Additional Info

• Serve as the liaison with multiple assigned school districts, leading School as Hub implementation across birth through Grade 3.
• Lead the design, execution, and ongoing refinement of district action plans aligned with project goals, implementation fidelity, system priorities, and resource allocations in accordance with the School as Hub for Early Learning framework.
• Supervise and support Early Childhood Specialists to ensure high-quality, integrated coaching and facilitation across instructional, leadership, and family engagement target areas.
• Facilitate school-based planning, data reflection, and implementation meetings.
• Maintain proactive and strategic communication with school and district leaders, community partners, and internal staff.

• Facilitate implementation team meetings, internal learning sessions, and operational planning routines to ensure clarity, alignment, and role integration.
• Provide ongoing mentorship, reflective coaching, and leadership development to Specialists and emerging internal and external School as Hub leaders.
• Lead and sustain team structures that ensure consistency, accountability, and efficiency in cross-district implementation.
• Partner in strategic planning, resource allocation, and team cohesion in collaboration with the Project Lead and Project Manager.
• Act as a strategic advisor and resource to project facilitators as a key resource, contributing expertise and integration support to strengthen project success.
• Enhance internal coordination by modeling proactive communication, identifying operational bottlenecks, and reinforcing shared accountability across team roles and project strands.

• Advance systems alignment by co-leading strategic integration of professional learning, resource development, and district implementation priorities across projects, in close collaboration with Coordinators to ensure consistency across tools, timelines, and learning objectives.
• Co-develop and refine strategic tools and implementation resources (e.g., action plan guides, transition protocols, and fidelity rubrics) in partnership with Coordinators to promote coherence, across district implementation and professional learning efforts.
• Collaborate closely with the Project Lead, Coordinators, and the Project Manager to align implementation with professional development strategies, track deliverables, plan resource allocation, and monitor strategic progress across all project strands.

• Lead collaborative cycles with evaluators and Specialists to collect, interpret, and apply implementation and evaluation data to inform strategic adjustments and support continuous program improvement across multiple sites.
• Lead internal data reflections to promote shared learning and adaptive change.
• Generate and contribute to internal and external reports, presentations, and communications to  demonstrate impact, highlight lessons learned, and advance organizational knowledge and visibility.

This position requires an individual who works with considerable independence, energy, initiative, strong work ethic, and sound judgment in a complex day-to-day environment. Ability to lead unit operations. Strong attention to detail, accuracy, professional discretion, and sensitivity to confidential information, a record of effective teamwork with others, and time management skills are required. Knowledge of the University of Nebraska’s organizational structure and interrelationships among the campuses and internal and external constituencies is helpful in this position

This position demands the ability to be agile, entrepreneurial, operate independently, thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment and exercise judgment to seek supervision and/or input from others when necessary. The candidate should demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills with a strong orientation toward diplomacy, tact, collaboration, and teamwork; exceptional verbal, writing, editing, and proofreading skills; must be detail-oriented and accurate; must have ability to prioritize effectively and quickly respond to shifting priorities; the ability to collect, compile, and analyze facts, draw conclusions, and recommend solutions; possess a strong work ethic and willingness to work beyond regular hours, if necessary; and demonstrate a high level of professional discretion and confidentiality. Ability to interpret and prepare information for analysis activities and communicate findings to management is essential. Knowledge, enthusiasm, and passion for the field of early childhood and ability to establish credibility in the education/human service and university communities. Must follow Board of Regents By-laws and policies and state and federal Law and other rules and regulations.

Technical Skills

This position demands technology proficiency, with a willingness to learn and utilize new technologies relating to (but not limited to) document management, project and portfolio management, and budget tracking. Proficiency in using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is also required.

Problem solving and appropriate decision making are required in every element of this position. Key duties involve independent judgment regarding analysis of issues and actions required to support day-to-day business transactions. Actions are governed by broad objectives, professional ethics, university procedures and/or business acumen

This individual is required to be proficient and conscientious when representing the Buffett Institute and the University. Administrative review is often necessary before information is released by this position, but the responsibility for error-free detail supporting analytical information rests with the employee. A strong sense of the requirements of a stable organization and its long-term needs with the ability to exercise significant initiative and creativity in developing new value-added relationships with the Institute’s stakeholders. This position requires someone who is mission-driven, is deeply committed to the values of the Institute and seeks to advance the Institute and its goals.

Determined over a period of months

Supports and has some accountability in program budget planning.

This position is responsible for leading and directing a body of work for this business unit.

This position will be expected to manage and collaborate with individuals and their projects. Ability to assume authority, advocate new ideas, identify and address obstacles and the judgment to seek supervision and/or input from others when necessary is expected. This position will help build and strengthen relationships with the University of Nebraska campuses and must have the ability to work as a member of a team, as well as independently, in a complex environment, and with respect for confidential and sensitive information. This position also interacts with many external constituencies. The candidate should be an optimistic, positive, resilient, insightful, and performance-driven decision maker, problem solver, and consensus builder.

This position reports to the Director of Educational Practice.

Yes

Managerial/ Professional

This position supervises Early Childhood Specialist positions.

Office

This position may attend meetings and/or conferences off-site and driving to these locations is expected as part of the job.