The Children’s
Defense Fund
Position:
Community Health Outreach Assistant
“To provide ongoing community outreach, education
and training of key community groups and school leaders as well as individuals
who have close contact with families of uninsured children. The Community
Health Outreach Assistant will:
- Assist in implementation of “train the trainer” modules, for key school and community members in providing education on children’s health insurance under ACA to other parents and community members;
- Schedule, facilitate and track training attendance;
- Educate general public on ACA benefits and enrollment processes through social media, traditional media and other channels as needed;
- Assist with enrollment of children eligible for health benefits under CHIP, Medicaid, and the ACA.
To coordinate ongoing outreach the Community Health
Outreach Assistant will work with key community stakeholders to:
- Schedule, promote and conduct public outreach events promoting CHIP/Medicaid enrollment, utilization and renewal during regularly scheduled school activities and community events;
- Facilitate distribution of ACA informational materials and applications to the parents of uninsured children in schools, in the community, through media partners, and online.
To collaborate with CDF-Texas staff in developing
and promoting accurate, timely and informative materials for families regarding
ACA benefits. The Community Health Outreach Assistant will:
- Assist in the development of promotional and educational material;
- Collaborate with CDF-TX staff on public messaging and dissemination of information”
Alliance for Childhood
Position:
National
Advisory Board
“The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that
support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living.
Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the
vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and
for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.”
National Institute for Early Education Research
Position: Senior Communications and
Policy Specialists
“The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at
Rutgers has received a grant from the US Department of Education to
develop and carry out the work of its first ever Center on Enhancing Early
Learning Outcomes (CEELO) , which will provide research-based support and
technical assistance to the field on how to improve early education outcomes.
Will research and provide strategic and high quality technical assistance
(TA) strategies to state policy makers on behalf of CEELO. Develops and
organizes Webinars and Peer Learning Communities on topics related to current
early childhood state policy issues. Responsible for: coordinating and
editing CEELO products for publication, including website, policy briefs,
FastFacts, press releases, and blogs; generating data reports from the CEELO
Tools Online Database to track technical assistance work and information
requests and fulfillment. Collaborates on the overall editorial,
pictorial, and graphic concepts and plans for periodicals, book projects,
publications, web sites, social media, and/or other publishing initiatives for
NIEER, and coordinating and editing production of topical and timely blog
posts, and other social media posting. Contributes significantly to
development and completion of NIEER's Annual State of Preschool Yearbook
("the Yearbook"), from data collection through publication and
publicity. Responsible for checking and tracking data in the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES), and/or other data file for the Yearbook,
updating and composing entries for the Yearbook, and communicating with
state policy representatives regarding the data. In addition, the position will
participate in research projects as assigned. For NIEER, and as needed
for CEELO, will build industry relationships, identify and evaluate
promising proposals, explore key area/issues/services for potential features,
evaluate and determine appropriate articles to recommend, and present project
proposals to unit for approval. Provides editorial and acquisition
expertise, and in-depth, subject specific advice to authors. Facilitates
the editorial review process. Collaborates with authors, oversees revision
completion, and provides substantive editing of major research studies,
reports, proposals, manuscripts, and scholarly articles for content, style,
consistency, and clarity of message. Recommends or determines
illustrations, layout, design, and production of in-house and/or vendor print,
web, or multimedia productions. Interviews, researches, writes, or otherwise
creates original feature articles and editorials, text, graphic, audio, video,
web-based, or other complex non-routine documents.”
