Children's Funding Project

Manager

• Cultivate relationships with local and state advocates to build a strong movement with the goal of securing dedicated and sustainable public revenue for child and youth systems in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
• Lead technical assistance and one-on-one coaching provided to local child and youth advocates participating in Children’s Funding Project’s Ballot Measure Cohort
• Develop and lead training and peer learning opportunities aligned with the A-Zs of Creating a Voter-Approved Children’s Fund, tailored to meet the unique needs of advocates working in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
• Monitor and track the progress, needs, and outcomes of existing and prospective VACFs throughout Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
• Contribute to Children’s Funding Project's work to build a national movement around sustainable financing for children and youth programs and services by developing public-facing materials (briefs, blogs, fact sheets, presentations, and tools).
• Work collaboratively to identify movement building opportunities and potential new allies.
• Support the planning and execution of learning opportunities for Children’s Funding Project’s national network of advocates, including virtual training sessions for the national Ballot Measure Cohort and the biennial, in-person Children’s Funding Institute
• Conduct research to support local communities pursuing new public funding for children through VACFs.
• Act as a go-to expert on available local funding options and ballot measure rules in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma and respond to internal and external questions on this topic.
• Work closely with senior staff to provide technical assistance to local partners on sources of additional funding for child and youth serving programs and services.
• Build skills for independently coaching and facilitating technical assistance to communities and states on this topic.
• Support development of tools and strategies for providing technical assistance on this topic.
• Other duties as assigned.

Regional Manager, Voter-Approved Children’s Funds

Data Scientist

• Build modern data pipelines to process public budget data
• Design and maintain classification pipelines for budget documents
• Implement data quality standards across fiscal map products
• Analyze public fiscal data and collaborate with various teams

Regional Manager, Voter-Approved Children’s Funds

Senior Data Scientist