Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Executive Director, Arsenal Family & Children’s Center – Pittsburgh, PA

Posted: 6/30/10

The mission of Arsenal Family & Children’s Center (www.arsenalfamily.org) is to promote, and to be an advocate for, the healthy development of young children and to support their parents in building a nurturing relationship with each child. For over 50 years we have offered programs and services that provide the building blocks necessary to create a strong foundation for the healthy development of children and the formation of nurturing and healthy parent-child relationships.

Arsenal Family and Children’s Center was founded in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh in 1953 by pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock. Then on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Spock designed the Center as a training site for pediatric students to study normal child development in the context of a neighborhood that was highly ethnic (Eastern European) and stable. Dr. Spock believed this would secure longitudinal study of child growth and development across generations.

In 1980 Arsenal became a private, non-profit organization, and in 1986, at the request of the Mon Valley Committee for the Unemployed, Arsenal established a second site in the City of Clairton. In 2003, the Lawrenceville site was relocated to the Friendship area of Pittsburgh as a building was purchased through the generosity of an anonymous donor. Now operating as a developmental preschool and social service agency, the Center offers an array of programs and services for young children age birth to ten and their families in both locations, and it continues as a training site for colleges and universities in the Pittsburgh community.

Arsenal remains committed to focus on the needs of children as the point of departure for all of its programming. We are fortunate to have a stable, professional staff, many of whom have been at Arsenal for ten years or longer, who are uniquely capable of serving the diversity of the children in our programs.

The Board of Directors is seeking an executive director who will report to the board and have primary responsibility for all internal operations and external relationships of the organization. General responsibilities include operational management, financial administration, community and stakeholder relationships, fundraising, policy and program development, strategic planning and board administration.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree desirable
Minimum five years leadership/organizational management experience
Documented experience and demonstrated results in fundraising
Excellent written and oral communications skills

Compensation
Four days/week 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Lighter summer schedule
Salary - ~$50,000
Health and life insurance

TO APPLY: Interested applicants should send resumes to Lisa Jepsen-Lozano, chair, Search Committee, at ljepsenlozano@deloitte.com.

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