Success By 6 Strategic Finance Analysis and Special Project Manager
Full Time
Austin, TX 78702
Posted
Job description
United Way for Greater Austin
Job Opportunity:
Success By 6 Strategic Finance Analysis and Special Project Manager
Department:
Mission Advancement
Exempt
Who we are:
United Way for Greater Austin (United Way) brings people, ideas, and resources together to fight poverty in our community. Through our focus areas of
Education,
Health and
Financial Stability, we build opportunity for all people in Greater Austin. We unite the community around collective goals, strategically invest in partners, and execute proven programs that make a real difference for children and families. Something special happens when we Live United.
What we offer:
As the Success By 6 (SX6) Early Childhood Strategic Public Finance Manager, you will coordinate and align people, data, and money around common goals for early childhood programs and services in Austin/Travis County, leveraging research, relationship management, and project management skills. This role will focus on two streams of work:
1. Advancing sustainable and equitable funding for early childhood programs and services for families with children prenatal to age 5: You will be responsible for helping United Way ATX and Success By 6 Coalition community partners answer the following three questions: (1) how much are we (as a community) investing in early childhood priorities for children and families?; (2) what is the true cost of investing in our priorities at a local level?; and (3) how can we fill the gap between current investment and the true cost?
2. Design, implement, and manage pilot interventions to increase the supply of nontraditional hour child care in Austin/Travis County to meet community needs, based on recommendations from an ongoing study by the Urban Institute. You will manage the pilot project(s) and interfaces with the project consultants and evaluators.
You will get to work on these projects and more:
- In coordination with VP Success By 6 and Director of Data and Evaluation and with support from the Children’s Funding Project staff, you will work with local government, school district and other community-based organizations to track, map and analyze public and private investments in children and youth programs and services in Austin/Travis County
- Estimate true costs of designing and implementing policy priorities, with willingness to learn methods such as cost modeling and/or cost estimation
- Conduct research on new and emerging funding sources with potential to help fill the gap between current investments in children and youth and the actual cost of achieving community goals
- Facilitate meetings with community partners and local budget holders related to this fiscal mapping and cost-modeling process.
- Support the VP, Success By 6 and the Urban Institute in finalizing deliverables from the study of potential demand for and supply of nontraditional hour care in Austin/Travis County to provide a rich picture of parents’ needs, preferences, and constraints, the key policy contexts that shape the supply and quality of care, and the public resources that families can (or can’t) access to support their child care needs.
- Design and support implementation of pilot intervention(s) to match supply with demand, and other recommendations as identified in the Urban Institute study including managing a mini-grant process and evaluation that aligns with federal funding requirements.
What you’ll gain:
- Experience building and implementing an innovative community program with a diverse set of community partners.
- A strong skillset in relationship-building, communications, partnership management, project management.
- A diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment and community.
- Competitive pay.
- Flexible home and work life balance.
- Quarterly professional development allowance.
- An active work day with ample chance to get out and about Austin
- A professional work environment within an organization led by its mission to do good within the community
- Experience as part of a key stakeholder and support for a community collective impact effort and robust community coalition
What you’ll bring:
Required:
- BA/BS (preferred) or AA degree and/or 3 years’ experience in public policy, education, finance, public health, social work or related field
- Evidence of deep knowledge and meaningful relationships with communities most impacted by the equitable distribution of public and private resources to support children and youth
- Commitment to building expertise in public financing and understanding budgets
- Interest in developing skills in innovative public policy analysis tools
- Exceptional interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Experience with data or information collection and attention to quality and detail in ensuring accuracy of information
- Efficient and high-quality formal or informal research skills (e.g., market research, data analysis, surveying, tagging/coding information, and/or experience tracking and managing information on spreadsheets)
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to work independently and on a team
- Highly detail-oriented, organized, and resourceful
Preferred:
- Experience with Excel, Tableau, and/or Power BI preferred
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
Are you ready to apply?
Submit your resume and cover letter along with an online application. For questions, email Cathy.McHorse@uwatx.org
Start date: We are seeking candidates who can start November 28, 2022. Exact start and end dates will be determined with the selected candidate.
This position is located in Austin, Texas and reports directly to the VP, Success By 6.
Success By 6 Shared Services Child Care Business
Coach
- Key Job Accountabilities
Key accountabilities are likely to shift over time. Some areas will require more concentrated time in the initial stages as the person in this role develops the systems/processes.
Strategic Financing Analysis (45%)
- Serve as local coordinator for Children’s Funding Project (CFP) staff to engage local stakeholders in the process to design and prepare an early care and education fiscal map.
- With support from United Way Director of Data & Evaluation serve as lead on local data collection
- Work with CFP team to co-analyze fiscal map and present information and recommendations.
- Serve as local coordinator for CFP to design and prepare ECE cost model
- With CFP, co-facilitate 1-2 meetings with local stakeholders to build consensus around the tool and cost categories
- Collect additional data as needed and prepare the cost estimation and draft cost analysis summary
- CFP will help the Coordinator conduct a ‘gaps analysis’ of the difference between the current funding available for ECE in Austin (from the fiscal map) and the total amount it would take to fund Austin’s goals for ECE (from the cost model)
- Serve as local coordinator for CFP in research and recommendations for revenue generation including Research and Recommendations Memo.
- Participate in SX6 Strategic Planning Workgroups
Nontraditional Hour Care Study and Pilot Implementation (45%)
- Coordinate meetings with Urban Institute, United Way ATX and local stakeholders including finalizing deliverables and facilitating communication with community stakeholders.
- Design pilot interventions for increasing the supply of nontraditional hour care based on recommendations from Urban Institute and in collaboration with local SX6 partners. (Ensure pilot interventions are aligned with all grant and contractual requirements.)
- Coordinate with internal United Way departments including but not limited to data & evaluation and finance to create mini-grant process for pilot interventions including evaluation of pilots.
- Develop program and policy recommendations to inform the ATX Success By 6 Strategic Plan based on Urban Institute Study, pilots, evaluation.
- Manage budget, expenses, and grant reporting for project.
Professional Development Coaching with Children’s Funding Project (5%)
- Participate in via email, phone, and Zoom for 15 months to acquire and sustain skills required to create and maintain strategic public financing analyses
Other responsibilities (5%)
- Support Mission Advancement Team’s collective efforts to fight poverty in Austin/Travis County.
- Participate in appropriate organizational meetings and events.
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