Yestermorrow Seeks Executive Director

Executive Director
Yestermorrow Design/Build School

Job Overview
Yestermorrow Design/Build School inspires people to create a better, more sustainable world by providing hands-on education that integrates design and craft as a creative, interactive process. Yestermorrow was founded on a commitment to make architectural design and building knowledge and methods easily accessible to all individuals. We remain dedicated to achieving a more environmentally and socially sustainable society through innovative education, focused on teaching the design process with the goal of expanding people’s understanding of good design. Our curriculum integrates the design process with the skills of building and the craft of fine detail.

The School is committed to design and building knowledge communicated through personal experience and hands-on education guided by master practitioners. The School embraces the principles of sustainability, craftsmanship, experiential learning, and place-based education emphasizing the development of individual design skills, self-confidence, personal creativity, and social responsibility. We believe Yestermorrow’s educational philosophy is important in a world where knowledge has become more abstract, indifferent to environmental and social conditions, and craftsmanship is often not valued or understood.

Yestermorrow seeks an Executive Director who shares these values, understands its educational mission and aspires to bring the School to a new and expanded level of influence and impact. We need a dynamic leader who is able to guide our expansion while guarding and nourishing our defining spirit, institutional vision and core strengths. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with architecture and sustainable design. We seek a leader with a strong vision, entrepreneurial spirit, dedicated to inspired learning. We further seek an individual active in fields allied to sustainable design and building who regards Yestermorrow as an important innovator in this field, and has the vision to expand the School’s impact and relevance. The Executive Director must be a strategic and visionary thinker, effective leader and team builder. The Executive Director must also possess strong administrative, business, and management skills. Fundraising and development will be an important facet of the position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership and Strategic Planning
Administration and Management
Development and Fundraising
Board and Community Relations
Curriculum and Program Development

Salary and Benefits
Annual Salary is $65,000 – $75,000 commensurate with experience. Additional benefits include full health coverage, 4 weeks vacation, and free tuition for Yestermorrow courses.

To apply
Send resume and cover letter via email to search@yestermorrow.org explaining how your qualifications and experience have prepared you to lead Yestermorrow. Rolling application reviews begin January 1, 2009.