Blossom is always on the lookout for qualified individuals to support and enhance the wide range of offerings to our community.
Our Mission
Blossom Birth and Family is a non-profit with a to connect new and expectant families with services, resources and support for a healthy, informed and confident pregnancy and parenting journey.
Organization Overview
Since 1999, Blossom has been working to meet the ever-changing needs of women and their families during preconception, pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. We offer a comprehensive range of resources and services including fitness, childbirth preparation, parent education classes, and early parenting support groups. We also offer an online provider network and provide professional development for birth workers such as birth and postpartum doulas.
Listed below are our current openings, however we welcome resumes and class ideas on an on-going basis.
Our Mission
Blossom Birth and Family is a non-profit with a to connect new and expectant families with services, resources and support for a healthy, informed and confident pregnancy and parenting journey.
Organization Overview
Since 1999, Blossom has been working to meet the ever-changing needs of women and their families during preconception, pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. We offer a comprehensive range of resources and services including fitness, childbirth preparation, parent education classes, and early parenting support groups. We also offer an online provider network and provide professional development for birth workers such as birth and postpartum doulas.
Listed below are our current openings, however we welcome resumes and class ideas on an on-going basis.
Staff Positions
Volunteer Positions
Volunteer Positions
- Members - Board of Directors
Staff Positions
Volunteer Positions
Members - Board of Directors
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Board of Directors Responsibilities
The Board supports the work of Blossom and provides mission-based leadership and strategic governance, while executing its legal and fiduciary duties. The role of the Board includes:
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Board Member Responsibilities
While day-to-day operations are led by Blossom’s Executive Director (ED), the Board-ED relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the Board is both critical and expected. Specific leadership, governance and oversight responsibilities of an individual Board Member include:
Qualifications
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
Time Commitment
Two-year term commitment with an option to extend for a maximum of three terms
Attendance at monthly Board meetings (typically held in the evening))
Attendance at two semi-annual Board retreats (~4-6 hours on a weekend)
Additional 4 hours/month minimum of volunteering (including committee work)
Participation in the organization’s fundraising efforts as described above
Board Member applicants should be based in the Bay Area, CA. To apply, please complete and submit a cover letter and resume to board@blossombirthandfamily.org. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Our next review is on June 30, 2021 - please submit your application by this date.
While day-to-day operations are led by Blossom’s Executive Director (ED), the Board-ED relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the Board is both critical and expected. Specific leadership, governance and oversight responsibilities of an individual Board Member include:
- Knowing the organization’s mission, policies, programs, and needs
- Serving as a trusted advisor to the ED as they develop and implement Blossom’s strategic plan
- Reviewing outcomes and metrics created by Blossom for evaluating its impact, and regularly measuring its performance and effectiveness using those metrics; reviewing agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings
- Approving Blossom’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all legal and fiduciary responsibilities, including faithfully reading and understanding the organization’s financial statements
- Contributing to an annual performance evaluation of the ED
- Assisting the ED and board chair in identifying and recruiting other Board Members
- Serving as an active advocate and ambassador for the organization and fully engaging in identifying and securing the financial resources and partnerships necessary for the organization to advance its mission
- Leveraging connections, networks, and resources to fully help achieve the organization’s mission and to benefit the organization’s fundraising and reputational standing
- Serving on at least one committee or task force and taking on special assignments
- Ensuring Blossom’s commitment to a diverse board and staff that reflects the community Blossom serves
- Fundraising
- Blossom Board Members will consider Blossom a philanthropic priority and make an annual gift that reflects that priority. So that Blossom can credibly solicit contributions from foundations, organizations, and individuals, Blossom expects to have 100 percent of Board Members make an annual contribution that is commensurate with their capacity or to secure that amount through philanthropic solicitation (give or get).
Qualifications
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
- Professional experience with leadership accomplishments in maternal, pediatric or mental health, non-profit management, fundraising, financial planning and analysis, management and governance, human resources, and/or community development
- Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a passion for supporting expecting parents and growing families
- An entrepreneurial, self-starting mentality
Time Commitment
Two-year term commitment with an option to extend for a maximum of three terms
Attendance at monthly Board meetings (typically held in the evening))
Attendance at two semi-annual Board retreats (~4-6 hours on a weekend)
Additional 4 hours/month minimum of volunteering (including committee work)
Participation in the organization’s fundraising efforts as described above
Board Member applicants should be based in the Bay Area, CA. To apply, please complete and submit a cover letter and resume to board@blossombirthandfamily.org. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Our next review is on June 30, 2021 - please submit your application by this date.
Blossom Birth Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
