Deputy Director

FitMoney is an 8 year-old nonprofit, disrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty by equipping k-12 children with financial literacy.
The FitMoney curriculum - a K-12 classroom curriculum for personal finance that includes a game for elementary kids, a junior certificate for middle schoolers and senior certificate for high schoolers - is exemplary, designed by teachers for teachers, all digital, inclusive and free to all users. This is a little nonprofit serving 89,000 and growing very fast, because of partnerships with American Student Association (we gained 42,000 students in 12 months, 50% from marginalized communities,  72% girls); 18 Girl Scout Councils; New Hampshire Learn Everywhere (our high school curriculum earns students credit in New Hampshire); and the American National Military Family Association.     . 

FitMoney is addressing a massive challenge.  While children form their financial habits at age 7, there are no schools teaching financial literacy at elementary levels, and only 16.6% of high schools provide any financial literacy training.  With low or no credit score, many living in marginalized communities experience a widening wealth gap, lower standard of living, higher debt - impacting their homes, jobs, transportation and healthcare.   As 26 states now mandate teaching financial literacy by 2028, the demand is enormous.  FitMoney’s challenge is to grow our resources and get the word out that we have an exemplary financial literacy curricula free to all users.   

FitMoney is comprised of a warm, inclusive, smart, and fleet of foot board and staff - unbiased, diverse, welcoming and respectful. 

Deputy Director Job Description

This role oversees Operations, Human Resources and Finance,  freeing up the Executive Director to focus on  fundraising, marketing and programming.

Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), the Deputy Director (DD) will have both internal and external facing responsibilities, ranging from partner and project management (business development, framing of key approaches, high-quality service and program delivery, written products) to administration (information technology, reporting, facilities), and human capital (HR/recruiting, mentoring, career progression). The Deputy Director will partner closely with the ED to chart FitMoney’s growth and strategic response to an ever-increasing demand for the organization’s services.

The DD will  have oversight on operations, liaising with the staff weekly, maintaining the passion the staff feel for Fit Money and ensuring a continuation of open, synergistic teamwork.  While not essential, it would be helpful for the candidate to have her/his own network of development prospects in the realm of children’s education and empowerment.  From time to time, the DD may assist the ED with development and growing and stewarding support for FitMoney

Responsibilities

Operation Structure and lead teams to deliver outstanding work

• Develop and oversee a calendar of operational goals
• Work with teams on establishing goals, reporting on progress, and responding to requests for help
• Report on and celebrate goals achieved; review goals that are not achieved
• Build and maintain strong partnership relationships
• Represent FitMoney in industry-group conferences, professional associations, and other public venues
• Develop thought leadership around specific topics/emerging practice areas
• Share in knowledge dissemination, reporting, and communications
• Help reorganize and maintain google drive and the board shared drive
• Participate in committee meetings with board members and staff
• Investigate opportunities for advocacy and government relationship development

• Partner with the ED in essential internal firm leadership activities (human resources, administration, and organizational planning)
• Manage increasing segments of information technology, human resources (recruiting,

reviews, staff deployment/workload balancing, career progression) with related internal communications and budgeting/finance duties

• Identify best practices and improve internal systems with an eye toward future needs and budget realities
• Mentoring, coaching; visible, approachable sounding board/resource
• Implement back-end management for growing and diverse donor channels

• Distinguished service in       a senior management position in a nonprofit organization, foundation, or government agency
• A network of diversified nonprofit funders would be helpful, not essential
• Articulate, highly intelligent, a great communicator
• Education marketing experience would be helpful
• Advanced/MBA degree from a leading university preferred
• Track record delivering superior results, commanding respect, and assuming leadership roles
• Success in roles requiring execution of multiple tasks while responding to multiple priorities
• Success in leading or co-leading an organization with growing operations and resources 
• Proven ability to work with efficiency, flexibility, and good humor
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of people – junior and senior, for-profit and nonprofit, and from diverse backgrounds
• Ability to operate with excellence in mind in all matters, with the confidence to defend/debate ideas without ego interfering
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills - written and oral
• Passionate about FitMoney’s mission and impact
• Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy in organizational settings
• Transparent, direct, with substance
• Self-starter, self-disciplined
• Spark, imagination, creativity
• Warm yet professional manner
• Remain focused in the face of pressure, delivers against timelines, not easily intimidated

vacation, 401k, health coverage

Email your cover letter and resume to Rhouk@fitmoney.org