The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC) (ecfunders.org) is a network of national, regional, and local funders that supports the healthy development and learning of prenatal children to age eight and their families. We increase the effectiveness of philanthropic investment in systemic, equity-focused approaches to early childhood. ECFC promotes policies and practices that support young children, their families, and the early childhood community. Our strategic priorities include bolstering relationships within philanthropy and across sectors, emboldening early childhood to advance equity and justice, and fostering the conditions for policy and narrative change. ECFC is fiscally sponsored organization of TSNE (tsne.org).

The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a project of ECFC, raises private funding from over a dozen national foundations and acts as an intermediary to sub-grant to community organizers working alongside parents, early educators, and providers to lift voices, build power, and expand equity in childcare. Our grantee partners are part of a state to national childcare movement working toward a universal childcare system in which every family can find care that meets their needs and every childcare provider earns good wages and benefits. RCCF adheres to trust-based philanthropic values in our relationships with our grantee partners. We make multi-year, general operating grants to organizers in 19 states and DC and have an ambitious goal to expand our reach to all states in the next ten years. At times we utilize consultants to provide additional support to grantees with their direction. Additionally, we develop and provide learning opportunities for national, state, and regional funders to amplify the voices of our grantee partners and promote trust-based philanthropy.

This position reports to the RCCF Project Director as part of a small team that also includes the RCCF Associate Director for Philanthropy and Partnerships and is part of the overall staff of ECFC. The Program Associate serves as key “backbone” for the grant operations, programming, communication, and day to day project organizing needs and liaison with other departments of ECFC. The person will work closely with the ECFC Grants and Contracts Administrator to track and carry out responsibilities needed to manage incoming and outgoing grant requirements, consulting contracts, and grantee reporting. They will coordinate with the ECFC’s Communications Director and Program Manager to develop content for external facing materials based on knowledge they develop about our grantee partners. With the Project Director, they will prepare and facilitate meetings with the RCCF Managing Committee and Grantee Partner Advisory. They will also have opportunities to develop relationships with national and state foundations and grantees across the country, in support of our core value of promoting peer to peer learning as well as shared understanding across grassroots organizations and the philanthropic community.

Essential Functions

General Duties

• Organize and manage the details for RCCF committee meetings, grantee check-ins, and special events.
• Ensure timely and accurate tracking through shared databases, meeting minutes, and written and oral communication in an all-remote work environment.
• Coordinate meeting events including calendar invitations, registration, video conferencing or in-person logistics, and execution.
• Communicate professionally with a large and diverse network of high-profile actors and their staff/organizations, grantees, consultants, vendors and other stakeholder groups.
• Understand, practice, and implement trust-based philanthropy principles.

Stakeholder Communications and Management

• Maintain shared Hubspot files and other databases and contact lists of relevant RCCF activities, including those with current and prospective funders, grantees, and other stakeholders.
• Draft written correspondence and communication with funders, grantees, and other stakeholders.
• Manage annual interview and report writing processes with current and future grantees, including scheduling, communication with grantees to prepare them for the process, sharing drafts of reports for their review and approval, and submitting necessary materials to the Grants and Contracts Administrator to ensure timely contract generation and payments.
• Document and build understanding of state-by-state policy and political contexts based on grantee interviews and media coverage.
• Develop and draft content of newsletters, RCCF annual Impact Report, and other external communications of RCCF and ECFC, with the ECFC Communications Director.

 Program Support

• Provide support to committee structure – maintain committee rosters, build contact lists for committees, and manage scheduling and logistics of committee When asked, provide agenda development, dissemination, and notetaking.
• Staff key committees and workgroups with the Project Director by devising agendas, doing research between meetings, setting up decisions, and recording committee proceedings.
• Build trust and prioritize relationships with the grantee partner lead contacts.
• Build relationships with grantees to identify their strengths and needs and to develop and research ways to support peer-to-peer learning and external vendors who could support capacity building.
• Reinforce RCCF’s power-sharing value with grantees and community voices by centering them in the development and execution of programming and committee meetings.
• Maintain calendar of RCCF events in coordination with ECFC Program Director to ensure that multiple program planners are working in a coordinated fashion.

 Administrative and Operations Support

• Staff the RCCF committees, e.g., Managing (quarterly), Executive (monthly), and Partner Advisory (quarterly) Committees).
• Work with Raising Child Care Fund leadership on grant proposals and grant reporting.
• Serve as a connecting liaison and staff support between the RCCF and the extended ECFC team and network.
• Interact with and operate TSNE systems needed to request contracts, pay grantees/vendors, and other functions as needed.
• Partner with the ECFC Grants and Contracts Administrator to keep a grant reporting calendar and meet required deliverables.
• Provide support, as needed, on scheduling meetings internally and with grantees and funders.

 Special Requirements

• Must be able to work during business hours in the U.S. Eastern time zone.
• Must be willing to travel along with RCCF and ECFC staff 4-6 times a year.

We will consider exceptional candidates who demonstrate a strong combination of the specific qualifications and skills described below.

• Minimum of at least 3-5 years of relevant professional experience related to philanthropy or non-profit administration/management.
• Commitment to goals and mission.
• Works well independently and as part of collaborative team.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to design and implement
• Strong customer service skills, including follow-through.
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated initiative and self-direction in pursuing projects and goals.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office and CMS software and an ability to learn and adapt to additional software tools as ECFC adopts them.
• Ability to prioritize and meet multiple and simultaneous deadlines.
• Background and interest in early childhood and childcare programming and policy or grassroots organizing preferably
• Ability to manage and organize multiple projects while paying close attention to detail.
• Familiarity with software and sharing platforms for managing membership organizations and virtual organizations is strongly preferred.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those for this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work is performed in an office environment and in close proximity to other workers.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to:

• Handle, or feel objects, tools or controls;
• Reach; traverse; sit (usually for longer periods of time); occasionally ascend/descend; and position self (to) move;
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds;
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate;
• Job is not subject to significant occupational or environmental hazards;
• Likelihood of personal injury would be relatively slight;
• Environmental and work hazards are not present to a measurable degree.

Compensation and Benefits

Location: Work will be primarily performed remote.

Schedule: Regular Full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $60,000 - $78,000/yr. and is commensurate with experience.

Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package including:

• Generous Paid-Time-Off (PTO): twelve paid holidays, three weeks of vacation, one week of personal holiday, and ability to accrue up to 487.5 hours of health leave time for benefited staff.
• 80% Employer-paid, offering some $0 deductible Health Insurance through Harvard Pilgrim along with several low-deductible plans;
• Low-cost Harvard Pilgrim/Point32Health Dental and Vision.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Health and Dependent Care.
• Employer-paid Life, Long- and Short-Term Disability Insurance.
• Employer-paid Pension and Employee-paid 403b plan through TIAA.
• ...and more!

TSNE/ECFC strives to achieve excellence through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Middle Eastern and North African, Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates, and LGBTQ2SIA+ candidates are encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents, learning styles, and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

All employment conditions are based on an individual’s performance and job qualifications. TSNE/ECFC prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, creed, color, religion, native language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, race-based hairstyles, or any other protected characteristic stated by federal and state law. Regardless of any class’ protection under the law or lack thereof, TSNE/ECFC celebrates diversity and values the strengths that come with having a diverse team of employees. It is represented in our workplace culture, and it is who we are.

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