Fresh Youth Initiatives: Executive Director (USA)

“JobExecutive Director, Fresh Youth Initiatives, New York, NY, USA. Deadline: posted 28 June 2023, open until filled.

Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI) is a dynamic community-based organization with a mission to empower children who have the fewest resources to reach their greatest potential. Founded in 1993, FYI operates programs at its headquarters and 4 school sites in Washington Heights/Inwood where 1,300 immigrant and first generation children participate in school day, afterschool, evening, weekend and summer camp programs. FYI supplies the tools, supports, and caring relationships that empower immigrant and first generation youth to flourish in school, navigate developmental, school, and cultural transitions, and prepare for college and career. As a result of FYI’s whole child approach: struggling readers achieve grade level or higher reading skills; youth and parents show increased capacity to manage emerging adolescent independence and self-identities; students are more likely to graduate from high school, and participants demonstrate improved social emotional learning, problem solving, sense of belonging, and ability to ask for help.

The Executive Director (ED) is responsible for driving the overall vision, leadership, and management of an organization with a current operating budget of $4m that will increase to $5.5/annum with the opening of its mental health clinic in late 2023. The ED is responsible for assuring that the organizational structure, technology, programs, human resources, fiscal operations, and fundraising activities are well managed.