Early Support for Infants & Toddlers (ESIT) Lead (PPM III)

Summary

Job Duties

• Build strengths-based, racial equity-centered relationships, disability justice and continuous improvement efforts across Early Support for Infants and Toddlers, including developing, leading and/or supporting the King County team’s:
  • Priority goal centering Black/African American excellence.
  • Strategic priorities to support child and family wellbeing, engage families as experts and leaders, deepen community partnerships, expand language access, strengthen inclusive workforce, and improve transitions.
  • Efforts to strengthen racial equity in access, services and outcomes for infants, toddlers, and their families, including children’s progress on social-emotional outcomes.
  • Holding of family and community groups that center voices and experiences of people most impacted, including the King County Interagency Coordinating Council, workgroups, and listening circles.
  • Supporting division wide efforts and events by providing subject matter expertise and relevant strategic priority data.
• Co-manage and implement County Lead Agency responsibilities as required by the Washington State ESIT program and other funding partners:
  • Encourage positive, collaborative relationships and partnerships with current, potential, and new ESIT contractors, local communities, and King County, regional and statewide programs, partners, and funders.
  • Embed racial equity, disability justice, and reflective, evidence-based and/or promising practices and assure compliance with federal, state and county requirements.
  • Create meaningful program policies, procedures, guidance, and technical assistance in alignment with goals, funding, and requirements.
  • Lead coordination of services and effective teaming across ESIT providers including with children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing and/or Vision Impaired and their families, providers, and systems partners.
  • Improve services for families who live in more isolated areas or experience early traumas such as hospital stays, substance exposure, child welfare system involvement, houselessness, and domestic or community violence.
• Analyze data, manage budgets, develop requests for proposals, write, review and monitor contracts, approve invoices and engage with planning and evaluation activities in alignment with team members and with the support of fiscal, contracts, and evaluation partners.
• Collaborate with dynamic, multilingual, culturally diverse work teams focused on family-centered, strengths-based practices, data-informed innovation, cross-systems partnerships, trauma recovery and resilience, in alignment with King County’s Equity and Social Justice Plan.
• Engage with or provide leadership to cross-strategy, division, department and Best Starts efforts bringing ESIT, racial equity, disability and social justice priorities, such as Equity, Inclusion and Belonging work and cross-divisional workgroups.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

• Deep knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and understanding of the effects of place, race, and policy and systems-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations.
• A combination of at least three years of education and experience within early childhood development, early supports for children with delays or disabilities and their families, mental health/health care, social services, equity and social justice or a related field, with at least 2 years leading projects and/or strategies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of systems serving children and families, including people with developmental disabilities.
• Ability to identify intersecting issues, multiple perspectives, and opportunities for collaboration, including strategies to promote equity and to advocate for process improvements.
• Ability to work independently with attention to details, to work under deadlines and on several tasks simultaneously, and to organize and prioritize quickly in response to changing needs.
• Skills and abilities to work collaboratively with people with diverse needs and perspectives including families, service providers, partners, co-workers, and funders.
• Ability to facilitate participatory meetings with diverse groups, and to design group and individualized learning supports using adult learning approaches.
• Ability to share complex information to support decision making, including skills to prepare visuals, written documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
• Ability to travel throughout the County in a timely manner.

• Lived experience and/or work experience with early childhood supports for children with delays or disabilities and their families.
• Experience supporting families’ home cultures and languages and centering racial and disability justice.
• Capacity and skills to plan, lead and/or support strategic King County ESIT goal centering Black/African American excellence.
• Experience with interpreting complex state and federal early childhood program requirements and leading continuous improvement efforts.

• This position has been designated Non-Mission Critical. Unless otherwise directed by the County Executive, department director or agency head, all employees, regardless of designation, are expected to report to work or request leave during an emergency or inclement weather. For more detailed information, please visit HR Policy County Operations During Emergency Situations and the King County Guidelines for Workforce Management in an Emergency.
• This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime. Typical hours are Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm.
• This position is represented by PROTEC17 (Union Code: C23).
• The work associated with this position will be performed or conducted through a combination of teleworking and onsite work and meetings throughout various locations across King County, including Seattle, Tukwila, and Northgate. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

Supplemental Information

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