Bilingual Community Outreach Specialist (Spanish)

Essential Qualities

The Community Outreach Specialist at Tulsa Educare Early Learning Works (ELW) is an integral part of the organization, mobilizing resources and engaging with child care providers, parents, and community organizations. Essential qualities include:

• Ability to quickly adapt to changes, demands, and initiatives
• Driven to work collaboratively with a diverse community and a team of professionals
• Comfortable working with diverse audiences
• Willing to offer support and receive constructive feedback
• Self-motivated, dependable, and physically able to perform tasks in various environments
• Commitment to providing outstanding customer service
• Strong bilingual oral and written communications skills (Spanish-English)

Responsibilities

The Community Outreach Specialist is responsible for:

• Planning, coordinating, and delivering community-based programs and resources that support parents, caregivers, and others who influence the lives of young children.
• Engaging diverse communities through culturally responsive outreach, strategic partnerships, and community engagement to increase participation in ELW programs.
• Executing the Early Learning Works community engagement framework by identifying, recruiting, and engaging families, caregivers, and community organizations through outreach, presentations, referrals, and relationship-building.
• Serving as an ambassador for ELW by promoting services, increasing community awareness, and connecting families with appropriate resources and programming.
• Developing, cultivating, and maintaining strategic partnerships with community organizations, schools, faith-based organizations, healthcare providers, businesses, and family-serving agencies to expand programming opportunities and sustain a pipeline of future collaborations.
• Collaborating with internal departments and external partners to support program planning, implementation, referrals, and continuous community engagement.
• Completing required training and certification in assigned Early Learning Works curricula and evidence-based programs.
• Facilitating programs including Active Parenting, Talking is Teaching, Family, Friends and Neighbors (FFN), Lunch & Learns, workshops, trainings, coaching sessions, and other educational opportunities for families, staff, and community partners.
• Delivering engaging, culturally responsive learning experiences that support positive parenting practices and children's healthy development.
• Planning, coordinating, and managing multiple programs, outreach initiatives, community events, and partnerships by overseeing logistics, scheduling, staffing, communication, participant engagement, and implementation.
• Maintaining accurate documentation of outreach activities, partnerships, recruitment efforts, program outcomes, and required reports within designated tracking systems.
• Participating in team meetings, consultation meetings, professional development, and other organizational initiatives that support ELW's mission and strategic goals.
• Demonstrating professionalism, collaboration, flexibility, and accountability while representing ELW in the community.
• Performing other duties as assigned in support of departmental and organizational priorities.

Knowledge and Skills

The ideal candidate must have:

• Strong knowledge and experience in early childhood education
• Experience in working with children and families in either an education or social services setting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the community and internal ELW team
• Collaboration and team-building skills
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of extremely sensitive data, records, files, conversations, etc.
• Possess MS office skills, database software skills, organizational skills, efficiency skills, and excellent attention to detail with a demonstrated commitment to completing assignments on a timely basis
• A results-oriented mindset, self-motivation, strong project management, systems development, and planning skills, and a demonstrated ability to make decisions
• Adherence to Tulsa Educare core values: Learning, Relationships, Commitment, and Data

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Child Development, Early Childhood, Families Studies, Social Science, Social Work, Nursing, or related field
• Relevant experience working with children and families in either an education or social services setting
• Bilingual proficiency in Spanish/English is required
• Maintain a flexible work schedule to support ELW programming, outreach activities, community events, and partner engagements, including evenings and weekends