Career Opportunity

Community Partnerships Coordinator - Dream Keeper Initiative - Human Rights Commission (9772)

Recruitment: RTF0138828-01147712

Published: August 23, 2023

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About:

The roots of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) go back to 1964, when the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in theaters, and automobile showrooms that discriminated against African Americans. 

Today, the Human Rights Commission advocates for human and civil rights, and works in service of the City’s anti-discrimination laws to further racial solidarity, equity, and healing. For over 60 years, HRC has grown in response to San Francisco’s mandate to address the causes of and problems resulting from prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and discrimination through the following work:

• Advocating for human and civil rights
• Investigating and mediating discrimination complaints
• Resolving community disputes and issues involving individual or systemic illegal discrimination
• Providing technical assistance, information, and referrals to individuals, community groups, businesses and government agencies related to human rights and social services.

Dream Keeper Initiative

In June 2020, following the killing of George Floyd, Mayor Breed and Supervisor Walton announced a plan to prioritize the redirection of resources from law enforcement to support the African American community. Following that plan, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) led an extensive and collaborative process with the community to identify and prioritize funding needs and developed a report to guide the reinvestment. The community engagement process included more than 60 community meetings, listening sessions, coalition convenings, and surveys with over 700 respondents. As part of the budget process, Mayor Breed redirected $120 million from law enforcement for investments in the African American community for Fiscal Years 2020-21 and 2021-22

The goal of the Dream Keeper Initiative is to improve outcomes for San Francisco’s Black and African American youth and their families and will provide family-based navigation supports to ensure that the needs of all family members are addressed cohesively and comprehensively. With this coordinated approach, the Dream Keeper Initiative aims to break the cycle of poverty and involvement in the criminal justice system for the families in its City programs and ensure that new investments, including in youth development, economic opportunity, community-led change, arts and culture, workforce, and homeownership, are accessible to San Francisco’s families who are most in need.

Role description

Reporting to the Brighter Futures Program Manager, the Community Partnerships Coordinator may work with youth and families, community partners, schools, and City departments to develop, document and address the needs of families in the Dream Keeper Initiative Ecosystem. The Community Partnerships Coordinator aims to build a family-supportive   services system across early childhood and education, and community relations that disrupts intergenerational poverty and community trauma through the following priority areas:

Duties

1. Strategic Support of Educational Equity Portfolio. Provide strategic support to educational equity efforts. Educational equity seeks to provide equitable opportunities to youth and their families across learning models. This role will amplify the necessity of culturally affirming curricula and build systems that strive to deepen and strengthen partnerships with parents, children, schools, and community-based organizations during these key years, resulting in community-schools based practices. Activities may include organizing learning forums, coordinating youth engagement activities and school-based events, and managing youth, family, and education-related grants.
2. Facilitate Early and Transitional Educational Eco-Systems Supportive of “Cradle-to-Career” Learning. Design and advance policies, practices and resource flows related to education pathways, particularly for early care, children, youth, and their families across the child’s life-course. The first years of life are crucial to building a strong foundation for educational success. This role may work closely with Department of Early Childhood and Department of Children, Youth and Families to build systems that strive to deepen and strengthen partnerships with parents and students, ensuring a greater focus on parents, community stewardship and family heritage will be advanced and honored within San Francisco’s diverse Black communities.
3. Innovate Budget and Policy for “Life-Course” Education Partnerships. Identify, partner with, and advance policy solutions that dramatically improve access to and outcomes for educational enrichment and enrichment related pathways.
   1. Staff collaboration and peer support. Strategic collaboration with internal Dream Keeper Brighter Futures and family wellness staff, including sharing in strategic budgets, logic models, interagency collaborations, and communications strategies related thereto. Identifies and advances integrated and effective policies, resources and practices across education and family support. Highlights promising and potentially unconventional educational practices and bright spots, including at alternative schools.
   2. Inter-agency lead for family systems. Directs a multi-systems public sector table of agencies supporting Dream Keeper families, engaging in 1:1 relationship building, and collaborating on cross-systems policy and resource innovations to achieve the Dream Keeper shared result.
4. Community Engagement. Support the Initiative with building relationships across stakeholders including, but not limited to community partners, City agencies, regional and national colleagues, and public-private partnerships. Foster stakeholder engagement through spearheading the Initiatives communication efforts including management of social media, maintenance of the Initiative website, coordination DKI Community Updates Meetings, facilitation of the DKI Community Accountability Committee, and attending community events on the Initiative’s behalf.

Because we believe the world as it currently exists is not the world we dream for our families, the work involves and requires significant vision and creativity. While the above essential duties reflect current priority areas for the position, Dream Keeper welcomes innovators, individuals who may have different approaches to or takes on systems change.

Essential Functions include:

• Being a key member of Dream Keeper Initiative, which creates, implements, coordinates and oversees programming for the youth and their families around education and youth development;
• Coordinating Dream Keeper services and programming for the department, including the Opportunities for All, Educational Equity, Alternatives to Policing and other initiatives connected to this work;
• Management of education and enrichment contracts funded through the Human Rights Commission;
• Program specific evaluation processes including data collection and analysis;
• Liaising with youth, families, community-based groups and organizations, with an emphasis on those serving youth and marginalized communities;
• Management of Initiative communications platforms;
• May review and analyze monthly reports submitted by various community groups, organizations, and agencies to ensure contract compliance; makes on site visits to assess effectiveness of individual projects, writes, and submits monthly performance monitoring reports.
• Providing training and technical assistance to community-based organizations.
• Supporting families with access to Dream Keeper Resources and City services.

How to qualify

Minimum Qualifications

1. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university AND two (2) years of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice or elections related work; OR

2. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in one of the following fields: public or business administration, urban planning, government, social work, education, finance or criminal justice AND one (1) year of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice or elections related work; OR

3. Possession of a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in public policy, planning, social work, public administration, finance, education, criminal justice, or business administration; OR

4.Possession of a Ph.D. or Juris Doctor degree from an accredited college or university.

Substitution: Verifiable administrative/professional experience involving community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice and/or elections related work may substitute for the educational requirement in Minimum Qualification #1 on a year-for-year basis.

What else should I know?

• Salary & Classification: 9772 Community Development Specialist
• Application Deadline: August 28, 2023

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview  
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

Exempt employment

This role is exempt from the San Francisco Civil Service Rules, and employment is at the discretion of the appointing officer for a period of not-to-exceed three years. (Category 18)

For any questions regarding the position or hiring process- please contact the recruitment analyst, Kristen Erbst at kristen.erbst@sfgov.org 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.