Early Matters Dallas Associate
Under the general supervision of the Managing Director of Early Matters Dallas (EMD), the Early Matters Dallas Associate will be responsible for supporting and collaborating with the Early Matters Dallas team to implement innovative and high-impact strategies aimed at improving early childhood outcomes in Dallas County.
In this role, the focus will be on fostering collaboration and providing support to internal and external stakeholders through strategic communication and intentional stakeholder engagement. The Early Matters Dallas Associate will provide support for both logistical and programmatic needs across the Early Matters Dallas team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Communication and Stakeholder Engagement
- Support the planning and coordination of regular meetings with external partners and stakeholders, including communications, logistical support, and on-site management.
- Prepare meeting registration, notifications, and event-related materials.
- Support maintenance of communication channels, including social media platforms, quarterly newsletters, email list servs, and other correspondence, to ensure timely and effective communication within the team and with external stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Early Matters Dallas team to maintain a CRM system with accurate and up-to-date stakeholder information and communication records.
- Execute engagement strategy to promote stakeholder involvement and support of Early Matters Dallas initiatives.
- Use data to measure the success of engagement strategy and inform stakeholders of the impact of our initiatives.
Project Management and Administrative Support
- Support maintenance and project management of team project plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and timelines.
- Provide support for miscellaneous project needs, such as research, documentation, and coordination of activities.
- Manage internal file systems and organize project-related documents for easy access and retrieval.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Skills Required (Minimum):
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong proofreading and editing skills.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Proven record of organization and professional success
- Strong project management skills with demonstrated experience in supporting the planning, and execution of projects from conception to completion.
- A self-starter who manages multiple deadlines and communicates up, down, and across the team to ensure goals stay on track.
- Desire to continuously incorporate feedback from the team and work with urgency, humility, and competing priorities; true team player.
- Strong proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
- Ability to travel within the DFW metroplex for in-person meetings occasionally
- Valid state-issued driver’s license.
Education and/or Experience Required (Minimum):
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- Three to four years of relevant experience is required, with a preference for candidates who have experience in education or education-adjacent sectors.
Preferred:
- Experience with project management tools such as Teamwork, Asana, or Monday, including task delegation, timeline management, and progress tracking.
- Experience in social media management, including content creation, scheduling, and analytics across various platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn).
Language Skills:
- Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
- Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
- Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment, and matters in areas of immediate need.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to read and write in standard English.
- Ability to build strong relationships and manage stakeholders
- Ability to manage time effectively
- Ability to work proactively with a sense of urgency
- Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
- Ability to create copy and use technical communication tools
- Ability to support the management of projects across multiple workstreams
About The Commit Partnership:
Our Mission
We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.
To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Our Story
Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.
True North Traits
Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.
Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.
Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.
Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.
Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.
Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.
Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.
Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.