AMVETS seeks Executive Director and Thrift Shop Director

CLASSIFICATION:  Executive Director

DEPARTMENT: NSF Executive

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:  The NSF Executive Director reports directly to the President and Board of Trustees.

EMPLOYEE STATUS:  FLSA Exempt

NATURE OF WORK:

Serves as the chief administrative official for the National Service Foundation. Supervises and coordinates the goals, tasks and activities of the Foundation staff function to best support current and evolving work demands.  Oversees thrift store operation.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for all activities.

Plan, develop, organize, implement, direct and evaluate the Foundation staff’s administration function and performance.

Develops the organization’s plans and programs as a tactical partner in evaluating and advising on the impact of long range planning and changes in work requirement for the staff.  Accomplished in coordination with the Human Resources Director and the Finance Director.

Enhances and/or develops, implements and enforces policies and procedures of the organization by way of systems that will improve the overall operation and effectiveness of the Foundation.

Establish credibility throughout the organization and with the Board as an effective developer of solutions to administrative business challenges.  This would include the assessment of “outsourcing” of various activities and functions if such external support would be the most effective method of providing the proper level of services at the appropriate cost.

Under the guidance of legal advice, negotiate, manage and administer all contracts into which the Foundation may enter.

Oversees and manages all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the Foundation support staff.  This includes finance, thrift store operation, contract negotiation, fundraising and Foundation portion of the human resources management function.

Responsible for management of all real estate properties.

Serves as spokesperson in response to media inquiries.

Meets, regularly, with Foundation staff to develop, conduct and evaluate activities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.

An ability to think proactively, and plan over a 1-2 year time span.

The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.

Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level.

Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

Commitment to company values.

Ability to prioritize disparate workload requirements. Meet short and long term deadlines with effectiveness and efficiency.

Ability to rapidly adjust to changing strategic direction and or priorities.

Ability to maintain accountable working environment.

DIPLOMA/DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration or Operations Management desired. Equivalent combination of training and experience may be acceptable.

PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:

Operates in a normal office environment with a computer and possibly extensive travel involved.

If interested, please send resume with salary requirement to Maria Isaja, Human Resources Director at misaja@amvets.org , or send correspondence to AMVETS NSF, Attn: Maria Isaja, 4647 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham, MD.  20706.

DIRECTOR OF THRIFT STORE OPERATIONS

Summary.   The Director of Thrift Store Operations is responsible to the Executive Director of the National Service Foundation for all operational matters pertaining to the management oversight of the day to day operations of our Thrift Center system.

In addition, in this capacity, he is responsible for the generation, marketing and implementation of a proactive strategic plan that will ensure not only the continued viability and fiscal health of our existing complement of stores, but also a well-planned and analytically sound growth plan for new store locations.

Reporting Authority.  The Director reports directly to the Executive Director.  Store managers report, directly, to the Director of Thrift Store Operations in the performance of their duties.  The Director works with the Human Resources Manager in managing personnel policies of the stores.

Specific duties.   The following represent the scope of responsibility for the incumbent in this position: Responsible to the Executive Director for the day to day operations of the Thrift Center system.

(b)  Responsible for maintaining a fully qualified and successful management force throughout our system.  In this capacity, will:

ensure that there are a sufficient number of qualified managers, assistant managers and manager trainees to react to emergent needs.

Create a training plan with support from the Human Resources

Manager to ensure a standardized, quality, accountable syllabus is

provided to each manager trainee.

Establish and maintain an effective, on-going assessment process for manager trainees, managers and store operations.

Responsible for all advertising efforts for store operations.

Responsible for developing with each manager an annual store productivity plan for each store, as part of individual store budget processes.

Responsible for developing, marketing and implementing an annual budget for Thrift Stores.

Responsible for conducting site-visits and resultant reports for each store on an annual basis.

Responsible for suggestions to the Executive Director of new store location opportunities as set forth in the strategic plan for that year. In this capacity, the incumbent will utilize sound marketing, traffic flow, demographic, and real estate contracting principles to identify at least 3 quality locations for new store consideration.

Responsible for providing annual report of thrift center operations to the National Finance Committee and Board of Directors, through the National Service Foundation Executive Director.

Other requirements of incumbent.

Must have software knowledge as provided through the MS Office suite of products.  Must be able to provide with little effort products using MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.

Must be an expert communicator, possessing the ability to effectively communicate with a wide spectrum of management backgrounds both verbally and in writing. Must be an expert writer. Must be comfortable in making presentations.

Must have a “numbers” affinity and be able develop trends, other analysis data and present conclusions in graphical, spreadsheet format.

Business degree preferred or 5 years experience.

Work environment/demands.

Incumbent is based at the AMVETS Headquarters building in Lanham, Maryland.  Maintains office. Utilizes a computer and monitor (15%).  Analyses significant amount of “number based” information. Detail specific 15% of time. Significant amount of time spent on phone (15%). Travel (40%).

Remaining time spent in discussion, writing (15%).

Please forward your resume and cover letter with salary requirements to misaja@amvets.org or fax to 301-459–5578