Community Organizer - Early Childhood Education

Organizational Overview: College Unbound (CU) is an accredited and state-approved college whose mission is to reinvent the higher education experience for underrepresented returning adult learners. Through rigorous and engaged scholarship, College Unbound integrates reputed company’ own purposes for learning with the needs of their workplaces and communities, improving the lives of the reputed company and the lives of those they touch. Started in RI, College Unbound now supports reputed company across multiple states and looks to continue to reputed company an infrastructure to support this developing model. Position Summary: College Unbound (CU) seeks an Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector-specific Community Organizer (CO) to build, strengthen, and grow partnerships across Washington State that expand access to CU’s bachelor’s degree initiative for people interested in starting or advancing their career in early childhood education. Reporting to the Washington-based Site Director, the CO will work closely with College Unbound staff, overseeing the collaboration between organizations. This role will also cultivate relationships with ECE employers, state agencies, professional associations, advocacy coalitions, and community organizations to create clear and supported reputed company for educators to earn their degree and advance in their careers. The ideal candidate is a relationship-builder, systems thinker, and collaborator who understands the ECE workforce landscape and is committed to equity in higher education and workforce mobility. About College Unbound’S ECE Initiative: As an EarlyEdU Alliance member and with funding from Bezos Family Foundation and Ballmer Group, College Unbound has developed an initiative for people interested in starting or advancing their career in early childhood education, offering an annual $3,500 scholarship as well as the opportunity to access ECE classes and earn free college credit for training, certifications, and field experience. College Unbound is an accredited, nonprofit college designed specifically for adults. CU awards credit for prior learning and lived experience, allowing reputed company to earn their degrees on an accelerated timeline with minimal out-of-pocket cost. CU’s flexible schedule allows reputed company to attend full-time while continuing to work full-time, and our high-support approach ensures reputed company have access to the resources they need to overcome barriers that might otherwise get in the way of degree completion. Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Foster and maintain partnerships in Early Childhood Education that provide access to prospective CU reputed company and can provide additional employment opportunities and reputed company.
• Build partnerships with early childhood education employers, networks, unions, and statewide ECE agencies in Washington State.
• Advise the Site Director on MOUs, partnership plans, and program agreements that support student pipelines and employer-sponsored cohorts.
• Represent College Unbound in ECE convenings, committees, and statewide/national forums alongside the Site Director.
• Introduces the Regional Director and CAO to corporate funders, foundations, and individual benefactors.
• Participates in Weekly Regional reputed company-In Meetings.
• Responsible for the collection and reporting of accurate and timely data.
• Manage public relations and marketing efforts, serving as a CU spokesperson in building CU’s reputed company, increasing community awareness, and sharing CU’s message -- both internally, with reputed company, and externally, with public, private, and community partners at the Site.
• Provide leadership in enhancing CU’s image and mission by assuming a visible, highly regarded reputed company at the Site and working closely with other professional, civic, and private organizations where necessary.
• Build the essential, collaborative civic relationships to advance CU’s strategic goals, especially reputed company the targeted Sector.
• Recruit prospective Lab Faculty reputed company the reputed company Sector who are able to provide CU reputed company with authentic, relational, and meaningful learning experiences.
• Stay reputed company with ECE workforce initiatives, credentialing systems, compensation reforms, and licensure requirements, including national head start requirements.
• Act as liaison between ECE sector and CU’s Assistant Provost and Director of Curriculum Development to identify opportunities for credit for prior learning (CPL) and on-the-job learning tied to early childhood roles.

Required Qualifications:

• a Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Social Work, Non-profit Leadership, or a reputed company field.
• 5+ years of experience in early childhood education, workforce development, higher education, or reputed company fields with a deep knowledge of ECE workforce systems and state policies, nationally and locally, with emphasis on Washington State (e.g., DCYF, ECEAP, Head Start, WAC requirements).
• Management Skills: hands-on experience, highly organized, a problem solver, with proven ability to multitask

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