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Director, People Operations
We’re more than fundraisers. We’re the game changers and way-makers. We go looking for the tough issues in our community, and with your help, we go solve them. United Way of Greater Kansas City unites donors, volunteers, businesses, nonprofits, and community leaders to help change the lives of those in need. We are making Kansas City and the surrounding area better…100 years and counting.
We are a team of adaptive, driven, focused and flexible innovators working to solve and support some of the biggest challenges in our community. Our team culture is collaborative, and our office environment is flexible – with a hybrid virtual and in-office environment. We believe that working hard and playing hard are essential to a job well done. Come be a part of the pinnacle nonprofit in our community!
Position Summary
As the Director, People Operations, you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for helping support all aspects of human resources management across UWGKC. Reporting directly to the Vice President, People and Operations, your expertise in human resources management will be instrumental in building a thriving, diverse and agile United Way by developing and executing HR strategies and initiatives that attract, retain, and develop top talent while promoting a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and continuous improvement. To apply, click here.
Responsibilities
Position Duties & Responsibilities
HR Strategy and Planning
- Help develop and execute HR strategies that support UWGKC’s short and long-term goals.
- Collaborate with Vice President, People and Operations to align HR objectives with overall business objectives.
- Evolve and implement HR policies and procedures that promote fairness, transparency, and employee satisfaction.
Talent Acquisition and Onboarding:
- Oversee and assist in the talent acquisition process, ensuring the recruitment of top-tier candidates across all departments, including job postings, resume screening, interviewing, and selection.
- Develop innovative sourcing methods and build a strong talent pipeline.
- Implement effective onboarding programs to welcome and integrate new employees successfully.
Employee Development and Engagement:
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, growth, and career development.
- Identify training needs within the organization and coordinate training programs to address skill gaps and enhance employee development.
- Track training participation and evaluate the effectiveness of training initiatives.
- Administer annual employee engagement survey and develop initiatives to enhance job satisfaction and retention.
Performance Development and Training:
- Implement and iterate on performance development system to provide ongoing feedback and opportunities to learn and grow.
- Provide guidance and support to managers in conducting ongoing performance conversations and setting performance goals.
- Monitor performance metrics and identify areas for improvement or development.
- Address performance-related issues and facilitate appropriate action plans.
Internal Communication & Monthly All Staff Meetings
- Develop and implement effective internal communication strategies that align with organizational goals and culture, fostering employee engagement and alignment.
- Create and disseminate weekly staff newsletter communication.
- Manage and maintain internal Microsoft Teams channels, ensuring consistent and timely dissemination of information while leveraging appropriate channels for different types of messages.
- Coordinate all aspects of monthly staff meetings, including scheduling, agenda creation and technology setup.
Compensation, Payroll and Benefits Administration:
- Liaise with third party HR vendor to manage benefits, HRIS configuration, data entry, maintenance, and ensure accurate and up-to-date employee records.
- Assist with the design and administration of competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Collect, verify, and process employee timekeeping data accurately and efficiently to ensure timely and accurate payroll runs.
- Stay updated on industry trends and conduct regular benchmarking to ensure competitiveness.
- Ensure compliance with relevant compensation laws and regulations.
Employee Relations and Legal Compliance:
- Serve as a trusted and impartial point of contact for employee inquiries and concerns, providing guidance and support as needed.
- Conduct investigations into employee complaints or grievances, maintaining confidentiality and impartiality.
- Ensure compliance with labor laws, regulations, and company policies.
- Collaborate with legal counsel when necessary to mitigate legal risks.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI):
- Champion DEI initiatives and foster an inclusive and diverse work environment by collaborating with our internal DEI Committee to achieve annual goals and priorities.
- Develop strategies to attract, retain, and advance a diverse workforce.
HR Metrics and Analytics:
- Implement HR analytics to measure the effectiveness of HR programs and initiatives.
- Utilize data-driven insights to make informed decisions and drive improvements.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
Experience (8+ years) in progressively responsible HR/operations leadership roles.
Knowledge of HR best practices, labor laws, and regulations.
Strong business acumen and the ability to align HR strategies with business objectives.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.
Experience in talent acquisition, employee development, and performance development.
Experience implementing successful DEI initiatives and positively enhancing organizational culture.
Experience in a non-profit setting is a plus.
As the Director, People Operations, you will have the opportunity to be a culture leader and drive positive change within our organization. If you are a strategic thinker and people-oriented, we invite you to apply and be a part of our dynamic team.
United Way of Kansas City offers a competitive benefits package including full health and dental coverage; 12 weeks paid parental/medical leave; unlimited paid time off; 403B with company match; flexible office culture; employee development opportunities and a hybrid work environment.
Director, Finance and Accounting Services
We’re more than fundraisers. We’re the hand-raisers and game changers. We go looking for the tough issues in our community, and with your help, we go solve them. United Way of Greater Kansas City (UWGKC) unites donors, volunteers, businesses, nonprofits and community leaders to help change the lives of those in need. We are making Kansas City and the surrounding area better…100 years and counting. Join us.
United Way of Greater Kansas City is a flexible workplace where we trust employees and managers to work together to establish the optimal balance of office and remote work for individual, team, and organization success. Full-time employees are scheduled to work 37.5 hours per week with an option of a condensed 4.5 day work week.
We are searching for a Director, Finance Accounting Services, to develop and maintain accounting practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial statements. Reporting to the Vice President, Finance, the Director, Finance Accounting Services is responsible for ensuring that organization accounting work is properly allocated and completed in a timely and accurate manner. This position leads a small team to complete all organization accounting activities including general ledger preparation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, year-end audit preparation, the support of budget and forecast activities, and payroll activities. This includes handling multiple projects and using good judgment to determine priorities. To apply, click here.
Responsibilities
Accounting: leadership | attention to detail
- Supervise a team of 3 Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable staff.
- Reconcile general ledger accounts, including accounts receivable and revenue.
- Record monthly activity for investments, trusts, employee benefits, and restricted funds.
- Review vendor payments for accuracy.
- Prepare quarterly and monthly financial reports for review and distribution to to Board of Trustees, Senior staff and Program Directors. repare year end audit workpapers and assist with annual audit and 990 preparations.
- Maintain, and strive to improve, accounting processes and procedures required to execute departmental functions at the highest level of quality.
- Contribute and assist with developing, maintaining and ensuring compliance with accounting policies and procedures.
Payroll: organized | confidentiality | ethical
- Record transactions related to bi-weekly payroll processing
- Ensure funds are properly remitted to 403(b) recordkeeper and HSA accounts.
- Perform annual 403(b) testing to ensure compliance.
- Prepare information needed for calculation of annual discretionary contribution.
- Prepare workpapers and assist with annual 403(b) audit.
- Assist with other compliance, as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Five years related work experience, preferably in a Not-for-Profit environment. Public accounting experience also preferred.
- Management or supervisory experience required.
- Customer Focus: Excellent customer service, a strong reputation for integrity and professionalism. Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Intellectual Curiosity: Desire to continuously learn and grow. Curiosity to understand how your job impacts the work of others. Desire to see the big picture.
- Organizing: Must have organizational skills and attention to detail. Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner. Must be able to manage projects, workload and engage constructively with the other UWGKC team members.
- Timely Decision Making: Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; able to make a quick decision.
- Priority Setting: Strong performance management and evaluation capabilities including the willingness and ability to ensure accountability. Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeroes in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
Manager of Grants and Donor Communications
Mission: To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of Greater Kansas City
We’re more than fundraisers. We’re the hand-raisers and game changers. We go looking for the tough issues in our community, and with your help, we go solve them. United Way of Greater Kansas City (UWGKC) unites donors, volunteers, businesses, nonprofits and community leaders to help change the lives of those in need. We are making Kansas City and the surrounding area better…100 years and counting. Join us.
Position Summary
This person believes that solutions to complex social problems are possible when Kansas Citians are united for transformative change. Primary responsibility is to grow revenue through strategic grantmaking, collaborative community partnerships, and execution of donor communications and annual appeal. To apply, click here.
Responsibilities
Position Duties & Responsibilities
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Grant Research, Writing and Management
- Support the development of an annual grant strategy in conjunction with partners across Community Impact and Development, including an annual grant calendar, inventory of grant opportunities, and prioritizing of grant opportunities in support of United Way initiatives.
- Lead grant acquisition efforts for the organization and internal programs, including prospecting grant opportunities, preparing grant proposals and managing follow-up reporting and grant compliance.
- Make effective use of written communications to achieve goals related to grant making and community collaboration work, ensuring that stakeholders stay apprised of the organization’s work.
- Conduct post-grant award stewardship, including review of annual progress reports and aggregation of grantee outcome data.
- Day-to-day oversight and management of the pipeline of strategic initiatives, developing effective feedback mechanisms to ensure that the relevant staff and external partners are kept current regarding all aspects of the initiatives.
- Strengthen technology channels through Empower Pack, project management through Asana, and create effective communication, calendars, and schedules to improve the time management process.
- Serve as regular contact for UWGKC with leadership at area foundations and public funding agencies (as well as national funders, when appropriate) to cultivate relationships, engage around funding opportunities, and serve as the point of contact on grant applications and post-award reporting.
Fundraising, Annual Appeal and Communications
- Exhibit exceptional communication skills while serving as the project lead for the direct mail and automated messaging plan.
- Implement and craft annual donor solicitations and communications as part of a cross-department team.
- Be knowledgeable about UWGKC’s work and be an effective and compelling communicator of the same to advance engagement and brand value.
- Be an active listener – seek to understand the spoken and unspoken needs of others, both colleagues as well as donors and prospects; include and engage others; be an effective facilitator between the organization and the donor; know when to bring others into donor conversations and decisions.
Operational Excellence
- Contribute to building a positive, results-oriented, donor-centric culture that delivers upon UWGKC’s mission driven strategic, operational and financial objectives.
- Participate in the Community Impact team managing high-level relationships and the Development team for program presentations to ensure strategic alignment between UWGKC initiatives and programs and fundraising objectives.
- A data-driven thinker who ensures systems are in place and functioning to gather, interpret, and report data to drive dynamic programming performance and impact.
- Regularly assess progress to goals, identifying what drives and impedes progress, work to develop solutions to address gaps.
- Maintain accurate and detailed donor communications notes in appropriate databases; ensure prompt acknowledgement of donations secured.
- Manage to project deadlines as outlined while proactively managing up to supervisor, Executive Team members and cross-departmentally.
Annual Goals: Achieve established goals for current and prospective grants and annual appeal fundraising and engagement. Work with other members of the UWGKC team to ensure goals and execution reflect, align and contribute to the broader goals of the organization.
Flexibility: UWGKC is evolving with our changing external environment. Flexibility is a key attribute for this position. A willingness to take on additional duties to ensure the success of the team is essential. Limited evenings and weekends may be needed to staff activities.
Qualifications
Position Qualifications
The requirements listed are representative of the basic knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree is required or equivalent, relevant professional work experience.
- At least three years of experience in grant writing or related field required.
- Excellent understanding of fundraising principles preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership in relationship building and management with internal and external constituents and a commitment to UWGKC’s focus on diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.
- Forward thinker with strong communication skills and politically savvy to represent UWGKC in this critical position.
- Proven experience and success in project management with a high degree of reliability, thoroughness, consistency, organization and accuracy is required.
- Proficient technology, computer and database experience required.
- Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive data.
Core Competencies
- Catalyst: A change agent who actively convenes partnerships with others who offer diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to drive community transformation and foster mission goals.
- Achievement: Driven to make a difference – actively sets challenging stretch goals – passionately and purposely aims to achieve them; demonstrating adaptability and perseverance.
- Responsive: Can be counted on to do what he or she says will be done. Models a consultative engagement approach in all interactions developing relationships both internally and externally, brings the “right” stakeholders into decisions and actions; and resolves conflicts respectfully.
- Excellence: Invests in continuously learning, generously shares knowledge and strives to do the right thing in all endeavors to positively reflect the UWGKC brand and mission.
- Solutions: Exhibits fierce resolve to understand root issues that impact achievement of results. Collaborates to devise creative, innovative solutions to optimize outcomes for those we serve.
Position Leader: Vice President, Philanthropy
Position Leads: None
FSLA status: Exempt
Great Places to Work™ Certified
United Way of Greater Kansas City is pleased to announce its second consecutive year earning official certification from Great Places To Work™.
Great Places To Work™ certification recognizes employers who create an outstanding employee experience.
Certification is a two-step process that includes a survey of employees about the organization, quality of work environment, workplace benefits and more. Because employee feedback and independent analysis determine scores, certification helps potential job seekers identify which organizations offer excellent company culture.
To earn a Great Places To Work Certification, more than half of employees must complete the survey and the average score results must show that approximately 7 out of 10 employees are having a consistently positive experience at work.
The recognition reenforces United Way’s commitment to maximizing employee potential through effective leadership, strong value structure, and a deep foundation of trust with all employees. All those qualities contribute to our team’s innovation and performance, and encourages everyone to contribute their best.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement:
We value the diversity of our workforce and take steps to create and maintain an inclusive, non- discriminatory workplace where you can effectively and efficiently utilize your skills and experience. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, citizenship, religion, disability, age, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status, condition or characteristic protected by applicable law.