The Child Care Recovery and Resilience Senior Specialist serves as the technical lead and manages the delivery of Save the Children’s child care recovery and resilience programs in U.S. disaster contexts that help communities rebound and build back stronger after disasters. The incumbent deploys to disaster-affected areas and is responsible for supporting the immediate needs assessment, partner identification, program planning and implementation and ongoing technical support. The Senior Specialist helps develop strong partnership and grant agreements, monitors program data, tracks program budget and ensures partners have necessary program supplies and support. The incumbent is responsible for creating and contextualizing program and training content that best meets the needs of partners and program goals.
As a frontline representative of Save the Children, the position holder is required to ensure safety and protection of children and families that they come in contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity.
Areas of Responsibility:
Serve as Child Care Recovery and Resilience Technical Lead for U.S. Emergency Programs (20%)
- Support the development of response and recovery strategies and implementation plans, leading on child care recovery and resilience goals, objectives and inputs. Provide ongoing technical assistance as needed.
- Lead community needs assessments and make recommendations on education, child care recovery, resilience and preparedness programming implementation and adaptation and contextualization as needed
- Create and strengthen program and guidance materials, tools and processes to improve program quality.
- Contribute to internal and external dialogue on children in emergencies through working groups, trainings and presentations as a child care recovery and community resilience expert
Manage Child Care Recovery and Resilience Program Planning, Implementation and Monitoring (25%)
- Lead the management and delivery of Save the Children child care recovery work, ensuring strong coordination and processes are in place with Save the Children’s finance and operations team that support efficient subgrant delivery and programmatic support and reporting.
- Strengthen and improve program planning tools and guidance including cost models, logic models and implementation models.
- When applicable, facilitate community resilience efforts including creation of children in emergencies working groups, to help community partners collaborate to identify and address gaps that help meet children’s needs in emergencies.
- Contribute to the development of child care recovery and resilience program funding proposals, help monitor program budgets and track spending.
- Manage child care recovery and resilience program data collection tools and methods including program surveys, feedback forms and evaluations. Ensure partners are following regular reporting schedules and that data is entered regularly into Save the Children’s data monitoring database.
Cultivate and Manage Child Care Recovery and Resilience Partnerships (10%)
- Develop and strengthen strategic partnerships with national, state and local organizations, agencies and universities that support child care program quality, licensing and training as well additional critical child-serving partners that support children’s health, well being and education.
- reate strong partnership agreements and guidelines for program implementation partners that help ensure quality program delivery
Develop and Deliver Training to partners and emergency responders (20%)
- Develop and manage Child Care Recovery and Resilience training content to meet programming needs based on current research and evidence-based best practices. In partnership with the Sr. Specialists of Child Protection and Psychosocial Support, integrate and adapt technical content as needed.
- Deliver Child Care Recovery and Resilience training to various audiences including program implementation partners and Save the Children emergency responders and volunteers.
- Help develop and implement Child Care Recovery and Resilience training plans with response teams that meet response goals.
Respond to Domestic Emergencies (25%)
- Deploy to domestic responses as the Child Care recovery and education lead and/or serve as a programmatic backstop.
- Based on our business needs during a response, U.S. Emergencies employees, including the Sr. Specialist, Child Care Recovery and Resilience, are expected to deploy for 3 to 6 weeks at a time.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in early education, child development, child protection, psychology, social work, public health or related field.
Skills/Experience:
- Must be willing to deploy to U.S. disaster areas for 3-6 weeks
- Minimum 5-7 years' experience in functional area including working directly with groups of children and their caregivers.
- Strong level of technical and/ or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to lead a program area, or provide the technical advice, guidance and direction related to various size programs and grants
- Excellent communication and presentation/facilitation skills
- Highly collaborative team player
- Very organized self-starter who is detail oriented
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite
- Travel 25-40%
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Early Education, Child Development, Social Work, Psychology, Public Health or related field.
- Demonstrated knowledge of U.S. and state level child care systems, licensing requirements, and funding streams.
- Familiarity with Child Care Resource & Referral agencies and experience working with licensed child care providers
- Experience working in U.S. disaster recovery contexts, particularly supporting education or child-serving programs post-disaster.
- Experience managing budgets and sub-granting processes and systems.
- Experience developing and delivering training to adult learners
- Experience in partnership cultivation and management
- Demonstrated ability programming to adapt programming in changing or complex environments
- Fluency in Spanish
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
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 20 2019
Active Until:
Jul 20 2019
Hiring Organization:
Save the Children US
industry:
Nonprofit