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MISSION

Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals in order to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the work to establish and implement an early childhood workforce system to ensure funding, standards and competencies, career development resources, qualifications and credentials, professional development (training and strengths-based coaching), and program quality assurance and improvement for individuals who work with young children throughout New York. Housed at the City University of New York, the Institute is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to the early childhood workforce across New York State.

QUALITYstarsNY is New York State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System for early childhood education programs in all regulated settings. QUALITYstarsNY exists because early childhood educators across the state deserve support to engage in continuous quality improvement. QUALITYstarsNY provides individualized, comprehensive support to hundreds of early childhood programs across New York State and continues to expand participation. Programs participating in QUALITYstarsNY are rated on a 5-Star scale every three years and are supported with a full complement of resources to improve and sustain their quality – all at no cost to their program.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

QUALITYstarsNY is currently expanding services across the state to support early childhood programs in their continuous quality improvement efforts. The Recruitment and Engagement Associate has an essential role in the expansion as they partner with the QUALITYstarsNY team to create a strategy to recruit early childhood programs in all regulated settings to participate in QUALITYstarsNY. They will be responsible for managing and executing the recruitment strategy, and corresponding outreach tactics, to expand participation for QUALITYstarsNY. The Recruitment and Engagement Associate role is also responsible for supporting ongoing engagement among QUALITYstarsNY’s community of more than 1,000 participating programs across the state. The Recruitment and Engagement Associate reports directly to the QUALITYstarsNY Director of Systems and Administration.

The Recruitment and Engagement Associate is a new position on the QUALITYstarsNY team and will require a detail-oriented, organized, innovative thinker to develop the role and the work. As a member of the Central Office team for QUALITYstarsNY, the Recruitment and Engagement Associate role will be a key position that helps communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the smooth execution of the expansion of QUALITYstarsNY. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 RECRUITMENT

• With guidance from team leadership, manage the recruitment and enrollment of regulated early childhood programs across New York State into QUALITYstarsNY and its Start with Stars initiative
• Host information sessions for potential participants and external stakeholders that provide an overview of QUALITYstarsNY services and details about the participation and application process
• Create and execute short- and long-term communications campaigns around recruitment of potential participants with the support of the Director of Systems and Administration and the Communications and Outreach Manager
• Help to develop and then implement recruitment strategies to attract programs serving special populations and within designated areas in regions across New York State
• Provide technical assistance via phone and email to enrolling programs to ensure they successfully complete the multi-step application process
• Build and maintain relationships with external partners that can support our recruitment strategy and leverage their networks to reach target audiences for recruitment
• Support creation and dissemination of print and digital materials & content for internal and external partners to promote recruitment

ENGAGEMENT

• Engage in building relationships with key stakeholders, representing and promoting the work of QUALITYstarsNY for various audiences
• Conduct regular outreach to and responding to participating programs, such as mailings, calls, and emails, including targeted outreach to newly enrolled and rated programs
• Engage with staff and participating programs to contribute to print and digital content, including social media, blog posts, e-newsletters, presentations, that spotlights and celebrates diverse experiences within the QUALITYstarsNY community