Family and Community Program Administrator
Family and Community Program Administrator
Job Overview
The Family and Community Program Administrator for the Program Development team is a critical role that assists in facilitating local initiatives that highlight the goals of increasing opportunities to learn and building capacity for comprehensive, systemic approaches to early childhood education and services for children birth to third grade.
The role of the Family and Community Partnership Administrator is to work closely with the Director and Associate Director of Program Development to collaborate with school district personnel and local community agencies in the Omaha metro area on innovative strategies that strengthen early childhood leadership. This position will also strive to build networks of partners, streamlined resources, support for families, and technical assistance to foster strategic early childhood planning and systems development.
Buffett Early Childhood Institute Profile
Envisioned as a new model for how public higher education is engaged in the first years of life, the Buffett Early Childhood Institute (https://buffettinstitute.nebraska.edu) is a four-campus, university-wide, multidisciplinary research, education, outreach, and policy institute of the University of Nebraska committed to helping transform early childhood development and education in Nebraska and across the nation. The long-term goal of the Institute is to be a leading center where scholars, practitioners, community members, and policymakers collaborate to advance a unified approach that can improve the lives of young children and families and the systems that support them.
Applicants should note that the goals of the Institute are university-, state-, and nationwide, but the location of the Institute administration is in Omaha. This position will work primarily out of the Omaha office.
Job Responsibilities
This section describes major responsibilities for the position but is not an exhaustive or exclusive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Employees may be required to perform other job-related instructions as requested.
In collaboration with the Director and Associate Director of Program Development, other program administrators, and participating organizations:
• Design and guide innovative, collaborative, equitable strategies to support and strengthen leadership within community-based settings in the Omaha metro area in order to achieve comprehensive, systemic approaches to early childhood programming, birth-third grade.
• Cultivate and maintain collaborative working relationships with key local organizations representing early childhood program leaders at community and regional levels.
• Provide guidance and oversight to Institute staff and external stakeholders who contribute to implementing the Superintendents' Early Childhood Plan.
• Monitor progress and identify unmet needs for educational programming of young children in greatest need, and, with Research and Evaluation, assist in evaluating the Institute's Closing the Opportunity Gap efforts in metro Omaha. Apply knowledge of latest research and evidence to all initiatives and proposed practices of the Program Development unit.
• Work with the Director of Professional Learning to lead efforts that effectively spread the School as Hub approach in metro Omaha.
• Collaborate with the Institute's Workforce Planning and Development and Professional Learning units to support the professional learning of early childhood educators and service providers in school districts and community-based organizations.
• Meet budgetary objectives as assigned by the Director and Associate Director of Program Development.
Qualifications and Attributes
Required Qualifications
• Master's degree
• Five years of experience collaborating with a variety of community agencies that focus on children and families including district- and school-level administration and leadership
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
• Bilingual
• College coursework in early childhood development and education, elementary education, child, youth, and family studies, family science, or social work with coursework directly related to children and families
Ideal candidates will demonstrate:
• A record of successfully impacting the experiences of families and communities
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and move them forward to completion on time
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Knowledge of state and district policies and funding sources that affect educational services for children, birth-Grade 3, and their families
• Knowledge of developmentally informed, research-based strategies and programs to promote child learning and family engagement from birth through Grade 3
• Knowledge of culturally responsive practice and experience working effectively in racially, culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse school communities
Physical Requirements and Work Conditions
The physical requirements and work conditions described here are representative of what 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.
Attendance at the workplace is critical. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely required to have vision for up close and far away, talk, hear, sit, and use hands to touch, feel, handle, and operate routine office equipment. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb stairs, bend, reach, twist, and lift, carry, or move up to 15 pounds. The employee is required to occasionally travel to and participate in meetings and conferences that may require the ability to drive a motor vehicle or stay overnight.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, and there are frequent interruptions as the Institute staff conduct business in cubicles, walled office space, and conference rooms.
Direct questions about the position to: humanresources@nebraska.edu.
Direct questions about the on-line application process to: (402) 472-2111.
The University of Nebraska is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify.