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Bay Area Executive Director

Employer
The One Love Foundation
Location
California, United States
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Apr 13, 2021

ABOUT ONE LOVE

One in three women and nearly one in three men experience relationship abuse in their lifetime.[1]  Young women ages 16-24 are at three times greater risk.[2]  More than 1 in 2 transgender people will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.[3] Three women a day are killed by their current or former partner in the US alone.  The statistics around relationship abuse make it a public health epidemic that all of us have a stake in changing.

One Love exists for one reason:  Yeardley Love was killed, and her death was preventable if anyone in her life understood the warning signs of an unhealthy and increasingly dangerous relationship. This realization is the driving force behind our work to educate young people about relationship abuse and rally them in a campaign that can change the statistics.

What started in 2010 out of a family’s wish to honor their daughter, expanded in 2015 into a national educational campaign to improve young people’s understanding of healthy versus unhealthy relationships.  Using emotionally compelling content, and a peer workshop model, we are reaching hundreds of thousands of young people, teaching them how to recognize signs of abuse, and providing them with the language and tools required to navigate these relationships.

 

Communities are engaging in this conversation across the country and increasingly around the world.  Today, One Love is the national leader in educating young people about relationship health, educating more than a million young people through an in-person One Love workshop and training over 30,000 facilitators to lead these workshops in their communities.  One Love’s #ThatsNotLove, #LoveBetter, and #LoveisLearned digital campaigns have had over 100 million views online.  


As we continue to scale this campaign, engaging even more young people as leaders of this work, we are focused on ensuring the campaign reflects the perspectives and interests of all who are impacted by this issue.  Working closely with individuals at schools and colleges, youth-facing organizations, and domestic violence advocates across the country, we will reach more people and engage more voices in a truly human campaign for change. As Sharon Love, Yeardley’s mom, said early on, “We model off Mothers Against Drunk Driving in our approach, and our goal is to change the statistics and social norms around abuse in one generation.” 

ABOUT THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR POSITION
One Love’s campaign is equal parts national and local in its scope.  Nationally, One Love has created a mission, messaging and educational tools that standardize the language we use to teach young people about healthy and unhealthy relationships.  Locally, One Love works on the ground with young people, schools, youth-facing community groups and social service partners to ensure that our programs are used in a way that is right for each community.  Starting in 2017, One Love established on-the-ground teams in four cities to increase the velocity of our efforts in engagement and activation. Today we have staff on the ground in six areas and Executive Directors in five of those areas.  By serving communities full-time, we know we can amplify a conversation about relationships that is changing and saving lives.  

In each regional office, Executive Directors are the lead architects of and recruiters for the local campaign, charged with expanding, diversifying, and deepening the participation of all types of participants.  EDs are true believers in our common-sense approach to prevention and they are highly comfortable recruiting others to the cause.  Given the start-up nature of our organization, Executive Directors play a critical role in securing support to fuel growth, resourcefully identifying new ways to raise funds to support both local and national work as well as expand One Love’s educational footprint and base of volunteer participation.  With partnering at the core of our work, EDs also oversee our program outreach efforts, experimenting with new strategies to engage individuals and partner organizations in deeper and mutually beneficial ways. Their on-the-ground efforts can then be used as models for community engagement in other cities as well.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & OUTCOMES

  • Develop and execute a strategic plan for One Love’s growth in line with the overall organizational strategic plan
  • Expand One Love’s programmatic reach through middle school, high school, and college/community engagement as well as through partnerships with youth-facing organizations who want the young people they love to benefit from this conversation
  • Expand and retain the financial base of support for this work through development strategies including annual giving and major gifts solicitation, special events, community fundraising, foundation grants, corporate grants, and possibly government support
  • Develop a dedicated and enthusiastic corps of community leaders, both young people and adults, who help drive participation and engagement in their communities as a key element of shifting community norms
  • Establish a Regional Board to serve as a leadership group and crucial partners for the Regional ED. Regional Boards advise on best strategies for impact in the city they love, and inspiring their support is critical and expected to achieve growth
  • Support and develop a small but A+ team on the ground
  • Be an influential and collaborative leader locally, advocating for this work and recruiting collaborators and partners who share our vision and believe in the power of communities, and young people, to achieve ambitious goals
  • Closely collaborate with the broader One Love team as well as other Regional EDs to continue to establish best practices for regional operations. Serve as active and contributing member of the Leadership Team

QUALIFICATIONS & ATTRIBUTES

Professional Qualifications and Experience

  • 15 years professional experience in fundraising, business development, community engagement and/or organizing, and partnership development and/or related fields
    • Fundraising and partnerships experience is essential
    • Start-up experience is valuable
    • Some experience in the education space is preferred
  • Successful track record of building or scaling an organization’s efforts and impact at a quick pace, including procurement of new funds and retention of existing funds to enable growth
  • Experience in balancing creativity, strategic planning and execution (imagining, planning and doing) simultaneously
  • Exceptional relationship manager and positive presence whose enthusiasm and energy help recruit a diverse collection of individuals and organizations to this cause
  • Experience leading a business line as well as working with colleagues across an organization to get things done

Personal Qualities and Attributes

  • Deep passion for One Love’s mission and movement
  • “Big thinker” with a strong interest in overseeing the growth of the campaign locally through programmatic expansion, growth of the fundraising base, and empowerment of local leaders
  • Demonstrated commitment to belonging, diversity, equity, and inclusion; someone who views others with an asset-based lens, values all individuals and respects differences regarding race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and socio-economic circumstance
  • Energized by fluidity, and highly adaptable to rapidly evolving and changing environments
  • Entrepreneurial mindset that embraces experimentation and can quickly pivot where required. Prior experience working in a fast growth organization preferred
  • “Light the world on fire”, action-oriented approach to work
  • A polished communicator and excellent writer, able to effectively articulate the case for One Love support
  • High energy, enthusiasm, and a strong work ethic
  • Low ego, patient and collaborative team leader who is eager to work collaboratively with junior and senior colleagues to reach shared goals; actively works against ‘silo’ mentality
  • Ability to be a strategic leader and visionary as well as to chart out a tactical plan of action. High comfort with multi-tasking is a must.  Creativity is essential
  • Extremely self-motivated with the ability to work both independently as well as part of a team
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities at once and to galvanize a team to do so as well
  • Superior organizational, time-management and follow-up skills
  • Goals and metrics oriented

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
The compensation and benefits package is competitive with comparable nonprofits in the region.  The position is based in San Francisco, with travel around the Bay Area required.

TO APPLY: Apply online at https://www.joinonelove.org/careers/

One Love is committed to building a truly diverse and inclusive organization, and to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals.  One Love does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.  People from all diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

[1] The CDC reported in its 2010-2012 Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) that:  Over 1 in 3 women (37.3% or 44,981,000 victims) and nearly 1 in 3 men (30.9% or 35,236,000 victims) experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime. Smith, S.G., Chen, J., Basile, K.C., Gilbert, L.K., Merrick, M.T., Patel, N., Walling, M., & Jain, A. (2017). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010-2012 State Report. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Released in April 2017

[2] Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice and Statistics, Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, 1993-2004. Dec. 2006.

[3] 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) reported that more than half of respondents (54%) experienced some form of intimate partner violence, including acts involving coercive control and physical harm in their lifetime. James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality.

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