Careers Archive - Men Saving Our Community

Secretary (Board Member)

Location: Warner Robins, Ga

Company: Men Saving Our Community

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Organization

Founded in 2012, Men Saving Our Community (MSOC) is dedicated to providing young males, ages 5-18, who live in a single parent household, with a father figure mentor, who can assist them with their growth and life skill development. This mentor can provide guidance throughout the formative years and assist in helping lead the young male into adulthood.

For more information, please visit http://mensavingourcommunity.com/

Job Description

MSOC is seeking a Secretary as a board member, with at least 1 year of experience to support the organization continuous growth. This is an opportunity to support the Houston County community and throughout Georgia as we expand.

General Responsibilities

The Secretary is responsible for ensuring that accurate and sufficient documentation exists to meet legal requirements, and to enable authorized persons to determine when, how, and by whom the board’s business was conducted. In order to fulfill these responsibilities, and subject to the organization’s bylaws, the Secretary records minutes of meetings, ensures their accuracy, and availability, proposes policies and practices, submits various reports to the board, maintains membership records, fulfills any other requirements of a Director and Officer, and performs other duties as the need arises and/or as defined in the bylaws.

Accountability

The Secretary is accountable to the Board of Directors (if elected or appointed by them) or Members. (If elected by the membership at a members meeting) as specified in the bylaws. Through the Board of Directors, certain duties of the Secretary may be delegated to the Executive Director, Board members and/or committees as appropriate; however, the accountability for them remains with the Secretary.

Specific Duties
Minutes

The secretary is responsible for ensuring that accurate minutes of meetings are taken and approved… Requirements of minutes may vary with the jurisdiction but should include at a minimum:

date, time, location of meeting;
list of those present and absent;
list of items discussed;
list of reports presented;
Text of motions presented and description of their disposition.

The Secretary signs a copy of the final, approved minutes and ensures that this copy is maintained in the corporate records.

Custodian of records

The secretary ensures that the records of the organization are maintained as required by law and made available when required by authorized persons. These records may include founding documents, (e.g. letters patent, articles of incorporation), lists of directors, board and committee meeting minutes financial reports, and other official records.

Membership Records

The Secretary ensures that official records are maintained of members of the organization and Board. He/She ensures that these records are available when required for reports, elections, referenda, other votes, etc.

Bylaws

The Secretary ensures that an up-to-date copy of the bylaws is available at all meetings.

Communication

The Secretary ensures that proper notification is given of directors’ and members’ meetings as specified in the bylaws. The Secretary manages the general correspondence of the Board of Directors except for such correspondence assigned to others.

Meetings

The Secretary participates in Board meetings as a voting member. The Secretary provides items for the agenda as appropriate. In the absence of the President (and Vice-President, if the position exists), the Secretary calls the meeting to order, presiding until a temporary chairperson is elected. The secretary records meeting minutes as described above Depending upon the bylaws and practices of the organization, the Secretary may perform these duties for Member meetings.

Signing Officer

The Secretary may be designated by the Board of Directors and/or bylaws as one of the signing officers for certain documents. In this capacity, the Secretary may be authorized or required to sign correspondence, applications, reports, contracts or other documents on behalf of organization.

Filing of Documents

The Secretary may be the registered agent with respect to the laws of the jurisdiction.; the person upon whom legal notice to the corporation is served, and responsible for ensuring that documents necessary to maintain the corporation are filed.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 1 years of relevant experience. An Associate’s degree and an additional 2 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook).

General Counsel (Board Member)

Location: Warner Robins, Ga
Company: Men Saving Our Community

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Organization
Founded in 2012, Men Saving Our Community (MSOC) is dedicated to providing young males, ages 5-18, who live in a single parent household, with a father figure mentor, who can assist them with their growth and life skill development. This mentor can provide guidance throughout the formative years and assist in helping lead the young male into adulthood.

For more information, please visit http://mensavingourcommunity.com/

Job Description

MSOC is seeking a General Counsel as a board member, with at least three years of experience to support the organization continuous growth. This is an opportunity to support the Houston County community and throughout Georgia as we expand.

General Responsibilities

Prepare correspondence, contracts, other documents and/or memoranda in draft and in final form from handwritten material, typed copy and transcription files.
Assist in drafting agreements, managing closing documents, and preparing closing binders including electronic closing binders.
Prepare, submit and maintain attorney(s) weekly time records.
Set up, maintain, and ensure that files are kept current including classifying, arranging files, filing, and storing information. Requests files from Records Department.
Monitor, prioritize, organize, and facilitate daily workflow in order to meet project deadlines. This includes all administrative tasks including scheduling meetings, calendar management, processing expense reimbursements etc..
Maintain e-mails and/or documents on DMS as determined by attorney and paralegal.
Communicate with other legal and support departments as well as regional offices as needed.

Open New Matter/New Client Reports, as requested, and arranges for conflicts checks.

Qualifications

3+ years of progressively responsible and varied legal secretarial experience.
Familiarity with general processes, systems philosophies, structure, methods and approaches of mid-to-large sized firms.

Director (Board Member)

Location: Warner Robins, Ga

Company: Men Saving Our Community

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Organization

Founded in 2012, Men Saving Our Community () is dedicated to providing young males, ages 5-18, who live in a single parent household, with a father figure mentor, who can assist them with their growth and life skill development. This mentor can provide guidance throughout the formative years and assist in helping lead the young male into adulthood.

For more information, please visit http://mensavingourcommunity.com/

Position

MSOC is seeking a Director as a board member, with at least three years of experience to support the organization continuous growth. This is an opportunity to support the Houston County community and throughout Georgia as we expand.

General Responsibilities

The Director will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for MSOC staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. He/she will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, business plan, and fulfill any other requirements of a Director and Officer, and performs other duties as the need arises and/or as defined in the bylaws.

Leadership & Management:

Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
Actively engage and energize MSOC Nonprofit volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders
Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout
Lead, coach, develop, and retain MSOC Nonprofit’s high-performance senior management team Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

Fundraising & Communications:

Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt
Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand
Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

Planning & New Business:

Design the national expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets
Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site
Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication

Qualifications

The Director will be thoroughly committed to MSOC Nonprofit’s mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

Advanced degree, ideally an MBA, with at least 3 years of management experience; track record of effectively leading organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

Child Development Director (Board Member)

Location: Warner Robins, Ga

Company: Men Saving Our Community

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Organization

For more information, please visit http://mensavingourcommunity.com/

Job Description

MSOC is seeking a Child Development Director as a board member, with at least three years of experience to support the organization continuous growth. This is an opportunity to support the Houston County community and throughout Georgia as we expand.

General Responsibilities

Through collaboration with all team members, helps develop and appropriately addresses the child and family concerns which the parent consider most important
Educates the parents and mentor on the child’s developmental status
Through reflective listening and communication, helps the parent and mentor gain skill and confidence in expressing their child’s strengths and needs
Using strategies to facilitate the parent-child relationship, implements the individual and group activities in order to help families identify and carry out goals and strategies to enhance their child’s development
Uses approved curriculum to guide MSOC and family in child learning
Conducts ongoing assessment in all areas of development.
Brings child and family needs to the attention of the team and mentor for discussion and action

Qualifications

Minimum of a BA/BS in child life, nursing, therapeutic recreation, child development, child psychology, education, or related fields.
3+ years or professional experience.
Successful completion of a child life internship (under the direct supervision of a CCLS) working in the area of support for hospitalized children and families.
Must have CCLS national certification.

Knowledgeable about play as a therapeutic intervention, teaching techniques with children and working with an interdisciplinary team.

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