Deputy Executive Director

Responsible for integrating all teams across the CDA, driving day‑to‑day operations, managing execution of the strategic plan, ensuring program and service excellence, and holding people accountable for results.

• Partner with the Executive Director and leadership team to set the Scott County CDA strategic vision and priorities. Own the execution of the agency strategic plan by aligning teams, initiatives, and priorities. Lead agency‑wide initiatives, strategic planning efforts and impact assessments while fostering clarity, communication, and cross‑functional alignment. Assume the duties of the Executive Director when they are unavailable.
• Actively build and facilitate collaborative and integrated relationships across the CDA. Identify and maximize opportunities for teams and workflows to connect and collaborate to fulfill CDA's mission and strategic plans. Use influence to build and reinforce a culture of collaboration.
• Oversee, manage and hold accountable the Finance, IT and Human Resources teams and align their work with CDA priorities. Build team culture aligned with CDA core values. Provide teams with clear expectations and hold them accountable to those expectations. Align and provide resources including coaching, training and ensuring coverage as needed to achieve CDA goals.
• Identify, monitor and report key consolidated CDA performance, outcomes and compliance measures to effectively demonstrate and communicate CDA's impact. Partner with CDA leadership to use those measures to inform strategic decisions. Leverage the Finance Director's comprehensive budget and resource analysis to provide strategic, data‑driven recommendations that guide departmental leaders in optimizing fiscal performance and enhancing programmatic impact.
• Optimize internal systems, processes, and infrastructure to support effective service delivery. Drive the creation, documentation, and improvement of agency‑wide core processes, policies and procedures. Lead business continuity and emergency response planning.
• Lead and coordinate marketing and communications planning and activities across CDA. Collaborate with directors to establish and maintain marketing and communications strategic priorities, guidelines, policies and procedures.

• Consistently demonstrate alignment with Scott County CDA's core values which guide us to be Collaborative, Equitable, Inventive and Attentive.
• Provide excellent service, which is responsive, considerate, and respects confidentiality while delivering quality public services.
• Demonstrate leadership and trust‑based influence across the organization. Build and lead effective formal and informal teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• Apply excellent verbal and written communication skills to clearly convey complex concepts, create alignment across teams/groups and build productive, professional relationships with multiple diverse stakeholders. Prepare and deliver clear and concise reports, memoranda, directives and letters.
• Analyze complex problems and opportunities; develop comprehensive and strategic plans to address them.
• Operationalize strategic goals by developing clear implementation frameworks, setting milestones, defining success metrics, and ensuring adequate resource mobilization to successfully execute the agency's highest‑priority initiatives.
• Balance multiple priorities while working toward team goals and priorities.
• Work with minimal day‑to‑day direction as well as recognize and act on opportunities to seek guidance from supervisor or other leaders.

Position open until filled with a review of applications received by Sunday, January 11th at 11:59pm.