Executive Director

Children Rising is a trusted Oakland educational non-profit serving thousands of historically underserved elementary school children in Oakland. Due to the retirement plans of our long-time Executive Director, the Children Rising Board of Directors is seeking a resourceful and visionary executive leader with a passion for making a positive and lasting impact on children and their families, while offering a significant contribution to creating a more equitable future for the youth of Oakland.

Children Rising’s mission is to offer hope to the underserved youth of Oakland. Our academic tutoring programs and family support services surround students with a caring community designed to ignite their innate potential and help them develop both academic and life skills.

In partnership with the Children Rising Board, an experienced and talented staff, and a passionate community of dedicated volunteers and donors, the successful candidate will have the unique opportunity to lead the organization to the next level of serving the community, offering expanded solutions and giving hope to at-promise students throughout Oakland. The Executive Director will support, improve and expand current programs, and develop strategies for significantly increasing Children Rising’s ability to leverage community resources for the purpose of investing in the next generation.

ABOUT CHILDREN RISING

Children Rising was founded in 2001 to support children and families by networking community support for children attending under-resourced urban schools. As we know, it takes a village to educate our children, and Children Rising’s community enablement model was designed to inform, inspire and align resources for the children from a broad coalition of community partners.

Human capital is our most important resource and individual volunteer tutors and mentors are at the heart of our mission. Children Rising provides individualized reading and math support from trained, caring volunteer tutors and offers support for families of children enrolled in our programs. We focus our efforts on academics and family partnerships through three key programs:
Succeeding by Reading, Path2

Math, and Family Bridge.

With over 200 trained tutors and mentors from throughout our community, we provide elementary school children a “Circle of Care,” including one-on-one literacy and math tutoring combined with after-school in-home learning support for families. We know that a child’s learning flourishes when engaged families, schools, and communities work together!

Children Rising’s annual operating budget of $1,000,000 supports a full-time and part-time staff of fourteen, plus over two hundred volunteers. Administrative offices are located in the heart of downtown Oakland at Telegraph Avenue & 27th Street.

STRATEGIC DIRECTION

The Board of Directors of Children Rising has adopted a strategic growth strategy designed to empower youth to fulfill their potential and improve the community in which they live.

• Strengthen and expand the current Succeeding by Reading and Path2

Math tutoring programs, supporting additional Title 1 elementary schools and additional children, while continuing to closely partner with OUSD educators.

• Expand the number of student families served, empowering those families to provide improved academic support and education advocacy for their children.

• Introduce families to additional community resources that can substantially benefit their children’s growth and development.

• Strengthen funding strategies and build additional revenue streams while maintaining and nurturing our current individual, foundation and corporate funders.

• Expand collaborative partnerships in the East Bay with corporate, nonprofit and faith-based communities.

• Continue to build community representation on the board of directors which is aligned with the children and families we serve.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Executive Director is responsible for the overall management of Children Rising, including development and refinement of its service programs; fundraising, outreach to the community partners and education stakeholders; oversight of budgeting and financial…