MIECHV Programmatic Training and Technical Assistance Associate II

Education Development Center • Waltham, MA

16h • Remote

About The Position

As part of EDC’s Be Well strategy, the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Technical Assistance Resource Center (TARC) is looking for a part-time (75% level of effort) Programmatic Training and Technical Assistance Associate II position. The Programmatic Training & Technical Assistance Associate II will provide programmatic technical assistance for the MIECHV TARC awardees funded by HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The TARC supports MIECHV awardees in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five territories in strengthening home visiting services to improve outcomes for pregnant women, children, and families. The TARC is a multidisciplinary team of specialists that work together to provide high quality, comprehensive technical assistance. This role is contingent on project funding.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 7 – 10 years related experience, including at least three years providing direct technical assistance and expertise to local/state public health-related professionals
• Direct experience and expertise, required, in a cadre of the following content areas and ability to work with fellow TA specialists and subject matter experts for areas that need deeper engagement and expertise: Home visiting program implementation, including program development, implementation, innovation and advancements, and performance; family recruitment, retention, partnership, and engagement; utilizing new technologies; impacts of public health emergencies on service delivery; serving priority populations and underserved families and communities; and serving Tribal communities.
• Home visiting workforce, including staff recruitment and retention, leadership and professional development, capacity-building, and reflective supervision, in each case, through both in-person and virtual modalities.
• Behavioral health and related topics and their effects on pregnant women and families with young children and interventions to support impacted families, including maternal depression; intimate partner violence; substance use disorder; trauma-informed and trauma-responsive approaches; and early childhood mental health consultation.
• Needs assessments, including applying needs assessment findings to improve access to and quality of home visiting services.
• Group facilitation, including effective facilitation strategies and methods for engaging participants virtually.
• Consultative, quality assurance, and continuous quality improvement methods, Active Implementation; and Process Consultation or similar strategies.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship. At this time, the EDC is unable to support employment-based visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver voluntary, virtual technical assistance relevant to maternal and child health, program design, implementation, workforce development, and early childhood systems to assigned awardees
• Collaborate with other TA specialists, each of whom specializes in a particular area such as data, quality improvement, evaluation and/or fiscal TA.
• Collaborate with HRSA project officers on how to best meet the needs of awardees to whom they are assigned.
• Contribute to universal technical assistance activities and products such as webinars, written products.
• Co-lead and co-facilitate communities of practice on a topic of interest generated by awardees.
• Collaborate with other TA specialists to deliver small group TA to awardees who are seeking TA around a particular theme.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid holidays
• Generous vacation benefits for full- and part-time employees
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax transport benefit
• Robust retirement plan with TIAA/CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund)
• Paid sick time and personal time annually
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees