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TELEWORKING REQUIREMENT: The work associated with this position will be performed through a combination of teleworking complemented with onsite work and meetings in Seattle, Tukwila, Northgate, and other locations around the county as needed. Employees will have access to shared workspaces at various King County facilities. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

Employees will be provided with a County issued laptop and must maintain a workspace with an internet connection (access may be supplemented in some situations) where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours. Please note that when an employee conducts work that is likely to bring them in contact with another individual, safety precautions are required, including the wearing of masks in some situations. King County is doing its part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and remains committed to reducing our carbon footprint.

King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will be joining an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment.

Job Duties

• Build strengths-based, racial equity-centered relationships and continuous improvement efforts across Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT).
• Lead countywide ESIT workforce development initiatives in partnership with providers, contractors, co-workers, funders, and community partners: o Plan and develop a calendar of learning opportunities for current ESIT workforce members including workshops and learning communities.
  • Plan, design, and manage an ESIT Career Pathways Scholarship program to support growing and diversifying the workforce.
  • Identify and implement effective learning supports and resources for new ESIT staff members across a variety of program roles.
  • Plan, design and implement an ESIT Introductory Course to support the recruitment of potential new ESIT providers, agencies, and community-based cultural navigation supports.
  • Create learning opportunities for communities working in partnership with ESIT providers, such as interpreters and cultural navigators.
  • Work with local, state and national partners to diversify the ESIT workforce and to strengthen and align learning, such as an ESIT Developmental Specialist credential.
  • Ensure that learning designs, topics, leadership, facilitation, and participation embed racial equity, disability justice, and reflective, evidence-based and/or promising practices.
• Manage budgets, develop requests for proposals, write, review and monitor contracts, approve invoices and engage with planning and evaluation activities in alignment with team members and with the support of fiscal, contracts and evaluation partners.
• Collaborate with a dynamic, multilingual, culturally diverse work team focused on family-centered, strengths-based practices, data-informed innovation, cross-systems partnerships, trauma recovery and resilience, and aligned with King Countys Equity and Social Justice Plan.
• Engage with or provide leadership to cross-strategy, division and department efforts bringing ESIT, racial equity and social justice priorities, such as Equity, Inclusion and Belonging work and cross-divisional workgroups.

Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

• Deep knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and understanding of the effects of place, race and policy and systems-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations.
• A combination of at least three years of education and experience within early childhood development, early supports for children with delays or disabilities and their families, mental health/health care, social services, equity and social justice or a related field, with at least 2 years leading an Early Support for Infants and Toddlers workforce project or program, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated knowledge of systems serving children and families, including people with developmental disabilities.
• Ability to identify intersecting issues, multiple perspectives, and opportunities for collaboration, including strategies to promote equity and to advocate for process improvements.
• Ability to work independently with attention to details, to work under deadlines and on several tasks simultaneously, and to organize and prioritize quickly in response to changing needs.
• Skills and abilities working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders including families, service providers, partners, co-workers and funders.
• Skills to prepare visual and written documents for specific users, to create multi-use spreadsheets, and to present complex data for decision making.
• Ability to facilitate participatory meetings with diverse groups, and to design group and individualized learning opportunities using adult learning approaches.
• Valid Washington State Drivers License or ability to travel throughout the County in a timely manner.

• Lived experience and/or work experience with early childhood supports for children with delays or disabilities and their families.
• Experience growing an early learning workforce with the capacities to support families home cultures and languages and centering racial and disability justice.
• Experience with interpreting complex state and federal early childhood program requirements and leading continuous improvement efforts.

Supplemental Information

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