City/Community Place Based Strategies Manager
Job Description
TITLE: City/Community Place Based Strategies Manager
Children’s Bureau of Southern California hosts three place-based initiatives in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties with the central goal of seeding sustainable and scalable community change around the health and well-being of children and families by mobilizing a collective investment from residents, community organizations and institutions. Since 2008, Children’s Bureau has been a leader in developing local and state-wide networks that aim to strengthen the capacity of local communities across the country working to improve early childhood systems alignment, equity, and improve child well-being and prevent abuse and neglect.
Approach to the work:
· Cultivate new and strengthen existing relationships with strategic local and regional partners and stakeholders that facilitate mission alignment and collaborative efforts.
· Manage a learning system that helps staff and partners align their activities support collective actions;
· Facilitate the use of population and community level measurements that provide actionable data to inform the teams efforts and galvanize to make changes;
· Promote practice change processes that attend to the human aspects of change including helping staff and organizational partners cope with new demands as they incorporate change and support communities’ positive actions
QUALIFICATIONS:
Prior Experience & Skills
· Minimum of three years of experience in managing collaborative projects and operations in public health, education, and/or working with underserved populations in community-based settings, school settings, or social service
· Experience engaging public health, education, policy systems and social services, legal advocacy, and community-based programs
· Collaborative leadership style, adaptability, growth mindset, and strong interpersonal skills.
· Strong organizational skills, detail-focused, management of timelines, effectively cultivate growth of others
· Excellent oral communications skills and writing ability, including experience writing newsletters, blogs, group communications, and reports
· Previous experience with group facilitation, community outreach, community organizing, human-centered design, grant writing, communications, and program management
· Bi-lingual capability is an asset to this position
· Cultural sensitivity and comfort with a wide range of social, racial and ethnic populations.
· Commitment to equity and strengths-based community capacity building.
· Knowledge of MS Word, Power Point, and Excel and video/meeting conferencing software is essential
· Strategic and systems thinking skills
· Facility with data analysis and ability to translate data into actionable solutions for a team
· Project management skills and exceptional attention to detail
· Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
· Experience in virtual and on-site facilitation
EDUCATION
· Bachelor’s degree required.
· Master’s Degree in Public Health, Journalism, Policy, Urban Planning, Nonprofit Leadership or a related field preferred.
· Training in participatory leadership and facilitation models including: Technology of Participation, The Art of Hosting, Parent Café, or human centered design methods is a plus.
· Familiarity with community-based participatory approaches, network theory and language justice models also an advantage.
III. REPORTS TO: Director of Prevention Department
IV. POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The City/Community Place Based Strategies Manager will oversee day-to-day management of the work of the Children’s Bureau Place Based Initiatives and the state and local capacity building teams, including supporting program design, content development, communications and digital media strategy, collaboration among network partners, and operationalizing community capacity building initiatives to promote child wellbeing and improve equity in child health and educational outcomes.
The City/Community Place Based Strategies Manager plays a key role in facilitating a process with staff to co-design meetings, innovative approaches, and strategies to strengthen community capacity building efforts. Key deliverables include management of all place based and capacity building communications materials and strategy, cultivating and strengthening partner and stakeholder relationships, documenting and disseminating lessons learned across the network to diverse audiences.
The City/Community Place Based Strategies Manager will work collaboratively as a co-manager along with the City/Community Systems Manager, Communications manager and staff to develop continuous and quality improvement processes, manage monitoring activities, and support in preparation of research reports, progress reports and funding proposals. The City Community Place Based Strategies Manager will co-manage regular team meetings and office administration, including financial and supervises program and administrative staff, and supports office administration and financial management. The three co-managers will be supported by and collaborate with the Population Change Learning Institute in all key areas of the work.
V. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
PROJECT & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
· Manages the co-design, planning, implementation, and budget monitoring activities to support the Children’s Bureau City/Community Placed Based Initiatives.
· Oversees the development of project timelines/work plans and tracking and monitoring tools to support implementation.
· Monitors project budget expenses and oversees preparation of regular progress reports to track completion of milestones and annual objectives.
· Collaborates with staff and Network partners to manage communications and digital/media strategy to elevate the reach and impact of Children’s Bureau City/Community Placed Based Initiatives.
· Facilitates development and dissemination of content to ensure aligned messaging and alignment of project goals and deliverables.
· Supports the development of written and visual stories and materials to convey mission and project impact to diverse audiences and key partners.
· Supports staff in managing technology and digital communications platforms. This includes a regular distributed newsletter, blog series, annual reports, policy briefs, and summaries of signature community events.
· Support staff in providing timely and quality capacity building support to network members.
· Develops process tools and protocols to facilitate ongoing communication and collaborative work.
· Supports staff to track partner requests.
SYSTEMS LEARNING & QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
· Collaborate with staff and partners to co-design signature events, meetings, workshops trainings and other complementary capacity building engagements. Provides support with agenda design, meeting facilitation, and follow up implementation. Includes active engagement in co-designing, planning, implementing and assessing community meetings and large events and convenings
· Support the application of evidence-based learning and decision-making across the teams to support a culture of learning.
· Support the dissemination of learning to executive level leadership and external audiences, such as through presentations and reporting requirements.
· Remains informed of current research, evaluation design and methodologies, activities, and trends in the issues related to systems and network theory for the purposes of advising, and where appropriate integrating into network practices.
· Monitor progress toward networks’ action plan goals and work closely with network leaders to refine and carry out a reporting strategy. This includes leading regular conversations with the leadership team to inform of progress toward goals, celebrate success, and highlight opportunities for improvement.
STRATEGIC PLANNING & GROWTH DEVELOPMENT
· Cultivate new and strengthen existing relationships with strategic local and regional partners and stakeholders that facilitate mission alignment and collaborative efforts.
· Represent Children’s Bureau Placed Based Initiatives and Capacity building efforts through presentations and participation at external partner meetings, convenings, and other relevant settings.
· Collaborate with research and senior staff to develop internal and external research priorities as well as co-develop strategies for cross-sector capacity building initiatives to support goals and emerging program areas.
· Work with senior staff to identify funding opportunities, engage prospective partners and collaborators, and prepare grant proposals.
STAFF MANAGEMENT
· Supervises support staff (e.g., Program Coordinators, Program Assistants, Student Interns), including training and onboarding, delegating tasks, and overseeing daily activities.
· Collaborate with senior staff to support staff-wide professional development opportunities.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
• Other monitoring of administrative, financial and other coordination activities as implemented by program staff.
• Performs other duties as required.
VI. GENERAL:
· Ability to work independently as well as ask for support when needed
· Must be flexible to work late or overtime hours as needed
· Maintains professional and positive communications with all agency staff and visitors
· Demonstrates a curiosity and commitment to continued learning about complex adaptive systems, systems level thinking and tools and processes necessary to move the work of the initiative forward.
· Exercises good judgment in performance of duties and responsibilities
· Supports existing agency policies, principles and mission.
· Other related duties as assigned.
Company Description
With more than a century of experience, Children’s Bureau is a trusted nonprofit leader in strengthening vulnerable children, their parents and the communities in which they live. We thrive on innovation, thinking differently and bringing life-changing moments to those in need.