Lamp community seeks a dynamic, innovative, visionary, and entrepreneurial leader to guide Lamp's future as Executive Director. Founded in 1985, Lamp Community is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improves health, and builds self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. Lamp achieves one of the highest success rates in the nation for ending homelessness using an approach it helped to pioneer called Housing First or Permanent Supportive Housing. With an operating budget of over $5 million and over 90 full- and part-time staff, Lamp Community serves 1200 individuals annually. For more information please visit the Lamp Community website at www.lampcommunity.org.
The Executive Director develops the organizational vision and programmatic and financial strategies to guide Lamp's future while ensuring the successful day-to-day operations of the agency. The Executive Director is responsible for representing Lamp Community, its programs and philosophy in the professional community, to its funding sources and to the public.
She or he will be a mission-driven professional who possesses a demonstrated personal or professional commitment to the population served by Lamp Community. It is likely that the successful candidate will have a proven track record of success in senior leadership positions in the field of social and human services, and experience with agencies providing a continuum of integrated supportive services for the homeless will be highly valued. However, candidates with for-profit, public sector or other nonprofit executive experience and a history of volunteer leadership experience and a commitment to social justice and the disadvantaged will also be considered. Career experience should demonstrate a substantial and successful track record in fund raising, external relations, personnel management, program development, financial management, government relations, and board development. An undergraduate degree is required. An advanced degree is preferred.
Lamp Community is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For a complete position description, see www.morrisberger.com. Send resume/CV and cover letter as attachments to: mb@morrisberger.com, or submit by mail to Morris & Berger, 500 North Brand Boulevard, Suite 2150, Glendale, CA 91203-1923; fax: (818) 507-4770.
