Description

　　This is a temporary role with an expected duration until the end of June 2025.

　　Summary

　　Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities.

　　Save the Children, in partnership with its advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), works with four types of local leaders in rural communities: parents and caregivers, program providers, community partners, and elected officials, and engages rural leaders across networks, initiatives, and programs and resources that offer increased opportunities for leader-driven gatherings, peer-learning, funding, advocacy campaigns, and training. Collaboration through the ELN Collective will enable Save the Children and our partners to create efficiencies that will support Save the Children's emerging focus on place-based initiatives in rural settings and enable ELN Collective national organizations to grow their reach into rural America.

　　Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Rural Network. In this role, you will lead network administration and member recruitment, support establishment of new national networks launched in 2023, and increase focus on early learning within existing sector-specific national networks, such as Rural Child Care Network and other national networks.

　　What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

　　Early Learning Nation (40%)

　　Co-design a regional convening with ELN Collective national partners to connect local leaders from geographically close or similar communities to promote peer learning, share best practices, align local efforts, and facilitate connections to partners’ TTA offerings.

　　Facilitate connection with other members of the collective to increase leadership development opportunities and reduce barriers to existing training and technical assistance offerings.

　　In partnership with Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), support the development of 501(c)(3) compliant advocacy tools and skills for local leaders in the ELN collective.

　　Co-design and develop networks with local parents, caregivers, and other leaders through a variety of activities including design sessions, focus groups, surveys, participation in review committees, and ongoing leader feedback to inform continuous quality improvements.

　　Leverage relationships and trust built with families engaged in existing programmatic interventions (e.g., Early Steps to School Success) and place-based community approaches to increase rural parent and caregiver access to high quality TTA.

　　Facilitate the engagement of rural leaders in various leadership program offerings across the ELN Collective and enable the ELN Collective national organizations to strengthen their reach and impact across rural America.

　　Provide network status and learnings to leadership and support the creation of relevant and integrated programmatic supports that develop all national networks.

　　Monitor and manage national network enrollment, national network relationships, and related management systems.

　　Partnership Development (20%)

　　Cultivate partnerships and/or relationships with external organizations, donors, and other key stakeholders.

　　Sustain and steward relationships across U.S. Program’s portfolio.

　　Establish partnership goals and meets those goals by researching, outreaching, and negotiating with new partners.

　　Identify new partnership opportunities by actively networking and attending relevant events.

　　In collaboration with program and advocacy colleagues, build and maintain U.S Programs membership in relevant networks and coalitions.

　　Partnership Management (20%)

　　Acts as a resource for other team members; may lead projects with limited risks and resource requirements.

　　Create advisory committees, maintain relationships, and engage in activities with committee members.

　　Explains complex, difficult and/or sensitive information; works to build consensus.

　　Cross-Collaboration (20%)

　　Work inclusively across the organization, facilitate cross-departmental collaboration to purse partnership goals and priorities. Examples include collaboration with program advocacy, marketing and/or resource development colleagues to advance partnership opportunities that involve joint programming, joint advocacy, and thought leadership. Required Qualifications

　　Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience.

　　Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally.

　　Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

　　Demonstrated understanding of issues related to poverty in rural communities and the ability to convey that understanding in a clear and easily understood way.

　　Proven relationship-builder and a natural connector; with a demonstrated understanding of how to effectively partner with other organizations to achieve shared outcomes.

　　Works independently, receives minimal guidance.

　　Professional proficiency in MS Office suite.

　　Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

　　Ability to travel regionally and nationally up to 25% of the time.

　　Compensation

　　Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

　　Geo 1- NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,200 – $94,000 base salary.

　　Geo 2-Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary.

　　Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,800 – $77,000 base salary.

　　Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

　　Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

　　Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

　　Click here (https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/careers) to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in YOU!

　　About Save the Children

　　No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

　　You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

　　Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

　　We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

　　Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

　　Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

　　Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

　　The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)