Partnership Lead​/Policy Analyst

Partnership Lead / Policy Analyst

Do you want to be a part of a community where you experience the power of collaboration? Are you feeling stagnant and not challenged enough in your current role? Looking for a more rewarding career where you can make a difference in the community? Then let us tell you about Children’s Bureau.

We are a private, nonprofit organization in preventing child abuse and neglect in treating children and families within the community. Through prevention, treatment, and advocacy, our innovative comprehensive services help thousands of at-risk children and parents within the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.

Here at Children's Bureau, we stand by building an inclusive and equitable working environment. We believe everyone here within the organization enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world.

• Excellent benefits that include, medical, vision, dental, 401(k), life insurance, pet insurance, and a Flexible Spending Account.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
• 13 paid wellness days and 11 paid holidays per year.
• Selfcare, which includes optional weekly stretch and meditation for all staff.
• Employee engagement events that range from dance parties, Trivia, and Bingo.
• An extensive health wellness program provided to all staff to help better you personally and professionally.
• A culture that cultivates learning and promotes growth and development.
• TIROC – Trauma Informed Resilience Oriented Care (TIROC).
• DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which includes a DEI Book Club.

Children’s Bureau of Southern CA proudly is committed and supportive of complete pay transparency.

Additionally, the lifespan compensation range of this position is : $71,021 - $75,000.

Must have Covid-19 Vaccine and Booster.

The Best Start / Region 5 is a place-based initiative that seeks to transform an entire community by uniting the residents, public and private organizations to change how both residents and organizations think and act with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for an entire community of vulnerable, low-income children in Los Angeles. The Best Start / Region 5 team, including the partnership lead / policy analyst, work with the

• Provide a learning system that helps partners align their activities support collective actions;
• Support a holistic approach to care characterized by empathy
• Support a learning network with local, county, and state policy support
• Focus on a linkage system to effectively connect families with appropriate supports;
• Promote practice change concepts that attend to the human aspects of change including helping organizational partners cope with new demands as they incorporate change and support residents' positive actions
• Facilitate monthly and population level measurements that provide actionable data to inform partners' efforts and galvanize residents to make changes.
• Lead all work related to policy change and system change

The Best Start / Region 5 Partnership Lead supports organizations participation network activities, as well as fosters relationship building with other agency partners and community members. This includes introducing new partners to the network, foster cooperation and collective action and ensures network partners are well oriented, connected and engaged with Best Start / Region 5 overall mission, strategies and approach to the work.

• Work with Best Start partners to design the mechanism for organizational partners to integrate with resident leaders
• Work with network partners to set and implement the priorities and strategies for the Best Start network
• Spearhead Best Start strategies / projects to expose partners to capacity and leadership development opportunities

• Promote shared learning and collaboration by offering opportunities (virtually and face to face) and creating the space that allows for connections and building relationships and fosters a collective responsibility towards achieving Best Start vision and goals.
• Support skills and…