Job Description
Reports To: FXB USA Board, FXB Global Board and President.
FXB USA Executive Director Position Summary:
FXB USA is seeking a dynamic, experienced, creative, and out-of-the-box thinker who will be responsible for fundraising,
strategic leadership, operational management, partnership development, program management, team leadership, and advocacy and communication.
This role requires a visionary leader with a proven record of successful fundraising, partnership building, knowledge about
climate change, global development and poverty alleviation, as well as the ability to build a team and manage relationships with diverse stakeholders. Equally important are the abilities to imagine new synergies and implement existing synergies throughout the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Fundraising and Development
- Lead fundraising efforts to secure financial support from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government sources.
- Develop an overall strategy to support increased revenue generation and donor opportunities, including strategies to develop a more sustainable business model.
- Oversee the planning and execution of fundraising events and campaigns.
- Strategic Leadership:
- Work with the Director of Sustainability and Climate Change to develop and implement a strategic plan for FXB USA that aligns with FXB Global’s mission and goals, with an emphasis on climate change.
- Maintain and enhance necessary relationships with those individuals from government, funding agencies, and the climate science community.
- Identify, develop, and sustain relationships with internal and external organizational sources, including the private sector, universities, corporations, and professional associations.
- Further integrate and collaborate with 3 university centers: The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; The FXB Center at Rutgers University; The FXB Flight Vehicle Institute at the University of Michigan.
- Conceptualize, develop and implement new and innovative programs in the region.
- Identify new opportunities for program growth and expansion in the United States.
- Advocate for FXB USA’s mission and programs, as well as FXB Global programs, to various stakeholders, including donors, partners, conferences, and the general public.
- Operational Management:
- Financial management and administration.
- Budget management and reporting.
- Maintain financial controls and budgetary responsibility for all programs.
- Program Management:
- Develop FXB USA programs in the United States and eventually Latin America.
- Work closely with the Director of Sustainability and Climate Change and the
FXB Global team.
- Ensure the effective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of FXB USA
programs and creatively work to integrate programs more closely into FXB
Global.
- Develop and manage program budgets, ensuring financial accountability and
sustainability.
- Collaborate with local and international partners to enhance program impact and
reach.
- Team Leadership:
- Build, lead, mentor, and manage a diverse team of staff and volunteers.
- Liaise with FXB Global offices.
- Foster a positive and inclusive work environment that promotes teamwork,
professional growth, and high performance.
- Ensure staff have the necessary training and resources to effectively carry out
their roles.
- Communications and Advocacy:
- Represent FXB USA and by extension FXB Global in various forums, including business
development opportunities, conferences, media engagements, and public
speaking events.
- Develop and implement communication strategies to raise awareness of FXB’s
origins, history, work and impact.
- Work closely in coordination with the communications team of FXB France in the
creation of marketing materials, reports, and digital content.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in a related field preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of successful experience in nonprofit leadership,
international development, or a related field.
- Proven track record in creative fundraising and development, especially for
children, with the proven ability to secure major gifts and grants.
- Experience in building and leading teams.
- Strong strategic planning, organizational, and management skills.
- Experience in social media.
- Experience in working on public-private partnerships.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build
relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Passion for FXB’s mission and a deep commitment to social justice, poverty
alleviation, and fighting the consequences of climate change and its
damage to the health and human rights of children, families and
communities.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
- Bilingual in French and English.
Salary: Competitive
Application Process: Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and references to Karina
Weinstein, Director of Sustainability and Climate Change, FXB USA, an NGO of
FXB Global, to kweinstein@fxb.org.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
About the Organization
FXB Global Overview:
FXB Global is a non-governmental organization
headquartered in Switzerland with a mission to enhance the social and economic
capacities of vulnerable communities. Established in 1989 by Albina du
Boisrouvray to honor the memory of her son Francois Xavier Bagnoud, who
tragically lost his life while on a helicopter rescue mission in 1986, the
organization’s mission is to perpetuate the values, generosity, and compassion
that guided Francois’ life, focusing on the protection of children. Through its
many and varied programs around the world and through its pioneering approach
of giving money over its three-year programs that develop economic
self-sufficiency rather than providing seed loans, FXB’s focus is on the
“forgotten issues of forgotten people in forgotten places.” It is dedicated to
lifting families and individuals out of poverty through sustainable and
comprehensive interventions that empower people with the resources and skills
required. With the increasing impact of climate change on poor communities, FXB
integrates climate resilience into its poverty reduction programs.
FXB Global is run as one team sharing expertise where
needed among its three offices of FXB Switzerland, FXB France and FXB USA. It
also includes the community life in the Valais in Switzerland and is associated
with three affiliated university centers in the United States established by
Albina du Boisrouvray, Founder and President Emerita of FXB Global: The FXB
Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, The FXB Center at Rutgers and
The FXB Flight Vehicle Institute at the University of Michigan.
About FXB USA:
FXB USA is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization based
in New York. It leads the development and implementation of the FXB Global
climate resilience strategy and manages the innovative FXB Climate Advocates
Program, which leverages FXB’s 35 years of impactful work to empower youth
around the world to implement climate solutions in their own communities and
beyond. FXB USA is also focused on advocacy, communication, fundraising,
and partnership building on behalf of FXB Global, program development in the Americas,
and organizational liaison with the three FXB university centers in the United
States.
