This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description The Director, PreK-12 Education Programs leads SchoolHouse Connection’s (SHC) practical assistance work to improve the identification, enrollment, attendance, and educational success of children and youth experiencing homelessness. This is a new position for a senior professional supporting a high-performing team and ensuring high-quality, impactful practical assistance nationwide. You will guide a talented team that delivers training, responds to complex questions from the field, advises state and local educational agencies on implementation, and produces clear resources that translate policy into real-world solutions. What You’ll Do - Lead a high-performing team. - Lead and support a high-performing team of three senior managers and contractors. - Set clear goals, roles, and expectations; coach for excellence; and strengthen team systems that enable timely, high-quality delivery. - Build consistent workflows for prioritizing requests, tracking deliverables, ensuring quality control, and meeting deadlines. - Use data and feedback to drive continuous improvement, learning, and impact across all practical assistance work. - Oversee high-quality practical assistance and professional learning. - Oversee SHC’s PreK-12 practical assistance strategy and delivery to support strong and impactful implementation of the McKinney-Vento Act nationwide. - Ensure high-quality professional learning, including: - Interactive in-person and virtual trainings - State and regional conferences with action planning - Agency-level advising and implementation support for SEAs and LEAs - Clear, actionable resources for educators, administrators, families, and youth - Ensure accurate, timely, practical responses to inquiries about students’ legal rights and school practices, including identifying trends and translating them into guidance and training. - Build and maintain partnerships. - Build and maintain strong relationships with national and state partners, including the U.S. Department of Education’s technical assistance center (National Center for Homeless Education). - Collaborate across SHC teams (early childhood, higher education, state and federal policy, research and evaluation, strategic communications, and Youth Leadership & Scholarships) to support aligned systems and solutions. - Manage fee-for-service projects in partnership with senior leadership. - Contribute to funding proposals and reports that sustain and expand this work. Qualifications - At least seven years of supervisory experience leading teams and managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects. - Strong understanding of how state and local educational agencies operate in practice, including the realities of implementation. - Demonstrated experience designing, delivering, and overseeing high-quality, impactful technical assistance and professional learning that leads to improved practice and student outcomes, including presentations, facilitation, coaching, inquiry response systems, and advising agencies on implementation. - McKinney-Vento expertise that is either: - Deep and demonstrated through substantial responsibility applying the law to real-world situations across settings, or - Rapidly attainable, if you bring strong experience practically applying laws and policies, strong judgment in ambiguous situations, and experience working with vulnerable student populations. Requirements - Experience working across diverse settings, such as national, regional, SEA, and multiple LEAs. - Experience developing resources that are clear, practical, and usable by busy practitioners. - Experience convening educators and cross-system partners to improve practice and outcomes. Key strengths for success - Exceptional people leadership: coaching, accountability, clarity, and team culture. - Excellent project management: prioritization, timelines, delegation, quality control, and follow-through. - Ability to identify patterns across diverse geographies and translate field experience into national strategy and tools. - Strong writing and editing skills, including editing the work of others to produce high-quality resources. - Dynamic public speaking and facilitation skills. - Relationship-builder who earns trust across systems. - Calm, solutions-oriented leader who maintains high standards in a fast-paced environment. Who Should Apply This role is a strong fit if you have led a team, owned complex deliverables across partners, and have a track record of improving quality and consistency in practical assistance and professional learning. You do not need to have held a national role previously, but you should have experience that translates beyond a single local context. Because this is a senior leadership and multi-context technical assistance role, we cannot consider applicants who lack any of the elements listed under “Required experience and knowledge” listed above, or applicants: - Whose experience is limited primarily to a single McKinney-Vento role in a single district or agency, without broader responsibility for leading teams and managing complex cross-stakeholder work. - Whose professional learning experience is limited to delivering trainings that the applicant did not design or oversee, or is limited to one local setting without adapting content across diverse contexts. - Who are seeking a role that is mainly direct service, individual case support, or a single-program portfolio without significant people and project management responsibility. Benefits - Work from home - Flexible schedule - Generous leave - Health insurance reimbursement - 403(b) plan with employer contribution - Professional growth opportunities Location Anywhere in the US (with occasional required travel, approximately 3 to 5 trips per year) Equal Opportunity SchoolHouse Connection provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, genetics, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities. Application Guidelines Applications are accepted only via the form provided here. Please do not contact SchoolHouse Connection directly about the position. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

• Define and continuously evolve our low-touch engagement strategy • Design customer journeys, success milestones, and intervention triggers • Determine automation vs. 1:many vs. human engagement • Define tooling, data signals, and future headcount needs • Create durable systems, not one-off programs • Build and scale 1:many technical programs (webinars, office hours, adoption campaigns) • Partner with Training and Product Marketing to create durable technical education assets • Ensure customers adopt key dbt Platform capabilities • Serve as a technical escalation and guidance resource when needed • Design scalable workflows for renewals, churn risk detection, and expansion signals • Design internal processes that reduce manual effort and improve consistency • Continuously iterate using data and customer feedback • Partner with Sales on renewal and expansion strategy • Provide feedback loops to Product and Enablement • Act as the voice of the scaled commercial segment

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description - Lead end-to-end program delivery for complex, multi-year initiatives in people technology transformations (Workday, Greenhouse, Jira, Zendesk, Confluence). - Execute strategic planning sessions and cross-functional prioritization with Corporate Engineering, IT, Privacy, and Security leadership teams to align program roadmaps with business objectives. - Manage program governance through biweekly and monthly strategic initiative reviews, risk assessments, and executive reporting that drives accountability and informed decision-making. - Orchestrate cross-functional program teams spanning engineering, IT operations, security, privacy, compliance, and People stakeholders to ensure seamless program delivery. - Drive enterprise technology lifecycle management including vendor selection, contract negotiations, system integrations, and sunset/migration planning. - Execute operational excellence initiatives such as infrastructure optimization, business process automation, disaster recovery planning, and performance monitoring implementations. - Proactively manage program risks and dependencies, implementing course corrections and stakeholder communications to keep initiatives on track. - Partner with finance and strategy teams to manage program budgets, track ROI, and optimize resource allocation across the technology portfolio. Qualifications - 8+ years executing complex transformation programs in operations consulting, strategy, or enterprise technology. - 6+ years leading enterprise technology program delivery including HCM platforms (Workday, Greenhouse). - Proven track record executing full-cycle transformations from business case development through implementation, change management, and operational handoff. - Experience leading privacy and security programs such as GDPR/CCPA compliance, security framework implementations, identity management systems, or data governance initiatives. - Strong executive communication skills with the ability to manage up to C-level stakeholders and translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into business impact. - Demonstrated experience managing technology vendors, complex procurement processes, and success managing technology budgets exceeding $1M annually. - Track record coordinating cross-functional teams across IT, Engineering, Security, Privacy, Compliance, Finance, HR, and business operations. - Strong business acumen with the ability to identify strategic needs, lead all aspects of planning with sound business recommendations, and generate alignment with key business partners. - Forward-thinking strategist with proven success in translating strategy to tactical plans with high-quality execution and delivery. - Champion AI and automation initiatives across the enterprise, identifying opportunities to leverage generative AI for process optimization and implementing solutions and a commitment to continuous improvement and pursuit of excellence. - An empathetic leader style and a strong sense of self-awareness.

EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOP AND HEALTH BOARD First Things First (Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board) is an essential leader and partner in creating a family-centered, equitable, high-quality early childhood system that supports the development, well-being, health and early education of all Arizona’s children, birth to age 5. Created by voter initiative in 2006, First Things First is governed by a state Board with 28 regional partnership councils. First Things First is a decentralized organization that engages diverse constituencies to accomplish its mission. Organizational values include a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion; a focus on accountability, transparency, coordination and collaboration; and an emphasis on the outcomes that will ensure young children start kindergarten healthy and ready to succeed in school and in life. Regional Specialist - Pima North Job Location: Address: 3610 N Prince Village Pl, Suite 100, Tucson, AZ 85719 Posting Details: Salary: $86,000 Grade: 23 Job Summary: The Regional Specialist advances First Things First’s (FTF) mission to support the healthy development and learning of young children in the region by serving as a trusted regional leader and an agent of systems change in the area of early childhood development and health issues across the region who embraces challenges, leads local community engagement, and motivates/guides others to recognize opportunity for change and/or new direction. This position inspires community support for early childhood initiatives, influences public thinking and action, and fosters collaboration across multiple stakeholders. The Regional Specialist serves as both a connector and a thought partner, coordinating regional efforts while supporting statewide systems change and community engagement goals. In this role, the Regional Specialist reports to the Regional Area Director as a member of the FTF Regional Unit and will help support the following regional partnership council(s): Pima North Regional Partnership Council. This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures. The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance. Job Duties: Regional Coordination & Regional Partnership Council Support ● Participate in Regional Partnership Council meetings, committees, and community meetings; ensure compliance with the Arizona Open Meeting Law. ● Assist the Regional Area Director in the regional strategic planning process with the regional council and community stakeholders to create a multi-year regional strategic plan and annual funding plans that reflect regional priorities and align with FTF’s statewide direction. ● Work with cross-functional internal teams to develop, implement, and monitor regional strategies and initiatives implemented in communities. ● Assist the Regional Area Director with the initial and ongoing development of Regional Partnership Council members, helping them fulfill their roles effectively and increasing their satisfaction and engagement. ● Identify, recruit, and onboard new regional partnership council members who reflect the diversity and priorities of the Pima North Region. ● Support completion of the biannual Regional Needs and Assets report under direction from the FTF Evaluation Team, to include securing tribal approval. ● Under the supervision of the Regional Area Director, the Regional Specialist will assist with the implementation of regional funding plans—ensuring programmatic and systems change strategies align with regional council intent, organizational standards, and strategic priorities. Systems Change, Community Engagement & Public Awareness ● Engage communities within and outside of the early childhood system through tailored presentations, workshops, and communication strategies that introduces FTF, educates about the needs of young children and families, and inspires action in support of early childhood. ● Leverage networking opportunities at meetings, events, and conferences; maintain regular follow-up communication and share engagement materials, success stories, and earned media. ● Collaborate with FTF teams and community partners to meet shared awareness and systems change goals. ● Apply creativity, strategic thinking, and systems-level perspective to design and lead engagement strategies and planning conversations. ● Lead engaging presentations and discussions with the Regional Partnership Council and community partners to share outcomes, data, and opportunities. ● Represent First Things First as a regional spokesperson on the importance of early childhood, using multiple communication channels including social media, newsletters, and media outreach. Government Relations & Strategic Partnerships ● Develop and sustain strong relationships and partnerships with municipal and county officials—including mayors, supervisors, city managers, and policy staff—to align early childhood system goals with local priorities. ● As part of the FTF multi-disciplinary team, the Regional Specialist will provide regular briefings and strategic insights to the Regional Area Director and the Senior Director of Government Affairs regarding emerging trends, local government actions, and partnership opportunities across assigned regions when appropriate. ● Represent First Things First in regional coalitions, associations, and public forums to share information including data, resources, and updates on state-level policy and funding initiatives. Organizational Alignment & Culture ● Clearly convey information and ideas through multiple formats to help diverse audiences understand and retain key messages. ● Perform duties in a manner that supports First Things First’s mission, internal culture, and values of respect, collaboration, and integrity, in alignment with organizational and strategic direction ● Support additional opportunities related to regional operations and community engagement functions as needed. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs): ● Extensive knowledge of early childhood development and health issues and demonstrated ability to develop successful strategies to address those issues. ● Bachelor’s degree in early education, social work, education, health or other related field required; Master’s degree preferred. ● Management or leadership experience in public, private or non-profit organizations, demonstrated strong record of leadership in early childhood development and/or health programs. ● Possess a collegial leadership style and an ability to work effectively in and cooperatively with staff, parents, community leaders, local governments, public and private entities and faith-based groups to improve the quality of and access to early childhood development and health programs in the region. ● Demonstrated ability to ensure public accountability as well as measure and improve outcomes appropriate for program goals. ● Creative, solution-driven, and detail-oriented with the ability to self-motivate and meet competing deadlines. ● Demonstrated knowledge, skill and success in generating financial support and developing cross-sector partnerships with the private and public sectors. ● Competence in working effectively with a volunteer governing board and community volunteers to advance the interests of programs. ● Strong problem-solving, leadership and analytical skills, including the ability to identify areas for self-improvement to perform assigned projects and carry out responsibilities to meet desired outcomes; actively pursue appropriate means and methods to increase effectiveness in those areas. ● Experience that demonstrates reliability and productivity working with minimal supervision, maintaining multiple responsibilities, the ability to maintain a flexible schedule to accommodate partnership development, preparing presentations and supporting materials. ● High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office software, Google Workspace and intranet/internet communication tools and methods to produce and deliver reports, documents and communications. ● Ability to travel, including overnight stays. This remote, community-based position also requires regular in-person participation at meetings held outside the immediate service area. Pre-Employment Requirements: If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements. All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify). Benefits: By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion. Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page Retirement: ASRS Contact Us: HR@FirstThingsFirst.org