The Leadership Collaborations Specialist provides support the Community Collaborations Manager in implementation of the Leader in Me and additional educational programs.
The Leader in Me Project Coordination
- Work closely with the Community Collaborations Manager to coordinate TLIM implementation steps, partnership outreach, and consistent communication.
- Work closely with the Community Collaborations Manager to coordinate TLIM events, Leadership days, and advocacy events.
- Work closely with the Community Collaborations Manager to provide promotional needs and respond to information requests to support production of collateral materials.
- Help support brand identity and trust by gathering success stories from individuals and partners engaged in project activities.
Collaborative Coalition/Project Leadership
- Represent United Way of Acadiana, when assigned, to provide staff support to efforts to ensure TLIM goals are achieved.
- Support efforts to fulfill UWA commitments as per MOU if crafted for the collaborative effort.
- Regularly report progress, barriers and recommendations to your supervisor.
- Upon launch of all efforts, assist in the development of a project plan with a timeline and budget.
Organizational Alignment and Adaptive Leadership:
- Integrate customer relations management (CRM) practices into all activities.
- Contribute to strategic planning when requested.
- Submit all expenses according to UWA financial procedures, including advanced approval of expenditures by your supervisor.
- Ensure compliance with service delivery or grant contracts as it related to your schools under management. Consult your supervisor as necessary.
- Exhibit high ethical standards and morals and embrace organizational values.
- Execute special projects and assignments as needed.
- Attend national and regional staff meetings/training conferences.
- Participate in all staff meetings and board or executive committee meetings when requested.
- Serve as a Tier Two (II) staff member for disaster.
- Ensure adherence to all UWA policies and procedures.
At least three years of experience with project development and management; track record of adaptive and collaborative leadership; experiences working in the education or social/nonprofit sector; strong background in program research, outcomes development, grants management and measurement as well as knowledge of the communities served; solid experience working with partners in collaborative or collective impact settings.
Core Competencies:
- Ability to facilitate meetings
- Ability to manage relationships
- Ability to provide adaptive leadership
- Ability to collaborate
- Ability to be results driven
- Ability to be mission focused
- Ability to engage the community
- Ability to develop strategies
- Ability to mobilize resources effectively
- Understands evaluation and measurement
- Ability to be a strategic communicator
- Ability to serve as a brand steward
- Ability to innovate
- Ability to manage performance
Foundational Competencies:
- Learns and innovates continuously
- Ability to acquire and theme public knowledge
- Ability to research expert knowledge
- Embraces ambiguity and paradox
- Demonstrates complexity and systems thinking
- Shares power and decision-making
- Ability to work with partners
- Ability to manage and oversee projects
- Embraces diversity and inclusiveness