Early Childhood Education Mobilization Coordinator

The Early Childhood Education Mobilization Coordinator functions as the main internal point person on the ECE team for grassroots mobilization of parents and providers in support of organization and coalition policy goals. Working closely with the ECE Policy Director and team, the Coordinator supports advocacy efforts to expand access to and strengthen the quality of early childhood education programs across Pennsylvania. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to initiatives that advance the team’s racial equity agenda, including research projects, engagement with key legislators, event coordination, and other strategic advocacy efforts.

Key Duties

• Activate our parent and provider networks by facilitating communications in a timely and accurate manner, conveying information necessary for mobilization with precision and enthusiasm.
• Amplify parent and provider voices through special projects, such as recruiting parents and providers to sign-on to letters to legislators, share their stories on social media, sign and deliver postcards, and more.
• Recruit new early childhood providers, parents, and community stakeholders and support their engagement in meetings with key legislators, public rallies, legislative hearings, briefings, and press conferences.
• Organize the logistics of early childhood-provider driven events that mobilize parents and providers, including but not limited to STAR move up and expansion ceremonies, kindergarten graduations, and other provider events. Monitor venue needs, transportation, equipment needs, catering, staffing, registration and communication.
• Support the logistics of advocacy campaigns and research projects related to the ECE policy agenda by scheduling meetings, sending meeting invites, monitoring RSVPs, and preparing meeting materials.
• Collect survey data for research projects, and additional tracking campaign activities.
• Track parent and provider engagement activities to ensure accurate record keeping for organization tracking and reporting on grant deliverables.
• Support engagement of existing networks of parents and providers through regular, clear, accurate, and effective email and telephone communications. Numeric targets for the number of parents and providers communicated with will be set every six months.
• Attend community events to represent Children First, collect signatures.
• Attend bi-weekly ECE team meetings with the ECE policy director and work as a collaborative team member. Make meaningful contributions to the decisions and discussions at the team meetings.

Competencies

• Action Oriented – Full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.
• Adaptability – Ability to work independently and with others in a hybrid, dynamic environment.
• Creativity – Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Interpersonal Savvy – Relates well to all kinds of people – up, down and sideways inside and outside of the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; builds constructive and effective relationships; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Organizing – Can marshal resources to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information in a useful manner.
• Problem Solving – Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• Technological Proficiency – Facility with Excel and Word, web-based research, social media platforms.

Qualifications, Education, Experience & Skills:

• Strong commitment to racial justice and desire to create safe inclusive conversations on how to close racial equity gaps in early childhood education.
• A track record of successful and positive engagements with community members.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Team player, able to coordinate, negotiate, manage, and work with coworkers of all levels.
• Program management skills including process management, data tracking and reporting.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience working in a non-profit/advocacy/community service field, can be an unpaid internship experience.
• Degree preferred in human services, social work, public policy, or related field required.
• Ability to work occasional weekend or evening events.
• Willingness to travel throughout Southeast Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, must own a car.

Location: Candidates should be local to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area or willing to relocate and travel for work-related events including but not limited to trips to Harrisburg and the collar counties around Philadelphia.

Reports To: Early Childhood Education Policy Director

Salary & Benefits: $55,000 with a generous benefits package including health coverage with vision and dental, 403B contributions, generous vacation and paid time off holidays, and paid family leave.

Apply: Resume and cover letter to info@childrenfirstpa.org.

Generous benefits package including health coverage with vision and dental, 403B contributions, generous vacation and paid time off holidays, and paid family leave.