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Overview:
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) is a 50 year old multi-service not-for-profit
organization based on the settlement house model and located in the Bronx. We provide resources for Bronx residents from cradle to career to advance education and well-being for a vibrant community. KHCC serves over 5,000 families annually with an inclusive environment for children with special needs, low-income families, recent immigrants, survivors of sexual and domestic abuse, and at-risk teens. KHCC helps participants overcome adversity and develop the skills they need to build bright futures.
Position Overview
In 2017, The Administration for Children's Services launched three Family Enrichment Centers
(FEC). FECs are a family-centered, primary prevention model that provide community-designed supports in a warm, inviting home-like space where neighbors can connect, contribute to their community, find resources, support one another, and build strategies that help families thrive.
The FEC Director will oversee daily operations for the center engaging community members in Bronx CD 7 - Kingsbridge / Bedford Park. The Director will supervise FEC staff, including: one full-time Community Liaison and two full time Family Advocate. The ideal candidate will adhere to the center's model of appreciative inquiry and collaborative co-design in order to facilitate community-led decision making in every step of the center’s operations.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
● Oversee daily operations of the Family Enrichment Center (FEC), ensuring high quality service
delivery.
● Build partnerships with stakeholders from multiple sectors, including community members,
public officials, and public and private organizations.
● Create and actively engage an advisory council of community members in order to facilitate
collaborative decision making and the appreciative inquiry model.
● Manage the budget and processes for collaborative hiring, training, and coaching of FEC team
members.
● Create a culture of teamwork and collaboration among staff, FEC participants, and parent and
caregiver members of the Advisory Council, that is built on equity, inclusiveness, and
non-hierarchical decision making.
● Serve as a liaison to ACS, maintain consistent communication with the ACS FEC Program
Management team to discuss progress and ensure that all contractual responsibilities are being
adhered to.
● Support continuous learning activities to ensure adherence to the model, continuous feedback
from community members about their perspective of the FEC, and continuous growth towards
goals developed collaboratively with ACS, parent and caregiver members of the Advisory
Council, and community members.
● Additional related duties as assigned.
Physical Demands:
● While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit;
handle, or feel; talk, hear, smell or taste. On rare occasions it may be necessary to move quickly,
run, etc. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with
hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The
employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25
pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by
this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Full Time
$133k-177k (estimate)
09/08/2024
09/21/2024