Executive Director Tyler Clementi Foundation
Job description: Based in New York and reporting to the Board of Directors, the Foundation’s first full-time, permanent Executive Director will be responsible for working with the Board of Directors to take the Foundation to its next growth stage, identifying new strategic partnerships, directing advocacy efforts, managing all communications and creating new funding streams to sustain and build upon its current programs.
TCFis seeking an entrepreneurial executive with a proven development background to manage daily operations and increase the Foundation’s impact. The successful candidate will be driven by the Foundation’s unique three-part focus on anti-bullying, LGBTQ equality and suicide prevention. The new Executive Director will be a skilled manager capable of directing staff, fellows and volunteers, and comfortable working with passionate and engaged family members. The Director will be an experienced fundraiser with the ability to identify and cultivate new sources of support.
The Tyler Clementi Foundation (TCF) is a high-profile and strategically-positioned start-up Foundation guided by the life and story of Tyler Clementi. Tyler was a smart, talented and creative young man. He had a kind heart and bright spirit, and was deeply loved by his family and friends. He grew up with a passion for music and was an accomplished violinist.
Tyler was gay, and had just begun sharing this part of himself with the people he was close to during the summer after his high school graduation. This was a difficult time for him, but he was brave and honest about who he was. After graduating high school, Tyler attended Rutgers University where he was excited to learn, grow and have the freedom to live openly as a gay man.
At college Tyler became a victim of cyber-bullying. His privacy was invaded when his college roommate set up a webcam to spy on him. The roommate viewed him in an intimate act, and invited others to view this online. Viewing his roommate’s Twitter feed, Tyler learned he had widely become a topic of ridicule in his new social environment. He ended his life several days later by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. Tyler was eighteen years old.
The mission of TCF is to promote safe, inclusive and respectful social environments in homes, schools, campuses, faith communities and the digital world for vulnerable youth, LGBT youth and their allies. Through educational partnerships, research, public dialogues and awareness programs, TCF fosters empathetic, constructive discussions of respect and dignity for youth and families, at all levels of society.
The foundation is governed by a 12-person Board of Directors that includes members of the Clementi Family, as well as business and civic leaders. The organization is supported by major donors, corporations and philanthropic organizations nationally. It is unique with its three-part focus on anti-bullying, LGBTQ equality and suicide prevention and unusual in its outreach to college students and adults at universities and in the workplace.
In support of its vision of a world that embraces all members of society with human dignity and unconditional love regardless of sexual orientation or differences, real or perceived, TCF has collaborated with Rutgers University to create the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers.
The Center, which is dedicated to serving vulnerable youth endeavors to create and share knowledge about young people making the transition to college and coming of age in the digital era.
The Position
Based in New York and reporting to the Board of Directors, the Foundation’s first full-time, permanent Executive Director will be responsible for working with the Board of Directors to
take the Foundation to its next growth stage, identifying new strategic partnerships, directing advocacy efforts, managing all communications and creating new funding streams to sustain and build upon its current programs.
Core responsibilities include:
- Design and Implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy to increase corporate, foundation, individual and event revenue.
- Enhance existing and develop new strategic collaborations with local and national partners.
- Oversee annual fundraiser, create new fundraising and outreach events.
- Direct advocacy, education and partner engagement around relevant legislative matters including the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.
- Provide support, resources and tools to the Board to meet individual fundraising goals and implement Board best practices.
- Manage all communications including issuing press releases and responding to media inquiries.
Professional Requirements
TCF is seeking entrepreneurial executive with a proven development background to manage daily operations and increase the Foundation’s impact. The successful candidate will be driven by the Foundation’s unique three-part focus on anti-bullying, LGBTQ equality and suicide prevention. The new Executive Director will be a skilled manager capable of directing staff, fellows and volunteers, and comfortable working with passionate and engaged family members. The Director will be an experienced fundraiser with the ability to identify and cultivate new sources of support. The successful candidate should have the following:
- At least five years of progressively responsible fundraising experience.
- Proven leadership skills with at least three years management experience.
- Excellent communications and relationship building skills.
- Non-for-profit administration and operations experience.
- Knowledge of LGBT issues, grassroots advocacy, anti-bullying initiatives or mental health systems.
- Willingness to travel.
Personal Characteristics
The ideal candidate will have:
- Exceptional project management skills.
- A track record of effective individual, corporate and foundation fundraising.
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
- Excellent diplomatic and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrable staff and relationship management skills.
Compensation
The Tyler Clementi Foundation is offering a competitive compensation package inclusive of salary (commensurate with experience) and a 50% contribution toward health care coverage premiums. For the first year of employment, the foundation offers 15 days of vacation time, 10 days of sick leave and 10 holidays, including eight federal holidays, the Friday after Thanksgiving and the day before Christmas. The client is willing to consider reimbursement of a portion of relocation expenses for an exceptional candidate.
Opportunity
This is an exceptional opportunity to grow a strategically-positioned start-up Foundation and take it to the next level. Through the Foundation’s outreach to college students and adults at universities and in the workplace and as a member of the Tyler Clementi Center Advisory Council at Rutgers University, the work of the Executive Director will impact young people making the transition to college and coming of age in the digital era. Increases in compensation and benefits are directly tied to the success of the Executive Director in helping to grow the organization and to diversify its funding sources.
Contact
Please submit a brief cover letter and résumé as attachments via e-mail to:
Joe McCormack, Managing Partner
Michelle Kristel, Search Consultant
WBB+McCormack
Fax 323.549.9222
Email search@wbbmccormack.com
Online www.wbbmccormack.com
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