DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI)

Consultant

• Support DREAM’s Head Start Early Childhood Program by utilizing health and nutrition trend data, community assessment, and other community indicators to inform health and wellness planning
• Develop and implement Individual Nutrition Plans for children with dietary restrictions
• Work with DREAM’s Kitchen team to develop and/or refine menus especially for children with special diets
• Ensure that all staff understand children’s special dietary needs
• Ensure that all classrooms have up to date food allergy lists that include food substitutions for children with special diets
• Provide nutrition education and training to both staff and families
• Effectively coordinate with others to maintain nutrition requirements documentation and follow up
• Manage time effectively to optimize hours
• Additional duties related to the area of nutrition, as requested.

Nutrition Consultant

• Offer virtual and on-site mental health and wellbeing consultations on program specific matters that support a young child’s mental health.
• Provide consultation services that build the capacity of adults in a young child’s life to strengthen and support the mental health and social and emotional development of children.
• Provide consultation services at the rate of roughly 16-20 hours per month, flexibility based on the needs of the program.

Early Childhood Mental Health and Wellness Consultant

Director

• Serve as the primary data partner to senior program leaders across DREAM’s programmatic portfolio;
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across programs to identify needs, clarify priorities, and translate business questions into data solutions;
• Influence decision-making by helping leaders use data to drive program improvement, resource allocation, and strategic planning;
• Create clarity and alignment around key program metrics, definitions, reporting cycles, and ownership;
• Provide continuous oversight and improvement on program data systems.
• Maintain relevant Python and FiveTran pipelines;
• Develop expertise on DREAM’s BigQuery data warehouse;
• Create Data Studio business intelligence products;
• Ensure that program data systems are reliable, scalable, and aligned to both operational and strategic needs;
• Lead efforts to improve data quality, survey administration, documentation, governance, and cross-system consistency;
• Act as the point person for K-12 summer program data planning and execution.
• Oversee recurring program reporting and analysis, including grants, school and alumni surveys, compliance, KPI tracking, and stakeholder-facing dashboards;
• Lead the development of quarterly data day visualizations and other high-impact presentations for program and organizational leadership;
• Partner with program leaders to identify trends, surface insights, and connect program participation and services to youth outcomes;
• Support evaluation and analysis of key initiatives, including work related to counseling, attendance, engagement, and other priority program outcomes;
• Ensure reporting is timely, accurate, decision-useful, and tailored to different audiences.
• Lead the evolution of DREAM’s suite of business intelligence products for programs, ensuring tools are useful, intuitive, and aligned to stakeholder needs;

Associate Director – Program Data and Analytics

Community Manager

• Create and lead DREAM’s organizational advocacy and community engagement vision and strategy, aligning policy, partnerships, and family engagement to drive results and advance equitable outcomes for students and families;
• Serve as a senior leader shaping DREAM’s external engagement, representing the organization in public, policy, and community-based spaces;
• Build, manage, and scale a high-impact portfolio of community partnerships that address family needs across basic necessities, workforce development, healthcare access, and civic participation;
• Manage relationships with partner advocacy organizations, elected officials, and key stakeholders in education policy;
• Monitor and analyze education policy developments at local, state, and national levels;
• Represent DREAM at external events and in coalitions focused on education policy and advocacy;
• Set and maintain the vision for systems and supports that ensure all families can access stable basic needs, including food, housing, and other essential resources;
• Design and lead strategies that support families in securing family-sustaining wages, pursuing career pathways with opportunities for long-term advancement, obtaining health insurance, and regularly utilizing primary care and preventative health services;
• Design and lead strategies that support families in reducing chronic absenteeism and help students to thrive at school, ensuring families are equipped and supported to act as allies with their children and with DREAM in achieving the organization’s graduate vision;
• Advance civic engagement by supporting eligible families to register and vote, and by empowering families to engage as advocates and leaders within their communities;
• Foster strong, trust-based relationships across the DREAM community, including families, school leaders, staff, policy-makers, and external partners.
• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership of the Community Impact Team (across both Advocacy and Family Services functional areas) ensuring clarity of vision, priorities, roles, and accountability across all workstreams for 6+ direct and skip-level reports;
• Collaborate with executive leadership, school leadership and cross-functional teams to integrate community impact priorities into DREAM’s broader strategic and operational goals;
• Establish metrics, monitor outcomes, and use data to assess impact, drive continuous improvement, and inform strategic decision-making;
• Lead, develop, and manage staff and/or consultants supporting community impact and advocacy efforts.
• Other responsibilities related to the running of the organization as assigned.

Managing Director – Community Impact

Counselor

• Provide counseling to a caseload of 100 Legends (former participants of DREAM’s programs) who are pursuing college pathways by providing mentoring, academic support, career development, and social-emotional development support;
• Provide re-enrollment support and engage in consistent follow-up with Legends that are seeking to re-enroll in college;
• Ensure milestones and regular one-on-one check-ins are accurately and efficiently tracked in Salesforce;
• Collaborate with team members to support Legends events (promotion to ensure high attendance, coordinating partnerships) including reunion events, workshops and mentoring/leadership events;
• Collaborate with Dream Charter High School staff to leverage opportunities to build relationships with high school seniors, such as senior events, college access events, etc.
• Co-facilitate 12th Grade studio class in second semester, to support post-secondary decision counseling and readiness;
• Maintain close relationships with key university stakeholders by attending networking groups, college information sessions, and success workshops;
• Provide additional support as needed to all DREAM afterschool and summer programs.

College Success Counselor

Operations

• Develop, execute and oversee cross-functional project plans for K-12 strategic initiatives, collaborating with Curriculum and Instruction (CIT), Education, Operations, Data and Assessment, Student Supports, After School and Summer Programming, SEL and Mental Health, Talent, Equity, IT, Advancement, Communications and Brand, Finance, AI Task Force, and K-12 School Leadership Teams.
• Plan and oversee the implementation of network-wide event logistics, including leader and teacher professional development, summer institutes, data days, PBL programming, and other special events.
• Create, manage and continuously improve excellent Learning Team systems and processes, including scheduling, staffing processes, ordering and inventory management, organization of materials, assessment and survey administration and response to data, and customer service.
• Oversee budget planning and management for both the LT and individual school budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation to support organizational goals.
• Support the Learning Team’s multi-year strategic planning, ensuring alignment with DREAM’s broader organizational goals.
• Design and manage LT’s annual and monthly planning processes, setting clear timelines, milestones, and deliverables for development and implementation.
• Drive new initiatives independently and support the Deputy Chief in translating initiative vision to reality. Examples of initiatives include: the use of AI across teacher development and curriculum; project-based learning; capstone research frameworks; high impact tutoring; special education fellowship; implementation of SEL curriculum programming; Dean-level development programming; among others.
• Establish and track the team’s performance metrics for evaluating the progress and impact of LT initiatives and student achievement data in partnership with the Deputy Chief.
• Understand, cultivate and navigate organizational relationships to drive LT’s priorities to successful implementation.
• Manage and coach the Associate Director of Learning Operations, modeling operational excellence and building operational capacity within the Learning Team.
• Serve as a conduit between LT and internal stakeholders, proactively communicating timelines, project statuses, and implementation plans across departments.
• Represent DREAM with LT’s external stakeholders, such as vendors, contractors and partners.

Nutrition Consultant

Early Childhood Mental Health and Wellness Consultant

Associate Director – Program Data and Analytics

Managing Director – Community Impact

College Success Counselor

Network Director – Learning Strategy and Operations