Executive Director--Family Works

Organization Overview: Family Works employs 25 full and part-time staff members. Family Works has offices in Novato and Santa Clara. Family Works' provide services in 10 counties throughout the Bay Area including; Sonoma, Napa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties. For over 40 years, Family Works has provided Independent Living Skills and Parenting Support Services for adults with disabilities: Independent Living Skills (ILS) motivate individuals to enhance their social skills and their interactions with their families, work environment, and community resources at large. Parenting support services (PSS) enhance each parent’s ability to promote their own and their children’s cognitive, emotional, physical, and social development.

Mission: Family Works provides compassionate, effective, and affordable services that build essential parenting and life skills for people with cognitive disabilities.

Vision: We envision a day when all people with cognitive disabilities can achieve their fullest potential to live independent and fulfilling lives.

Family Works Core Values:

Client Focused. Our individualized services are driven by joint goal-setting with clients to improve their lives.

Excellence. Our staff are innovative, forward thinking, and use established, well-researched techniques to provide the highest quality services.

Inclusivity. Our staff is diverse and culturally sensitive to better serve, understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with all individuals.

Collaboration. Our staff works with community partners to create lasting improvements for our clients and communities.

            Please visit https://www.familyworks.org for more information.

Reporting:  Reports to the Board of Directors. Oversees full-time and part-time staff, as well as external contractors, consultants, and volunteers.

Role Overview: Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for Family Works’s successful execution of its mission.

The ED will lead the organization with particular focus on the following priorities:

●      Monitoring and aligning programs to meet evolving community needs and deliver the strategic plan

●      Optimizing the use of financial and human resources for efficiency and achievement of declared goals

●      Ensuring financial sustainability through a sound revenue generation plan and strong collaboration with the Board on financial stewardship

The Search Committee seeks candidates that best match the core requisites for this position and as such, welcomes applicants that have professional experience in the private sector with proven transferrable skills and open to cross-sector onboarding, training, and coaching.