Fatherhood Initiative Implementation Specialist

Commonwealth of Massachusetts•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Fatherhood Initiative Implementation Specialist is responsible for implementing, assuring the quality of, and continuously improving fatherhood and co-parenting initiatives across Massachusetts. Reporting to the Fatherhood Initiative Coordinator, the Specialist provides technical assistance, implementation coaching, continuous quality improvement, and practical tools and resources to build organizational capacity and promote high-quality, father-inclusive programming. The Specialist partners with community-based organizations, state agencies, and family support professionals to support evidence-based and promising fatherhood and co-parenting programming. This includes fatherhood groups, father-child engagement activities, co-parenting education, parenting education, and other family-strengthening initiatives. The role also supports funded organizations with implementation planning, data collection and interpretation, reporting, and program improvement, and represents the Children’s Trust in statewide collaborations as needed.

Requirements

At least three years of full-time, or equivalent part-time, professional, administrative, or managerial experience in business administration, business management, or public administration, with major duties involving program management, program administration, program coordination, program planning, and/or program analysis; or an equivalent combination of experience and substitutions.
A bachelor’s degree in business administration, business management, or public administration may substitute for up to two years of the required experience.
A graduate degree in business administration, business management, or public administration may substitute for the required experience.
A bachelor’s or higher degree in a field other than business administration, business management, or public administration may substitute for up to one year of the required experience.
Education toward a degree is prorated based on the proportion of degree requirements completed.

Responsibilities

Participate on RFR evaluation teams and assist with reviewing and evaluating vendor proposals, as assigned.
Deliver technical assistance, coaching, implementation support, and approved resources to organizations based on identified needs and priorities.
Coordinate onboarding and orientation for newly funded organizations and support providers in developing implementation workplans consistent with established expectations and contractual deliverables.
Monitor and document program implementation and technical assistance supports to strengthen future assistance and program support.
Support budget tracking, vendor coordination, invoices, and contracts.
Monitor and support the implementation planning, scheduling, attendance and activity tracking, and logistics for initiative meetings and events in accordance with established priorities and workplans.
Foster partnerships; facilitate communication, collaboration, peer learning, and resource sharing to strengthen father engagement, expand community connections, increase access to fatherhood programming, and support consistent implementation of father-inclusive practices.
Prepare annual reports with attendance and activity data, individualized and group summaries, strengths, challenges, and recommendations to strengthen the model, program, or initiative.
Provide continuous quality improvement support to funded organizations by monitoring implementation, administering approved assessment and data collection tools, and helping providers interpret implementation data and identify opportunities to improve program quality.
Develop and administer surveys, assessment tools, and data collection processes to measure program quality, participant satisfaction, implementation, and related program outcomes.
Collect, analyze, interpret, and summarize funded partner implementation and performance data to identify trends, promising practices, implementation barriers, and technical assistance needs; report findings to the Fatherhood Initiative Coordinator to inform program improvement and technical assistance.
Develop, maintain, update, and share fatherhood and co-parenting resources, toolkits, templates, guidance documents, and trainings that support planning, implementation, reporting, and continuous quality improvement.
Build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders to strengthen fatherhood and co-parenting initiatives across Massachusetts.
Represent the Children’s Trust, as needed, on statewide committees, conferences, workgroups, and collaborative initiatives related to father engagement, prevention, and family support.
Facilitate trainings as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.