Overview

Position Description: Executive Director

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for Arte Américas’ staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. The ED will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans. The ED will bring a deep understanding of Latinx art, history and culture to provide visionary leadership and continue to build on the organization’s 35-year history as a cultural anchor in the Fresno community and beyond.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Management:

  • Identify and respond to the needs of marginalized communities and capture new opportunities for effecting systemic change.
  • Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
  • Actively engage and energize Arte Américas’ volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders.
  • Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; serve as ex-officio of each committee; seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout.
  • Lead, coach, develop, and retain Arte Américas’s staff and volunteers
  • Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents.
  • Strong financial acumen and financial management skills

Fundraising & Communications:

  • Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion.
  • Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand and visibility.
  • Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities.

Planning & New Business:

  • Design and execute program expansion and facility renovations and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets.
  • Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site.
  • Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication.

Qualifications

The ED will be thoroughly committed to Arte Américas’ mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience.

Specific requirements include:

  • Advanced degree, ideally an MFA or an MBA, with at least 5 years of senior management experience 
  • Track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance-and outcomes-based organization and staff 
  • Ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
  • Unwavering commitment to quality, culturally relevant programs and data-driven program evaluation
  • Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
  • Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
  • Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
  • Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
  • Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

Preferred Qualifications

  • Four or more years of experience in the field of education, museums, or arts organizations.
  • Knowledge of Latinx and culturally diverse art communities.
  • Computer competency including advanced skills in Microsoft suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Google Docs
  • Demonstrated experience with administering grants and operating budgets
  • Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
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