Job Description

/POSITION: Chief Operating Officer (COO)

/ ACCOUNTABLE TO: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

/CLASSIFICATION: Full Time, Salaried, Exempt

/SALARY& BENEFITS: Generous salary and merit pay, health insurance, retirement benefits, and 4 weeks of vacation .

/ABOUT LIFE REMODELED:

Life Remodeled works with communities and organizations to create neighborhood revitalization that lasts. Our unique model repurposes vacant school buildings into one-stop hubs of opportunity where families can thrive. We fill these hubs with the best and brightest nonprofit organizations and facilitate collaboration to create far greater life transformation together than was previously possible alone. Together, we ensure more:

1. Detroit students perform at/above grade level in math and reading

2. Families have access to essential health and wellness services

3. Community members obtain higher-paying jobs and achieve economic self-sufficiency

/DEFINING THE OPPORTUNITY

Life Remodeled has an ambitious 2030 vision: to operate two impactful and self-sustaining Detroit Opportunity Hubs while significantly expanding neighborhood revitalization efforts in workforce development, youth engagement, economic development, and digital inclusion.

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Chief Operating Officer (COO) who excels at coaching and empowering the Executive Leadership Team, seamlessly integrating the organization’s major functions, and driving operational excellence. As the right-hand partner to the CEO, the COO will be the glue that holds together our people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy—ensuring alignment, efficiency, and impact in everything we do.

/KEY LEADERSHIP ROLES

• Faithfully executes the strategic plan, achieving or exceeding yearly objectives. 
• Coaches the Executive Leadership Team with a perfect blend of inspiration, support, accountability, and professional growth. Creates a culture where everyone throughout the organization owns their role, results, and impact. 
• Integrates all major operating functions of the organization, including people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy. Ensures everyone is rowing together in the same direction. 
• Models the way, always working toward the greater good of our mission.
• Resolves issues effectively and promptly—seeing real problems, being comfortable with conflict, calling out the problems, and solving them in a practical and healthy manner.
• Ensures sure the right people are on the bus and in the right seats.
• Ensures all key messages are properly and consistently cascaded across the organization. Verifies that a high level of effective communication exists throughout the entire organization.
• Seamlessly collaborates with the CEO and stays on the same page. Maintains a high level of mutual respect and is not afraid to challenge or be challenged.

/THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

You are the ideal candidate if you are obsessed with details and organizational excellence, yet you value people even more than projects. You confront the brutal facts and always find a way. Others often think you are one of the most humble people they’ve ever met, and they are equally amazed by your relentless determination to

effectively drive the ball down the field. People are inspired by how quickly you can think on your feet, but even more impressed by your commitment to sustainability and enduring change. Lastly, you come alive when you are in partnership with a thriving visionary, but you are never afraid to challenge their ideas.

/QUALIFICATIONS

• Executive leadership experience is required.
• Highly experienced in leading, coaching, and supporting accountability, but also has the capacity to be hands-on when needed.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with the capability to get things done in the face of adversity.
• Working knowledge of an organizational operating system such as Scaling Up, EOS, Pinnacle, or Next Level Nonprofit is preferred but not required.

We are fortunate to receive many inquiries about our job postings, so we will only be able to respond to candidates who most closely match our qualifications. Thank you for understanding!

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