[ES_JOBS_NET] CEO, Summer Science Program (remote)

[Christa Hasenkopf]

Just the messenger, but it looks like quite a unique position in the STEM
education non-profit world:

https://technicallygoodjobs.com/job/598860-chief-executive-officer-summer-science-program

Chief Executive Officer, Summer Science Program

The next Chief Executive Officer of the Summer Science Program will have an
exciting and rewarding opportunity to help build SSP’s next phase of
unprecedented growth and impact. The Chief Executive Officer, an energetic,
entrepreneurial systems-builder, provides overall vision, leadership, and
strategic direction for SSP’s national programs and funding initiatives.
Reporting to and actively engaging with SSP’s Board of Trustees, the Chief
Executive Officer, a highly visible leader in the national science
education community, will have considerable latitude and discretion in
advancing and advocating for the growth and expansion of SSP. A fully
remote position, the Chief Executive Officer will advise and inform the
Board of Trustees on strategic issues affecting SSP and will work closely
with the Board to ensure SSP’s vitality, sustainability, and continued
success. With the potential of growing SSP’s infrastructure, SSP provides a
unique career opportunity to shape and leave one’s individual imprint on
this incredible international educational resource for many years to come.

The Chief Executive Officer will have experience in leading and building
strong and effective teams for all areas of SSP’s operations, program,
finance, fundraising, marketing, and member relations components. At this
phase, there is currently a national team of eight remote and part-time
staff who support the Chief Executive Officer. SSP’s senior management team
is comprised of a Chief Academic Officer, Operations Director, and a Member
Relations and Development Manager. There will be an expectation to hire
additional full- or part-time staff over the next four years, including
expanding the organization’s resources and benefits for staff. Estimated
financials for operations anticipate an ever-increasing operating budget of
approximately $2 million and greater.

The new Chief Executive Officer will start from a highly advantageous
position, inheriting a financially diverse and stable budget including an
endowment and financial assets of over $6 million. The Board of Trustees
expects the new Chief Executive Officer to assist them in developing and
implementing a strategy for SSP’s continued growth with a focus on
continuously improving and expanding its education, fundraising, and
partnership programs. This strategy will include ever-increasing levels of
engagement and collaboration with leading funders, donors, and partners to
communicate the value of supporting SSP. The Chief Executive Officer will
maintain and establish positive, productive, and long-term relationships
with new and existing individual donors, foundations, corporations, and
universities. In order to be successful, the next Chief Executive Officer
must be a skilled listener, communicator, and relationship builder who can
articulate clear and compelling cases for support that ensure the growth
and vitality of one of the nation’s premier providers of summer science
programs for exceptionally motivated teens with untapped potential.
Major Objectives

Within the first 12 to 18 months, the Chief Executive Officer will achieve
the following major objectives:

• Plan and lead a successful strategy and change management process to
build and expand fundraising, programs, and staffing.

• Develop a professionalized operational infrastructure that ensures a
well-integrated national team and on-site program faculty.

• Continue to grow and enhance SSP’s fundraising and resource base to
ensure a financially sustainable foundation.

• Cultivate, solicit, and secure key new funding partnerships with new and
existing major donors and sponsors.

• Build positive, meaningful relationships with SSP’s Board of Trustees,
academic affiliates, alumni, parents, volunteers, donors, sponsors, and
other key stakeholders.

• Provide a bold vision and the necessary leadership for continuous
high-quality annual programs and for reviewing and securing effective
college campus partnerships to ensure the most optimal sites for SSP’s
summer programs.

• Meet one-on-one with campus managers and faculty to listen to and
understand how best SSP can meet their unique resource needs and improve
the recruitment of new staff.
Responsibilities

The Chief Executive Officer will have the following primary
responsibilities:

*LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT*

• Lead, recruit, hire, inspire, and grow SSP’s dynamic, talented team of
professionals, ensuring a support staff that is diverse in its
representation and reflects the SSP community.

• Actively work to maintain an equitable and inclusive workplace and
promote a culture of mutual respect, collegiality, and collaboration.

• Ensure ongoing program excellence, rigorous program evaluation,
implementation of program enhancement, and consistent quality of finance
and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems.

• Regularly evaluate program components to measure successes and
communicate them to the board, donors, sponsors, and other constituents.

• Engage and energize SSP faculty, volunteers, trustees, alumni, academic
partners, and donors.

• Cultivate and collaborate with organizations and individuals that will
enhance and benefit SSP.

• Work in partnership with the Board of Trustees, building stronger
governance and effective board involvement with strategic direction for
ongoing operations and new programs.

*FUNDRAISING AND COMMUNICATIONS*

• Continue to develop a comprehensive fundraising program to reach SSP
members and non-members, high-net worth individual donors, private sector
organizations, foundations, and government agencies in order to broaden
SSP’s financial base.

• Deepen and refine all aspects of external communications with the goal of
strengthening SSP’s brand and raising SSP’s visibility nationally in STEM
education.

• Oversee efforts to support future capital and endowment campaigns and
strategic funding projects.

• Be an ambassador for SSP to philanthropic, academic, and other
communities.

*STRATEGIC PLANNING AND EXPANSION*

• Lead an effective expansion strategy and strategic planning process for
program and campus expansion in cooperation with the board.

• Work with the board to ensure that SSP has the resources and processes to
be sustainable for decades to come.

• Advise and recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve SSP’s
strategic goals.

• Build effective partnerships at each new host campus while maintaining
existing campus partnerships that remain positive, beneficial, and
productive.
Qualifications

The ideal candidate will bring most of the following qualifications and
skill sets:

• A deep, passionate commitment to SSP’s mission, vision, values, programs,
and initiatives.

• A minimum of five to seven years of senior-level leadership experience in
building successful programs and teams related to either an educational,
member-based, or non-profit organization comparable to SSP, including
experience with strategic planning, performance management, board
relations, fundraising, public relations, and communications.

• Demonstrated ability to bring strategic thinking and leadership in
understanding revenue potential and program dynamics to support a cause or
mission.

• Visionary, innovative, and strategic leadership with an ability to
develop, inspire, mentor, and lead highly committed teams.

• A track record in successful fundraising, particularly success in
individual, foundation, and corporate giving, either as a nonprofit
executive or as a volunteer leader.

• Successful experience in empowering, building, and maintaining productive
relationships with a nonprofit Board of Trustees.

• Strong project management skills with experience in planning and
organizing meetings.

• Excellent budgetary and financial forecasting and analytical and
management skills, including an ability to manage and interpret MOUs,
contracts, and other legal documents.

• Strong interpersonal, listening, and motivational skills with an ability
to generate enthusiasm among all major constituents and stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills with an ability to inspire, including
strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• A capacity to acquire an understanding of SSP’s unique work in immersive
science education with ability to translate this work into attractive
reasons to give funding support.

• Technologically savvy, and ideally familiar with social media and
communication technology.

• Ability to work remotely with a flexible schedule and travel as needed,
including evenings and weekends.

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; an advanced
degree would be an advantage, including a STEM educational background.
Application

The Summer Science Program has retained Campbell & Company to conduct this
search. The team for this project includes Dan Nevez, Vice President, and
Kole Farrise, Associate Consultant. The salary range for this position is
$230,000–$250,000 and includes a generous benefits package. This is a 100%
remote opportunity.
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