At Alliance Center for Education, we believe that early childhood education is the foundation for lifelong learning and success. Our mission is to provide high-quality education and support for children in need through partnerships with their families stays the same. We are honored to be ingrained in the communities we serve and are pleased to work alongside other organizations and partners that share our passion for serving children and families.
Position Overview:
The Community Engagement Manager works as a liaison between local communities and organizations that operate in those communities. They must help ensure that the organization understands and respects the needs of our community, while also helping to facilitate positive relationships between these groups and the people AC4Ed serves.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Coordinate efforts to establish and maintain a recruitment and a community outreach plan to ensure enrollment of eligible children including special needs children to ensure that the funded enrollment is maintained at all times.
2. Establish Community Engagement strategies to build and maintain relationships with community leaders and stakeholders and facilitate access to community services that are responsive to children’s needs, family’s needs, family partnership goals, and community needs and resources, as determined by the community assessment.
3. Maintain and establish (where necessary) collaborative relationships and partnerships such as joint agreements, procedures, or contracts and arranging for onsite delivery of services as appropriate, with community organizations.
4. Create systems and processes to inform AC4Ed staff and parents of community resources including periodic updates as changes and new resources are added.
5. Plan and implement surveys and focus groups of agency participants, partners, and other stakeholders seeking pertinent information to be used for program planning and decision-making.
6. Lead the efforts to develop Community-wide strategic planning and needs assessment (community assessment at least once over the five-year grant period.
8. Annually review and update the community assessment to reflect any significant changes including increased availability of publicly-funded pre-kindergarten- (including an assessment of how the pre-kindergarten available in the community meets the needs of the parents and children served by the program, and whether it is offered for a full school day), rates of family and child homelessness, and significant shifts in community demographics and resources.
9. Other duties as assigned by the CEO.
Eligible for $500.00 Hiring Bonus following successful completion of 90 days of employment with documented performance evaluation.
