Program Manager, Early Childhood

Job Purpose
The Program Manager is responsible for providing leadership for Early Childhood (EC) initiatives which supports families with young Native Hawaiian children aged 0-5. The Manager is responsible for daily operations, supervising direct service staff, fostering relationships with key stakeholders, setting operational goals, tracking progress, and ensuring that programs are effectively implemented and evaluated across the state.

Essential Responsibilities
• Provides leadership and innovation in early childhood initiatives through the research, evaluation, adoption and integration of innovations to advance positive outcomes for disadvantaged Native Hawaiian kamaliʻi.
• Oversees all day-to-day activities and tasks related to early childhood, including, but not limited to, program planning, development, operational modeling, implementation, analysis, and budgeting; and the training, evaluation, and supervision of program staff and volunteers. Provides technical support for staff to improve outcomes and facilitate innovative early childhood methodologies and interventions.
• Provides clinical supervision to staff with Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) certification
• Leads the overall accountability for program quality and execution, staff performance, and family engagement.
• Recruits, develops, retains, and leads a professional team that delivers high-quality, growing, and expanding early childhood programs.
• Prepares various documents and reports (e.g. attendance, budget, daily activity, daily program content, etc.) to provide written support and/or convey information.
• Collaborates with the program leadership team to build internal capacity of staff to deliver quality programs.
• Coordinates with the LT Housing Navigator on programming to meet the needs of the EC families, including counseling and education.
• Works in tandem with LT teammates to integrate services across the agency.
• Identifies organizations and programs providing EC-related services and resources within communities across the islands; compiles and updates resource lists for those organizations and programs.
• Supports partnerships between LT and organizations providing EC programs on-site at Kīpuka or other EC supports/activities. Participates in EC-related network/partnership meetings to identify community needs and opportunities related to EC.
• Co-facilitate programs to support and enhance parent-child relationships, social-emotional learning, parent independence, and increase cultural knowledge and connection.
• Identify opportunities to expand on-site EC programs or other supports/activities across the islands
• Responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of risk assessments to identify, evaluate, and address potential risks within early childhood programs.Encourages family participation, aims to keep them in the program, and ensures program safety.
• Performs written and electronic recordkeeping functions as required for LT’s internal database on a timely basis.
• Works in tandem with LT teammates to integrate services across the agency.
• Performs crisis prevention as needed.
• Actively participates in agency and program staff meetings, as well as professional group seminars or conferences to enhance professional knowledge and job skills.

Other Duties:
• Participates in program planning, budget development, revision, and evaluation.
• Participates in continuing education and training opportunities for professional development.
• Contributes to the Trust’s success by accepting new assignments, helping team members, learning new skills, and striving to improve team and organization results.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
• Master's degree in social work, early childhood, marriage and family therapy, or other related field required.
• 3 years post-Master’s experience in casework, group work or community level experience required.
• 2 years experience working in the early childhood field with parents and young children required.
• 2 years in a leadership role managing a high performing team preferred.
• Currently holds or working towards clinical licensure and ability to supervise staff with Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) endorsement required.
• Preferred candidates will have the ability to provide comprehensive oversight of clinical work and group programming, ensuring alignment with social work practices and ethical standards.
• Preferred candidates will have experience working with families facing complex challenges, including but not limited to system involvement (child welfare, homelessness, criminal justice), mental health, domestic violence, and substance use.
• Preferred candidates possess strong attention to detail, leadership skills to gu