Interim Executive Director

Description:

The New York City Campaign Finance Board oversees New York City’s small donor democracy program and educates and engages voters via NYC Votes. The CFB has enjoyed a tremendous arc of progress over its 30-year history, and our updated flagship small donor democracy program is a centerpiece of this progress.
We eliminate barriers to participation by providing access to the resources New Yorkers need to vote or run for office and amplify the voices of small donors with New York City’s small donor democracy program.
We are dedicated to making New York City’s local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable. You would be working with a team that is mission driven and committed to continuous improvement.
The New York City Campaign Finance Board is looking for an Interim Executive Director to lead the nationally recognized organization with a staff of approximately 160 employees and a 2023 fiscal year budget of $80 million with multiple mandates in campaign finance and voting education and engagement. This is a part-time, temporary position. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Provide Leadership:

• Create long-term strategies for the agency.
• Set agency-wide priorities and goals and ensure goals are implemented at the division level.
• Establish agency culture, expectations, and work standards.
• Recognize, create, and support opportunities for innovation in technology, staff hiring and retention, diversity, and programming.

Manage employees, processes, and programs:

• Appropriately position staff for maximal effectiveness.
• Ensure agency work quality is superior and completed according to deadlines.
• Create and maintain the organization budget by working with both staff and external city partners.
• Work with the Executive Team to ensure divisions’ work is proceeding efficiently and agency’s goals are being achieved.

Advise and support the board:

• Supervise preparation of materials for use in the Board’s adjudicative process.
• Provide guidance and staff point of view to Board on advisory opinions and policy issues.
• Provide regular updates on staff work and present issues of potential agency exposure.

Act as outward face for CFB:

• When needed, act as the public face of the agency.
• With Board and Public Affairs team, define agency press message; appear in media interviews.
• Support legislative agenda and testify before City Council.
• Represent agency interests before other government bodies.
• Provide assistance to other jurisdictions based on CFB’s work.

Minimum Qual Requirements

Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.