Career Opportunity

Community Partnerships Director - Children, Youth, and Family Education, HOPE SF (0891 - Mayoral Staff XI)

Recruitment: REF1971O

Published: July 26, 2022

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Position Summary Overview

The Community Partnerships Director - Children, Youth, and Family Services directs and designs policies and programs related to children, youth and family education for the HOPE SF initiative within the Office of the Mayor. The goal of the position is to dramatically improve the intergenerational educational ecosystems across the life-course for HOPE SF communities by advancing policies and practices that counter symptoms of inequality across education and early care, and support families’ hopes, dreams and opportunities for their children and youth.

Position Summary Overview

The Community Partnerships Director - Children, Youth, and Family Services directs and designs policies and programs related to children, youth and family education for the HOPE SF initiative within the Office of the Mayor. The goal of the position is to dramatically improve the intergenerational educational ecosystems across the life-course for HOPE SF communities by advancing policies and practices that counter symptoms of inequality across education and early care, and support families’ hopes, dreams and opportunities for their children and youth.

The Community Partnerships Director - Children, Youth, and Family Education aims to build a family-supportive   services system across early childhood and education that disrupts intergenerational poverty and community trauma through the following priority areas of work:

(1)    Strategic Leadership Development of K-8 Community Schools. Serve as the representational face, often on behalf of the Director, for the public-private leadership of HOPE SF educational strategies. Together with SFUSD, families, and community education liaisons, build systems that strive to deepen and strengthen partnerships with parents and children during these key years, resulting in community-schools based practices across HOPE SF.

(2)    Design 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 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. Together with OECE and the Governor’s Office, 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 in the new developments and changing schools.

(3)    Innovate Budget and Policy for “Life-Course” Education Partnerships. Identify, design, and advance innovative budget and policy solutions that dramatically improve access to and outcomes for economic advancement for HOPE SF families through education related pathways.

a.       Staff collaboration and peer support. Strategic leadership of and collaboration with internal HOPE SF economic mobility 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 economic mobility, health, early care and education systems, aiming to improve resident utilization of educational resources and services funded by public and private sectors. Highlights promising and potentially unconventional educational practices and bright spots, including at alternative schools.

b.       Inter-agency lead for family systems. Directs a multi-systems public sector table of agencies supporting HOPE SF families, hosting regular meetings, engaging in 1:1 relationship building, and collaborating on cross-systems policy and resource innovations to achieve the HOPE SF shared result. Includes working across systems leaders for the establishment an educational pathways across the life-course with core HOPE SF partners, identifying opportunities for leverage and innovation where possible.

Role description

Position Background and Research

Over the past decade, a significant body of education and social science literature has emerged focusing on the social determinants of educational achievement, which refers to the socioeconomic, community, and structural factors that influence education across diverse populations. This research has highlighted the ways in which inequities in educational outcomes are linked to neighborhood social and economic processes, which in turn are shaped by institutions that create or perpetuate privilege and inequity, including schools. The Policy Director, Early Childhood and Community Education mobilizes the political leadership of Mayor London N. Breed, City and philanthropic resources, public sector agency partnerships, and school and community based organizational programs and relationships to build a results-based and integrated early care and education system for low-income communities of color.

Position Tasks

Specific exemplary tasks and milestones of this role may include:

Strategic Leadership Development of K-8 Community Schools

• Through the public-private Partnership for HOPE SF, conduct meetings with SFUSD leadership, philanthropic and City partners, and owner-operators to establish protocols for the design, funding, education delivery progress, and community partnership models for HOPE SF community schools;
• In partnership with SFUSD data analysts, provide strategic performance insights on data trends for HOPE SF youth, particularly with respect to attendance and academic performance;
• Publicly champion HOPE SF best practices for system reform in various SFUSD professional development venues and initiatives, including across Bayview Ignite and cohort professional development, PITCH (Superintendent Matthews) initiative, school board presentations, and the African American Achievement and Leadership Initiative.
• Launch the HOPE SF Promise, a trust fund for targeted evidence-based investments in per-pupil spending determined by principals, including incentives for student performance for deeply low-income children lacking or unable to receive rewards for excellence, targeted learning tools for children with gifted and special needs, targeted teacher trainings, etc.; and/or
• Public speaking and/or limited travel related to representation of the initiative and the Mayor’s Officer related to any of the above.

Design Educational Eco-Systems Supportive of “Cradle-to-Career” Learning

• Support implementation of best practices for family engagement, early childhood support and programming, and capacity building across HOPE SF communities to increase utilization of high-quality early childhood resources;
•  Attend meetings and policy design sessions with Office of Early Care and Education, First 5 and Department of Children, Youth and their Families in connection with cradle-to- career strategies;
• Identify and design literacy best practices related to birth-3rd grade reading, including in connection with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading;
• Identify and design educational best practices related to transition aged youth as a part of the career continuum;
• Advocate for and champion community based providers across HOPE SF supportive of early care and education; and/or
• Author policy proposals and service plans related to the above in connection with early care and education.

Innovate Budget and Policy for “Life-Course” Education Partnerships

• Perform data analysis of educational partnership bright spots, including non-profit, charter, parochial and private institutions successfully serving HOPE SF children and families;
• Strengthen and seed educational partnerships, including potentially with OnePurpose, Rise!, alternative schools, and other institutions serving material numbers of HOPE SF children and families;
• Advocate for and support HOPE SF owner-operators use, tracking and reporting on a core set of educational indicators, consistent with initiative goals of achieving racially equitable, inclusive, mixed-income community transformation;
• Provide mayoral support to each HOPE SF site to demonstrate a set of community-level strategies related to historical and institutional educational inequality;
• Co-facilitate department head and deputy director level tables around social services for HOPE SF communities, particularly as it relates to education partnerships across the life- course in human services, children, youth and families, and juvenile probation; and/or
• Policy drafting and other general support to the initiative.

How to qualify

Desirable Qualifications

The strongest candidates will have:

• 7-10 years of experience in education, community wellness, early childhood and/or civil rights
•  5-7 years of senior leadership and supervisory experience
• Knowledge of San Francisco’s neighborhoods, particularly public housing communities as a current or former resident, or community stakeholder;
• Existing relationships with HOPE SF stakeholders, understanding of citywide systems, demographic trends, and experience in supporting families of color with low-incomes in navigating resources and systems within the City and County of San Francisco;
•  A proven record of effectively planning, organizing and using resources to take action;
• A deep knowledge of project management and client or community-centered engagement tools and methods;
• Expertise in implementing culturally responsive programs, policies and/or systems that celebrate diverse traditions and cultures;
• Experience building trust, and developing relationships with families in underserved communities of color;
• Experience with effective communication and presentations to large groups; and
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Office, Excel, PowerPoint) and ability to organize and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data for presentations.

What else should I know?

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

If you have applied for this position in the past, please do not submit another CCSF online application. 

Classification - 0891-  Mayoral Staff XI

Salary $97,942 - $119,106

Filling Deadline - Friday, April 29, 2022 - 12:01 am

Repost - filing deadline - Friday, August 26, 2022 - 12:01 am

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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.

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

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

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.