Senior Vice President, Organizational Assessment

Description

• This position can be located at our Washington, DC or Kansas City, MO office with a hybrid schedule (in office two days per week) *****
  
  

About NeighborWorks America

At NeighborWorks America, our staff are humble, passionate and creative. We lead with empathy, encourage curiosity and embrace ambiguity. For more than 45 years, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., a national, nonpartisan nonprofit known as NeighborWorks America, has strived to make every community a place of opportunity. Our network of excellence includes nearly 250 members in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. NeighborWorks offers grant funding, peer exchange, technical assistance, evaluation tools and access to training as the nation's leading trainer of housing and community development professionals. NeighborWorks network organizations provide residents in their communities with affordable homes, owned and rented; financial counseling and coaching; community building through resident engagement; and collaboration in the areas of health, employment and education.

Part Of Caring For Our Communities Starts By Caring For Our Internal Community – Our Staff. Picture Yourself In a Collaborative And Diverse Hybrid Environment Surrounded By Teams And People Who Challenge You, Encourage You And Inspire You To Support Mission-oriented Work. This Opportunity Offers An Impressive Total Rewards Package That Includes

• A 401(k) match of up to 12%,
• 11 paid and observed holidays,
• A substantial leave package (including 40 hours of paid volunteer leave),
• Industry leading benefits, and
• Access to our Staff Training and Education (STEP) Program, which provides training and educational resources to all NeighborWorks America staff.
  
  

Our benefits are designed to convey company culture and core values: Accountability, collaboration, inclusion, stewardship and integrity. They’re also intended to support our staff in a way that encourages them to give their best in a balance of work and personal life.

Work at a Glance: Strategic & Collaborative Organizational Health & Assessment Expert

• The Senior Vice President works directly with the Chief Operating Officer to implement assessment strategies, vision and annual goals for NeighborWorks America that build the health of the network and that provide effective stewardship of federal resources.
• Provides strategic leadership and oversight of the Organizational Assessment Division, a team of over 30 professionals that conduct organizational health assessments and financial analyses, monitor the NeighborWorks network and other grantees for compliance, facilitate the monitoring of the health of the network by senior leaders of the corporation, and ensures user-friendly systems are in place to facilitate information sharing and workflows for assessments.
• Develops the vision and strategy for assessments in partnership with staff and stakeholders and serves as an external and internal expert on matters of nonprofit health.
• Builds trust and fosters a culture of continuous improvement by implementing lean principles to maximize customer value and minimize/eliminate waste
  
  

Supervisor: Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Direct Reports: 4

Fiscal Responsibilities: Reviews and approves timesheets and expense reports for direct reports approves contracts for consultant resources for assessments and develops and manages to an annual division budget.

Position Requirements

Required Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 15 years of experience in community development or assessment/consulting of which a minimum of five years has been spent supervising staff and leading teams. An in-depth understanding of nonprofit management preferred.

Technology: Microsoft Office, Zoom, Teams, SharePoint, Tableau

Working Conditions

• Travel: Up to 20% depending on location.
• Physical/Sensory Demands: Fast-paced working environment with extensive computer usage
• Hybrid: This role reports into the office 2 days per week.
• NeighborWorks America staff are expected to demonstrate excellence in the following:
• Sensitivity to racial, gender, sexual orientation and cultural differences.
• Respectful, timely and effective communications with internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective listening as well as seeking and accepting feedback.
• Successful teamwork.
• Analytic, thoughtful and strategic thinking.
• Consideration of NeighborWorks’ mission, objectives and goals to demonstrate the understanding that one’s impact, decisions and behavior has among colleagues and on the organization.
  
  

Organizational Assessment Division

The mission of the Organizational Assessment Division is to use the tools of organizational health assessments to build and advance a strong, resilient network. Through organization assessments, audit analyses, compliance monitoring, and administration of a corporate organizational health tracking system, OAD advances NeighborWorks America’s strategic plan for strengthening the capacity and sustainability of the NeighborWorks America network.

EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.