Assistant Director of Every Child Shines
Send your resume and cover letter to: Cerlyn Cantave
Are you someone who wants to make a lasting impact on children and families? Are you looking to be part of a collaborative movement to strategically improve opportunities for families and prepare our community’s children for success? Every Child Shines within East Boston Social Centers has a vision to ensure families have the supports they need so all children in East Boston enter kindergarten joyful, thriving, and ready to learn. Join a growing team and be integral to building this movement of collective transformational impact.
Reporting to the Every Child Shines Director, the ECS Assistant Director works with families and community partners. The ECS Assistant Director is Every Child Shines’ point person for advancing collaborative work with local grassroots organizations, ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion and community leadership are centered in the work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
Point person for local East Boston based organizations including in-home childcares
Learns about local organizations’ goals and identifies ways ECS can collaborate with them to best serve the community and advance kindergarten readiness
Ensures ECS is kept up-to-date on community organizations’ services and events, and updates organizational profiles on Apricot
Meets with families, connecting them to resources, and building strong relationships with parents and caregivers
Synthesizes what community members identify as needs to inform ECS’ long-term work
Represents Every Child Shines at local events to share information, build relationships, and bring takeaways back to the ECS team
Support planning, execution, and follow-up for ECS-hosted events including annual Community Convening
Follow-up with families who received assistance for concrete needs and enter related data into Apricot
Supports translation of materials into Spanish
Additional duties as assigned
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Proven ability to work effectively with diverse multi-stakeholder group—ensuring inclusion and belonging for people from diverse cultural, economic, and professional backgrounds
Excellent communication, group facilitation and organizational skills
Empathetic personality; uses a strength based approach to family support
Familiarity with various software including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Suite and other systems
Strong organizational skills - meticulous, thorough, and detail-oriented
Strong ability to synthesize information and prioritize needed follow-up/action steps
Demonstrable event and people management skills
Preference for individuals with a background in reflective supervision
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Standard office environment. The noise level in this environment is moderate
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that to be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Prolonged periods of standing and sitting at a desk
Travel to community and stakeholder meetings
Compensation and Benefits
East Boston Social Centers cares about our team's professional development. Employees are eligible for up to $1,000 of reimbursed professional development courses following one year of employment.
This is a full-time salaried position at 40 hours a week at $70,000-$75,000 a year. We offer comprehensive benefits including health and dental insurance, 403b retirement plan, 12 paid holidays, PTO (vacation, sick and personal days), Life/Short/long-term disability, childcare assistance (based on waitlist availability), and more. The Social Centers has a family environment and embodies our motto “when all give, all gain.”
East Boston Social Centers is a multi-service agency and community center that cultivates community, belonging, and joy. Founded in 1918 to welcome and support immigrant families, East Boston Social Centers continues to proudly embrace “welcome” in all we do. Our core services range across educational, social, and recreational programs to support the diverse community of East Boston and our neighbors of all ages. For over a century, our programs and services have welcomed neighbors of all ages, interests, and backgrounds through our doors. Each year, we provide direct programming for 3,000+ children, teens, and adults.”When all give, all gain.” This is so much more than a motto at East Boston Social Centers. We seek to ensure all have an opportunity to give and to gain, and to belong. We actively seek and value a diverse and inclusive workforce that is reflective of our communities. We are strengthened by this vitality and wealth of life experiences.
To Apply:
Please send a cover letter explaining your interest in and qualifications for this opportunity and a resume summarizing your experience and education to Cerlyn Cantave, Director of People & Inclusion, ccantave@ebsoc.org.
East Boston Social Centers provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.