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Job Responsibilities
Are you an experienced professional looking for new opportunities to further your career SC First Steps is seeking a hardworking and dependablecandidate just like you to apply! This position will offer great benefits with the state including 15 days of annual and sick leave per year or more depending on applicable state service.
The Program Officer serves as a statelevel resource for quality improvement and accountability using relationshipbased principles and practices to drive improvement; implements the review and approval process for early childhood services; tracks local partnership compliance with standards through analysts and monitoring; provides guidance and referrals to experts and resources; promotes and implements evidencebased practices in the field of early education and nonprofit management; supports the functions of community based organizations including fundraising/communications; advocates for and educates about populations that are underrepresented or racially/ethnically diverse.
Responsibilities of the Program Officer:
- Serve as a coach to local partnerships in program operations to facilitate sound management practices and strong board functioning. Identifies and documents successful strategies and promising practices in early childhood education and family support. Cultivates relationships with local partnerships state partners and issue area experts to develop fund and implement initiatives. Provide technical assistance for accountability including collection of required documentation and data finance and budgeting support in nonprofit management fund development networking collaboration and community outreach.
- Ensure that services implemented are consistent with agency goals effective practices and organizational performance measurement systems.
- Facilitate communication and information sharing between local partnerships. Support state level communication and offer timely responses to local partnership questions and needs. Commit to working for diversity awareness and cultural competency in all communications and practices.
- Plan and prepare trainings targeted consultation and development of written materials and guidelines for local partnerships.
- Focus Area: Training and learning management to include user management content creation developing monitoring and evaluation tools and supporting onboarding of local partnership staff and board members.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum and Additional Requirements
Bachelors degree in early childhood education child development public administration or related field with at least five years of related work experience required.
Applicants indicating college credit or degree(s) on the application will be required to bring a copy of college transcript to the interview. A copy of the transcript may also be uploaded as an attachment to the application if required by the hiring department or if desired by the applicant. Please note that some areas of the Agency may require anofficial certified copy of the transcript prior to hiring or within a specific timeframe required by that area after hiring. Failure to produce an official certified transcript may result in not being hired or termination.
Additional Requirements:
- Limited instate travel.
- Occasional overnight travel.
- Limited afterhours work is required.
Preferred Qualifications
Masters degree and experience in business or education consultation project management or nonprofit management preferred.
Additional Comments
SC First Steps is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation) national origin age 40 or older) disability or genetic information.
Supplemental questions are considered part of your official application. Any misrepresentation will result in your disqualification from employment. Please complete the state application to include all current and previous work history and education. A resume will not be accepted nor reviewed to determine if an applicant has met the qualifications for the position.
SC First Steps offers an exceptional benefits package for full time (FTE) employees:
- Health dental vision longterm disability and life insurance for employees spouse and children. Clickherefor additional information.
- 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
- 15 days sick leave per year
- 13 paid holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- S.C. Deferred Compensation Program availableS.C. Deferred Compensation
- Retirement benefit choices *
*Enrollment in one of the listed plans is required for all FTE employees; please refer to the contribution section of hyperlinked retirement sites for the current contribution rate of gross pay.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
