Chief Executive Officer

Position Summary

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will be a visionary leader responsible for Community Music Center of Boston (CMCB)’s strategic direction, public visibility, and managerial operations. Joining CMCB following a successful building acquisition and capital campaign, the CEO will lead CMCB at an exciting time of possibility and broadened impact. As CMCB’s primary spokesperson, the CEO will co‑develop and execute a new strategic plan that builds on past successes and brings CMCB into an even brighter future.

The CEO will nurture a unique mix of multi‑generational relationships with board, faculty, staff, parents, students, strategic partners, and donors that comprise the core of CMCB’s culture and identity, and the essence of their special community. The CEO will exude warmth and energy while leading this vibrant community music education organization through this time of growth and transition. The CEO will embrace joyful, culturally inclusive, and student‑centered collaboration with a student body as diverse as the city CMCB calls home.

The CEO will guide, advise, and mobilize board members as they embrace their roles as fundraisers, policymakers, and community ambassadors while overseeing staff leadership, operations, and earned and contributed revenue growth.

• Champion equitable access to arts education and arts‑based experiences, and foster an inclusive culture where students, families, faculty, staff, and community partners from all backgrounds can thrive.
• Identify and promote innovative programming that will enable a successful transition from one to two campuses, in the context of CMCB footprint expansion.
• Foster and leverage CMCB’s strong reputation as an extraordinary community music school to sustain current programming and to ensure opportunities for growth come to fruition.
• Create and sustain mutually supportive relationships with leadership at Boston Public Schools and similar institutions.
• Develop new partnership agreements with schools and community organizations to advance CMCB’s outreach activities throughout the Greater Boston Area.
• Ensure high‑quality programs, services, and facilities that are accessible, welcoming, and responsive to the needs of the communities CMCB supports.
• Collaborate with CMCB’s staff and faculty to develop innovative ways to grow earned revenue.
• Continue to develop existing programming initiatives in such diverse areas as student‑centered music education, Youth Employment, Music Therapy, ensemble programming, contemporary genres, impacts of AI on music education, and other areas.
• Expand and build on CMCB’s national presence and reputation as an innovator and best‑practitioner.
• Embrace other program development, diversity, and inclusion responsibilities as needed.

• Provide organizational leadership in all aspects of fundraising and development by establishing personal relationships with key funders and donors to support CMCB’s strategic and capitalization goals.
• Identify and maintain strong relationships with key community partners to continue to diversify and expand the organization’s individual, foundation, corporate, and government donor base.
• Broaden CMCB’s public image and increase brand awareness for the organization, clearly articulating the mission, vision, programs, and impacts of CMCB.
• Define contributed revenue opportunities with board and development staff in annual and long‑term fundraising plans.
• Cultivate existing donors for ongoing support while seeking new prospects to ensure a robust and diversified funding base.
• Embrace other contributed revenue enhancement responsibilities as needed.

• Work with the board and other stakeholders to develop a new strategic vision and plan, enabling CMCB to successfully manage its integration into the Roxbury community and its transition to a multi‑campus footprint.
• Listen carefully, speak persuasively, and anticipate concerns of parents, students, faculty, staff, board members, external partners, donors, and the public.
• Foster an inclusive workplace that…