Director Vice President

RICHARD E. JACOBS

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Lake Worth, FL 33467-7068

Home Phone: 561-***-**** Cell Phone: 561-***-****

Email: ******@*****.***

Objective

Senior executive opportunity in a social service or educational agency that

strengthens individuals, groups or communities.

Summary of Qualifications

Proven record of achieving project goals through leadership and

teambuilding. Highly focused, creative, innovative problem solver. Strong

consulting, training, supervision, presentation and interpersonal

communications skills. Diverse background includes strategic planning,

budgeting and allocations, community program planning, financial resource

development, conference planning, employee relations and agency

administration.

Selected Achievements, Skills and Experience include:

. Community Planning - program planning and development; comprehensive,

multi-agency planning for particular target populations; strategic

planning; agency-federation relations; national agency liaison; annual

budgeting and allocations.

. Financial Resource Development - annual campaign planning and

execution at all levels; supplemental giving program to meet the

personal passions of donors; government funding of multi-million

dollar programs at both the local and national level, including grant

writing, oversight, and reporting

. Conference planning (with up to 6200 lay/professional participants) in

the U.S. and Israel, including primary responsibility for program,

budget, logistics

. Agency Administration - encompassing all levels of governance

including Officers, Board, Executive Committee, Nominating Committee,

Compensation Committee, Budget Committee, By-Laws Committee,

Resolutions Committee, etc.; labor relations, union negotiations, and

contract administration; budget preparation and oversight; United Way

relations and budget request preparation

. Personnel - executive search processes; staff training and

development; teaching in continuing professional education programs;

recruitment and evaluation of personnel; supervision of department

heads, line staff, support staff, and graduate students

. Community Consultation - assessment of strengths and weaknesses;

community studies; solving problems and recommending successful

solutions in all phases of federation operation; mergers of

federations; creation of new federations

. Leadership Development - young leadership programming; board retreats

and training

. Collective responsibility funding initiatives of the Federation

System directed at the resettlement of Soviet Jewish refugees, campus

programs for college students,

Richard Jacobs

and an Israel experience for young adults (Birthright Israel) -

including design, approval, implementation and follow-up

. Comprehensive oversight of local Jewish community demographic study

Employment History

2004 - 2009 Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, Boca Raton, FL

Vice President, Community Planning (in charge of Planning &

Allocations, Community Relations, Israel & Overseas,

Jewish

Education, and Volunteer Departments)

1998 - 2004 United Jewish Communities, New York, NY

Vice President, Planning (in charge of Community Planning,

Research, National Agency Relations, and Conferences and

Meetings Departments)

Director of Special Projects

Regional Director, Southeast Florida

1997 - 1998 The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, MD

Executive Vice President - Chief Operating Officer

1990 - 1997 Council of Jewish Federations, New York, NY (Merged into UJC)

Associate Executive Vice President (in charge of

Governance and

Annual Conference)

1987 - 1990 Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, TX

Associate Executive Director

1982 - 1987 Council of Jewish Federations, New York, NY (Merged into UJC)

Director of Administration; Director, Soviet Jewish

Resettlement Program; Community Consultant (12

communities); Special Community Organization Projects

1974 - 1982 Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey,

Whippany, NJ

Assistant Executive Director; Director of Social Planning;

Grant Developer

1970 - 1974 Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

Program Assistant to the Associate Executive Director :

Program Developer, Director of Volunteers, Day Camp

Director,

Street Festival Director, College Counselor

1968 - 1970 New York City Board of Education, NY

Elementary School Teacher

Education:

1974 M.S.W. (Community Social Work) - Yeshiva University

1968 B.A. (Major: Social Relations) - Lehigh University

Professional Affiliations:

Association of Jewish Community Organization Personnel - Past President,

current

Board Member

Jewish Communal Service Association - past Board Member

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