Executive Director

Sharing Notes – Executive Director Position Description (Part-Time)

Organizational Overview:

Sharing Notes provides unique access to live-music performances for patients during long hospital stays by bringing beautiful music right to the doorways of their hospital rooms. Moving beyond the boundaries of a traditional recital format, performances are focused on serving our audience through thoughtful music selection and personalized interactions. Keeping with a mission of community engagement, we train our musician volunteers to make their performances fun, interactive, and always focused on serving our audience. Our musicians talk to patients, take musical requests, and react sensitively to the different situations of patients and their families, providing distraction therapy that breaks the monotony and frustrations of illness and hospital life.

Since its founding in 2012, over 280 volunteer musicians have given more than 500 live music performances for Chicago hospital patients. More than 28,000 lives have been touched. For more information, please visit http://www.sharing-notes.org

Position Overview:

The Executive Director is the key management leader of Sharing Notes. The Executive Director is responsible for overseeing the administration, programs and strategic plan of the organization. Other key duties include fundraising, marketing, and community outreach. The position reports directly to the Board of Directors.

Specific Job Responsibilities Include, but are not limited to:

• Planning and operation of the annual budget in conjunction with Board Treasurer

• Establishing employment and administrative policies and procedures for all functions and for the day-to-day operation of the nonprofit corporation.

• Serving as Sharing Notes’ primary spokesperson to the organization’s constituents, the media and the general public.

• Establishing and maintaining relationships with various organizations throughout the state and utilizing those relationships to strategically enhance Sharing Notes’ Mission.

• Reporting to and working closely with the Board of Directors to seek their involvement in policy decisions, fundraising and to increase the overall visibility of the organization throughout the State.

• Supervising and collaborating with organization staff.

• Formulating strategic planning and its implementation.

• Overseeing organization Board and committee meetings.

• Overseeing marketing and other communications.

• Reviewing and approving contracts for services.

• Completing other duties as assigned by the Board of Directors

Professional Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Transparent and high integrity leadership

• Previous nonprofit management experience is highly desirable

• Solid, hands-on, budget management skills, including budget preparation, analysis, decision-making and reporting

• Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, program development and task facilitation

• Ability to convey a vision of Sharing Notes’ strategic future to staff, board, volunteers and donors

• Knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relations unique to nonprofit sector

• Skills to collaborate with and motivate board members and other volunteers

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Ability to interface and engage diverse volunteer and donor groups

• Demonstrated ability to oversee and collaborate with staff

• Strong public speaking ability

Compensation:

The position is part-time and permanent, with an anticipated schedule requiring 20 hours per week, on average. The position provides an annual salary of approximately $30,000 (commensurate with experience and other qualification’s) and a flexible work schedule with the opportunity to work from a home office.

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: $30,000.00 /year

Hours per week:

• 20-29