Qualifications:
Education and Experience
- Significant experience in supervising professional staff;
- Significant management experience in creating and maintaining substantial programs, and budgets.
- Proven experience with national programs, networks and professional organisations;
- Experience working with a charitable organisation or serving on a Board of Directors (desirable);
- Successful relationships and experience in working with local and/or national political leaders (desirable).
Attributes
Values
- Fully understand and respect their responsibility to represent Dolly Parton and the Dollywood Foundation UK. All actions and behaviours are an extension of Dolly and the DWF UK, and as such, great care must be taken to preserve the image and integrity of both;
- A passionate desire to help children and make a difference;.
- Excellent ‘first impression;’ always presents a professional image;
- Willingness to work a varying schedule that includes nights, holidays, and weekends;
- Dedicated, genuinely friendly, sense of humour, enthusiastic, cooperative, flexible and empathetic.
Leadership
- Recognised as a motivating, positive influence on others. A person of patience and thoughtful response;
- Aware that others tend to emulate the behaviour of the leader and through this position as Executive Director UK, one becomes an extension of the Dolly brand;
- As a professional, follows through on commitments, accepts responsibility for own actions, tactfully approaches others, and reacts well under pressure.
Agility
- Ability to focus on the daily details while managing the overall scope of responsibilities;
- Willing and able to nimbly change approach and adjust to changes in situations and constraints;
- Ability to navigate forward through volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
Energy
- Motivated to test skills and abilities, work hard, judge achievement according to the goal, and strive to exceed standards;
- Possess a commitment to the passionate and steadfast pursuit of long-term goals, despite obstacles, discouragement, or distraction, pushing through obstacles, and not giving up on difficult tasks.
Competencies:
- A dynamic public leader who can speak effectively to an audience of any size with effective presentation skills;
- Excellent verbal and written language skills. Speaks and writes informatively, proofs work for spelling and grammar. Listens for knowledge and clarification and responds well to questions;
- Technologically and socially informed and connected. Considerable knowledge and expertise in working with Video meeting platforms, Google Suite, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel;
- Ability to work and manage out of the home office or on the road;
- Possess the ability to see future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies;
- Demonstrates and uses excellent judgment and decision-making abilities, with a broad perspective on issues, throughout all job duties;
- Ability to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Maintain focus on planning and prioritising work to meet commitments aligned with the organisation’s goals;
- Disciplined in holding self and others accountable for meeting commitments;
- Excellent communicator via all mediums, effectively building formal and informal relationships both inside and outside of the organisation;
- Ability to manage and resolve conflict efficiently;
- Ability to use compelling dialogue to gain support and inspire a climate in which people are motivated to do their best to help the organisation achieve its objectives.