BGCA.org :: Careers

Browse Open Jobs Search Open Jobs Edit Your Profile Jobs Applied For

Career Opportunities
National Positions
Job Details


Requisition Number 16-0030
Post Date 2/11/2016
Title Director, Academic Innovation (Arts)
City Atlanta
State GA
Description Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation requiring an entrepreneurial and strategically oriented leader to serve as Director, Academic Innovation, Arts. Reporting to the Senior Director, Educational Foundations, Innovation & Creativity, the Director will manage a portfolio of programs that supports a national effort to inspire a generation of innovative leaders.

This role will deliver tactics and execute appropriate actions to help Clubs cultivate creativity while fostering 21st century skills, grit and resiliency. This position is located in Atlanta.

The Director must be creative and relentlessly focused on how to manage scale program activation across the more than 4,000 Clubs that define the BGCA federated model of impact. The Director contributes to positive youth development and drives youth outcomes across the spectrums of academic achievement, good character & citizenship, and health and wellness.

This position maintains specific focus on strengthening and delivering a comprehensive innovation & creativity portfolio by managing program and special event activation, insuring fidelity of implementation, impact and quality, creating new strategies, troubleshooting and providing overall support and technical assistance.

Working in small flexible teams, the Director will deliver on innovative business-changing recommendations that will inform the core of our youth development and social impact work. The director must be able to build and manage powerful relationships to represent the interests of the Program, Training & Youth Development Services (PTYDS) department, partnering with Resource Development, Marketing & Communications, Organizational & Executive Development Services, Planning & Measurement, Government Relations, corporate partners and others.

This person must have strong consultation and project management expertise. He/she must also have demonstrable proficiencies in youth development, youth and teen curriculum design, teen outreach, youth and adolescent research and specialized teen populations (i.e. urban youth). This person must also have a working knowledge and be comfortable contributing to the analysis and translation of outcome measures and research findings to help drive program outcomes, organizational learning and impact.

A primary responsibility of this role is to contribute to strategies and deliver tactics to help transform Boys & Girls Club facilities into Centers of Excellence, filled with a mix of innovative programs and services that meet the needs and interests of youth members. The director is a driver of impact, strengthening Clubs’ understanding of innovation and creativity development and presenting them with the tools and resources needed to provide world-class services aligned around three priority outcome areas (Academic Success, Good Character and Citizenship, and Healthy Lifestyles).

This position is funded through The Wallace Foundation; continuation of the position is based on continued funding
Requirements Education and Experience
•Bachelor’s degree in business, social services, education or youth development; experience with consultation and strategic planning.
•A minimum of 5 years demonstrated expertise and experience with organizational change management.
•Demonstrated experience and skills in program management, facilitation and training, corrective action planning and technical assistance.
•Community outreach experience required.
•Knowledge of how youth learn.
•Demonstrated knowledge of developmental assets and youth development principles/characteristics.
•Intermediate Microsoft Office skills required.

Environmental and Working Conditions
Normal internal office environment. Travel estimated at 25% - 30% (can be up to 5- 7 days or more in a month – including weekends - depending upon scheduling requirements).
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
  • Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here.
  • The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Apply On-line
Send This Job to a Friend