Achieving population-level well-being in complex social outcomes cannot be achieved by any single organization working alone. It must be achieved in partnership with many organizations and institutions, which is difficult to achieve without an intentionally convened collaborative environment and regular, well-facilitated meetings. This is the role of a Network Director: to convene, facilitate, and help build collective action among a set of partners.
Convene and Facilitate Outcomes-Focused, Collaborative Working Groups
- (Co)convene and (co)facilitate partnership groups toward aligned action that leads to measurable progress on identified outcomes and indicators
- Analyze existing services and collaborative working groups to identify gaps, then work with groups to ensure collective action toward measurable results
- Expertly manage group logistics, data, processes, and collateral so partnership focuses on action
Engage in Rigorous Continuous Improvement Processes
- Work with partners to quantify target population, desired outcomes, and measurable indicators of success
- Assess the current conditions, including the outcome’s trend over time and the partners that are working toward the outcome
- Monitor interventions against outcomes; ensure partnership modifies practices based on findings
Results Accountability
- Work with partners to develop a set of performance measures for each relevant program, strategy, or intervention
- Provide coaching for partners conducting improvement cycles
Support the Promise Partnership Regional Council (PPRC)
- Ensure institutional support of aligned action through systems-level institutions.
- Work in two-way communication with PPRC members to advocate for necessary systems change
Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisory personnel
- Ability to facilitate a partnership using the principles of Collective Impact, results-based facilitation, results-based accountability, and rapid-cycle continuous improvement
- Hold honest conversations leading to aligned actions, shared goals, and plans creation
- Foster trust and open communication with diverse partners
- Recognize and address conflict and concerns
- Proactively, constructively, and creatively problem solve
- Engage in systems thinking and help draw connections and alignment between ideas, programs, initiatives, and partners
- Interact comfortably with high-level leaders and community members from diverse backgrounds
- Synthesize information and simplify complexity. Ability to help partnerships and team members to communicate a common, consistent message, particularly about the attribution of success. Ability to reinforce common, consistent language around the value and purpose of a backbone role
- Ability to organize and prioritize own work and the work of a partnerships/partners
- Make results and progress accessible, visible, and actionable
- Locate, disaggregate, and use data to forecast, structure conversations, and make decisions
- Address disparities related to race, ethnicity, income, and other factors
- Recognize and act on strategic opportunities by identifying what is needed to achieve goals
- Confidence and humility to ask questions, admit and address challenges, and “fail forward”
- Thrive in a cross-cultural environment with an asset-based framework
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2-3 years of directly applicable experience
- Proficient with Microsoft and Google suites
Salary: $61,000 to $70,000 per year