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About Horizons for Homeless Children
Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC) was founded in 1988 as an independent, non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to serving young homeless children and their families. HHC touches the lives of more than 2,200 young homeless children each week in Massachusetts through Playspaces (educational and recreational spaces) in shelters and 175 children through its three Community Children's Centers, Boston's only comprehensive, full-time early education and childcare centers specifically for young homeless children. In addition to direct service, we advocate on behalf of young homeless children and their families with policy makers and provide training and technical assistance to related service providers.
Position Summary
HHC has recently redesigned and expanded its training and technical assistance agenda and is increasing partnerships with external organizations. Additionally, we have recently instituted a comprehensive internal evaluation strategy aimed at measuring success and growth in HHC's early learning programs. Both changes are complemented by an expanded research agenda focused on better understanding the developmental and learning needs of homeless children in general.
HHC seeks a creative and motivated Training & Technical Assistance Director to lead the Training and Technical Assistance team of inter-departmental staff by contributing to internal and external knowledge development and developing our thought leadership on children experiencing homelessness. This individual will lead and support a variety of projects related to training, technical assistance, and presentations to external organizations and conferences; work on in-depth materials development for webinar series and college credit coursework as well as oversee the planning of the annual HHC Young Children Without Homes Annual Conference.
This individual will oversee our Lesley University 5-year partnership which encourages student engagement on the issue of child and family homelessness and the implementation of an internship and volunteer program at HHC. We seek an individual who is deeply committed to improving the lives of homeless children, approaches projects with a sense of possibility and eagerness, and infuses work with creativity, rigor, and open-mindedness.
The Training & Technical Assistance Director will report to the Chief Education & Training Officer, as well as collaborate with other members of HHC's leadership and executive team.
Responsibilities
- Materials development including PowerPoint, webinar, video and other training formats for conference presentations, on-site technical assistance program consultations, training series and college level coursework. Develop training materials that reflect the unique, cutting edge work of Horizons for Homeless Children with young children and families experiencing homelessness in our direct service models.
- Represent HHC at conferences and trainings to share syntheses of evidence-based practices, internal evaluation findings, and external research related to educating and serving homeless children and their families.
- Create a HHC team of experienced staff who can present TTA materials to diverse audiences locally, statewide and across the country.
- Build and maintain relationships with practice, research, and policy networks; develop and seek out opportunities for training and technical assistance opportunities; promote HHC knowledge and research sharing.
- Collaborate with the Director of Center Based Programs, the Director of Family Partnerships and the Director of Evaluation & Innovation and other key staff on project planning and staff TTA support.
- Coordinate the Lesley student interns' cohort group. Provide orientation, training and support to the Lesley student interns.
- Oversee the planning of the annual HHC YCWH National Conference.
- Use organization, analysis, and collaboration skills to deliver on time, high quality results.
- Use communication and synthesis skills to present HHC evaluation findings in a compelling, clear way.
Qualifications
- Education & experience
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Early Childhood Education or a related field; Master's degree in education, social sciences, or psychology preferred.
- Experience and ability facilitating workshops and presenting to large, diverse groups of adults in a variety of settings.
- 4-5 years of work experience preferred.
- Knowledge, skills, & abilities
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with a high level of organization and attention to detail in a deadline-driven environment.
- Proven commitment to operational excellence.
- Proven communication skills; ability to distill complex information clearly.
- Highly motivated self-starter with strong results-orientation.
- Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders.
Send resume and cover letter to:
Please submit a resume and a thoughtful cover letter detailing how your experience and skills align with the qualifications of the position to Chelsea Goldstein-Walsh. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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