Project Director Ii (Contingent)

Job Description
With a commitment to addressing disparities and ensuring equity, the Early Childhood Portfolio promotes the overall health, development, and early learning of children—from before birth throughout childhood. Our work informs the field, supports families and caregivers, builds the capacity of organizations and people, and advances effective policy.
The Early Childhood Portfolio within EDC’s U.S. Division is hiring a Project Director for a national training and technical assistance center that will support the coordination of early childhood systems at the state and territory level. This position is contingent on award. This is a dynamic opportunity for someone with strong early childhood and state agency experience to help build the capacity of early childhood professionals across the country and support the development and enhancement of high-quality early childhood programs and services nationwide. This position will report to the Director of the Early Childhood Portfolio.
This position will fulfill project director responsibilities for a large, high-impact early childhood training and technical assistance project along with other related project work including supervision of project team members, coordination of the budget, timeline, and workplan of the project, federal reporting and oversight of training and technical assistance provision and quality. This position will regularly interact with national constituents receiving training and technical assistance services and will collaborate with other national capacity-building projects to align efforts and maximize the funders investment. This position will engage directly with the funder, reporting on the successful delivery of high-quality services, ensuring timelines are met, and responding to any urgent and emergent needs. Position is contingent based on funding.
You will:
Be responsible for programmatic/technical success as well as for administrative/business/financial viability of the project. This includes daily operations, project workplans, contracts, invoices and technical requirements.
Collaborateclosely with the funder, colleagues, partners, and project teams to lead, develop, and manage TA activities.
Approveplans, setpriorities, and strategies;
evaluateprogress;
explainand reportvariances from strategic plans.
Determineresource needs and negotiateresource allocation issues;
secureconsensus about priorities and competing project/workload demands.
Offersenior-level technical content support in early childhood systems priority topics.
Presentproject progress and/or results in public fora and/or publications.
Generate additional work for EDC through business development efforts.