Director, Hunts Point Community Partnership

The Hunts Point Alliance for Children (HPAC) is a non-profit organization transforming the lives of children and families in Hunts Point, a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood with significant opportunities to improve child well-being. Founded in 2006 in response to the low education outcomes of at-risk students in Hunts Point, HPAC pursued the bold mission of expanding the hopes and potential of the neighborhood and its families. The organization accomplishes this by nurturing children and youth to college or career. HPAC’s work falls into four program areas: Early Childhood Education, Youth Development and Scholar Support, The Family Project, and Community Building, including the Hunts Point Community Partnership.

Since 2018, the Hunts Point Alliance for Children has supported the Hunts Point Community Partnership (HPCP), funded through the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). The Hunts Point Community Partnership (HPCP) serves as a primary prevention intervention to build social capital and resource connections for the families of the Hunts Point community. Led by a Governance Team of local CBOs and community members, the HPCP’s strategic plan focuses on building social capital and convening local early childhood providers to connect families with early childhood resources.

HPAC and the HPCP are building on the last three years’ success as they search for a Director to manage the Community Partnership Program who can facilitate community educators, providers, and advocates' collective achievement of our common vision through strong community relationships, ongoing communication, and shared metrics that demonstrate improved well-being, developmental, and educational indicators.

The Position:

The Director will provide collaborative leadership for the Hunts Point Community Partnership, reporting to the HPAC Executive Director. At a minimum, the full-time Director would have the following responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and moderate monthly HPCP General Meetings.
• Ensure that the HPCP Strategic Plan and its identified goals and action steps for the Partnership are implemented in accordance with community needs, ACS Guiding Theoretical Models, and HPAC values.
• Maintain strong, long-term working partnerships with stakeholders, including grassroots leaders, faith leaders, service provider staff and leadership, and government agencies and officials. Participate in, partner with, and support community events and partner initiatives.
• Connect community members and partners to referral networks, resources, and each other to build social capital.
• Lead the HPCP Community Governance Team, composed of both community members and representatives from local community-based organizations. The Governance Team will guide the work of the Hunts Point Community Partnership to ensure the alignment of program strategies and community education events to emerging community needs and the existing HPCP Strategic Plan.
• Facilitate the Governance Team’s efforts to develop a member outreach strategy to create a membership representative of the community that provides relevant programs and services.
• Maintain existing ACS program evaluation metrics, including overseeing collection and reporting of fiscal processes and impact indicators and completing requested ACS reports, training, and learning meetings.
• Improve data collection for measuring community impact and progress on the HPCP Strategic Plan by tracking Monthly Meeting attendance, Partner engagement and collaboration, and Referral tracking to analyze impact indicators and develop recommendations with stakeholders; participate in cross-site learning collaboratives to identify and replicate successful strategies and develop fidelity measures.
• Administrative responsibilities include hiring and providing direct supervision and support to an Administrative Assistant, Community Organizer, paid Community Ambassadors, and community volunteers; facilitating and planning for membership meetings and workgroup activities; ensuring fiscal integrity of budget.
• Ongoing building of knowledge regarding developments and best practices in community-based programs focused on child and family well-being; identifying member strengths that can be leveraged to build capacity, such as trainings, quality assurance processes, outreach staff, and linkages to other networks; identifying and leveraging in-kind donations and pro-bono services.
• Serve as an effective spokesperson for the Hunts Point Community Partnership’s role in the community and partnership with ACS and HPAC. This includes overseeing HPCP communication and marketing strategies, including website materials, social media, and outreach materials to develop a strong, visible brand.
• Other duties as needed, requested, or assigned by the Executive Director

Core Qualifications:

• A master’s degree in non-profit administration, social work, child development, community development, or related field with at least five (5) years of successful, relevant experience, including three (3) years in a leadership position managing community-based programs engaging children, youth and families,
• Or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with at least seven (7) years of successful relevant experience, including three (3) years in a leadership position.
• Evidenced commitment to serving children and families in poverty, including bringing together stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and perspectives around a common cause.
• Capacity to oversee data collection and analysis efforts and experience using data to make programmatic decisions.
• Experience managing collaboratives and ability to guide discussions with multiple stakeholders; preferred familiarity with the Collective Impact model and Two-Gen approach.
• Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and versatile while focusing effectively on overarching goals.
• Ability to anticipate, understand, and respond to partners' needs to maintain relationships and advance collaborative work.
• Evidenced experience working cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance overall effectiveness.
• Skilled at setting priorities, monitoring progress toward goals, and tracking details, data, information, and activities.
• Experience with PASSport or city/state systems preferred
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401k Retirement Plan
• 401k 3% Employer Contribution
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (Transitchek)
• DOE Holidays (winter/spring breaks)
• 11 paid holidays
• Two weeks off (paid) in August
• One week off (paid) in December
• Summer Fridays

● Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.