The Stanford Center on Early Childhood, an initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, seeks a full time Senior Program Manager to join our team. The Senior Program Manager (SPM) will work under the broad direction of the Managing Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood to identify opportunities, develop strategy, and lead, implement, and administer the FIND suite of products and programs. FIND provides evidence-based professional development for early childhood educators as well as parent support through coaching, AI, and an online professional development platform. The SPM will have a large role in strategy development and long-range planning and will lead partnership and revenue development for the FIND program.

Note: This position is a 1-year fixed term appointment that may be renewed based on performance and funding. This position is eligible for a remote work agreement and travel will be required for convenings and events. Interested applicants should submit a resume and a cover letter describing why they are interested in this position at this stage of their career. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

ABOUT US

Housed at Stanford Graduate School of Education, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning is the first university-wide initiative connecting scholars across disciplines and with external partners to bridge research, innovation, practice, and policy, and bring quality scalable and equitable learning experiences to all learners, throughout the lifespan. The Stanford Accelerator for Learning focuses on learning challenges most in need of new discoveries, evidence, and solutions and where we believe Stanford can make the most difference. Those include: adult & workforce learning, digital learning, early childhood education and development, equity in learning, learning differences, and policy & systems change.

The Stanford Center on Early Childhood (SCEC) is an initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. The SCEC leverages the current moment of revolutionary science and fosters deep omnidirectional collaboration across sectors, seeking to change the way that research in early childhood is conducted, communicated, and utilized, with the overarching goal that each and every child thrives from the start.

POSITION SUMMARY

Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) began as a video coaching program for caregivers of young children designed to reinforce naturally occurring, developmentally supportive interactions between caregivers and young children. The advanced FIND suite of programs and products includes FIND video coaching, machine learning tools that increase scalability and affordability of FIND, and the FIND Professional Development (FIND-PD) program for early childhood educators, along with additional emerging products and content.

The Senior Program Manager for FIND reports to the Managing Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood with strategic direction and connection to the Director, Managing Director and Operations and Finance Director. The person in this role will oversee the outstanding, mission-driven FIND team, and will be responsible for leading the team to high performance through expectation clarity, empowerment, and support. The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills and a track record of effectively guiding teams to meet defined goals. The SPM will leverage their expertise to drive growth in earned revenue, reach, user experience, content depth and quality for the full FIND suite of programs. This role is expected to devote approximately 70% of their time, expertise, and effort to driving growth (50% to partnership development and 20% to marketing) and approximately 30% toward overseeing and maximizing product and content development.

Key responsibilities are as follows:

PARTNERSHIPS The Senior Program Manager will take the lead on developing and expanding partnerships for FIND. The SPM will be responsible for developing, defining, and executing a strategy for scaling the FIND suite of programs both short and long-term. This will include:

* Strategic partnership development and expansion

* Expanding the FIND partner pipeline, leveraging new and existing networks

* Fostering strategic partnerships with field leaders, large-scale impact organizations, and government agencies to explore implementing FIND programs

* Strategy development and execution

* Identifying and executing opportunities for earned revenue with current partners

* Determining product-market fit for the FIND suite of products

* Investigating and analyzing the early childhood professional development market to confirm or adapt current pricing strategies

* Proposing custom solutions of FIND resources to the largest and most field-influential impact partners

* Identifying and testing short and long term strategies for sustainability

MARKETING The Senior Program Manager will oversee the project manager and research coordinator in ensuring high quality and timely delivery of materials and projects related to marketing activities. This will include:

* Development of marketing and other materials, including establishing a calendar of key early childhood events

* Establishing a visible and engaged presence at relevant events, including lead generation and follow-up

* Maximizing use of digital resources (i.e. social media, website, etc.) in collaboration with SCEC communications team members

* Identifying strategies to simplify and optimize review of FIND-PD customer experience to support iteration and improvement of the content

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT (30%) The Senior Program Manager will oversee the FIND Professional Development content development team in completing, iterating, and finalizing the complete FIND-PD product in two languages (English and Spanish) according to established release dates. The SPM will work closely with the SCEC Leadership Team to secure final approval for courses. The SPM will also supervise the continued development and adaptation of additional FIND products, supporting expert staff to complete, iterate and scale these programs and products. The SPM will ensure high quality products across all FIND work areas, leveraging evaluation data to ensure continuous learning and high quality impact in the EC field.

This role is eligible for a remote work agreement, and will be supervising a geographically distributed team. Experience overseeing a remote team is a plus.

CORE DUTIES:

* Lead and oversee development, implementation, administration, and evaluation of programs. Oversee analysis, reporting, and program improvements.

* Oversee the development, adherence to, and implementation of program policies and procedures.

* Lead strategic planning for the program.

* Represent the entity or program to the broader university, external community, and other stakeholders. Provide expert consultation related to program development and funding opportunities.

* Develop outreach strategy related to program communications, development, partnerships and fundraising/funding. Identify external funding opportunities and write proposals, research grants and establish business/revenue relationships.

* Develop and oversee strategic financial planning and sustainability for the program; monitor performance and ensure appropriate controls.

* Create and/or advise in the development of professional development curriculum.

* Oversee the development of machine learning tools to support the FIND program

* Oversee the continued development and adaptation of the full suite of FIND products and programs

* Coach and mentor program staff.