Operations / Administration Vice President of Program & Learning
Job Description
ALL OUR KIN
Position Title: Vice President of Program and Learning
Reports to: Chief Learning Officer
Position Status: Full-Time/Exempt
Location: Remote, preferred to be based in CT or NY; Regular travel is required.
Salary: $120,000 – $140,000, pay commensurate with experience
Target Start Date: TBD
About All Our Kin
All Our Kin is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains family child care educators to ensure that children and families have the foundations they need to succeed in school and in life. At All Our Kin, we support family child care educators at every stage of their development – from parents and caregivers to professional educators and business owners – using a strength-based, high-touch approach. Through our programs, family child care providers succeed as early childhood educators and small business owners; parents have access to high-quality, affordable child care, making it possible for them to enter into and remain within the workforce; and infants and toddlers gain enriching experiences that prepare them to succeed in school and in life. All Our Kin is recognized as a national model and has been proven through studies to raise the quality, availability, and sustainability of family child care.
All Our Kin first opened its doors in a housing development in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1999. Today, we serve over 850 family child care educators with networks representing five Connecticut cities and New York City, in addition to the surrounding communities.
All Our Kin recognizes that diversity and opportunity are fundamental to children’s lives and our work, and we seek to build a team that reflects the diversity we celebrate in our nation and community. We welcome and encourage all qualified applicants who share our vision, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to our work and this mission. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply for this position, and we do not discriminate on any basis prohibited by applicable law.
What You Will Do
All Our Kin seeks a strategic leader to support program development, learning, implementation, and alignment across our work. The Vice President of Program and Learning will report to the Chief Learning Officer and work closely with the Evaluation, Technical Assistance, and Professional Learning teams as well as our site teams. The Vice President of Program and Learning will supervise and support a small team working in three major areas:
- Develop and maintain AOK’s Model and Curriculum: The Vice President, along with the Program & Learning, Direct Site, and Technical Assistance teams, will hold and infuse excellence in AOK’s Model and Curriculum for our core programs. As AOK has grown, we have had both the need and the opportunity to adapt our model. The Vice President will work closely with our leadership team, directors, field staff, and family child care educators to identify the core innovations within the model and to share learnings and practices across sites.
- Ensure consistency with All Our Kin’s values, guiding principles, and core model
- Revise existing programs and design new initiatives based on evidence-based and promising practices in the field, to continuously improve our model
- Work with, learn from, and include AOK’s staff and family child care educators in the strategy and design of programming.
- Develop, supervise, and support a Program and Learning team of curriculum, content, and functional experts
- Support collaboration and learning across the organization, especially with the learning, evaluation, professional development, education, and technical assistance teams
- Work with the Professional Development and Talent Development & Equity teams, support the ongoing development of staff to implement the model, and continuously grow and develop.
- Develop and support the onboarding of new staff members in their role
- Review and provide input into programmatic partnerships to ensure they are consistent with AOK’s model and values
- Document program model to share internally and externally: All Our Kin has a 20-year plus record of bringing extensive and tailored support to family child care educators both in their educational and business practices. The Vice President will lead our efforts to document all aspects of our model to deepen our work in our direct sites, as well as share our model with others in the field through materials, training, and technical assistance. The Vice President will design the strategy, plan, processes, and systems to:
- Organize and systematize all key elements of All Our Kin’s model by collaborating with staff and FCC educators to understand the most effective practices and approaches
● Create a robust system to develop, update, and share materials to support All Our Kin internal programs and external technical assistance projects.
- Regularly update materials and resources and include educator input and feedback.
- Support Implementation: The Vice President will lead our efforts to develop valuable resources to ensure consistency to the elements of our model that produce the highest quality and greatest impact.
- Work with the Evaluation and Learning team to ensure continuous quality improvement so that learnings from internal and external projects and evaluations continue to shape and reinforce program design.
- Develop materials to ensure consistency in program implementation and technical assistance offerings across different sites and geographies and uphold All Our Kin’s core values developing materials for diverse audiences, including various types of adult learning, experience levels, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, etc.
- Identify areas for alignment and learning across programs
- Support cross-site program team learning
Who You Are
You hold deep beliefs in and commitments to:
- Making high-quality early care and education available to all children
- Combating systemic racism and injustice
- All Our Kin’s model, especially investing and valuing the unique strengths of family child care educators.
Experienced and able to:
- Value and build relationships with stakeholders from different educational levels, and respect myriad values, backgrounds, and experiences
- Solve tricky problems and make decisions well
- Offer, receive, and respond to regular feedback
- Conduct evaluation, measurement, and have demonstrated success developing and evaluating early childhood education projects and programming
- Set strategic goals and priorities and manage multiple, multifaceted projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, deadline-driven environment
- Facilitate adult learning and coach adults
- Research, design, create and iterate on models
- Recognize and analyze trends, identify opportunities; adapt to changing priorities and new information.
- Work collaboratively and build long-term, strength-based relationships with diverse stakeholders, including family child care educators.
- Work sensitively with staff representing all areas of diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender, ability, age, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs/faith practices.
- Manage and develop team members
- Balance accountability with emotional intelligence when interacting with staff at all levels
- Operate various software and computer systems, learn to use new technology, and explore how technology can enhance our programming and impact
- Travel to All Our Kin sites, technical assistance locations, and national conferences and forums regularly, when applicable and safe to do so
Possesses strong:
- Knowledge of family child care and family child care networks and can articulate the unique benefits of home-based child care to a variety of stakeholders
- Understanding of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in early care and education, especially as they relate to family child care
- Understanding of early childhood education and care, coaching in early childhood, reflective supervision, and practice
- Interpersonal and facilitation skills, and has experience building strength-based relationships with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds and experiences (including in a virtual format)
- Written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate complex information and to tailor communication for different audiences
- Organizational skills, and can set priorities and manage multiple projects
- Strategic, problem solving, and analytical skills
You are eager to build on:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in program development, curriculum development, program documentation, and adult learning and development
- Deep program design, evaluation, child development, and adult development knowledge, and experience
- Experience with team management, employee development, and supervision
- Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or other relevant fields; master’s degree preferred
What You Can Expect
All Our Kin is an innovative, high-impact organization that empowers a growing number of family child care educators, children, and families to succeed. As we scale All Our Kin’s reach, we strive to maintain the collaborative, values-centered environment that is our hallmark and to continually invest in the backbone of our organization.
All Our Kin is an equal opportunity employer and recognizes that diversity and opportunity are fundamental to children’s lives and our work. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, a flexible schedule, and the opportunity to work with a team of skilled, motivated, and committed professionals.
Some of the benefits we offer to our staff members include, but are not limited to:
● Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off: Three weeks paid annual vacation as well as federal holidays and a December holiday break (typically December 24 – January 1)
- Retirement Plan: All Our Kin offers a 403(b) plan
- Flexible work schedule
Check out All Our Kin’s careers page https://allourkin.org/
CT Policy
AOK complies with all CDC, OEC, and ADA COVID guidelines and recommendations for educators, children, families, and employees. Masks are required at All Our Kin’s worksites. COVID 19 Vaccination or approved exemption and exemption protocol is required for all new hires before starting. Please feel free to contact the People Development and Equity Department at hr@allourkin.org if you have any questions.
NY Policy
AOK complies with all CDC, OEC, and ADA COVID guidelines and recommendations for educators, children, families, and employees. Masks are required at All Our Kin’s worksites. Proof of COVID 19 Vaccination is required for all new hires before starting. Please feel free to contact the People Development and Equity Department at hr@allourkin.org if you have any questions.
