Community Education Manager

Empowered Parents in Community, EPiC, is a non-profit, 501c3, that aims to cultivate parent leadership and improve family engagement to better support their students’ educational needs. Our mission is to dismantle systemic racial inequities in education. We do this by intentionally engaging Black parents and empowering them through collective organizing to advocate for accountability at all levels to close the educational opportunity gap. 

EPiC is now hiring for a Community Education Manager; please click here to view the full job description.

The Community Education Manager (CEM) will plan, engage, and lead EPiC’s community-based approach of developing educational plans to support parent-led advocacy to ensure equity in identified programs impacting children of color from Early Childcare Education to K-12.  The CEM will seek collaborative networks in alignment with building social capital and advocacy efforts that support systemic change and parental community collectives.

The CEM reports directly to the Executive Director.  The position will work in sync with and supervise the Program Coordinator and independently work to implement and evaluate programming impacts and identify strategies and resources to meet defined program goals and objectives. 

Programming Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, promote, and execute community-based, parent leadership and youth program activities and goals inclusive of:
• Leading families to engage in their educational centers through focus groups/listening sessions, community forums, community-driven planning and coalition building to inform our local, system-change goals to improve educational practices and policies.
• Creating and implementing race equity in education training(s) and leadership training as identified in program needs and data analysis.
• Monitor and support the development and implementation of the EPiC’s theory of change and goals across the EPiC programs; based on evidence-based and promising models and program planning and evaluation process design.
• Analyze research literature/best practices to develop resource and education materials on equity in education for education series with a specific focus on educational disparities, authentic engagement, educational policy, and advocacy.
• Attend community and coalition meetings within the work scope to build collaborative relationships with like-missioned organizations.
• Able to work flexible hours (occasional evenings and weekends).
• Ensure administrative tasks related to projects and program development are completed.