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11/02/2020 @ 05:51 pm

Director This struggling New York City non-profit has been in a difficult situation since its costs skyrocketed in 2014. A string of employees have been hired by the current board of directors (aka governing council) to solve the problems and have systemically been pushed out, fired, or left on their own accord. While the vacumn of leadership is an issue (there has not been an Executive Director in place in 4 years. The previous director resigned when the current board of directors was put into place) the real issue is that decision-making power is granted on a donor-basis, so the work of professionals hired to relate to the many issues, are subjected to the questions and input of indiviauls who have little to no professional knowledge on the subjects in question, are significantly absent or disengaged in the project, do not meet in a formal way on any regular basis, and are unskilled in the most basic professional processes that traditionally lead to true growth and progress. Essentially, if you are hired there, even on a director level, you will be given all the accountability for the organization's long-running problems, while any authority to make even minor decisions, must be run through a small and often unreachable circle of donors, their friends, and spouses. If the teachings of this organization are important to you then, by all means, give it a whirl, though it is possible that in its current form it is quite unworkable. If you're simply looking for a director title in a non-profit, perhaps go elsewhere both because of the job itself, and because it may be difficult to get hired after this role, given its very specific subject matter and its reputation as being quite a dysfunctional institution. The hours are long (programs run in the evenings and work is done in the work day,) the pay is low, the leadership is absent, the community is disenfranchised and any conversations around long-term fixes are inaccessible, disoriented, and tightly held.

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