Child Care for CT is Hiring!

If you are passionate about transforming child care in Connecticut and love organizing, check out our job posting!

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Description:

Director of Organizing & Strategic Partnerships

Hartford, Connecticut (Remote)

Child Care for Connecticut’s Future (Child Care for CT) is a powerful and visible movement of parents, providers, advocates, philanthropy, businesses, unions and more, joining together to advocate for the equitable child care system our state needs. Child Care for CT envisions a high-quality, affordable child care and wrap-around support system, available to every family needing it, in the setting they choose, provided by well-trained and properly compensated educators.

Child Care for CT’s mission is to build sustained public support through advocacy and education in order to achieve our transformative vision of an equitable system that supports the whole family.

Child Care for CT’s goals are, by 2027: 1) Build an equitable, high-quality system, affordable for parents with a dedicated funding source. 2) No parent pays more than 7% of their income, 3) Programs are funded for the true cost of services, compensate staff fairly, and provide children with high-quality learning experiences and wrap-around services.

Description:  The duties are the following but not limited to: 

The Director of Organizing & Strategic Partnerships will be responsible for planning and running organizing drives. In a given week, this might include doing the following tasks or training staff on how to do them:

• Identifying community leaders

• Canvassing, house visits and one-on-one conversations, with follow-up

• Creating, coaching, and supporting an organizing committee

• Plan direct actions

• To effectively complete these tasks, this director will:

• Train and supervise frontline staff organizers and stipend childcare leaders

• Managing all organizing for best results for the coalition

• Learn applicable law and how to apply them

• Learn which state agencies are relevant to their campaign, and how to get them to act in support of childcare change

• Work in partnership with other coalition committees and staff to support and create policy and communications strategy

Requirements

• Demonstrated history of:

• Building, training, and sustaining organizing committees

• Self-sufficiently owning, designing, and executing yearly organizing goals from start to finish

• Training, developing, and supervising organizers

• Minimum of 6 years of organizing experience doing some form of structure based organizing; (examples include neighborhood or issues-based organizing or union organizing)

• Experienced organizing for campaigns, and/or organizations

• Experience in writing, using, and training on organizing “raps” or scripts

• Willingness to travel throughout CT on a regular basis

• Willingness to work non-traditional hours including nights and weekends, a total 40 hours/week

• Willingness to canvass in neighborhoods and talk to CT residents on a regular basis

• Must be honest with everyone, including residents, co-workers, donors etc.

• Comfort with Conversational Spanish is a plus

• Must have a car & valid Driver’s License (mileage is reimbursed)

• Must live in Connecticut

• Must have at least 6 years of experience managing direct reports

Requirements specific to our organizing model

• Excellent data management and collection skills. Must be detail oriented. For example, this includes taking photos and videos in buildings and uploading them to an online database, appropriately titling, filing and organizing them

• Experience with excel spreadsheets, google drive, and other spreadsheet and data management tools. This is how we document issues and organize our documentation

• Comfortable using a smartphone to collect photos and videos and transferring them to an online database

Qualifications:

1. Graduation from an accredited college or university with an Associate’s or higher-level degree in Political Science, Policy, Public Administration, or a related field.

OR

1. Six (6) years of full-time paid, or its part-time equivalent, policy or campaign work experience; 

OR

1. An equivalent combination of training and experience as defined by the limits of A and B above.

Skills: Policy analysis/policy communications; skilled at creating, summarizing, and presenting information in a concise and clear manner for multiple audiences; strategic planning and project management; strong problem solving; strong research skills; interpersonal, computer, verbal and written communication skills; time management; excellent organizational skills

mandatory.

Other: Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Internet Applications; Social Media platforms, graphic design tools (Canva)

Reports to: Coalition Director

Job Context: Indoors, office, constant repetitive motions, constant sitting, occasional standing, stooping, no environmental or job hazards, occasional light work; occasional in-state travel. This position is a remote position.