Search Success: Sher Omerovic Named JVS’ New Chief Program Officer!

JVS Boston and Pillar Search & HR Consulting are proud to announce, following an extensive and competitive candidate search, the appointment of Sher Omerovic to the position of Chief Program Officer.

This is a well-deserved promotion from Sher’s most recent role with JVS as Senior Vice President of Programs. Sher joined JVS in 2016.

Reporting to JVS’ CEO, Kira Khazatsky, Sher will lead the core of JVS’ work – the development, quality, and delivery of JVS’s services. Sher will provide strategic leadership to the programmatic Vice President team to ensure alignment with the organization’s mission and goals, and support and develop the programmatic VP team to achieve programmatic outcomes. She will collaborate with other principal executives to ensure long-term strategic planning and board management align with the organization’s mission and goals.

Sher brings extensive program, workforce development and leadership experience to the Chief Program Officer role. Prior to JVS, she worked at the Fish Family Foundation, where she developed and implemented a statewide citizenship initiative partnering with multiple community organizations, immigration attorneys, and volunteers to organize large-scale citizenship events across the commonwealth, and held roles in immigration and employment with Catholic Charities of Boston and in grants with United Way. Sher earned her master’s degree in nonprofit project management from Northeastern University and her bachelor’s degree in international relations and modern languages from Beloit College.

About JVS Boston: For 80 years, JVS has helped tens of thousands of individuals with barriers to economic success secure financial independence through training, education, and employment services.  As the largest provider of adult education and workforce development services in the region, JVS is a nationally recognized leader in workforce development, and is a key part of the poverty alleviation strategy for the greater-Boston area.  In order to reach people in need of assistance on their pathway to meaningful employment and financial independence, JVS targets most of its services to low-income individuals who are unemployed or underemployed and to low-wage workers in need of career advancement services.  Many have multiple support needs ranging from limited English proficiency and lack of education to disabilities, criminal records, lack of childcare and transportation.  JVS operates on annual budget of more than $15 million, of which is derived equally from public and private sources. For more information, please visit www.jvs-boston.org.

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting: A woman-owned business based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. For more information, please visit www.pillarsearch.com.

New Search! Chief Technology Officer with VolunteerMatch

VolunteerMatch, a nonprofit organization, matches inspired people with inspiring causes. It’s how volunteers and nonprofits connect to achieve remarkable outcomes.  VolunteerMatch has partnered with Pillar Search & HR Consulting on the search for their new Chief Technology Officer. This is an ideal opportunity for a talented technology leader who is mission-driven and has a proven track record of leading high-performance and remote teams.

With 1.3M monthly visitors per month, VolunteerMatch’s mission is to make it easy for good people and good causes to connect. Since 1998, more than 17M volunteers have connected with leading nonprofits through our platform. Today, our social innovations are powering volunteer engagement for a nation of nonprofits, businesses, campuses, and government agencies. We are in a vibrant period of growth and change: embracing being a fully cloud-based organization with no ties to a physical space; experiencing record amounts of philanthropic investment; the energy and inspiration of a new CEO; and establishing a new leadership team.

Role Description: Chief Technology Officer

Reporting Relationship: CEO

Direct Reports: 12 employees

Status: Full-time

Location: Remote within the United States

Compensation: Base salary range of $180,000 to $225,000 per annum, depending on prior experience of the candidate, plus bonus and competitive benefits

Responsibilities

VolunteerMatch is looking for an experienced technology and product leader in its new Chief Technology Officer.  They will own the evolution and execution of our products from whiteboard to source code to ongoing operations including design, product management, development, usability and QA.  As a member of the executive leadership team, the CTO will inspire and lead with vision, curiosity, and a growth mindset.

  • Drive a technology culture that seeks feedback, continuous improvement and innovation for social good.
  • Directly manage the senior team members of the product and engineering teams.
  • Align VolunteerMatch’’s technology with emerging trends and technologies Including artificial intelligence and machine learning.
  • Work across a diverse product set from APIs to mobile apps to the web.
  • Align the product and engineering team with execution of the organization’s strategic priorities in sales, marketing and customer success.
  • Communicate with employees, stakeholders, customers and investors.
  • Ensure that VolunteerMatch is in compliance with security and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOC2).

Desired Skills and Experience

  • At least fifteen years of prior experience as a senior engineering leader overseeing architecture and engineering for enterprise-wide technology platforms and leading SaaS technology platforms.
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or another relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
  • MBA or MA/MS in a related field of computer science will be an asset.
  • Proven ability to successfully lead in an agile, Scrum-based SDLC.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, building, and supporting successful revenue-generating API services.
  • Deeply committed to using your powers for social good, developing social innovations that address deep societal needs.
  • Demonstrated knowledge, skills and experience with human-centered design and design thinking.
  • Commitment to lean start-up methodologies, and pragmatic commitment to innovation.
  • Demonstrated people management skills and the ability to positively motivate a team with both a sense of urgency and joy.
  • Proven ability to build and manage diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams.

About VolunteerMatch:

VolunteerMatch’s talented team work remotely and extends from Silicon Valley to New York City. We are passionate, collaborative, and mission-driven.

National nonprofit partners include Red Cross, California State Library, Easter Seals, Girl Scouts of the USA, National CASA, National MS Society. Their corporate partners include ADT, AT&T, Bank of the West, Choice Hotels International, Discovery Communications, Groupon, Humana, JetBlue, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Morgan Stanley, Nationwide, NBC Universal, Office Depot, Robert Half, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Starbucks, and Time Warner.

How To Apply:

VolunteerMatch has partnered with Pillar Search & HR Consulting to identify and their new Chief Technology Officer. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume, along with a cover letter (required) to Cindy Joyce, Founder of Pillar Search & HR Consulting, at cindy@pillarsearch.com.

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting: A woman-owned business based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and the boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. For more information, please visit www.pillarsearch.com.

Certified Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter (CDR)

Pillar Search & HR Consulting

I am pleased to announce that today I became a Certified Diversity Recruiter (CDR), which will help me to continue my work of helping nonprofit and mission-driven organizations to create and execute successful hiring strategies with a focus on building pipelines of talent, including from diverse and underrepresented groups. The AIRS Certified Diversity and Inclusion Recruiter course provides executive search and recruiting professionals the opportunity to develop strategies to create and improve diversity and inclusion talent acquisition practices. 

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting: A woman-owned business based in Boston, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with leaders and boards to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. For more information, please visit www.pillarsearch.com.