Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Location: Addison Texas

Traffick911s mission is to free youth from sex trafficking and is the only agency offering aroundtheclock crisis intervention and continuous care for child victims across all of North Texas. Since 2009 Traffick911 Advocates have been building trust with trafficked youth and helping them as they heal from trauma. Traffick911 has experienced rapid growth during its fifteenyear history and is now looking for the next Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization during its next phase of growth and development

Position Description

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leads the of the organizations vision and strategy generates funding streams to meet the organizations mission ensures services are delivered according to Traffick911s values and national best practices and leads the Executive Leadership Team. The CEO ensures that Traffick911s fiscal operating marketing human resource technology and programmatic strategies are effectively implemented across the organization. Reporting to the Traffick911 Board of Directors the position is a voting member of the Board.

Strategic Leadership

• Designs and implements the boardapproved strategic plan and develops clear operational objectives for .
• Communicates in a timely manner with the Board of Directors regarding opportunities and threats in carrying out the organizations mission.
• Develops and fosters relationships and engagement with the Board of Directors and Advisory Board.
• Collaborates with the Board Chair to build a Board of Directors with diverse expertise and influence in overseeing and guiding the strategic direction of the organization.
• Provides thought leadership and strategic program development across the organization and with external stakeholders.
• Develops a unified teambased environment that motivates and inspires staff to work collaboratively toward the organizations mission and goals and leads in fostering a healthy vibrant organizational culture.
• Oversees marketing communication and public relations strategy implementation.

Financial Leadership

• Ensures the organization is financially able to achieve its longand shortterm goals and objectives by developing long and shortrange financial plans monitoring the budget and ensuring sound financial controls are in place.
• Identifies cultivates and stewards relationships with existing and prospective funders including individual donors foundations churches and business partners.
• Oversees all grant reporting to ensure timeliness and accuracy of all reports.
• Leverages agency data to communicate trends and growth needs to funding partners in a manner that engages funders in the mission and vision of the organization.
• Executes comprehensive marketing branding and development strategies that will be consistent throughout the organization and enhance revenue through diversified funding.
• Promotes a culture of fundraising at the staff and board levels.
• Oversees MOU and contract negotiation promoting collaborative relationships between program areas and ensuring that the expectations of funders partners constituents clients and other stakeholders are consistently met.
• Develops strategic vision around diversification of funding streams in collaboration with the Chief Development Officer.

Operational Leadership

• Analyzes organizational capacity to implement strategies and to identify and overcome gaps in systems and staffing in close collaboration with the leadership team.
• Leads human resources initiatives including the development of appropriate salary structures.
• Ensures implementation of leadership and professional development opportunities for staff.
• Oversees the development implementation and of policies and procedures for all Traffick911 programs/services.
• Oversees the implementation of fundraising events and other major organizational events.
• Oversee the management of key relationships with agency partners related to programming and strategy.
• Reviews legal documents and acts as primary signatory for the organization.
• Ensures policies and procedures are developed and implemented to meet standards of Memorandums of Understanding and all other human resource or operational needs and in accordance with federal state and local laws.
• Creates a positive culture of accountability that motivates team members to achieve strategic and operational goals including implementing yearly staff SMART goals.
• Promotes a positive culture and a safe work environment that supports consistency throughout the organizations strategy operational methods and data collection needs.
• Assures a work environment that recruits retains and supports quality diverse staff Board and volunteers.
• Oversees legal and regulatory compliance for the organization in conjunction with industry standards.
• Acts as primary point person regarding any legal matters working closely with general counsel and thirdparty attorneys.

Communications and Public Relations

• Serves as Traffick911s chief spokesperson and acts as an advocate for issues relevant to the agency and mission.
• Facilitates the integration of the organization into the fabric of the community by assuring the use of effective marketing and communications activities.
• Cultivates positive relationships with others that impact the agency including thought leaders in the field community leaders policymakers and mission partners.
• Represents the organization on relevant committees and task forces as well as at speaking engagements conference panels and trainings as a subjectmatter expert.
• Collaborates closely with the communications team to effectively craft communications.

Qualifications

• A mature Christian who models Traffick911s values and beliefs statement including an impeccable reputation in personal conduct especially sexual conduct.
• Masters degree preferred with at least twelve years of professional job experience including overseeing budgets and leading teams at an executive level.
• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing strategic and operational plans.
• Seasoned communicator with proven success in marketing/branding within a nonprofit environment.
• Experienced in philanthropy leading major donor fundraising and success in donor cultivation and stewardship.
• Experience in leading youth antihuman trafficking initiatives across multiple sectors including nonprofit government law enforcement and corporate environments.
• Experienced coalition builder with an ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders with varied opinions.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate problems assess situations quickly and implement appropriate policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to plan develop scale up and successfully implement programs that are complex multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed.
• Proven ability to manage motivate coach and develop staff.
• Strong commitment to the professional development of staff; successful track record of recruiting and retaining a highperforming team.
• Ensure organizational compliance with policies related to abuse risk management boundaries with youthmanaging highrisk activities and supervising youth including participation in abuse risk management training.
• Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations including mandated abuse reporting requirements.
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office Google Documents etc. Traffick911 operates on Apple technology.

Must pass the Background Check requirement mandated by the State of Texas for Child Placing Agencies and Abuse/Neglect background check mandated by the Department of Family Protective Services.

To apply please send a cover letter and resume to:

Traffick911 exists with the sole purpose of freeing youth from sex trafficking by building trustbased relationships. This is accomplished by a 24/7 crisis response and the Voice & Choice Program Team walking alongside child sex trafficking victims and with MultiDisciplinary Team partners. Traffick911 was founded in 2009 by a community activist who discovered that child sex trafficking was happening in North Texas. Over its history the organizations abolition efforts include training over 82000 youth and adults facetoface with prevention and awareness messages training over 18000 first responders and directly serving over 1400 survivors.

Mission: To free youth from sex trafficking through trustbased relationships
Vision: Communities free from relational brokenness
Values: Hope humility and humanity