BACKGROUND

NOEEN is a new nonprofit entity that helps manage network of over 150 child care centers, schools, Head Start programs and non-profit organizations, all working together to ensure that every young child in New Orleans arrives at school ready to succeed. Our goals are to strengthen the quality of the New Orleans Early Childhood Education sector by increasing access to high-quality “seats” in early learning centers, improve the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms, and connect organizations to resources including funding, data, knowledge, and each other. We aim to influence local and state‐level discussions to advance this mission; increase public and private ECE funding; collect, analyze, and share unbiased data to increase transparency; help improve program quality and inform sector priorities; support parent choice through coordinated enrollment and parent information initiatives; allocate publicly funded seats to high‐quality providers to meet localized demand; and increase the ability of the ECE sector to attract, develop, and retain talent.

NOEEN hired its first full-time Executive Director in summer 2018 and an Administrative Coordinator in fall 2018. In that time, the organization has grown its programming dramatically. In the last six months, the organization has conducted over 600 CLASS observations of every publicly funded early learning center in Orleans Parish classrooms, conducted three coordinated funding requests including the management of over 4,000 early childhood education “seats”, worked with the Orleans Parish School Board to help coordinate enrollment for all children in publicly funded seats in Orleans Parish, managed a large scale teacher training program with over 200 participants, convened over 150 early learning centers to discuss barriers to access, quality, and funding, has been featured in the media over 50 times, successfully advocated for a $1.5M to support an expansion of early childhood education programming, was recently awarded a Louisiana Department of Education Ready Start Network grant, and was selected as one of seven metros in the country to be included in the National League of Cities' Early Learning Nation Challenge. NOEEN also administers the Mayor of New Orleans' inaugural early childhood education pilot, providing free childcare to 50 children in New Orleans, as well as the initiative's ten program partners and the project's evaluation team.

THE OPPORTUNITY

NOEEN is seeking part-time data entry support. This team member will collect and enter data, verify data accuracy and coordinate reports. Additionally, he/she will support logistics. Both bodies of work will expose them to the NOEEN and ECE work and directly support the mission of NOEEN.

DATA ENTRY SUPPORT – 60%

• Coordinate data collection
• ○ Lead communications necessary to collect data;
• ○ Input text based and numerical information from source documents within time limits;
• ○ Compile, verify accuracy and sort information to prepare source data for computer entry;
• ○ Review data for deficiencies or errors, correct any incompatibilities and check output;
• Research and obtain further information for incomplete documents;

OPERATIONS COORDINATION – 40%

• Coordinate meeting logistics (scheduling, food and beverage orders, set up, clean up, technology set up);
• Order, organize, sort and distribute program supplies;
• Perform other clerical receptionist duties such as filing, phone call screening,  photocopying, transcribing and faxing;
• Maintain contact information of all early childhood education sites; access and provide said information in a timely manner upon request.

Application closes January 17. Applicant resume and cover letter required.