Position Summary: New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) is dedicated to creating and supporting partnerships among schools, families and the community. The Division of Family Partnership and Community Support (DFPCS) encompasses a diverse portfolio of offices, including Family and Community Empowerment (FACE). As a central resource for family engagement, FACE strives to involve and inform parent leaders as essential partners in advancing student achievement. FACE develops and implements a range of strategies to strengthen the NYCPS's efforts to engage and support parents and families of public-school students throughout New York City. One of the key drivers of meaningful family partnership is Citywide and Community Education Councils, elected parent and community leadership bodies that provide families with a voice in the governance of New York City Public Schools.
The Citywide and Community Education Council (CCEC) Director is responsible for developing and implementing the CCEC Election process occurring every two years as mandated by NY State Law. In conjunction with leadership, the CCEC Director will develop the benchmarks for the goals for the election for the 36 councils including the 32 District Councils (CECs) and Citywide Council on Special Education (CCSE), Citywide Council on High Schools (CCHS), Citywide Council on English Language Learners (CCELL) and the District 75 Council (D75). The CCEC Director will define all workflows, tasks, and content needed to develop and execute the project plan. The CCEC Director will coordinate all aspects of the campaign and ensure that all team members and stakeholders at the school, district, and central level are on task and supported in their work. Performs related work.
Reports to: Deputy Executive Director
Direct Reports: Consultants/Temporary staff
Key Relationships: FACE Leadership, Chief of Mass Engagement, FACE Senior Directors, FACE Directors, Community and Citywide Council members, including Community CECs, the CCSE, the D75 Council, CCELL, CCHS, CPAC and other internal and external offices as needed, District Family Leadership Coordinators and Family Support Coordinators.
Responsibilities Develop, Manage and Operationalize Election Plans
- Along with leadership, the CCEC Director will create the project scope and timeline to develop all related workflows, tasks, goals, deliverables and performance metrics for the CCEC Election. This also includes work to prepare for the election during the non-election year.
- Develop working relationships with colleagues throughout the organization to guide and ensure full support for election work across teams, including with the development of strategic priorities, program calendars, materials, and toolkits for staff supporting parent governance structures, direct outreach and organizing, support for FLCs, FSCs and parent coordinators, home school partnerships, and others
- Develop and oversee a citywide CCEC election outreach strategy in coordination with overall NYCPS/FACE mass outreach and engagement strategy to drive voter turn-out for elections including large-scale phone-banking and texting to all NYCPS families over the course of the year, canvassing before and after school and at events where families are gathering, recruiting outreach and support from community based organizations and others who have on-going contact with NYCPS families
- Develop and implement strategies for supporting the Community Education Councils,
CPAC and Presidents' Councils to drive identification of candidates and voter turn-out, and to carry out their legal responsibilities as delineated in state law. - Lead and develop plans for all stakeholders to carry out relevant work to advance elections in their respective districts and schools including Superintendents, FLCs, FSCs, Parent Coordinators, Principals and parent leaders at the school, district and city level
- Monitor and report on project progress - provide regular updates to key stakeholders including FACE's Executive Director, the Division's Deputy Chancellor and leadership team and the Chancellor's office
- Work with the Executive Director and COO to allocate and monitor the budget to ensure that fiscal decisions are aligned to strategic priorities.
Project Management
- Provide updates to FACE leadership on key metrics, progress and goals based on annual reports.
- Organize staff and parent working groups to support a smooth election process and troubleshoot issues that arise.
- Oversee the candidate sign up process, the scheduling and implementation of candidate forums and dissemination of information on candidates, smooth operation of the voting period, vote counting and seating of winners on appropriate CCECs
- Project manage the selection process work plan, deliverables and budget.
- Oversee development, modernization and implementation of all technological aspects of elections including how candidate sign up, how families voting, how votes are tallied and the verification process for seating of winners
- Plan and implement; help define project scope, goals and deliverables - the Director will coordinate and strategize all aspects of the campaign project and ensure that all team members are on task and supported in their work.
- Allocate and manage project resources and the day-to-day direction of their efforts.
- Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project outputs.
- Evaluate and assess result of the project - this includes managing documentation and ensuring that information is archived after the completion of the election.
Communications
- Together with leadership of the communications team, develop and implement a comprehensive communications and marketing strategy directed toward NYCPS families, as well as NYCPS leadership and staff, to build awareness of and drive candidate identification and turn-out for elections including: standing up and updating website; developing and disseminating educational materials; running earned and paid media campaigns, implementing comprehensive digital strategies including social media and targeted ads to families and more
- Develop and disseminate "parent-friendly" communication materials to explain CCECs, share information related to registering to run and vote, and develop systems to support candidates to register and all families to vote
- Develop master project plans, calendars and timelines for communications/marketing activities.
- Assist FACE staff in the preparation of high-quality and effective documents, reports and communication materials.
- Draft and edit correspondence and communication materials for internal and external constituents.
- Support FACE management team in preparing/planning events, mailings, informational materials and other correspondence.
Qualification Requirements: Minimum A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above. Plus
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to clearly articulate priorities, policies and goals.
- Ability to mobilize disparate groups of people toward a common and ambitious goal and translate insights into action.
- Work history of working with families and community-based organizations.
Preferred - Quick learner and result-oriented self-starter able to conceptualize and execute plans.
- Excellent writing skills in both academic and official correspondence styles.
- Attention to detail with strong organizational skills and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment and meet changing deadlines.
- Excellent problem solving and deescalation skills
- Track record of project-management skills that include helping individuals and teams create strategic plans.
- Three (3) or more years of experience in a senior operational role with a family/community outreach organization.
- Three (3) or more years managing a staff of a moderate to large-size organization.
- Experience in education, non-profit organizations, government or consulting.
- Working Knowledge of City and Community Education Councils
Salary : $130,151- $143,166
(Internal candidates who are selected for this position and who currently hold comparable or less senior positions within the DOE will not earn less than their current salary.)
Please include a resume and cover letter with your application. NOTE: The filling of all positions is subject to budget availability and/or grant funding. * New York City Residency is NOT Required * We encourage all applicants from the New York City tri-state area to apply. 
