Interim Assistant Director of Every Child Shines

Assistant Director of Every Child Shines

(This is a 12 month contract position. When applying, please include cover letter that explains your interest in the role, what parts of your background you think would be most helpful, and what you are most excited about the role. Resumes without a cover letter will not be considered.)

Are you someone who wants to make a lasting impact on children and families? Are you looking to be part of a collaborative movement to prepare our community's children for success? The Every Child Shines (ECS) movement within East Boston Social Centers has a vision to ensure families have the supports they need so all children in East Boston enter kindergarten joyful, thriving, and ready to learn.

Reporting to the Every Child Shines Director, the Interim ECS Assistant Director works with families and community partners. The ECS Assistant Director is Every Child Shines’ point person for advancing collaborative work with local grassroots organizations, ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion and community leadership are centered in the work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Learns about local organizations’ goals and identifies ways ECS can collaborate with them to best serve the community and advance kindergarten readiness
• Ensures ECS is kept up-to-date on community organizations’ services and events, updates organizational profiles and maintains meeting notes in database
• Synthesizes what community members identify as needs to inform ECS’ long-term work
• Offers administrative and relationship building support for Family Support, Early Care and Education, and Homebased Early Childhood Educators Action Teams
• Represents Every Child Shines at local events to share information, build relationships, and bring takeaways back to the ECS team
• Support planning, execution, and follow-up for ECS-hosted events including annual Community Convening
• Support emergency assistance for families
• Supports translation of materials into Spanish
• Support supervision of ECS team
• Keeps flexible hours to meet the needs of the community
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Proven ability to work effectively with diverse groups—ensuring inclusion and belonging for people from various cultural, economic, and professional backgrounds
• Excellent communication, group facilitation and organizational skills
• Empathetic personality; uses a strength-based approach to working with individuals
• Familiarity with various software including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Suite and other systems
• Strong organizational skills - meticulous, thorough, and detail-oriented
• Strong ability to synthesize information and prioritize needed follow-up/action steps
• Demonstrable event and people management skills
• Preference for individuals with a background in reflective supervision

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Standard office environment. The noise level in this environment is moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that to be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prolonged periods of standing and sitting at a desk
• Travel to community and partner meetings

Compensation and Benefits

East Boston Social Centers cares about our team's professional development. Employees are eligible for up to $1,000 of reimbursed professional development courses following one year of employment.

This is a full-time salaried contract position at 40 hours a week at $70,000-$75,000 a year. This is an in person role with a minimum of three days in the office. We offer comprehensive benefits including health and dental insurance, 12 paid holidays, PTO (vacation, sick and personal days), Life/Short/long-term disability, childcare assistance (based on waitlist availability), and more.

East Boston Social Centers provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Boston, MA 02128