24.11.13

National Early Childhood Advocacy Jobs



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.”

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