The Opportunity
The Growth Manager will play a key support role in Reach Out and Read’s new Growth Department, working to ensure that every child from birth through five in the U.S. is reached through our model. This position will project manage and provide operational support for new affiliate launches and assist in the growth of existing affiliates experiencing accelerated expansion. Reporting to the Senior Director of Growth, the Growth Manager will collaborate with cross-functional teams and affiliates to help execute Reach Out and Read’s national growth strategy. With an equity-centered approach, the Growth Manager will ensure that all initiatives are implemented in alignment with Reach Out and Read’s national goals of quality, equity, and sustainability while providing regular updates and insights to senior leadership.
Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:
Affiliate Growth and Expansion (45%)
- Project management of new affiliate launches
- Assist in managing the project life cycle for affiliate launches, ensuring timeliness and milestones are met
- Ensure readiness for growth by supporting the implementation of Reach Out and Read’s equity-centered strategy, aligning affiliate launches and expansion efforts with national goals of quality, equity, and sustainability
- Conduct readiness assessments to evaluate the capacity of new affiliates, and provide feedback to senior leaders
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align goals and resources for successful implementation
- Provide operational support for affiliates experiencing accelerated growth and capture challenges to share with senior management
- Assist in identifying barriers to expansion and propose solutions
- Support the development of equity-focused approaches for affiliates in under-resourced communities
Operational Leadership and Capacity Building (30%)
- Track budgets and resource allocation, provide updates to the Senior Director of Growth
- Provide guidance and support to affiliates in establishing operational systems
- Support knowledge-sharing efforts across the affiliate network and ensure affiliate leaders have access to tools and resources needed for growth while reporting any gaps to senior management
- Support leadership development initiatives by coordinating training and development programs for affiliate directors and teams
Partnerships, Metrics, and Stakeholder Engagement (25%)
- Support the building of local partnerships with community organizations, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders
- Coordinate collaboration efforts between affiliates and national departments
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide regular reports to senior leadership on child reach, saturation, and quality
- Ensure affiliates have access to data systems and assist with data collection
- Use data insights to provide recommendations to leadership on adjusting strategies
Qualifications and Experience:
There are innumerable ways to learn, grow, and excel professionally. We respect this when we review applications and take a broad look at the experience of each applicant. We want to get to know you and the unique strengths you will bring to the work. We’ll honor your lived and professional experience as key aspects of your candidacy for the role and prioritize applicants with experience dismantling the structural inequities that disproportionately impact children and families with traditionally marginalized identities. We are most likely to be interested in your candidacy if you can demonstrate many of the qualifications and experiences listed below:
- Commitment to increasing equity in opportunity and outcomes for children and to recognizing factors known to significantly impact differential outcomes for children, including race, ethnicity, language, and socio-economic status
- 5+ years of project management experience in progressive nonprofit, for-profit start-up operations, leadership development, or systems development, with a strong focus on managing multi-faceted projects in complex environments.
- Proven track record in successfully managing and implementing strategic initiatives, with a demonstrated ability to balance efficiency with equity in growth and systems-building efforts.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of work, especially in working with under-resourced communities.
- Advanced knowledge of program management software to streamline project processes and enhance collaboration
- Strong project management skills with an emphasis on delivering high-quality results while managing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Experience in strategy implementation, supporting leadership in translating strategic goals into operational plans.
Position Specifications
This is a full-time, exempt position. The Growth Manager may work from a home-based office. Regular national travel, up to 25%, and attendance at one to two meetings per year is required.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000-$75,000, commensurate with experience. Reach Out and Read offers a robust benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with match, paid time off, and more.
Commitment to Diversity
Reach Out and Read is committed to building an organization that embraces diversity, pursues equity, and fosters an environment of inclusion. Reach Out and Read sits at the intersection of health and education, uniquely positioned to play a critical role in addressing systemic disparities and inequities in the public health framework. Reach Out and Read strives to be an antiracist organization, using its influence to fight against social injustice by supporting a culture of learning, empowerment, equity, and a deep appreciation for the unique experiences that we each bring to our communities. And we believe that changing the world begins with holding ourselves and our workplace to that same standard.
About Reach Out and Read
Founded in 1989, Reach Out and Read is a national non-profit organization working to ensure all families have the opportunity to create meaningful everyday moments through shared reading aloud and building relationships. By leveraging pediatric care to champion the positive effects of reading daily and distributing books, Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success and reaches 4.4 million children across the county – half of whom identify as BIPOC and two thirds of whom come from low-income families.
Reach Out and Read’s tens of thousands of trained pediatric providers use books as a diagnostic tool during regular check-ups and teach parents how to engage their child with a book to promote positive parent-child interactions during the rapid brain growth between birth and age five. The daily practice of reading aloud with a parent supports children’s literacy and math skill development, their social-emotional development, and prepares them for future success in school. Working together with our sites and providers, we leverage our three decades of expertise, build on our literacy foundations, and engage our shared networks as a catalyst for change, focusing on equitably strengthening and deepening our impact on the children, families, and communities we serve.
The Impact:
- Reach Out and Read program sites are located in 6,200 clinics, safety net hospitals, medical systems, and other healthcare settings in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- Reach Out and Read serves 4.4 million children and their families annually.
- More than 7.1 million new, developmentally appropriate books are integrated into well child visits with families annually.
- 36,000 clinicians currently participate in Reach Out and Read.
- Our peer-reviewed body of evidence demonstrates that Reach Out and Read parents are two-and-a-half times more likely to read regularly to their children, and that children experiencing Reach Out and Read show enhanced language development.
To learn more about Reach Out and Read, visit www.reachoutandread.org.
Reach Out and Read is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Reach Out and Read is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, cultural heritage, ancestry, political belief, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability or veteran status. Reach Out and Read is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and we are committed to making special accommodations for your interview or work as a member of our team. If specific accommodations are needed, please email HR @ reachoutandread.org and our HR team will work to accommodate your needs.