Job Description: Co-Executive Director, Operations and Development,
Niibi Center
The Niibi Center is a repository of Anishinaabe culture and knowledge to protect and advance our prophecy, sovereignty, and cultural survival. The Niibi Center is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, based at the White Earth Reservation and serving all Anishinaabe people.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Co-Executive Director (ED) of Operations and Development will share overall strategic and operational responsibility for the Niibi Center’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission with the Co-Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships. She or he will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.
This position requires a 60/40 mix of in person work on White Earth at the Calaway office and/or surrounding area and virtual engagement. Regional travel will be required. The salary for this position is $70,000 per year and does not currently include benefits.
Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve strategic goals
- Actively engage and energize Niibi Center volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders
- Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; serve as ex-officio of each committee alongside the Co-Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for ongoing operations locally, across Indian Country, and beyond
- Primary staff responsible for leading, coaching, developing, supervising, evaluating performance of, and retaining Niibi Center staff
- Develop and manage budgets, working with relevant Board officers, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure responsible stewardship of resources
Programming
- Co-create and guide implementation of Niibi Center programs, in compliance with strategic plan and funder expectations
- Ensure effective systems to track progress and regularly evaluate program components, to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents
Fundraising & Communications
- Ensure sustainable, effective revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and organizational stability
- Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating visibility for the Niibi Center within and beyond Anishinaabe communities
Planning & New Business
- Collaborate with the Co-Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships to guide the implementation of the Niibi Center’s ‘strategic plan
- Ensure ongoing planning and development to ensure sustainability and successful impacts outlined in the Niibi Center’s strategic plan
- Oversee and execute development of capital campaign and planning to develop and construct a permanent site for the Niibi Center
- Learn alongside the Co-Executive Director of Strategy and Partnerships to build and deepen partnerships with relevant and strategic partners to advance the mission and strategic plan of the Niibi Center, establishing relationships with funders, partner organizations, and leaders throughout Indian Country and the Woodlands region
- Be a visible presence in Indian Country and relevant other contexts to elevate the public profile and credibility of the Niibi Center, promote its programs and impacts, and meet the needs and interests of Woodlands tribes
Qualifications
The Co-Executive Director of Operations and Development will be thoroughly committed to the Niibi Center’s mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience.
Specific requirements include:
- Senior management experience; track record of effectively providing leadership for long-term leadership and infrastructure development in a tribal context
- Deep networks and relationships within Anishinaabe communities
- Demonstrated experience with budget development and management, including working with grants and contracts and coordinating with contracted accountants
- Demonstrated experience in raising and leveraging funding from multiple sources to ensure organizational sustainability and impact
- Experience in developing, implementing, supervising, and evaluating and reporting on programs to ensure their impact and relevance to organizational mission
- Ability to manage organizations, including coaching and management of staff; setting and achieving strategic objectives; managing budget and organizational operations
- Past success working with and supporting a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
- Ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders, partners, and organizations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive communicator and organizer with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
- Ability to work effectively in virtual spaces, on Zoom or Teams, and flexibility to be both in person or virtual as required.
- Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to planning
- Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
- Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
To apply, please send your CV to amy.myszko@niibicenter.org
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