• A natural collaborator.
• Able to focus on the big picture as well as the details.
• Warm, outgoing, enthusiastic, and can enliven, engage, and positively impact individuals and groups from a diverse community.
• Able to co-create with the Family Enrichment Center community.
• A sincere appreciation for people and how they are each uniquely motivated to design and implement interactive communication and offerings.
• Skilled at working in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects occurring simultaneously.
• Able to promote cooperation and possess a strong commitment to results.
• Solution-focused and skilled at proactively establishing relationships and new groups.
• Able to involve others in decision-making processes, promote cooperation, and possess a strong commitment to results.
• Community Engagement through Appreciative Inquiry: always attends to community engagement; face-to-face individual coaching and coordinates with other organizations including negotiating with community partners on behalf of the community to ensure community needs are met on an ongoing basis.
• Meets FEC requirements in the timeliness and frequency of member contacts.
• Presenting and participating in community events and meetings.
• Ensures that it is sufficient follow-up for both individuals and community partners, which includes relationship building with community partners who participated in various offerings at FEC including Community Cafes among other co-created offerings.
• O.U.R. Place Offerings: ensure that families are positively progressing with their families by engaging in family offerings like the Parent Café. The offerings insure that there are individual and family outcomes that focus on the seven protective factors. The offering framework modifies plans to affirm, lift community voice and celebrate family’s success on an ongoing basis.
• Documentation: understands the importance of timely documentation as a reflection of FEC planning with families and the community. a) Submits all required documentation including petty cash reimbursements, purchase orders and check requests for Vendors to ensure that all the necessary supplies are available for successful FEC offerings. b) Completes and submits critical incident reports within the 24-hour timeframe.
• Practice: a) immediately reaches out to engage with caregivers and individuals and consistently insures that engagement takes place promptly. Weekly Check-ins with the community via text messages and phone calls. b) Follow-up with community/ caregivers after an offering via phone call or text message. c) Use text messaging to share opportunities for support and resources distributed from other community partners. Meaningfully follows up with providers to insure that families are receiving appropriate services that address their needs. d) Co-Created pre/post surveys to engage the community’s interest in offerings and to use surveys to co-design future offerings with the community. Surveys will be used to ensure that communities’ needs are being met as well as their voices are being heard.
• Community Partner Collaboration: a) Engage community partners to develop a connection to the community through their participation and engagement of O.U.R. Place offerings. This level of partnership supports the community in building stronger relationships with community partners while also building a “warm handoff” connection between the community partners and O.U.R. Place.

• Bachelor's Degree in social work, public policy, education, public administration, or related field; and/or equivalent experience.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English).
• Lived and/or worked in the South Bronx.
• Strong interpersonal skills, being able to connect with and engage children, youth and families.
• Experience imputing data, running data-driven reports, and using the information to make programmatic decisions.
• Experience developing and running street outreach events, developing community partnerships, and developing community resources.

• Have experience in any of the following areas: political campaigns, street outreach, h and/or developing community programs and services.
• Have experience organizing.

In full partnership with families & communities, Graham Windham strives to make a life-altering difference to children, youth and families affected by abuse, neglect and delinquency by providing each child we serve with a strong foundation for life: a safe, loving, permanent family and the opportunity and preparation to thrive in school and in the world. With over 400 full-time, part-time and On-call employees serving children and families in multiple programs throughout Westchester County, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem, Graham Windham provides an exciting & enriching work experience.Graham has pioneered programs for New York City’s children, families and communities for over 200 years.Today, Graham is one of New York City’s leading social services organizations, providing educational and social services to over 4,000 children, young people, and parents in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem.GRAHAM ‘s IMPACT: 2019 HIGHLIGHT-Graham served 4,128 children, young people, and parents across New York City.-99% of families in our prevention program, who were at risk of having children placed in foster care, remained intact six months after receiving family support services.*95 kids in foster care reunited with their families within one year and 25 were adopted.*Over 90% of children in foster care who were reunified with their families avoided re-entering foster care in the year after reunification.*92% of young people in the Graham SLAM education and career support program graduated from high school by age 21 (compared with 22% of young people across the New York City foster care system).*We helped to lead close to 100 stakeholders in successfully advocating for New York City to invest $10 million in an approach similar to Graham SLAM for young people across NYC through the Fair Futures campaign.