Job Title: Executive Director
Reports To: Board of Directors
Hours: Full-Time (40 hours per week)
About United Ministries:
United Ministries is a faith-based 501c3 focused on preventing homelessness for families in crisis in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. We help families in need of financial assistance for rent, mortgage, or utilities. We do so by offering hope, compassion, grace and empowerment through connecting client families with community resources to help them stabilize and thrive as they come out of crisis. We focus our assistance on working families and those who can sustain into the future. Through our robust application process, we honor the integrity and dignity of all people – most especially our client families.
Description
In concert with the Board of Directors, the Executive Director is responsible for the development of a common vision for United Ministries among volunteers, staff, churches, human service providers, business leaders and the community at large. This is accomplished by identifying, understanding and acting on the issues and opportunities that enable the organization to effectively provide assistance to families who have emergency needs. United Ministries is a small organization that is positioned to experience great growth. The Executive Director will play a vital role in helping this organization reach the next level.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication and community networking skills
- Experience supervising staff and working knowledge of human resources
- Must have the ability to effectively present information to the Board of Directors, public groups, volunteers and staff
- Experience in developing and executing a plan for fundraising
- Ability to interpret financial statements, create annual budgets and manage all fiscal responsibilities for the organization
- Must be able to attend and participate in church and community meetings related to the organization
- Must possess the ability to manage and organize multiple projects, tasks, priorities and deadlines with excellent problem-solving skills
- Must work well with others in a friendly and encouraging teamwork atmosphere with a drive to achieve personal and professional success
- Must have a strong working knowledge of QuickBooks and Microsoft Office
- Ability to pass a Level 2 background check
- A bachelor’s degree in social work, communications, business, or other related field is required
Responsibilities
- Seek out and cultivate partnerships with churches, volunteers, donors, investors, corporate and community leaders and other agencies
- Develop and implement active fundraising strategies including one-on-one solicitations with major donors and private foundations, deferred giving campaigns, corporate, church and in-kind support
- Coordinate and communicate with other agencies to secure services in support of clients and to avoid duplication of services
- Schedule and communicate Board meeting notices in a timely manner and identify agenda items for Board discussion
- Attend and actively participate in Board meetings and complete all necessary reports prior to meeting
- Participate with the Board of Directors in setting organizational direction, goals and operational plans
- Make recommendations for improvements and modifications of policies and procedures for Board consideration
- Work with the Director of Operations to prepare and submit a preliminary annual budget to the Board of Directors
- Identify and pursue eligible grant opportunities
- Oversee the management of the budget, expenditures, and grants, ensuring budget requirements and all financial policies are followed, including grant specific guidelines
- Complete all monthly, quarterly and annual ministry reports in a timely manner
- Assure all financial and client records are secure and in compliance with regulatory and organizational guidelines
- Manage staff through goal setting, skills development and annual evaluations
- Ensure work environment, programs and priorities allow for meaningful and effective volunteer opportunities
- Oversee client service delivery, ensuring all client-related policies and procedures are followed by staff and volunteers
- Work with the Director of Operations to ensure the projected number of clients to be served on a weekly basis is achieved and within budget
- Provide continuing opportunities for staff to develop skills through in-service training
- Act as a spokesperson for the organization on relevant issues
- Participate in community engagement events
- Oversee social media and marketing for the organization
- Create and distribute the ministry newsletter, E-news and annual report to all donors and partners
- Manage ministry website
- Other duties as assigned
Interested applicants may submit resumes and cover letters to Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Lentz, President of the United Ministries Board of Directors: glentz@fumcpensacola.com
Our Mission
United Ministries primarily serves families with dependent children in financial crisis who are at risk of homelessness by providing financial assistance and engaging in community partnerships to promote stability. We do so in such a way as to offer hope, encouragement and spiritual support, operating as an agent of grace in the world.
Our Vision
United Ministries envisions the greater Pensacola area as a thriving, sustainable, and safe community where residents are treated with respect and work together for the common good; where churches unite in purpose to demonstrate the compassion of Christ; and where the United Ministries’ volunteers and staff act on behalf of local families with financial and spiritual needs in order to prevent homelessness.
Who We Help
Here at United Ministries, we help families in crisis who, because of that crisis, are experiencing the inability to cover the cost of basic needs. We reach out to the single working mother, the father struggling to raise children alone, couples who might each be working two minimum wage jobs.
So many of the families we meet at United Ministries are working hard, but they often are one crisis away from poverty. Perhaps they have lost a job or a wage-earner has left the home. Perhaps they are trying to pay high medical bills. Many deal with hardships that most of us can only imagine. At United Ministries, we offer resources — financial, spiritual and emotional — to families in the midst of a crisis.
What We Believe
We believe that offering radical hospitality to all around us and simply being present to others is one step toward a more healthy and whole community.
We believe the call to love our neighbor in tangible, holistic, faithful and steadfast ways is simply manifold in these days. Christ calls us to be with all God’s children, to work for justice and peace, for wholeness and restoration. United Ministries has long been a pillar of stability, hope, support, encouragement and empowerment for those who are most vulnerable in our community.
Serving our community through time spent with each other at United Ministries opens up the possibility of making a difference … one family at a time.
Our History
United Ministries was formed in January 1987 by local ministers and concerned laypersons who wanted to develop a cooperative effort among churches in the area to help families in crisis.