Agency Overview:
thread assists families in finding affordable, high-quality quality child care that meets their needs. We provide professional development, technical assistance, and financial support to early childhood educators and programs to ensure they are preparing children for lifelong success. By collaborating with communities and businesses, we work to achieve positive outcomes for families and young children through increased access to affordable, high-quality child care. We undertake research and advocate for child care policies. This work is guided by our core values of empowerment, access, child care professionalism, children’s rights, and entrepreneurial incubator.
The Alaska SEED Manager provides leadership and direction for the Alaska System for Early Education Development (SEED). This includes coordinating a statewide committee of Early Childhood Education (ECE) and School-age (SA) partners and moving current goals and activities of the committee forward.
- Provide leadership of SEED including daily programming/initiatives, SEED Steering Committee and work groups, and overseeing the implementation of the SEED Strategic Plan and grant activities.
- Manage the SEED Registry utilizing best practice as defined by the National Workforce Registry Alliance (NWRA).
- Oversee program team for customer service and compliance of Registry processes including policies/procedures, quality assurance processes, and reporting.
- Track statewide professional development and other ECE and SA data and trends; produce relevant recommendations/reports for stakeholders and the public.
- Track national trends in ECE systems to inform the decisions and activities of the SEED Steering Committee and aligned work groups.
- Work to ensure statewide professional development work aligns and advances thread and CCPO grant scope of work.
- Provide leadership to inform thread/SEED database, website and forms for program reporting and customer interface.
- Provide leadership in SEED database usage and training to ensure accurate data, helpful customer interaction, evaluation, and reporting.
- Oversee SEED Registry and Career Ladder programming and implementation.
- Oversee the development and implementation of the training and trainer approval system and other professional development approval systems.
- Oversee updates of Alaska’s Core Knowledge and Core Competencies.
- Oversee SEED financial support programming including reimbursements and wage/benefit supports to educators. This includes managing statewide professional development funding from the State of Alaska and the reconciliation of monthly and quarterly financial data with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
- Partner with national organizations such as Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA), National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the National Workforce Registry Alliance, etc.
- Collaborate with all early childhood professional markets to increase SEED Registry membership.
- Develop and coordinate projects and programs as assigned.
- Supervise staff as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BA required, MA/MS preferred, in education, child development, public administration, and social work or related field.
- Prior experience with program development and reporting required.
- Prior experience with supervision required.
- References and valid identification required.
- Must pass background check.
Key Competencies:
- Passion and commitment to thread and SEED’s mission and the importance of early childhood education.
- Knowledge of early care and education programs and services, and community collaboration initiatives.
- Ability to provide high level, positive customer service.
- Ability to effectively facilitate and lead stakeholders to achieve goals.
- Flexibility and adaptability as organizational needs change.
- Strong interpersonal skills required.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Strong customer service skills required.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of providers, parents, staff and members of the community.
- Ability to use database systems and general office programs with comfort and ease including Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Zoom, PowerPoint, Salesforce, shared project management tools, and Outlook.
Position Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, other hours as required.
Location: 111 W 16th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week
Classification: Exempt, Permanent
Supervisor: Early Childhood Systems Director
Supervises: Statewide Systems Coordinator(s)
Compensation: $68,000 - $75,000 annual salary
Full Time Benefits: 20 days of PTO (starting), paid holidays, 403b match, High-Deductible Health Plan with HSA option (employer contributes to HSA), Dental, Vision and Life. All premiums covered 100% for employee’s health, dental, vision and life. Free thread services.
