Executive Director, Read Aloud Delaware

Do you love to read? Do you think that all children need to be ready to learn to read when they reach kindergarten? If you are passionate about reading and interested in promoting literacy, please consider joining out team. Read Aloud Delaware is a statewide nonprofit agency promoting early literacy. Our mission is to ensure that each preschool child in Delaware is regularly read to one-on-one. Our signature program is the Volunteer Reading Program. Carefully screened volunteers are assigned to a single classroom in one of 100 childcare centers. Volunteer readers read to one child at a time for 5-15 minutes per child.

The Executive Director leads a staff 3 full-time and 3 part-time employees working out of 3 offices---Wilmington, Dover and Georgetown. The Director leads fund-raising, marketing and programming efforts. There are outside resources to assist with grant-writing, accounting, and human resources.

Benefits

• Fully paid health insurance and prescription coverage for employee only; paid Long-term disability insurance
• $2000 allowance available for other benefits such as life insurance, dental insurance, vision coverage, and 403b plan participation (no company match)
• 14 paid holidays including all the days between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1
• 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 sick day per month accrues indefinitely

How to Apply

tblack43@verizon.net

https://www.ReadAloudDelaware.org

Please submit resume and cover letter to tblack43@verizon.net. If asked to an interview, you will be asked to prepare a writing sample.

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