Job Details
Position Type:
Central Management Office (CMO)/Director - District Office
Date Posted:
5/16/2024
Location:
Central Management Office DallasMission Statement:
Uplift's mission is to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower each student to reach their highest potential in college and the global marketplace and that inspire in students a life-long love of learning, achievement, and service in order to positively change their world.
Equity Vision Statement:
Uplift Education proactively engages scholars, families, and staff members to thrive as their authentic selves and partner in the journey required to identify, address, and correct existing and potential inequities.
Primary Purpose:
This position is responsible for soliciting, developing, managing, and evaluating strategic partnerships and community programs across the network. This position will work with school and network leaders in school needs assessment to identify potential partnerships and programs to address the strategic plans of the school. This position may also assist in management of Pre-K partnership programs.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Builds and directs processes (including online platforms/toolkits) for creation, implementation, and sustainability of partnership programs accessible to CMO and school leaders.
- Directs, and is responsible for, all phases of onboarding and management of partnership programs during program life cycles, including developing and widely sharing tools and resources for campus-level program management.
- Facilitates partner vetting and internal approval processes with Uplift subject experts.
- Maintains (1) database of existing partnerships across the network; (2) database of potential organizations for partnership and referral; and (3) platform hosting partnership requests and vetting/approval process.
- Works collaboratively with campus Academic and Operations Directors to help coordinate and facilitate before/after school care partnerships, and partner initiatives and field trip excursions.
- Manages and conducts evaluation processes that include quantitative and qualitative analysis of partnerships at regular intervals and recommends changes or enhancements as appropriate.
- Develops, negotiates, and drafts necessary Memoranda of Understanding/site agreements for the Strategic and Community Partnerships department, in collaboration with Uplift's Legal Team.
- Builds and maintains external relationships; engages in professional networking for continued awareness of best practices in developing field of school-community initiatives.
- Continuously sources community resources to support needs of Uplift families (i.e. food distributions, financial assistance, legal resources, etc.)
- Collaborates with Communications to effectively highlight partnerships and successes as they occur over time.
- Collaborates with External Affairs for grant/donor funds present in partnership programs.
- In collaboration with other Uplift departments, such as prevention, social counseling, Road to College & Career, etc. participates in developing strategic plans for building partnerships and services to support Uplift initiatives and goals.
- Conducts professional development and training around effective use of partnerships within the network and in the community as needed.
- Managers a team of two.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Modification of duties and essential functions: Uplift Education retains the right to change and/or modify the duties and essential functions of this position at any time, while maintaining 90% of the work being instructional support for English Leaners. This job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee.
Education, Experience, and/or Certification(s) - Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) from a four-year college of university required.
- Experience Requirements: Applicant should possess 3+ years of experience leading community or strategic partnerships, preferred experience working in K-12 education, with 2+ years of supervisory experience.
- Special Skills/Certifications: Ability to use effective and persuasive communication skills for relationship building, solutions-oriented, process and data driven, and must demonstrate meticulously detailed planning and decision-making acumen.
Required Skills/Abilities: - Communication Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal, judgment, communication, and follow-through skills.
- Proven experience cultivating community and external partner relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, work effectively in ambiguous situations, and a willingness to take charge and drive results.
- Team player (both in everyday work and on high-performance teams)-must be an intentional collaborator.
- Proven ability to take complex information and translate it into clear communications (presentations/memos) for a variety of audiences.
- Tenacity
- Highly motivated self-starter with ability to juggle multiple tasks, with excellent organization skills and careful attention to detail.
- Flexible and self-motivated-can function effectively where structure is being developed or priorities appear conflicting and in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to proactively manage critical deadlines.
- Ability to effectively manage personnel.
- Bilingual Skills: N/A
- Budgeting:
- Proficient budgetary skills and knowledge of the procurement process and vendor management.
- Technology:
- Proficient using the latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and mail merges; email and web searches.
- Ability to manage and interpret data using Uplift's technology platforms.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit and use the wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work at a desk and computer screen for extended periods of time.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level is low to high and may have frequent interruptions. There may be activity from other employees and students of a distracting nature. Some initiatives may fall during a time of inclement weather, or employee may be asked to perform duties during seasonal cold or hot temperatures. Most duties are performed indoors, in typical office or venue working environments.
Work Environment: Hybrid work environment. Reliable transportation and ability to travel throughout Dallas/Ft Worth and surrounding areas (reimbursement for mileage included). Events may be hosted outdoors or indoors in varying weather conditions.
Starting Salary: $90,000
Application Procedure: Apply online
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Uplift Education is an equal employment opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state or local law.