Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals in order to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the work to establish and implement an early childhood workforce system to ensure funding, standards and competencies, career development resources, qualifications and credentials, professional development (training and strengths-based coaching), and program quality assurance and improvement for individuals who work with young children throughout New York. Housed at the City University of New York, the Institute is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to the early childhood workforce across New York State.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Senior Director, New York Works for Children, will play a pivotal and influential leadership role in the policy and systems-building work of the Institute. The Institute is the implementing agency of New York Works for Children (NYWFC), New York State's integrated professional development system for the early childhood and school age workforce. The Senior Director is responsible for developing, implementing, managing, and promoting the statewide system that supports the early childhood workforce, including a wide range of initiatives to improve and expand workforce development policy and practice.
The Senior Director will lead a team of workforce development, communications, and data system managers to further develop and integrate the Institute’s programs into a comprehensive and cohesive statewide system. The Senior Director will quickly gain an understanding of the Institute’s work and how it fits with other statewide early childhood systems and will be able to identify areas of opportunity for positive impacts on the workforce and New York’s youngest children and their families. The Senior Director will work with other statewide and national organizations and initiatives to accomplish these goals as well.
The Senior Director will work in conjunction with the Institute’s other system-building projects, including QUALITYstarsNY, the Aspire Registry, career development, and professional development and learning projects and systems that produce research, data and outcomes relevant to policymakers and early childhood stakeholders in New York City, New York State, and around the country. In this role the Senior Director will serve as a convener and collaborator throughout the state and with agency and organization partners to further the work of the conceptual workforce system known as New York Works for Children.
The Senior Director will produce, with input from the Institute’s leadership team, a variety of documents and communications that share this information with different audiences to advance knowledge about and recognition of NYWFC. This will include policy reports and briefs, policy position statements, and newsletter and blog articles. The Senior Director will produce content that is proactive, based on our work and outcomes, as well as statements in response to announcements and changes in the field. An effective candidate will be a systems thinker and a storyteller, able to produce written work products, make the case for changes in policy, introduce innovative approaches to workforce development, and represent the Institute and NYWFC at relevant events.
This position will report to the Executive Director and will supervise a team of professionals.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership and Project Management
Relationship Building and Management
Policy and Data Analysis
Minimum Qualifications
Physical Requirements
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals in order to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the…
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.