Program Manager, Regional Child Care Coalition

Position Title: Program Manager, Regional Child Care Coalition 

Location: Remote work based in Michigan with occasional travel within the state 

Schedule: Monday - Friday 

Salary Range: $67,411–$74,152

Class: Exempt  

Position Summary:

The goal of ECIC’s Child Care Innovation Fund is to reimagine Michigan’s child care system through common-sense, cross sector solutions. The Program Manager, Regional Child Care Coalitions, works closely with the Senior Director of the Child Care Innovation Fund, Innovation Fund Team members and with external partners to advance child care innovations and related policy changes at the state, regional and local levels. The Program Manager will design, deliver, and evaluate all forms of technical assistance and training for Regional Child Care Coalitions, including but not limited to:   

• Designing and delivering individual and group capacity building opportunities for Regional Child Care Coalitions to support the successful implementation of regional child care action plans. 
• Identifying and overseeing the work of technical assistance, training and evaluation partners and collaborators. 
• Reviewing and approving delivery of content expertise and resources to Regional Child Care Coalitions, state agencies, and other external partners via training, consultation, facilitation, webinars, and other methods of technical assistance and training. 
• Supporting Regional Child Care Coalition data collection and evaluation activities, including the coordination and implementation of continuous quality improvement. 
• Leading development of high-quality reports, policy analysis, issue briefs, explanations, and presentations, necessary to support effective implementation of Regional Child Care Coalitions. 
• Developing and implementing work plans for Regional Child Care Coalition related projects, track and review Regional Coalition deliverables, effectively coordinating with all internal ECIC partners across departments. 

Job Requirements

• Designing and facilitating meetings with external partners to support the design and scale up of innovations. 
• Provide ongoing communication and coordination with external partners and contractors. 
• Stay abreast of emerging trends, best practices, and research to share with clients and to continuously improve services and offerings.
• Cultivate and manage new and existing relationships with innovation partners at the national, state, regional and local levels of the early childhood system. 
• Present at conferences, curate, and disseminate research, best practices, and resources, respond to external questions and requests, and network at local, regional, statewide and national early childhood programs and events.
• Write proposals and grant applications, with the Senior Director, to advance strategic goals. 
• Supervise staff, provide performance coaching including, but not limited to, conducting performance evaluations, providing ongoing feedback, and supporting professional development goals. 
• Provide administrative approval of staff reports, timecards, time-off requests and expense reimbursements. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Five (5) years of work experience, including at least three (3) years in training, facilitation, and coaching as a consultant and one (1) year of supervisory experience.
• Ability to effectively supervise and coach teams. 
• Demonstrated success in the development and implementation of training and technical assistance programming on a statewide or national scale.
• Specialties in training and/or technical assistance applicable to early childhood systems-building that are marketable to current/ potential ECIC clients.
• Demonstrated commitment to racial equity as well as family and parent leadership.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally both verbally and in writing.
• 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.

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)  

Walking - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. (1-2 hours daily)  

Standing – In one position, particularly for sustained periods of time. (1-2 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 object 

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.