Manager Legislative Advocacy & Comm. Engage

• Location 79 W ALEXANDRINE ST,DETROIT, MI, ,United States
• Employee Type FT Exempt

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Description

Job Title:

Manager Legislative Advocacy & Community Engagement

Department

Community Engagement and Advocacy

Reports to:

Director of Community Partnership and Projects

FLSA:

Exempt

Division

Community Partnerships and projects

Location

Hybrid

Business Unit

Community Partnerships and projects

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This position offers a starting salary range of $62,475 - $74,970.00 per year, depending on experience a nd qualifications.

Children’s Center of Wayne County (TCC) The Children’s Center, founded in 1929, provides evidence-based clinical therapy to children who deal with mental, behavioral, emotional, intellectual, and developmental health and educational challenges or may have experienced trauma.

School + Community-Based Partnerships:
We partner with K-12 schools and community organizations that serve children to provide clinical therapy, counseling, psychological services, and psychiatric evaluations, treatment & interventions.

Child Welfare :
In addition to the clinical therapy programs offered, The Children’s Center places children in licensed foster homes, and supports them throughout their time in the child welfare system.

Child Well-being + Family Success:
We operate an onsite family success center that promotes child-wellbeing and offers children and youth from all walks of life to access relevant mental health crisis prevention and child abuse and neglect prevention services.

TCC’s mission is to help children and families shape their own futures. If as many children as possible, and their families can easily access comprehensive, evidence-based, clinical therapy that is integrated into and supports their everyday lives then, children will experience an improved quality of life where they have a true sense of agency and empowerment in their lives.

We embrace and demonstrate a set of Core Values as the foundation of our culture. They define how we do what we do, and what we value in our work with each other and our community. Daily demonstration of these values, in mindset and behavior, is required to be successful as a TCC team member.

• Dedicated-We are devoted, dedicated and always willing to pitch to accomplish our mission.
• Passionate-We are passionate about what we do and helping the people we serve.
• Accountable-We do what we say and accomplish all aspects of our responsibilities.
• Can Do Attitude
  - We approach our responsibilities with a positive attitude.
• Respectful
  - We always treat co-workers, donors, children and families with the utmost respect, courtesy, and patience.

Job Summary

T he Manager of Community Advocacy and Engagement serves as a primary liaison between The Children's Center and local, county, state, and other governmental stakeholders, fostering strategic relationships with elected officials, legislative staff, public administrators, and advocacy organizations. The Manager develops and executes advocacy and legislative engagement strategies that promote awareness of children's behavioral health, child welfare, health equity, and issues related to underserved children and youth.

Through policy monitoring, stakeholder education, coalition participation, and government relations activities, the Manager helps advance organizational priorities, influence systems change and strengthen The Children's Center's presence as a trusted voice in community advocacy and public policy.

This position also supports the implementation of the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) Systems of Care work plan and the Fatherhood Initiative, creating opportunities to strengthen and expand fatherhood and family engagement services across The Children's Center.

In addition, the Manager is responsible for…