Partnership Manager, Early Care and Education

Company Description

WithinReach makes it easier for Washington families to navigate complex health and social service systems and connect with the resources they need to be healthy and safe. We work one-on-one with people – in person, over the phone and online – to identify their goals and provide them with immediate support that is close to home. WithinReach also works with partners, providers, and policymakers in a variety of ways to prioritize families and children. We are focused on improving access to resources and support because we believe all families and children benefit from holistic and comprehensive information to navigate health, food, and early childhood systems with success.

Our team is a mix of smart and purpose-driven professionals. We are change makers, working to build healthy, equitable, vibrant communities. We believe that we can only do our jobs well by learning about and reflecting the people we serve through workforce and leadership development and by addressing and seeking to identify and reduce the system and access barriers that contribute to structural inequities. By doing so, we are able to create meaningful change for families and communities.

Submissions from candidates outside of Washington state will NOT be considered.

Help Me Grow is a national system model focused on promoting collaboration across child-serving sectors to build a more efficient and effective system that promotes the optimal healthy development of young children. This approach recognizes the benefit of utilizing and building upon existing resources to develop and enhance a comprehensive approach to early childhood system-building in any given community. WithinReach is the Help Me Grow affiliate for Washington State and works with a growing network of community partners across the state to connect and maintain a resource grid of information and support. The resource grid design is rooted in addressing the social determinants of health and embeds racial equity principles and strategies throughout its development to improve overall health and well-being for Washington families with young children. 

Job Description

The Partnership Manager, Early Care and Education is responsible for developing partnerships with Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals and the systems that support them and families seeking/accessing childcare and early learning programs. Your work will strategically identify, strengthen, and steward relationships with ECE providers, including family, friend, or neighbor (FFN) childcare. Utilitzing your skills in relationship building you will collaborate with partners to develop feasible strategies for deepening engagement and integration of Help Me Grow (HMG) within these systems and sectors to offer families a tailored bundle of wrap-around support, including support for child developmental screening. You will work cross-functionally with other departments within WithinReach to create engaging HMG training and offer tailored technical assistance (TA) for new provider partners as well as current referring providers. In this role, you will serve as a Help Me Grow Network liaison between internal WithinReach teams and external state system partners in developing effective communication, work plans and strategies for successful connections between ECE providers and the Help Me Grow Washington statewide call center.  

Responsibilities: 

• Manage partnerships with ECE professionals to foster deeper integration of HMG into the ECE sector in Washington 
• Support the exploration and development of alignment with parallel ECE developmental screening Birth to Three Quality initiatives in Washington 
• Work collaboratively with the WithinReach Data System & Evaluation team to develop a model for ECE providers to leverage Help Me Grow Washington’s developmental screening and navigational infrastructure with the goal of supporting ECE providers as developmental screening hubs 
• Support the development and implementation of a specialized referral pathway designed for childcare providers to offer families a tailored bundle of wrap-around support, including a tiered support approach for child developmental screening 
• Provide tailored Help Me Grow training and technical assistance to new and current referring ECE providers across the state and resolve technical challenges 
• Identify opportunities and challenges to improve statewide systems linkage and closed-loop referral pathways through partner collaboration and technical systems functionality 
• Organize and/or support trainings for ECE providers to facilitate awareness of child developmental milestones and screening tools like the ASQ that support ongoing developmental monitoring  
• Collaborate and coordinate with regional Early Achievers’ Birth to Three Quality