Family Leadership Outreach & Engagement Coordinator

Note - this position is for a Family Leadership Outreach & Engagement Coordinator at Washington State Community Connectors; CL Strategic, a consulting firm, is facilitating the hiring process.

Job Title: Family Leadership Outreach & Engagement Coordinator

Reports to: Project Director

FTE: Full-time, hourly

Location: Remote (Washington State)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Start Date: December 1, 2026 (flexible, based on candidate)

About WSCC

Washington State Community Connectors (WSCC) envisions a future where families across the state are informed, empowered, and supported within their own communities. Our mission is to unite Washington State family leaders in behavioral health care to strengthen children, youth, families, and community partnerships.

WSCC collaborates with various state and community partners to support families, improve systems, and empower family and community leaders. WSCC offers a variety of parent-supporting events and trainings on children’s behavioral health in Washington and facilitates Committees and Work Groups where community members can get engaged in our work. Learn about our work on our website: https://wsccsupport.org/

Position Summary

The Family Leadership Outreach & Engagement Coordinator leads day-to-day community outreach, individual family screening, and peer support network building across Washington State. This role directly connects families navigating complex systems with resources, facilitates warm hand-offs, and prepares family leaders to participate in state governance.

Essential Job Duties

• Conduct proactive outreach to schools, behavioral health providers, and parent-serving organizations statewide to establish partnerships and raise awareness of WSCC services.
• Screen families navigating complex behavioral health, special education, child welfare, or juvenile justice systems, executing warm hand-offs to partner advocacy groups.
• Recruit, mentor, and prepare family leaders to take on active roles in state workgroups, councils, and Communities of Practice.
• Assists with scheduling and attends community events with the Outreach team and reviews previous events to make informed decisions – will include attending and participating in evening and weekend events throughout the year.
• Attend state peer support advisory meetings and facilitate Peer Support Licensure Orientation Workshops to expand the parent peer workforce.
• Coordinate scheduling and logistics for specialized project trainings (Serving on Groups,Coach Approach to Adaptive Leadership, Caregiver Navigation Burden).
• Record contact screenings, warm hand-offs, training attendance, and workgroup placements at point of contact to support quarterly reporting.

Minimum Requirements

• Lived experience as a parent or primary caregiver raising a child/youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and/or Co-Occurring Disorders (COD).
• Strong familiarity with Washington State's child-serving systems (education/IEP, child welfare, juvenile justice, wraparound/WISe).
• Experience in Community Engagement and Outreach; volunteer coordination experience a plus.
• Access to remote work space with high speed internet.
• Commitment to anti-racism and dismantling institutional and systemic racism and other biases, including, but not limited to:
  • A willingness to learn about one’s own prejudices and biases.
  • An ability to work toward equal status relationships with people who are different.
  • An ability to question personal assumptions about the skills and competencies of the employees, and community, who are different.
  • A desire to learn as much as possible about how one’s own culture is different from others, and how that contributes to a particular way of reviewing self and others.
  • An ability to take risks to communicate with people from other cultures and backgrounds.
  • An ability to learn from mistakes made in trying to communicate with people of other cultures and backgrounds.
  • Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Personal or professional experience in anti-oppression work.

Desired Qualifications (not required, but preferred)

• Certified Peer Counselor (CPC) credential or willingness to obtain certification.
• Experience facilitating workshops or training modules for families and community partners.

Other Job Requirements

• A willingness to learn about one’s own prejudices and biases.
• An ability to work toward equal status relationships with people who are different.
• An ability to question personal assumptions about the skills and competencies of the employees, and community, who are different.
• A desire to learn as much as possible about how one’s own culture is different from others, and how that contributes to a particular way of reviewing self and others.
• An ability to take risks to communicate with people from other cultures and backgrounds.
• An ability to learn from mistakes made in trying to communicate with people of other cultures and backgrounds.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Personal or professional experience in anti-oppression work.
• Commitment to anti-racism and dismantling institutional and systemic racism and other biases.

Compensation, Benefits, and Employee Support

• Full-time, 40 hours per week, $28.37/hour
• Employees earn 0.0384 hours of vacation for every 1.0 hour worked.
• In addition to PTO, all full and part-time employees are eligible for twelve (12) paid holidays and five (5) days bereavement leave per year.
• Flexible, 90%+ remote position; work laptop provided.
• We are currently exploring options for benefit package offerings

How to apply

Email a resume and maximum one-page cover letter to hiring@clstrategic.net with the subject line “[Your Name] Family Leadership Outreach & Engagement Coordinator. The priority deadline for applications is October 30, 2026.

Equal Opportunity employment

WSCC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, genetic information, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws or ordinances. WSCC will endeavor to make reasonable accommodation of an otherwise qualified applicant, related to an individual’s physical or mental disability, sincerely held religious beliefs and practices, and/or any other reason required by applicable law unless doing so would impose an undue hardship upon WSCC business operations. WSCC is also committed to the fair and equal employment of individuals with disabilities under the ADA. WSCC’s policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the company. In accordance with the ADA, reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of their jobs or to enjoy the equal benefits and privileges of employment.

• Employees earn 0.0384 hours of vacation for every 1.0 hour worked.
• In addition to PTO, all full and part-time employees are eligible for twelve (12) paid holidays and five (5) days bereavement leave per year.
• Flexible, 90%+ remote position; work laptop provided.
• We are currently exploring options for benefit package offerings