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WORLD Announces Search for New Executive Director
Please see the attached job announcement for more information on the position, the skills and experience we are seeking, and how to apply.
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION
Founded in 1991, Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease (WORLD) is recognized as a national leader in developing and promoting leadership and advocacy among HIV-positive women. The mission of WORLD is to connect HIV positive women, their allies, families, and communities to one another through peer-based education, support, advocacy, and leadership development. WORLD is a diverse organization for, by, and about women living with, and at risk for, HIV/AIDS. WORLD accomplishes this mission through strategic communication addressing the issues of advocacy, anti-stigma, and HIV prevention. While the Peer Advocate program is conducted locally in the Oakland/Bay Area, WORLD also trains similar organizations on its model both nationally (through its Lotus program) and internationally. WORLD also advocates for women nationally through its Positive Women Network, a new program started in 2008. In addition, international partnerships and exchanges are being explored in Africa and elsewhere.
WORLD is a highly respected and admired organization among HIV-positive women and the organizations that support them nationally. Because the organization integrates leadership among positive women into its day to day operations and program and policy development (75% of staff are HIV-positive) WORLD has a credibility and track record that strengthen its work and mission. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to lead and grow an outstanding, well-run organization that is making an immensely positive impact in the world. For more information, please go to www.womenhiv.org.
BUDGET & STAFF:
The WORLD Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors, supervises a staff of 16, and manages an annual budget of about $1 million.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:
The Executive Director reports to a 10-member Board of Directors and currently directly supervises the following staff: Director of Outreach and Prevention, Director of Training and Education, National Advocacy Coordinator, Operations Manager, and Peer Advocacy Program Manager, as well as contractors such as a grant writer and bookkeeper.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES
1. STRATEGIC PLANNING OVERSIGHT: Oversees and leads the strategic planning process, to set and accomplish both short-term and long-term goals and objectives. Executes the approved strategic plan to best meet the Agency’s mission.
2. STAFF/VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT: Provides leadership and is a mentor to staff. Inspires the team to accomplish and exceed its outlined goals and provide outstanding services to the Agency’s clients and community. Ensures the successful and efficient completion of all aspects of the Agency’s objectives, and the best use of all staff and volunteers available. Provides opportunities for professional development for all staff.
3. FUND DEVELOPMENT: Plans, leads, and helps execute fund development efforts. In collaboration with the Board and staff, the ED meets and networks with funders and prospective donors and has responsibility for successful fundraising
activities. Researches, studies, and seeks additional funding for women’s health programs appropriate to the WORLD community.
4. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: Provide direction for program decisions, including local, national and international project development and monitoring. Encourage program staff and volunteers in the delivery of programs that educate and support women with HIV/AIDS. Negotiates and ensures that programs are meeting the contract deliverables and objectives. Maintains positive relationships with program partners and funders.
5. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Develops the annual agency budget for presentation to the board, ensures proper fiscal accounting and controls in accordance with the guidelines of funding sources and with sound accounting practices. Maintains fiscal solvency of agency.
6. OUTREACH/PR: Represents the Agency in relationships with local, national, and international communities and officials, the news media, private and public agencies and committees. Acts as the Agency’s primary spokesperson. Supervises the production of the quarterly newsletter.
7. INFRASTRUCTRE/ADMINISTRATION: Oversees agency infrastructure management, including IT systems, controls, computers, software and related business protocols necessary to maintain and improve agency services. Administers and enforces personnel policies, including HR benefits, compensation and compliance.
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in and passion for the mission of WORLD. Tell us about this in your cover letter.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree with Masters preferred, in nonprofit administration, public health, social work, management, social justice, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in non-profit management as an executive director, senior manager or equivalent in the private sector.
• Thorough knowledge and experience with HIV/AIDS issues pertinent to women, and/or other women’s health issues.
• Demonstrated success in fundraising, including major gifts, grant writing, and special events.
• Solid financial management skills including ability to effectively manage budgets and invest in improvements, programs and events while maintaining proper reserves.
• Excellent communicator – written and verbal skills – ability to motivate, inspire, influence. Approachable and personable, yet professional. Able to actively listen.
• Effective organizational planning and group facilitation skills.
• Proven success with managing, leading and encouraging staff with very diverse backgrounds, cultures, and personalities (race, sexual orientation, HIV status, religion, socioeconomic status, etc.)
• Communicates a long-term, big picture vision to all constituents, yet still keeps sight of the details needed to get there.
• Strong ties to the community and/or ability to network and build relationships with local, national, and international partners, members, donors to foster a mutually beneficial result.
• Must be available to travel approximately 20% of the time.
COMPENSATION:
Salary: $90,000-$100,000, depending on experience. Generous benefits package offered, including final 2 weeks of the year as paid vacation.
To be considered, please send, no later than March 9, 2009, both a resume, and a cover letter that tells us about your passion for and commitment to our mission.
Send electronically to: world@articulateintegrity.com
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT WORLD
WORLD is an equal opportunity employer Women of color and positive women are
strongly encouraged to apply.
This search is being conducted by Articulate Integrity
World AIDS Day 2008 Statement from the U.S. Positive Women's Network, a project of WORLD.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Naina Khanna 510-681-1169 nkhanna(at)womenhiv.org HIV-Positive Women Call for Renewed Leadership on U.S. AIDS Epidemic On World AIDS Day 2008, women living with HIV call on President-Elect Barack Obama to fulfill his campaign promise of leadership on the domestic and global HIV epidemic. Oakland, CA, Monday December 1 - On the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, women living with HIV across the United States pause to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS, to remember those women who are still fearful and ashamed of an HIV diagnosis, and to applaud women living with HIV/AIDS who give their time, money and effort to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have a brighter tomorrow. World AIDS Day 2008 comes just a few months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised their estimate of HIV infections in the U.S. upwards by about 40% -- from 40,000 new infections to 56,000 new infections annually. Many people living with HIV feel the U.S. could be doing more both to halt the spread of HIV and to provide better care and treatment for those living with HIV/AIDS. "28 years into the United States HIV epidemic, the U.S. still has no overarching national strategy to address the root factors driving this epidemic - poverty, homophobia, our failing health care system, and a lack of institutionalized commitment to scientifically sound HIV prevention - and the factors preventing people from accessing appropriate care once diagnosed with HIV. We need a plan, not a patchwork - a comprehensive National AIDS Strategy," says Naina Khanna, coordinator of the U.S. Positive Women's Network. Inspired by similar networks of women in India and South Africa, the U.S. Positive Women's Network (PWN), was founded as a national membership body led by and for women living with HIV in the United States. The PWN is concerned about the HIV rates among women of color and the lack of care available to women living with HIV in the U.S. "Every person living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States deserves access to the medication, care, and compassion she needs to live a quality life. Yet that is not the case, especially in Southern and Rural States," says Linda H. Scruggs, Director of Programs at AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families and founding member of the PWN. The Ryan White Program, the largest HIV-specific discretionary grant program in the U.S., has been level-funded for the past several years, though the number of people living with HIV in the U.S continues to rise. According to the CDC's HIV incidence report released in August 2008, women comprise about 27% of new HIV infections in the U.S., up from about 8% in 1984. Globally, women are about 50% of all HIV infections. Health advocates in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concerned that some populations are vulnerable to contracting HIV, independently of personal risk behavior. Recent studies have shown that HIV is the leading cause of death among African American women aged 25 to 34, and that African American women with one sexual partner were more likely than those with multiple sexual partners to be at risk for contracting HIV. "As a national body representing the estimated 300,000 women living with HIV in the United States, we hope the next Administration will do everything in its power to reverse the war on sexual and reproductive health services at home and abroad which has had fatal consequences for women and girls globally. We are so pleased that President-Elect Obama has pledged to provide our young people with comprehensive sexuality education, and that he consistently supports research on microbicides to put HIV prevention in the hands of women," says Loren Jones, Peer Advocate and PWN founding member. The Bush Administration linked global funding for HIV prevention with anti-abortion and abstinence-based education requirements, through the PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program, a $48 billion funding stream targeted at the nations hardest-hit by the HIV pandemic. Many HIV researchers and activists believe that science, not religion, should drive U.S. public health efforts. "We're here to offer our expertise as HIV-positive women and leaders to the incoming Administration and Congress in their efforts to address the needs of people living with HIV. Our policy paper outlines some of the priorities of the U.S. Positive Women's Network, " said Vanessa Johnson, Executive Vice President of the Washington, DC-based National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA), and a founding member of the U.S. Positive Women's Network. The PWN policy paper can be viewed online at http://womenhiv.org/files/PWNExecSummNov2008.pdf or here *** The U.S. Positive Women's Network is a project of WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease) in Oakland, CA. We are a national membership body that exists to strengthen the strategic power of women living with HIV in the United States. For more information please visit: www.womenhiv.org/positivewomen.
U.S. Positive Women's Network
Strengthening the Strategic Power of Women with HIV
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 was an important and historic election day for America and the world.
And the decisions made by our new Administration and Congress will have critical implications for people living with and at risk for HIV all over the world. Here in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data in August 2008 showing that more people are getting HIV in the U.S. than previously thought. 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV; and more than half a million people with HIV/AIDS have died since the epidemic began.
Women and people of color in the U.S. tend to experience worse health outcomes, regardless of HIV status. In an era when we know what it takes to prevent HIV, life-saving treatment is available and comprehensive health care and housing should be equally accessible to everyone, this is unacceptable.
We need a coordinated, national plan to fight the epidemic here at home from awareness, to prevention and testing efforts, and comprehensive high-quality care and support services. A plan that incorporates the voice of all stakeholders, public, and private, and that includes meaningful input from communities disproportionately impacted by HIV, including women and men living with HIV.
WORLD and our allies call on our next administration to endorse, fully fund, and implement a National AIDS Strategy (NAS). This strategy must be coordinated, and results-oriented. It must further include mechanisms to hold our government accountable for improved outcomes when it comes to prevention, care, and the quality of life or people living with HIV here in the U.S. For more information on the National AIDS Strategy and to endorse this call, go to www.nationalaidsstrategy.org
We are excited about our new Administration and the possibilities it brings. Now it's time to get to work.
July 2008
The National Positive Women's Network has launched!
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Supporting these women, and encouraging others to follow their example, must be our strategy for the future. It is among them that the real heroes of this war are to be found. It is our job to furnish them with strength, resources and hope."
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, International Women's Day statement, 2004.
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