first major initiative The Bronx Community Relief Effort. This effort raised and deployed over $10 Million in rapid response resources in The Bronx. The Foundation brought together a borough wide group of Bronxites and community leaders to determine how best to provide much needed resources such as food technology grants/technical assistance to housing organizations and small businesses and cash cards to students/residents along with emergency supplies throughout our entire borough. This was all done via a volunteer effort!
In 2021 The Foundation hired its first Executive leader and in 2022 commenced a strategic planning process designed to engage Bronxites to help build a better Bronx. In recent years The Foundation has deployed multiple participatory grantmaking processes to identify and fund hyper local organizations delivering services to the community across multiple issue areas. The Foundation continues to be a leader in the Digital Equity sector through programming leading the NYC Digital Equity Coalition and sponsoring research projects to identify the status of Bronxites access to technology all of which is designed to ensure that The Bronx community has access to adequate resources to thrive in this increasingly digital world.
Position Description
The Foundation is looking for a new Executive Director to help Build a Better Bronx a Bronx that is equitable just and fair and one where all residents thrive and prosper. The leader will support and work with Bronxites and organizations in the borough to bring the needed support across many areas including housing education health digital literacy/resources and economic opportunities.
The ED will work collaboratively with the BxCF Board of Directors and will serve as the primary fundraiser for the Foundation. They will be the professional leader of the Foundation ensuring that every Bronxite knows of the Foundation and its work and sharing information about the status and effectiveness of the Foundation and its partners as well as needs of The Bronx to all relevant audiences. This person will develop and deliver effective messaging about The Bronx Community Foundation that showcases the organizations strengths and potential.
The ED must be able to cultivate build and maintain strong trusting and authentic relationships with a wide range of partners including nonprofit and community leaders Bronx residents elected officials small business owners and funders. The right leader has unassailable integrity a deep commitment to The Bronx and exceptional communication skills.
Responsibilities
Development & Marketing
- Be the primary driver in donor cultivation solicitation and stewardship. Lead the creation implementation and successful of innovative fundraising strategies to secure significant and sustainable short and longterm revenue streams including but not limited to major gifts corporate partnerships and planned giving.
- Develop and maintain deeply respectful transparent and open partner and donor relationships including retaining funding from current donors/funders and developing and attracting new funding to the Foundation.
- Formulate and execute comprehensive marketing branding and development strategies that will ensure consistency throughout the organization and enhance revenue from all sources including funding from private foundations individuals corporate giving and public sector funding.
- Complete the strategic planning process (currently in process) aimed at building the Foundations capacity to develop programs that are sustainable systemic positive change for The Bronx.
- Identify the ideal staffing structure for the Foundation; recruit and retain diverse talented qualified professionals to fill staff positions.
- Provide leadership and direction to the Foundation team aligned with the mission and goals of the organization.
- Develop a staff culture of high performance expectation management and transparency.
- Establish effective decisionmaking processes that will enable the Foundation to achieve its long and shortterm goals and objectives.
- Serve as a community leader and spokesperson of the organization while partnering with the community and key stakeholders to identify vital community needs and develop and implement initiatives that enhance The Bronx.
- Cultivate a strong and transparent working relationship with the Board engage them in the grantmaking process and ensure open communication about the measurement of financial programmatic and impact performance against stated milestones and goals.
- Foster a culture of accountability and transparency within the Foundation ensuring alignment with the organizations mission and values.
- Augment and manage the daytoday operations of the Foundation including hiring and developing staff overseeing grants administration and maintaining compliance as well as contractual obligations.
- Institute and oversee the practices and policies to ensure that funds are allocated properly to reflect present needs and future potential of the Foundation.
- Oversee the financial status of the organization including developing long and shortrange financial plans monitoring the budget and ensuring sound financial controls are in place; set financial priorities accurately to ensure the organization is operating in a manner that supports the needs of the community the Foundation and its staff.
- Collaborate with the Board to refine and implement the strategic plan while ensuring that the budget staff and priorities are aligned with the Foundations core mission and values.
- Continue to operate the organizations thoughtful streamlined equity informed and communitydriven participatory grantmaking process.
- Maintain positive relationships with grantees and serve as an advocate for Bronxbased nonprofit organizations.
- Establish and enforce governance practices to maintain compliance with fiduciary and regulatory standards ensuring transparent and accountable management of resources.
- Implement and maintain robust financial controls and reporting processes to ensure accountability and transparency in all operations.
Qualifications
- Successful track record of fundraising and stewarding relationships with funders board members and community members. This includes but is not limited to an understanding of the requirements and infrastructure needed to support annual giving major gifts corporate sponsorships and partnerships planned giving capital campaigns etc. Must possess the ability to inspire confidence among donors and partners leveraging storytelling to demonstrate the Foundations impact and secure increased financial support.
- Entrepreneurial passionate and visionary leader with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to connect with and build trust with a variety of community stakeholders including Bronx residents leaders of Bronxbased institutions funders/donors elected officials etc.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large budgets with accountability ensuring financial integrity and sustainability.
- Resultsoriented with a strategic mindset and outstanding listening and communication abilities including the ability to make a dynamic case for the Foundation.
- A financially savvy and politically astute leader with the ability to set clear priorities delegate and guide investment in people and systems; keen analytic organization and problemsolving skills which support and enable sound decisionmaking.
- Excellent coalition building skills with an ability to bring people together achieve consensus and trust to implement identified priorities.
- Belief in and demonstrated commitment to undoing systemic racism.
- Deep commitment connections to and understanding of the systems impacting The Bronx (or similar communities).
- Expert level knowledge of housing health food security education technology and connectivity equity and justice and/or economic opportunity.
- Knowledge ofissues and regulations applicable to charitable giving (accounting legal investment etc.
- Fundraising startup community organizing and advocacy experience preferred.
- Proven success in addressing systemic challenges through collaborative approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to manage crises and navigate organizational transitions with transparency and integrity.
- Bilingual language skills(fluency in English andSpanish) preferred.
Compensation Range
- Up to $175k base for discretionary annual bonus.
How to Apply
The Bronx Community Foundation has retained Impact Search Advisors by Nonprofit HR as their Executive Search partner for this important hire. To be considered applicants must submit a resume cover letter and completed questionnaire via the Nonprofit HR website at: will be given to applicants who apply before March 3rd 2025.
Please direct all email inquiries regarding this search to Hakimu Davidson Senior Executive Recruiter atemailprotected
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