Job Details

Position Title: Director of Leadership and Capacity Sharing

Reports To: Vice President of Strategic Impact
Location: Remote work based in Michigan with occasional travel
Schedule: Example: Monday - Friday

Salary: $89,865 - $109,835 annually

Class: Exempt

Position Summary:

The goal of ECIC's Leadership and Capacity Sharing Team is to support communities, regions, and states in building the capacity, relationships, and infrastructure needed to address complex systems challenges impacting young children and their families. All work is grounded in a commitment to embedding family and parent leadership in systems design and improvement efforts to be more equitable and inclusive. TA delivered across the country focuses on authentic family leadership in early childhood systems. The TA delivered in Michigan focuses on strengthening local, regional, and statewide cross-sector early childhood systems that center the voices of families, service providers, and communities.

The Director of Leadership and Capacity Sharing leads ECIC's TA consulting efforts in Michigan and nationally, overseeing team members working directly with states and regions across the country in their efforts to strengthen early childhood systems. They provide strategic direction and manage a growing portfolio of national, state, and regional efforts focused on sharing capacity for early childhood systems building. In collaboration with the team, this role leads the growth and execution of new programs and services; provide consultative services; and oversees quality, evaluation and innovation with the overall goal of transforming early childhood systems to be more equitable and inclusive.

As a leader at ECIC, the successful candidate will bring a transformational leadership style that inspires teams to achieve the ECIC vision.

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

This list is not all-inclusive. Incumbent(s) may be expected to perform job-related duties other than those contained in this document and may be required to have specific job-related knowledge and skills.

Program Leadership:

• Oversee the development, management and successful implementation of ECIC's external capacity-building/sharing initiatives, including family and parent leadership, equity and early childhood systems, community outreach to reach diverse populations and authentic engagement of parents and families.
• Collaborate with the team to develop and implement strategic and operational plans.
• Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality adaptive facilitation, coaching, consultation, and training to clients focused on early childhood systems improvement efforts that center individuals with lived experience.
• Develop and retain high-performance team members through supervision, coaching, and leadership development.
• Serve as collaborative thought leader on leadership development and capacity building/sharing, staying current on literature, practices and networks in relevant fields including training and professional development, leadership development, coaching, and equity.

Project Management:

• Collaborate with the team to design and implement programs and initiatives utilizing the latest information from research and best practice, and in response to client needs.
• Oversee and lead execution of all programs and services, including standards of program delivery and coordination, training and consulting content and design, and ongoing development of culturally effective training and consulting materials.
• Work with staff to develop necessary systems, processes, and tools to ensure consistent, high-quality project management to better support the facilitation, collection, and sharing of knowledge.
• Ensure that key project outcomes are evaluated and leveraged for maximum organizational and participant impact.
• Oversee the development of CRM systems and other databases in support of goals and objectives.

Relationship Management:

• Serve as lead communicating with strategic partners, representing ECIC and our vision and values, while navigating new opportunities and challenges.
• Contribute to effective communications, including developing or contributing to client and partnership proposals, program/grant reports, and conference presentations.

Financial Stewardship:

• Monitor program budgets, including both forecasting and tracking of expenditures, and work plans, in collaboration with executive leadership team and operations staff, ensuring regular reporting and evaluation goals are well-established and met.
• Collaborate and contribute to grant proposals and other revenue generating opportunities.

Organizational Leadership:

• Provide collaborative leadership across ECIC teams to ensure alignment with public policy, systems priorities and technical assistance strategies.
• Actively participate in ECIC staff meetings and other strategic and administrative projects across the organization.
• Provide expertise on racial equity and inclusion in support of ECIC's priorities.
• Contribute to the development of inter-team cohesiveness and management of culture change.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree with seven (7) years of overall professional experience, with at least three (3) years leading large-scale programs or projects, and at least three (3) years supervisory experience.
• Ability to effectively supervise and coach teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and work with a variety of internal and external partners.
• Strong understanding of public systems impacting families with young children, including early care and education, public health, and family supports.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to present complex information in a concise, understandable format.
• Ability to develop positive relationships with individuals and partners in both public and private sectors.
• Effective group consultation and meeting facilitation skills.
• Ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail while managing multiple tasks, projects, and timelines.
• Ability to use data and analytical skills to proactively identify opportunities, set priorities and solve problems.
• Ability to partner with racially and ethnically diverse colleagues and community members on joint initiatives.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe and web-based application

Physical Requirements:

• Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to others accurately. (4-5 hours daily)
• Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. (4-5 hours daily)
• Visual Acuity - Viewing objects with close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading. (4-5 hours daily)
• Office Setting - Sedentary work in which exerting up to 10 pounds of force is occasional and a negligible amount of force is frequently or constantly used to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Requires set up of home office in alignment with ECIC expectations for safe, secure, quiet space for work.

Work Location

Remote work based in Michigan with occasional travel within the state or to other geographical areas for projects, ECIC meetings and to meet the needs of the organization.

Salary Description

$89,865 - $109,835