Executive Director - Fifth Street Ministries

Ask yourself

Are you passionate about developing teams and coaching the people who work with you? Are you a relationship-centered leader? The kind of leader who believes people are an organization’s most important asset and who knows how to build, nurture, and inspire a community internally and externally.

Are you a strategist with experience leading financially complex organizations serving a high-need client base? The kind of visionary strategist that sees today’s realities and tomorrow’s possibilities and blends them together to forge an innovative plan for growth built on data, input, and a deep understanding of client needs.

Are you committed to life-changing work?

Why?

Fifth Street Ministries, a nonprofit organization based in Statesville, NC operating with a $3M budget, seeks its next Executive Director.

Fifth Street provides the most basic needs in five counties for the most vulnerable to help build more stable and productive lives. Fifth Street offers a night shelter, transitional housing, community kitchen, nurse clinic, and clothing closet at no cost. The ministry exists to compassionately serve individuals and families who find themselves hungry, homeless, or victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Fifth Street serves by providing clothing, food, healthcare, a safe sanctuary, advocates for change and hope.

What will you do as Fifth Street Ministries’ next Executive Director?

The Executive Director is responsible for executing the mission and strategic vision of Fifth Street Ministries, serves as the face of the organization, and supervises a staff of 24 full-time and 26 part-time employees. The Executive Director engages staff, volunteers, partners, and churches and is responsible for the stewardship of the organization financially, operationally, and spiritually. This role is a catalyst for revenue generation and revenue growth to support the ministry. The next Executive Director will be responsible for the following key areas:

Board Relations 

• Work closely with the Board of Directors to energize and engage them in policy decisions, strategic planning, organizational growth, fundraising, and visibility of the organization.

• Continually support the board in its board governance role, ensuring its overall effectiveness.
• Help identify, recruit, orient, retain, and celebrate board members, ensuring a quality process for building the board base and diversifying its membership to reflect the community served

Finance

• Ensure the annual budget is fully funded and the organization has adequate cash flow, strong internal controls as well as efficient, accurate, and consistent financial operations and practices.
• Ensure compliance with government and private grant funding and other revenue sources.

Operations

• Build a positive work culture that supports a productive, mission focused work environment while motivating and evaluating staff using performance evaluation metrics.
• Foster a culture of teamwork and accountability throughout the organization, developing staff members to their highest potential.

Resource Development

• Lead fundraising efforts, in collaboration with the Director of Development, personally cultivating and soliciting high level donors and lead partners.
• Responsible for the consistent flow of revenue to the organization supporting programs and activities through diverse and multi-faceted income streams.
• Cultivate positive and sustained relationships with funding partners.

Communications & Outreach

• Articulate Fifth Street Ministries’ vision in an inspiring way to internal and external constituencies.
• Build awareness of Fifth Street to expand its reach, engage volunteers, and leverage financial, programming, and fundraising opportunities.
• Create and maintain strategic alliances and collaborative partnerships with partner organizations, the faith-based community, and other nonprofits.

Why Fifth Street Ministries?

Fifth Street Ministries’ Founders, Gary and Patti West, opened what is now Fifth Street Ministries’ doors in 1988 to provide those in need the essentials such as food, water, safety, freedom from domestic abuse and the opportunity to move toward self-reliance. Fifth Street’s main campus is located in Statesville and serves five counties (Iredell, Davie, Stokes, Surry, and Yadkin). Fifth Street is committed to the core principle of Housing First, a necessary foundation for ending homelessness.

The Community Kitchen serves 94,000 nutritious meals annually to individuals and families in the community. The Clothing Closet uses community donations to pass along clothing to those in need as well as household items when people move from Fifth Street programs and into their own homes. At the Emergency Shelter, Fifth Street walks with individuals and families as they make a life-changing transition from drug addiction and homelessness to home. My Sister’s House provides a safe sanctuary and crisis intervention for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The Veterans Heroes’ House serves as a transitional housing facility along with tiny homes for military veterans who may be homeless.

Want to know more? Visit Fifth Street Ministries’ website at Home - Fifth Street Ministries.

Key lived experiences, attributes, and skillsets sought in the Executive Director

• Bachelor’s degree in business, social work, human resources, finance, or related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Five or more years leading a nonprofit organization at the senior leader level, preferably in the homelessness, transitional housing, mental health/substance abuse and/or domestic violence spaces.
• Dynamic, visionary, high-level servant leader and strategic thinker with the ability to collaborate with board and staff to envision and convey the organization’s strategic future to partners, members, volunteers, and the community.
• Excellence in organizational management, time management and ability to recruit, coach, motivate and inspire staff to develop a high-performing team.
• A track record of successfully expanding and strengthening a nonprofit board with diverse, mission driven leaders who contribute valuable expertise and community connections.
• Strong fiscal management expertise with experience creating and monitoring budgets.
• Experience soliciting individuals, corporations, and foundations, working with federal grants, HUD experience preferred.
• Ability to identify and sustain effective partnerships.
• Strong written and oral communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to speak confidently in public forums.

Think you are the next Fifth Street Ministries Executive Director?

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Salary is commensurate with the requirements of the position and begins in the $105,000 range with bonus incentives. Benefits include 100% medical insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, four weeks of vacation, sick time and 10 paid holidays.

Fifth Street is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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