Job Description

Network Facilitator- Early Childhood Network

Title: Network Facilitator - Early Childhood Network

Reports to: Director of Strategic Initiatives

United Way of Northern Utah Mission: We Unite people and organizations to build healthy, stable and well-educated communities where individuals, families, and neighborhoods thrive.

Goal: United Way of Northern Utah is seeking a Network Facilitator to support the Early Childhood Network and provide leadership on efforts to create local child development systems to benefit the most vulnerable families with young children (prenatal to 5 years old). This position will support the development and implementation of community-level strategies related to policy, community education, and community collaboration to ensure all Ogden children are developmentally and socially-emotionally healthy and enter the school system ready to learn.

Summary of Work: The Network Facilitator\'s core function is to facilitate impactful partnerships that are capable of community-level change. This requires a unique individual who thinks in terms of systems and has the adaptive skill set to work across sectors, political perspectives, and beyond any individual program. Competencies such as results-based facilitation, systems thinking, project management, continuous improvement, and adaptive leadership are key for this role. Facilitating a network is not for everyone. We seek a capable, energetic, results-focused team member who is comfortable with ambiguity and ready to take this work to the next level.

Key Responsibilities

Network Facilitation

Serve as the \'backbone staff\' of the Early Childhood Network, build on the excellent work that has been done to date by ensuring newly launched strategies are well aligned, monitored for impact, and build involvement from early childhood partners.

Engage government agencies, preschool partners, home visit programs, service providers, school districts, health providers, childcare, universities, data partners, community members, and any other relevant partners in moving toward system change through meaningful action.

Ensure the Network and its workgroups develop shared accountability to community-level outcomes and measure impact both at the program level and the community level.

Work with Network members, workgroups, and partners to facilitate action between meetings.

Strategy Development and Implementation

Using the Results-Based Action Cycle, monitor network strategies for impact tracking both outputs and outcomes.

Work alongside research and evaluation partners to develop and implement data-driven processes and systems to inform the work.

Project Management

Follow up regularly with partners to ensure actions are completed between meetings.

Create and use process maps, flowcharts, logic models and/or other tools to ensure effective and efficient execution of the strategies/interventions developed by the network and its working groups.

Ensure the network and its working groups create specific performance measures for their interventions/strategies and activities to demonstrate their impact.

Other Duties

Remain apprised of statewide efforts through Early Childhood Utah Advisory Council and its subcommittees.

Attend and participate in other local, regional, and state level meetings as requested.

Actively participate in work related to grant writing, fundraising, and sustainability of the initiative with corporate, foundation, and government representatives, as well as individual donors.

Mindset

This position entails a great deal of ambiguity which can be difficult. Those who are successful must be comfortable with collaborative decision-making, possess a growth mindset, be open to feedback, and must approach the challenges with both confidence and humility.

Position Requirements:

Bachelor\'s degree or higher in related field (e.g. child development, early childhood education, public health, education, social sciences, human services, etc.)

Facilitation experience

Excellent organizational skills (including task and time management)

Demonstrated ability to manage several multi-faceted projects simultaneously with careful attention to detail and few mistakes

High standards of professional ethics and conduct

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Friendly and professional email and phone skills

Demonstrated competency with cloud-based productivity tools and document management systems such as Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides

Able to see both the details and the big picture

Equity mindset and comfortable discussing issues of race, socio-economics, and inequality in politically diverse settings

Required Competencies

Capable of both independent work and excellent team collaboration

Ability to adapt to a changing environment and different contexts

Comfortable working across sectors (e.g. business, nonprofit, etc.) and using different frameworks/terminology

Ability to plan, manage, and follow through on multiple, simultaneous projects

Self-driven - Take initiative to get work done without prompting

Assertive - Regularly approach partners, starts conversations, & follows-up

Adaptive - Comfortable navigating when to be flexible with partners and when to encourage change or develop accountability

Validating - Able to listen to understand partners\' efforts or experience and adjust solutions appropriately

Know when to stop and analyze a situation for redirection

Ability to build and maintain results-driven partnerships

Systems thinking and adaptive leadership

Humility, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity

Public speaking to both large and small audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

Bicultural/bilingual English/Spanish

Master\'s degree in related field

3-5 years working in human services or related field

Experience managing large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects

Experience with Results Based Accountability and Results Based Facilitation

Familiarity and history of service within the landscape of community development and social services networks in Ogden

Wage: $50,000-57,000 based on experience and qualifications

Location: Ogden, UT (with hybrid/remote option)

Hours: Full-time, exempt. United Way hours of operation are Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. United Way strives for employees to have great work-life balance and allows for remote work assuming it does not interfere with productivity, results, and/or quality of relationships with partners. Work hours are subject to change based on United Way events and activities happening in the community

Benefits: A comprehensive benefits plan includes vacation, sick, holidays, health, dental, vision, and life and an organization-matched 403(b) plan of up to 10% after one year.

How to apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to Melissa Kloz,

Closing date: Open until filled with first review of applicants on July 14, 2023.

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