Community Outreach Specialist

POSITION TITLE: Community Outreach Specialist STATUS: Exempt; FT Grade: 3

DEPT: Youth and Family Potential PROGRAM: Strong Families Suburban SALARY: $47K-$54K/yr Reports to: Family Services Manager

SUPERVISES: N/A

SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for the coordination and implementation of overall outreach targeting families with children ages birth to five in the Willowbrook community. Working together with Willowbrook Coalition partners, this position’s responsibility is to demonstrate expertise in engaging diverse stakeholders in the community. They will be responsible for facilitating meetings and workshops and connecting children and families to high-quality early education opportunities and resources.

COLLABORATES WITH: Collaborates with Willowbrook Coalition partners, diverse stakeholders in the community, and YWCA staff.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Collaboration and Communication

• Facilitation of Willowbrook Corner Coalition
  • Co-lead meetings and align coalition partners toward a common vision and create goals and action plans for collective impact.
  • Collect existing partner data and synthesize for decision making.
  • Collaborate in planning Willowbrook Coalition Community Events.
  • Provide curated, quality resources for partners to incorporate into their programs.
  • Participate in existing activities to reach families in the Willowbrook community.
• Plan and oversee training for providers and the Willowbrook Community.
• Align efforts with Birth to Five and other grant deliverables.
• Attend other team and community meetings as needed
• Seek to include home visiting programs, daycare centers, PFA, home-based childcare providers, health care professionals, and others serving young children in Early Childhood and wider Willowbrook collaborative work. Plan and oversee Willowbrook play groups.
• Assist in the development of an overall outreach strategy, to increase enrollment of families in Early Childhood education programming, including Preschool for All, home visiting through Prevention Initiative, Parent Mentor Home Visiting, and other Center-Based services.
• Identify holes in existing data and gather new data through community surveys and other methods.
• Serve as community lead for the rollout and implementation of Basics in Willowbrook Community.
  • Educate Willowbrook Coalition partners, medical facilities, businesses, etc about The Basics.
  • Enroll families at community events and supporting partners as they enroll families.
  • Provide resources and tools around The Basics.
  • Maintain storage and inventory of The Basics kits (submit supply requests).

• Utilize IRIS system to provide appropriate referrals and intakes as needed.
• Educate and connect community partners with IRIS referral system.

Paperwork and Reporting

• Provide monthly data reports detailing the enrollment status of