Executive Director for Guatemalan NGO

The GOD'S CHILD Project - Minneapolis, MN - As National Director, you will work to coordinate and administrate the unique and diverse team at Asociación Nuestros Ahijados (ANA). Part project manager, part administrative assistant, you will assist in prioritizing and coordinating efforts across the team and the organization. While some ongoing systems will provide predictable administrative support to you, there should be an expectation of adding value by managing projects, research, and execution of tasks, networking, and fund-raising opportunities in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. Your job will be to provide the necessary leadership, and program, business, and fundraising support for the ANA team in Guatemala, you will also positive represent ANA’s in-network charity, The GOD’S CHILD Project (GCP) as well as Patrick Atkinson, the founder and executive director of both charities in public, government, and internal matters. Qualifications: Minimum education requirements of a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience). Flexibility, Creativity, Enthusiasm, Ingenuity Fluency in Spanish Transparent and high-integrity leadership. High level strategic thinking and planning. Ability to effectively communicate the organization’s mission to donors, volunteers and the overall community. Demonstrated ability to oversee and collaborate with staff. Solid organizational abilities, including planning, delegating, program development and task facilitation. Strong financial management skills, integrity, decision making and reporting. Strong written and oral communication skills. Strong public speaking ability. Strong work ethic with a high degree of energy. Effective and efficient management and decision making in times of emergency and crisis. Responsibilities: Lead ANA in a manner that supports and guides the organization’s mission and efforts as defined by the shared ANA and GCP mission statement. Responsible for communicating effectively with the US support team and provide, in a timely and accurate manner, all required information necessary for program, business, strategic, and fundraising efforts. Report to and work closely with GCP’s leadership team and seek their involvement in policy decisions, fundraising opportunities, and to increase overall visibility of the organization. Responsible for fiscal management that generally anticipates operating within the approved budget, ensures optimal resource utilization, and maintenance of the organization in a positive financial position. Work with ANA’s in-country and international volunteer staff, US staff, local government entities and officials, and networked organizations to ensure ANA’s mission is fulfilled through program services, fundraising development, strategic planning and implementation, and community outreach. Establish and maintain relationships with outside organizations and cultivate those relationships to strategically enhance ANA and GCP’s mission, programs, and goals. Responsible for the hiring and retention of competent, qualified in-country staff, supported by international volunteers. Establish and enforce employment and administrative policies and procedures for all functions and for the day-to-day operations of the organization. Founded in 1991 in Bismarck, North Dakota by Patrick Atkinson, The GOD'S CHILD Project is a nonpolitical, international humanitarian organization that develops and administers health, education, family foster care, community development, and human rights protection systems in the world's poorest nations. Today, The GOD’S CHILD Project cares for and educates 5,000 orphaned, abandoned, and poverty-stricken boys and girls in addition to providing health and community-based services for 8,700 widowed, abandoned, and single mothers and their dependents in Guatemala, India, and the United States. The GOD’S CHILD Project is dedicated to sustainable and permanent changes. Through clinics, schools, social work, micro-finance, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation, and human trafficking advocacy, The GODS CHILD Project is able to get to the underlying causes of poverty instead of merely treating the symptoms. Children who were once homeless and abandoned are now professional adults with families of their own because of the chance that GOD’S CHILD gave them. We are not a hand-out program. Children earn much of what they receive through their participation in the program and in their schools, and have the opportunity to earn an additional scholarship which supplements, or even surpasses, their family’s income. Rewarding the children for academic excellence gives the other family members (i.e. the mother or parents) a vested interest in the academic progress of their child. Our Mission WE, The GOD’S CHILD Community, are benefactors, friends, volunteers, and children joined together to assist God’s poorest children in their educational, social, physical, and spiritual growth. We view education as a practical way to help poor children escape from an otherwise painful life. WE, The Adults, accept our youth as gifts from God given to be our teachers, students, and children. We believe in the need to stand by their side until they are prepared to meet life and triumph in the eyes of God, their community, and themselves. WE, The Children, are the pride and reason why The GOD’S CHILD Project exists. We have the responsibility to behave honorably and to respect legitimate national, spiritual, and environmental law. We recognize the opportunities and help we have received from others, and will try each day to help someone with a need greater than our own.... - Contract - Full-time

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