Program Manager, Continuous Quality Improvement

Salary: $89,180.00 - $129,160.00 Annually

Location : Renton, WA

Job Type: Full-Time

Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number: 240621001

Department: Learning, Teaching, & Family Support

Program: Early Learning

Opening Date: 06/21/2024

Description

The job of Manager, Early Learning Program is done for the purpose/s of providing leadership through services and resources to enhance and develop safe and supportive learning environments for the ESD's school and early learning communities; and maintaining staffing to ensure that services conform to ESD, state and federal requirements.

This job reports to Assigned Administrator

Open until filled; best consideration date: 7/22/2024. Phone Interview set for 7/31/2024 followed by First Interview on 8/5/2024, and Second Interview on 8/12/2024.

Essential Functions

• Assists and manages evaluators (e.g. federal, local, national, etc.) for the purpose of developing and implementing effective program strategies.
• Collaborates with others for the purpose of implementing and maintaining services, projects, and/or programs.
• Embodies the principles and practices that form our culture and commitment to becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization for the purpose of meeting the Agency's End: Success for Each Child and Eliminating the Opportunity Gap by Leading with Racial Equity.
• Maintains a variety of manual and electronic documents, files and records for the purpose of providing up-to-date reference, audit trail, and/or reporting for compliance.
• Monitors program activities (e.g. contracts, grant management, budgets, etc.) for the purpose of coordinating activities and ensuring compliance with established financial, legal and/or administrative requirements.
• Participates in meetings, workshops, and seminars for the purpose of conveying/gathering information required to perform job functions and/or maintaining relationships with other agencies.
• Presents information at meetings and/or conferences for the purpose of communicating information, gaining feedback and ensuring adherence to established guidelines.
• Recommends and implements policies, procedures, actions and/or materials for the purpose of providing direction for meeting assigned goals and objectives.
• Researches a wide variety of topics for the purpose of providing information, recommendations and/or addressing a variety of administrative requirements.
• Responds to inquiries for the purpose of resolving problems, providing information and/or referring to appropriate personnel.
• Serves as a resource to identified school districts, early learning programs, staff, parents, and communities for designated area (e.g. education, disabilities, family engagement, health, multilingual services, nutrition or P3, etc.) for the purpose of disseminating information and/or providing technical assistance/training.
• Supervises personnel (e.g., provide coaching and consultation on technical issues, adaptive challenges, personnel matters, strategic opportunities, career goals, professional development, job performance, etc.) for the purpose of advancing the development of effective leaders and high performing teams and achieving agency and departmental objectives.

Other Functions

• Assist other personnel as may be required for the purpose of ensuring an efficient and effective work environment.

Job-Specific Competencies

ANTIRACIST LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
CULTURAL PROFICIENCY: Articulates and applies historical context of racism and understands the current reality of students and communities of color in order to support racial equity. Actively demonstrates a commitment to supporting equity and inclusion, and serves as an advocate with colleagues, partners, and communities to meet the Agency's End and goal of becoming an Antiracist Multicultural Organization in support of eliminating the opportunity gap.
RACIAL EQUITY ADVOCATE: Recognizes, supports, and engages in dismantling institutional racism. Partners with and is accountable to those with whom we are in a transformational relationship, including children, families, and communities of color.
RACIAL EQUITY MINDSET: Demonstrates awareness of biases, internalized racial superiority and oppression. Leads with a racial equity lens and actively uses the racial equity tool in meaningful ways.
TRANSFORMATIONAL VALUES: Contributes to valuable and positive, antiracist transformation in individuals, organizations, and social systems in an effort to actively progress across the antiracist multicultural institution continuum. Is able to foster a sense of community and shared purpose via collaboration and cooperation with others inside and outside PSESD. Embodies the principles and practices that form the Agency's culture. Operates from an abundance mentality that recognizes opportunities, and is optimistic and realistic about the future.

JOB-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
ACCOUNTABILITY: Takes responsibility and ownership for successfully accomplishing work and Agency objectives, and delivering results. Sets high standards of shared performance for self and others.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS: Collaborates with stakeholders to identify, recommend and implement improvements to Agency programs, services and processes.
PLANNING, ORGANIZING, AND PRIORITIZATION: Assesses the work to be performed, and considers how it should be organized and accomplished, with appropriate priorities and realistic time parameters.
SYSTEMS THINKING: Sees the integral, complex relationships of interconnected systems that need to work together for the whole to function successfully. Events and actions are seen in detail and in the larger context of a pattern that unfolds over time.
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Social Services, Health, or Nutrition, or related field.
• Associate's degree in same and increasing levels of work-related experience may substitute for BA
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience managing and/or implementing compliance programs, and data systems and analysis.
• Knowledge of Head Start, Early Head Start and/or ECEAP performance standards
• Experience supervising individuals/teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with implementation and/or management of large-scale projects.
• Experience with data analysis in direct support of continuous quality improvement.
• Experience collaborating/partnering with internal and external partners to achieve a targeted goal.

We offer comprehensive benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision through the
• 24 annual leave days per year
• 12 sick days
• 12 paid holidays
• Participation in Washington State Department of Retirement System
• Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan
• Subsidized ORCA card, free parking, and electric car charging stations (Renton office)

01

Upon hire can you submit proof that you are legally eligible to work in U.S.?

• Yes
• No

02

Which of the following responses best represents your completed education?

• Master's Degree or Above
• Bachelor's Degree
• Associate's Degree
• High School/GED
• None of the Above

03

Prospective staff, interns, and volunteers will have their records checked through the Washington State Patrol criminal identification system and through the Federal Bureau of Investigation via a fingerprint check using a complete Washington state criminal identification fingerprint process. Are you willing to submit to this process?

• Yes
• No

04

Are you able to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to using a racial equity lens?

• Yes
• No

05

Do you have a minimum of three (3) years of experience managing and/or implementing compliance programs, and data systems and analysis?

• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 5 years
• 6 to 10 years
• 11 to 15 years
• 16 up years

06

Do you have any knowledge of Head Start, Early Head Start and/or ECEAP performance standards?

• Yes
• No

07

Do have any experience supervising individuals/teams?

• Yes
• No

Required Question