Want to provide hope for families?
Do you have knowledge about neurodiversity?
Do you appreciate the Arts? Can you add a diverse perspective?
We are looking for you!
“The last 4 weeks here at home have been truly amazing...Traditionally the first month of school is really difficult at home.”
We teach kids how to "Soar with your strengths. Manage your weaknesses." We specialize in working with kids with neurodiversity and those that may need more individualized approaches, such as dyslexia, ADHD, high-functioning Autism, anxiety, school phobia, and trauma. We fortify kids so they flourish in their current school through our tutoring, summer, and enrichment programs. Samara also has a Department of Education-approved Alternative Education School with the goal to help students build their success skills in order to transition back to their general education school. Collaboration with the districts is very important.
Responsibilities deemed most important include:
- Support Executive Center Director
- Transition Exec. Director away from teaching roles
- Recruit, mentor and maintain a competent Board Members
- Recruit and train volunteers
- Secure partnerships with other Nonprofits
- Protect Assets (with input from all staff and stakeholders)
- Ensure adequate financial resources; fund raising, grant writing, allocate budget for staff and programs
- Ensure effective business planning; enhance brand, market to larger community
- Ensure Legal and Ethical Integrity
- Clarify and advocate for Samaras’ mission
- Evaluate Program’s Effectiveness
Program Director(s)
Specific Tasks:
- In the absence of the Executive Director, or in the event of his/her inability or refusal to act, it shall then be the responsibility of the Program Director(s) to perform all the duties of the Executive Director as delegated by the Board of Directors. In doing so the Program Director(s) shall be subject to all of the restrictions on the Executive Director.
Board Members At-Large
Nonprofits’ Board of Directors is the governing body, overseeing vision, mission, and internal operations of the organization. Board members are elected for two-year terms.
1) Board members hold overall fiscal and managerial oversight responsibility for the Nonprofit.
2) They are charged with the supervision and oversight of the Nonprofits’ mission.
3) They are responsible for making decisions, delegating work, and assuring decisions are carried out in the manner intended.
4) Ultimately, board members serve as ambassadors for the mission, inside and outside of organizational commitments.
Qualifications for Service
- Past or current engagement with Society for Nonprofits (e.g., partnership, membership, content providers, etc.)
- Interest in and willingness to support Society for Nonprofits’ goals and objectives
- Initiative
- Integrity
- Analytical ability
- Sensitivity and awareness
- Leadership
- Sound decision-making ability
- Planning skills
- Ability to organize and monitor work
- Collaborative
- Ability to easily use email and other technology such as cloud services
- Commitment to open and honest communication
*We do not discriminate based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, age or disability, or because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, age, or disability of any other persons with whom the individual associates.
