Advisor, Community Impact (P3)

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Summary

Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. Save the Children does whatever it takes to be there for children in times of crisis. Always at the ready, we are among the first to respond and the last to leave, staying as long as it takes to help children and families recover from their losses, restore their lives and build resilience for years to come.

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Community Engagement. In this role, you will collaboratively design and support the implementation of high quality, community-based approaches and initiatives that help accelerate learning outcomes for children across rural America. You will work closely with the national program design and state based program implementation teams to design and refine community-based models, and to strengthen capacity to implement community engagement approaches and projects. You will also play an important advisory role in collaborating with functional leads to drive growth through fundraising, partnership development, marketing and thought-leadership.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Design and Refine Community-based Models (35%)

• Ensure projects and initiatives are culturally relevant, backed by research and best practice, and aligned to community needs and insights.
• Establish standards for high quality implementation and determine options for customization.
• Work with state teams to innovate and adapt approaches to align strategies and meet common goals.
• Develop new, and refine existing, multi-state community-based projects and initiatives, strategies, and resources to broaden impact and fill programmatic gaps outside of school.

Build Capacity to Implement Community-based Programs (25%)

• Lead onboarding processes for Lead Associates and other staff supporting community engagement; support recruitment and onboarding on an ongoing basis.
• Build community engagement competencies of implementation staff, promoting best practices and ongoing professional development and learning through community of practices and standing TA meetings.
• Develop and deliver training, technical assistance, and other resources to state community engagement staff.
• Provide technical advice to support implementation and to identify and resolve challenges.

Collect and Analyze Data (20%)

• Inform project goals, targets and reachMonitor the quality of community engagement implementation, ensuring projects and initiatives are on track to meet key metrics and deliverables.
• Generate evidence, research, tools, best practices, and training guides for knowledge share.
• Oversee routine collection of data, analysis, and reporting.
• Analyze and summarize implementation data.

Support Growth of Community-based Programming (20%)

• Collaborate with the Strategic Partnerships team, national Program Design team, and state Implementation teams to support the cultivation of partnerships and/or relationships with external organizations, donors and other key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of funding proposals, marketing content, donor meetings, proposal reviews, presentations and other external relations that require technical expertise.

Required Qualifications

• Willingness to travel regionally up to 10%
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in implementing community mobilization practices and/or community-based early learning programs.
• Professional proficiency in results-based meeting and training facilitation

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1- NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,200 – $94,000 base salary.

• Geo 2-Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary.

• Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,800 – $77,000 base salary.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

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