ABOUT HEALTHY CHILD HEALTHY WORLD: Healthy Child Healthy World's mission is to educate and inform parents to take action and protect children from harmful chemicals. Healthy Child Healthy World (HCHW) is a California non-profit organization that works to create programs and initiative that: • Demand corporate accountability • Engage communities for collective action • Support safer chemicals and products • Influence legislative and regulatory reform By working with manufacturers and supporting policy initiatives, Healthy Child has helped to transform the marketplace to encourage safer environments for children. For the past 20 years, Healthy Child has provided access to critical information that encourages smarter lifestyle choices to reduce toxic chemical exposure in homes and communities to become a trusted resource for parents and caregivers. Healthy Child's vision is a world where every child has the opportunity to grow-up in a healthy and safe environment. RESPONSIBILITIES: The Executive Director reports directly to the Chair of the Board of Directors and works closely with the Board of Directors in all aspects of the organization's management, fundraising, marketing, finance, program, and organizational development. The Executive Director oversees, manages and directs HCHW's three person Los Angeles-based staff and editorial director based in New York. Core areas of focus include the following: Fundraising In collaboration with the Board of Directors, lead hands-on development, grant writing, and fundraising efforts for HCHW. Create and lead partnerships with high-level corporate, nonprofit, and governmental health organizations to promote the mission of HCHW and drive fundraising initiatives. Plan strategies for program service revenue partnerships with corporate sponsors. Initiate, cultivate, and extend relationships with new individual, foundation and corporate supporters. Ensure organization's financial stability and sustainability by maintaining healthy cash flow and adequate reserves. Grow fundraising as needed to facilitate the hiring of new staff and expansion. Research new funding sources, oversee the development of fundraising plans and the writing of fundraising proposals to increase foundation support for HCHW. Create and oversee a strategic grant-writing program to be carried out by the Development Director. In collaboration with the Development Director, create a fundraising plan to attract new individual donors and encourage existing donors to increase their support. Participate in fundraising activities as appropriate. Strategic Planning Refine the focus of HCHW's mission to articulate value to target audiences and shape strategies for the next level of growth and impact. Develop and drive the strategy of HCHW within the broad context of the local and national landscape, taking a leadership role in driving a collaborative process with the Board of Directors and staff that would result in the development of strategic plans and 12-month operational plan and budget. Develop, quantify and measure key communication metrics and participate in the analysis of actual result comparatives to plan, identifying business trends to track progress against short and long term objectives. Communications/Public Relations Increase HCHW's visibility in the community at large by promoting awareness of programs and services and serving as a spokesperson among media outlets and community based organizations. Solidify HCHW's role as an authority in the sphere of children's environmental health and leverage that authority to create opportunities for stronger partnerships and speaking engagements. Expand reach by engaging new partners, stakeholders, community organizations, science advisors and celebrity spokespersons. Ensures the dissemination about HCHW to stakeholders, the general public, diverse audiences, business, and the media. Directs and maintains ongoing relationships with other community agencies. Represents HCHW as a spokesperson on media outlets, on committees, workgroups and at conferences. Responds to all inquiries when requires. Organizational leadership Manages all day-to-day operations of HCHW including administrative, programmatic, development, human resource, financial and planning functions. Identify, assess and inform the Board of Directors of internal and external issues that affect the organization. Act as a professional advisor to the Board of Directors on all aspects of HCHW's activities. Foster effective teamwork with the Board of Directors and between the Board of Directors and the staff. Conduct official correspondence on behalf of the Board of Directors as appropriate and jointly when appropriate. Participate in HCHW's financial planning, forecasting, and analytical activities; ensure alignment of financial plan with vision and strategy. Direct and implement appropriate financial and legal compliance, reporting and auditing activities to ensure the financial integrity and viability of the organization.