RISE Project Coordinator

What You’ll Be Doing

You will coordinate implementation activities for the Rhode Island Systems for Equity (RISE) initiative, a statewide project led by agency in coordination with DCYF and community partners to strengthen prevention, reentry, and community-based support for youth and families. The Project Coordinator will support project operations, facilitate communication among partners, assist with data collection and reporting, and help ensure community voice and equity remain central throughout the initiative. You will also be responsible for linking lived experience to legislative efforts and coordination with government partners.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

• While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
• Coordinate and monitor day-to-day activities of the project under the supervision of the Program Director.
• Support implementation of goals and deliverables including convening the Youth & Family Task Force and Provider & Workforce Advisory Group.
• Assist with hiring, training, and onboarding an additional Community Resource Specialist.
• Facilitate meeting logistics, prepare agendas, record minutes, and track follow-up actions.
• Support data collection, documentation, and reporting in partnership with Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.
• Serve as a communication liaison between Child & Family, DCYF, and other collaborating partners.
• Promote community engagement and ensure that activities reflect the needs of youth and families across Rhode Island.
• Track grant milestones and support submission of progress reports and sustainability documentation.
• Manage shared calendars, coordinate outreach materials, and assist with social media and communications.
  
  

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required; CHW certification preferred.
• Lived and professional experience related to the position required; minimum of 2 years of outreach and coordination experience preferred.
• Excellent organizational, project management, and time-management skills.
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to engage respectfully and effectively with diverse populations, including youth and families with lived experience.
• Basic data management and reporting experience; proficiency in Microsoft Office 365.
• Understanding of trauma-informed and equity-centered practices.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Statewide travel is required.
• Must have valid driver's license, auto insurance and car registration.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
  
  

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

Requirements

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
  
  

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.