The application deadline is February 18, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific.
We’re hiring a Project/Program Manager III to manage our Help Me Grow Systems Building work, which involves working with external community partners.
Job duties
- Provide project management to implement and refine the Best Starts for Kids Help Me Grow King County strategic plan, including developing short and long-term objectives that focus on partnership expansion, systems launch and continuous improvement; ensure deliverables and services meet deadlines.
- Provide programmatic support to funded community partners, including assisting with program design and implementation; assessing needs and, where applicable, providing access to capacity building support providers; ensuring programs meet deliverables; providing applicable workshops, trainings and/or peer learning opportunities.
- Lead internal and external workgroups to gather feedback, and support the design of the Help Me Grow King County strategic plan.
- Design and administer requests for proposals as well as related equity-based selection process.
- Design and facilitate workgroups to further expand the Help Me Grow System in King County.
- Participate in various Best Starts meetings to align and coordinate Help Me Grow King County work with other Best Starts investment areas.
- Interact with Public Health, DCHS and other King County department staff to support effective policy execution and communications on issues related to Best Starts, with an emphasis on Help Me Grow King County.
- Coordinate closely with other existing and emerging King County initiatives related to early learning to assure that outreach, implementation and evaluation activities are well-coordinated.
- Facilitate and document research and planning tools for specific aspects of the Help Me Grow framework strategic plan, such as strengthening connections within the medical community.
- Create an environment that fosters open communication, teamwork, commitment to quality service, a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills
Ideal canidate:
- Demonstrated knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and understanding of the effects of place, race and policy and systems-based inequities on communities and populations.
- Able to recognize, name and interrupt racism and anti-Blackness.
- Knowledge of the prenatal to five years and early learning, child development, and relational health sectors in King County and Washington State.
- Able to work with a wide range of partners to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate versions of messages and materials.
- Demonstrated ability to develop relevant communication at the individual, group and community levels.
- Ability to work under deadlines, work on multiple tasks simultaneously, and organize and prioritize work quickly in response to changing needs.
- Able to travel throughout King County and the region in a timely manner including to locations that may not be served by public transportation.
- Awareness and knowledge of resources in King County related to Help Me Grow.
Desired candidate:
- At least 2 years of experience working with prenatal-5 programs, independently project managing program strategy work.
- At least 2 years of experience convening, facilitating, and leading community partnership groups to advance program strategy work and goals.
- Knowledge of and experience with the Help Me Grow framework.
Best Starts for Kids
Building on the deep knowledge, connections, and skills within King County communities, and backed by what science and research tells us about human development, the Best Starts for Kids King County initiative meets children and families with the right services at the right time. The first Best Starts for Kids levy, approved by King County voters in 2015, reached 490,000 of King County’s youngest children and their families and 40,000 youth and young adults, catalyzing strong starts in a child’s earliest years, and sustaining those gains through to adulthood. In August 2021, King County voters chose to renew the levy with over 62% approval for another six years. The plan for Best Starts for Kids 2.0 will maintain current Best Starts for Kids investments in promotion, prevention, and early intervention, while deepening our investments to address critical needs in our community. View the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan: 2022 – 2027.
