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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 identifying, establishing, and implementing the services, supports, and systems that the early childhood workforce across New York State needs.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute, housed at the City University of New York, is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to identifying, establishing, and implementing the services, supports, and systems that the early childhood workforce across New York State needs. The Institute, under the auspices of its Career Center, launched a Leadership Initiative in 2017 in NYC, aimed at strengthening current early childhood leadership and management as well as to identify and support the development of future early childhood leaders.

The Leadership Initiative Coordinator, reporting to the Senior Director of Career Development and Higher Education, will be responsible for leading the NYC-based Leadership Initiative. The Coordinator will also work with colleagues at each of the Leadership Initiative satellite sites across the state to foster partnerships with local institutions of higher education, organizations and stakeholders, to identify and utilize local resources, and to share best practices and lessons learned from the implementation of the first Leadership Initiative. Equipped with a wide range of experiences in the early childhood field, the ideal candidate will have knowledge of the professional development needs of the early childhood workforce with particular focus on early childhood leadership and management.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Management

• Provide strategic and organizational leadership for all aspects of the NYC-based leadership initiative, and carry out planning and implementation activities in collaboration with other Institute staff
• Identify and assess current participants’ needs and utilize innovative methods to identify and recruit new participants
• Facilitate team meetings and events
• Provide coordination and input for other leadership-focused programing as needed

Professional Development

• Identify qualified coaches and mentors to support the initiative
• Create innovative and impactful professional development programming for current and future early childhood leaders
• Facilitate leadership initiative participant meetings and events and identify experts to facilitate topic-specific groups and activities

Partnerships, Communication, and Reporting

• Organize the leadership initiative advisory board and provide training
• Work with Institute staff to manage data collection efforts and utilize the data system to produce regular progress and grant reports
• Attend external meetings pertaining to ECE leadership to maintain knowledge of city-wide and state-wide efforts
• Prepare regular project reports based on quantitative and qualitative data and feedback collected
• Assist with additional fundraising efforts for the project