Advisor, Community Impact - KY (P3)
Save the Children
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Berea, KY, USA
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Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.
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, prenatal 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. In times of crisis, Save the Children does whatever 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 Impact to support the delivery of Education, Hunger and Resilience programs in Kentucky. In this role, you will provide technical assistance to a team of Lead Associates implementing community engagement and food security programs in rural Kentucky. You will build capacity within the team and with partner organizations to ensure engagement activities are being implemented with maximum impact. In this role you will also coordinate recognition and media events in coordination with Save the Children’s Media and Communications team to increase visibility, recognize program supporters and prioritize collaboration opportunities. This includes working closely with the State Director to identify marketing opportunities to ensure the maximum amount of beneficiaries are served at events. The role requires a high level of discretion, attention to detail, organization, flexibility and accountability.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance (30%)
• Review Community Engagement plans with Lead Associates and provide guidance to increase impact
• Observe community events in rural communities and provide technical assistance and feedback to partner staff
• Oversee the coordination and planning of onsite and virtual partner staff trainings
• Review population level data to track the effectiveness of community-wide initiatives
• Develop action plans for underperforming program sites
• Collect data on community needs as related to kindergarten readiness and 3rd grade reading and 5th grade math proficiency
Media and Recognition Event Lead (50%)
• Develop strong inter-sectoral and multi-sectoral relationships at local community levels to increase collaboration of program implementation.
• Develop communication materials (newsletter, etc.) to share with partner staff and identify modes of delivery to reach all areas of a community
• Identify events to highlight in local news media markets and communicate plans to the Advisor, US News and Communications
• Oversee collection of and review success stories for accuracy and flow of information
• Lead on coordination of recognition and media events
• Compile list of Tier One collaboration partners
Management and Operational Excellence (20%)
• Work with State Director to oversee the state portfolio of Tier One community partners ensuring efficient and allowable use of funds.
• Provide regular, timely communication to State Director and other key team members as needed with progress updates, partner/program concerns, and other key areas of operation.
• Responsible for ensuring state staff and partners have access to strong knowledge management tools and resources needed for program implementation, data entry, monitoring, sharing practices, and managing daily operations.
• Build and maintain a high performing team – participate in the development of state organizational design and staffing plan; work with Human Resources/Talent Attraction and Acquisition to lead recruitment efforts for state Lead Associate staff; and promote staff learning and development goals.
Required Qualifications
• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience supervising a team and managing performance
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite and Adobe
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Professional experience working within branding guidelines for marketing and communications assets
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
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
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.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all
