First 5 Alameda County believes every child in Alameda County should have optimal health, development, and well-being to reach their greatest potential. Through innovative programs and policy advocacy, we help provide children and their families access to resources that support their first five years of development.

Join our mission-driven team that in partnership with the community, supports a county-wide continuous prevention and early intervention system that promotes optimal health and development, narrows disparities, and improves peak years of child development.

The Senior Administrator, ECE Facilities leads strategies and systems building to expand and improve quality in licensed center and family childcare as well as license-exempt programs and family, friend, and neighbor 0-5 early care program settings. This leader consults with Agency leadership and collaborates with ECE Leadership to inform the expansion and structure of the ECE facilities strategies for First 5 Alameda County. This work is anticipated to be done in collaboration with community partners including grantees, Alameda County Departments, Cities, developers and others. It will also include the cultivation of philanthropy, and will seek engagement of financial institutions, and partnership from the private sector and developing and curating partnerships with municipal and state public system partnerships to inform land use and public policy. The work includes managing a portfolio of pipeline projects, monitoring unmet needs and emerging opportunities for licensed and license-exempt programs, expansion, retention, renovation and repair, conversion of ages served to meet unmet need, and quality improvement, including, but not limited to health and safety concerns. This position will promote policies and strategies for leveraging public, private and philanthropic funds to improve availability of quality early care and education spaces.

• Develops recommendations for program design and prioritizes, organizes, and leads program planning and implementation for early care and education facilities development strategies, funding, and coordination.

• Provides data and analysis to agency leadership and key stakeholders proposing strategic program options based on best practices, community prioritization, and strategic system needs.

• Provides key programmatic cost and revenue detail for budget and evaluation considerations, including licensed ECE facilities opportunities in housing development, community development investments and other public/private partnerships to increase expansion and retention of licensed center and family childcare.

• Works with ECE Quality Team, Neighborhoods Ready for Schools (NRFS), and other teams to strategize needs for license-exempt programming facilities needs to support FFN providers and license-exempt programs and develops recommendations for Agency leadership to adopt for investment, partnership and policy advocacy.

• Exercises leadership in internal and external stakeholder meetings regarding proposed plan options, costs, and community impact, supporting the transparent vetting of plans and incorporating feedback from key community voices and develops bi-directional structured communication and feedback channels to ensure community, provider, and staff input is represented in recommendations and implementation, as well as ensure alignment with Agency direction and vision through leadership support and input

• Develops a workplan, with guidance from the ECE Director and Policy, Planning and Evaluation team, and in consultation with the CEO, to determine short and long-term goals for establishing facilities retention and improvement opportunities expansion. Plan to include assessment of barriers to licensing and facilities, strategies for mitigating barriers, and actions to support increasing access to licensed care in areas of greatest unmet need according to updated ECE Needs Assessment and the ECE Facilities Needs Assessment. Plan for options including but not limited to grants, forgivable loans, subsidized loans, or other capital investment strategies.

• Works in close alignment with internal and external ECE partners and related stakeholders, including ECE Quality Counts team, Alameda County Office of Education, Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, Higher Education, public school district UPK/TK administrators, state ECE Title 5 contractors, State and local community development agencies, California Department of Education, California Department of Social Services, Oakland Community Development, Alameda County Community Development agencies, and others.

• Works closely with Agency financial operations and is the lead and responsible administrator in an array of financial activities including contracts, accounting, and budget to ensure appropriate leveraging, fiscal monitoring, and auditing of ECE resources, including support of the year end close and cost modeling for requisite Alameda County Board of Supervisor and Alameda County First 5 Commission fiscal plans and annual programmatic budget appropriations. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting, monitoring and balanced budget approach that ensures compliance with agreed to funding parameters.

• In coordination with internal and external stakeholders oversees, conducts, and reviews analysis that informs financial modeling, program design, and budget allocations.

• Promotes findings from the ECE Licensed Facilities Needs Assessment and leads strategies to update findings and collect updated data regarding ECE facility's needs, including license-exempt program settings.

• Keeps abreast of and anticipates proposed federal and state budget implications. Coordinates with F5AC budget and policy staff in tracking policy priorities of Title 5 providers, ECE Planning Council, provider networks and other stakeholder concerns that have system implications for the budget and program.

• Interfaces on behalf of and as a representative of F5AC with external community partners, agencies, program participants, the general public, to provide program information and administrative coordination.

• Provides leadership support in the development of an evaluation plan for ECE funding to be developed by F5AC Policy, Planning and Evaluation team.

Qualifications
Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Minimum eight years full-time progressively responsible experience in a public or private organization of which a minimum must be 2 years in ECE licensed childcare facilities development, or a related sector.

• Bachelor's degree with major coursework in public or business administration, urban planning, education, social work, sociology, public policy, urban studies, economics, statistical analysis, finance, minority studies, ethnic studies or related field may be substituted for four years of the required experience. A Master's degree may be substituted for an additional year of the required experience.

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Knowledge of:*

• Strong understanding of the diverse licensed and informal care ECE and facilities development and capital challenges

• CA Early Care and Education licensing requirements and best practices for facilities design and classroom and playground configuration.

• Landscape of Early Head Start/Head Start, Title 5 contracted centers, CA voucher system, ECE private and public financing from state/federal contracts, and public and private licensed facilities.

• Preferred knowledge of ECE facilities investments by California Department of Social Services, California Department of Education, Alameda County and other state and local public entities.

• Principles of equity, anti-racism, anti-bias, social, racial, and economic justice

• Principles and practices of contract negotiation, development, and management

• Budgetary and contract administration practices

• Principles and practices of planning and project management

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365 preferred

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Ability to:*

• Serve effectively as a member of the Senior Leadership Team

• Provide leadership and effectively organize, coordinate and execute project plans

• Communicate effectively orally and in writing to staff and with diverse community partners, including public presentations to diverse stakeholders such as housing developers, licensed providers, and the Alameda County ECE Planning Council

• Plan programs and implement work with an equity-centered approach for empowering community, families and those served through First 5 programs

• Promote teamwork and integration within and across the agency

• Demonstrate ability to work with and administer programs with an equity-centered approach for children, families, and community

• Effectively center equity in program solutions and system design approaches, including development of community driven strategies for facilities solutions which acknowledges the experiences of the diverse ECE field and leadership and the need for supports and strategies to build on community strengths and increase access financially and considers asset building.

• Read, analyze, and interpret common professional publications, research, legislative or policy documents, financial reports and related agency documents and information

• Negotiate, monitor, support and hold accountable contracted services and program delivery in partnership with community.

• Plan and project manage work to ensure organizational goals are achieved

• Work with Director to develop a wide variety of short- and long-range plans

• Analyze, develop, and monitor budgets

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff throughout the Agency

• Facilitate groups and manage meetings effectively

• Adapt, with minimal or no advance notice, to changes in agency operations and work assignments or procedures

• Define and creatively address problems or management challenges requiring analysis of multiple variables or situations, collect and analyze information, consider alternatives, and draw valid conclusions

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Other:*

• Please note that we are currently working remotely but will return to office on a hybrid or full-time basis. The date for in-person work has been determined to begin in March 2023.

• All First 5 employees must live and work in California.

• As an independent government agency, the posted salary is the set salary range for this position. We cannot offer salaries above this posted range.

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First 5 Alameda County Benefits*
We offer a comprehensive benefits package with health care options to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. These benefits include but are not limited to Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, $1,500 credit per year to spend on benefits, Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Employer Paid & Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance, Long-Term Disability Insurance, Retirement Plans including the ACERA Pension Plan, Commuter Benefits, Employee Assistance Plan and more.

We also offer paid vacation, paid time off and sick time. We have 17 paid holidays including the week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day as paid time off.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $102,000.00 - $141,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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