DIRECTOR OF STAFF ENGAGEMENT

The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoy outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

Cultivate Learning fosters the quality that makes access to learning meaningful.  Backed by the University of Washington, our research-powered innovations and hands-on partnership create a fertile environment for smarter teaching and learning.  We advance opportunity by lowering barriers to entering the profession and guiding educators to success.  And we identify the building blocks of quality along with the path to use them – in Washington State and across the country.  Every child deserves to flourish from a foundation of quality learning. This core belief drives our work to provide talented learning professional the support they need to build that foundation. At Cultivate Learning, we translate insight into learning opportunity.

Cultivate Learning has an outstanding opportunity for a Director of Staff Engagement to join their team.

POSITION PURPOSE

In collaboration with the Executive Director and Deputy Director, this position will set the vision and execute the strategy for all external center evens and lead internal organizational development work focused on internal culture and Cultivate Learning values.

The Director of Staff Engagement will lead and oversee all external programming activities and events including Cultivate Learning conferences, institutes, and other speaking engagements. On an annual basis, Cultivate Learning hosts events with thousands of participants in the early learning and youth development industries. Specific duties include program development, oversight from inception to final implementation, work across teams to coordinate content, program delivery and marketing, external partners/vendor relationship management, evaluation and continuous improvement and budget management. This position supervises 1 FTE position that will support detailed implementation of various events.

This position will also participate as a member of the all-center team to support organizational development goals and center leadership team. Specifically, this position will work with internal teams to set up and support peer mentoring opportunities and other projects aligned with center climate survey data. This includes leading all-staff events including a monthly all-staff, supporting center-wide professional development opportunities and building new projects based on center wide climate survey data. Additionally, this position will build relationships with community partners such as local school and youth development programs to build a Cultivate Learning internship program tied to our Expanded Learning Opportunities strategy.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

External Events and Partner Relations