BIC Executive Director

Job description:

Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC), founded in 1990, is a multi-faith, multi-ethnic non-profit organization from the greater Brockton area. BIC’s mission is to work collaboratively with our partners, on issues chosen together to promote racial and economic justice through prophetic, faith-rooted community organizing. BIC advocates at the state level as MCAN and at the national level as Faith in Action. By building power locally through intentional relationships, BIC leaders and staff aspire to create systems and structures for the purpose of establishing a more equitable and just world.

Duties and responsibilities for this position

Board & Board Development

• Staff board committees (fundraising, governance, finance, and infrastructure)
• Financial reporting and budgets for board meetings
• Conducting and/or scheduling trainings for board members
• Expand on the vision and mission of Brockton Interfaith Community in collaboration with the board of directors.

Congregational and Community Leadership Development

• Hold and develop a strategy to recruit and build relationships with institutional members and congregations
• Organizational leadership development spaces
• Support organizing and the preparation for organization-wide priority actions, fundraisers and events

Fundraising & Grant Writing

• Develop a strategy for fundraising including institutional membership dues, foundations, individual donors, and fundraising events
• Develop staff, board and leaders fundraising skills
• Write 1-3 grants per month and support organizers with their grant writing
• Build relationships with prospective and existing institutional members, funders, and donors

Staff and Structural Development

• Ability to train on organizing and develop trainings
• Develop staff to lead trainings
• Lead and actively participate in weekly Staff-Meetings and quarterly Staff Day, strategic planning meetings, facilitating meeting where needed
• Lead and attend weekly staff development meetings
• Lead and actively participate in our state, Massachusetts Community Action Network (MCAN), and national, Faith in Action (FIA), organizations including attending staff meetings, trainings or events when appropriate
• Work in collaboration with MCAN relevant staff for joint development
• Supervise staff
• Develop and oversee organizing and programmatic strategy

Other

• Respond daily to emails, phone calls or text messages
• Hold and document a power analysis of the political, economic and religious leaders and structures of the region
• Attend city, community and coalition meetings when relevant to the work, both local and statewide
• Represent BIC in the community; being a voice of BIC to the press

Qualifications

• High level of consciousness and/or a willingness to learn and engage in conversations around race, class, gender, and faith/spirituality
• 7+ years of relevant experience in non-profit, faith, labor, movement building and/or organizing spaces or organizations
• Self-motivation, detail-oriented, able to take initiative and ownership of projects
• Relational working style
• Frequent evening and occasional weekend work required, especially during peak organizing periods
• Must have reliable transportation to travel
• Grant writing and fundraising experience and skills
• The experience to handle a Computer skills (Microsoft Office, Google Drive, etc.)
• Other qualifications that would be helpful, but not required include language skills (Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, Spanish, and/or Haitian Creole)
• Must be able to thrive within a work environment that changes regularly according to community needs

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance

English required but other qualifications that would be helpful, but not required include language skills (Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole, Spanish, and/or Haitian Creole)