We believe parents are their children’s first and most important teacher, yet many families need extra help to support their children’s growth and development. While schools and communities understand the importance of effectively engaging families, they often lack the tools and resources to foster and sustain family engagement. Working closely with partner schools, Save the Children is uniquely positioned to deepen family and community engagement in isolated rural communities. To advance this work, we are seeking a fulltime Director for Family and Community Engagement. This position will play a key leadership role within Save the Children US’s Rural Education team and work collaboratively across our early learning and school-age program teams.
Areas of Responsibility:
Family and Community Engagement Program Design and Implementation (60%):
- Assess current family and community engagement activities and develop a coherent strategy that builds on successes and addresses gaps.
- Develop new strategies, tools and resources to strengthen connections between families, schools and communities across the school districts where we work.
- Develop targeted strategies to engage marginalized families, including children with challenging home environments, children living in foster care or kinship care and children with disabilities.
- Lead data collection strategy and process to monitor program quality and assess program impact.
Provide Technical Leadership (20%):
- Work with colleagues to build internal capacity for family and community engagement.
- Develop and implement trainings, workshops and presentations for staff, parents and partners on topics related to family and community engagement.
- Represent Save the Children as a family and community engagement expert with internal and external audiences.
- Remain current on trends, best practices and other rapidly-changing developments in family engagement.
Manage Family and Community Engagement Staff (10%):
- Provide direct supervision for project-based family and community engagement staff.
- Provide matrixed management for field staff working on family and community engagement, including Community Engagement Specialist and Sponsorship program staff.
Resource Development (10%):
- Identify potential funders to support and expand family and community engagement initiatives and support proposal development.
- Build partnerships to strengthen programs, increase reach and build credibility.
- Ensure compliance with grant deliverables and guidelines.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience required.
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum 7-10 years' experience in area of expertise
- Working knowledge of current principles in family engagement; current local, state, and national policies and practices for family and community engagement.
- Experience in working with school leadership, teachers, children, and other community stakeholders.
- Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in family and community engagement.
- Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative professional relationships.
Compensation/Benefits:
- Aetna Medical and Dental insurance with a concierge service
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Vision Insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefit Program
- Vacation and Sick leave
- Paid holidays
What makes us special!
- Generous Retirement Savings with matching company contributions of up to 8%
- Family Leave – 10 additional days of paid time off for you to use to care for your family members
- Additional Maternity and Paternity Leave – 30 days where parents can take additional paid leave (beyond short-term disability and FMLA) at the birth or adoption of a child during that critical first year!
- Critical Child Illness Leave – We hope you never have to use it, but we will provide an additional 30 days of paid leave per year should your dependent child be faced with a critical illness.
- Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Identity Protection, Home, Auto and additional Life insurances
- Summer Fun Fridays – During the summer months, early release at 1:30 pm every other Friday!
- Volunteer Day – One paid day a year to support the causes that matter to you!
- Ergonomic Options – Every employee at our HQ offices has the option of a sitting/standing desk
- Leadership and Employee Development Training, including:
- Our remarkable in-house CORE, Senior Management Development, and Leadership Development Programs
- Language learning opportunities
- Continuous Improvement skill development programs
- Brown Bag information sharing sessions
- Work hard/Play hard! We make sure there’s ample opportunity for fun, engagement, and celebration while you work, such as networking events, March Madness, World Cup, Dodgeball Tournaments, Take Your Child to Work Day, Founder’s Day, and our annual Day of Service
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 30 2019
Active Until:
Jun 1 2019
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit