Core Job Responsibilities

Convene the ABCToday® School Network and respond to ABCToday data:

• Identify and recruit key stakeholders to become active Network partners
• Engage Network partners (both school and outside resources) to be fully contributing partners to reach the goals of the collective team and individual students
• Plan collective impact meetings (creating agenda, collecting RSVPs, coordinating with principals)
• Facilitate meetings with school principals
• Document next steps and coordinate follow up

Organize intensive supports for Little Brothers, Little Sisters, and waiting list students at assigned schools:

• Review for understanding ABCToday Data with department colleagues and leadership
• Work with internal and external partners to identify root challenges for students
• Connect students and families with key resources needed
• Meet the goal of students matched at assigned schools
• Document challenges and successes for Littles served

Lead school climate and culture efforts at assigned schools:

• Ensure strategies to support student, staff, and administration engagement are implemented
• Determine, in partnership with agency leadership, tools to measure efficacy of strategies
• Steward administration, staff, and community partners
• Drive ABCToday brand by communicating successes of the School, students, and Littles.

Perform other related duties as required or assigned.

EDUCATION & RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's Degree; Associate's Degree with a minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar field; or a minimum of 4 years of experience in a similar field required.
• Knowledge of Cape Girardeau school and resource landscape.
• Knowledge of customer service principles and practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong planning, priority setting, time management and organization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present and inspire our diverse service area.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work with a variety of staff, caregivers, volunteers, and external partners.
• Excellent interpersonal skills both in person and by phone.

KEY JOB COMPETENCIES

Process Management

Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can't; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

Interpersonal Savvy

Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; listens; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; truly values people; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.

Drives engagement

Structures the work so it aligns with people's goals and motivators; empowers others; makes each person feel his/her contributions are important; invites input and shares ownership and visibility; shows a clear connection between people's motivators and the organizational goals.

Builds Networks

Builds strong formal and informal networks; maintains relationships across a variety of functions and locations; draws upon multiple relationships to exchange ideas, resources and know-how.