TAEM Director of Partnerships and Process

Job Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• The leadership of TAEM partners
• Serves as lead contact for TAEM partners related to issues that are not addressed by or through other TAEM teams or positions, providing warm hand-offs to TAEM staff as needed and ensuring that requests are worked to the solution.
• Leads efforts to maximize partner staff’s efficacy, collaboration, learning, growth, and celebration (onboarding new partners, leading the development of or improvement of strategies / processes / tools, deploying strategies / processes / tools, etc.).
• Odds and ends that are essential to support partners.
• Supports the success of TAEM Senior Managers and other TAEM staff through communication and coordination.
• Leads agenda creation, facilitation, and follow-up for TAEM’s Leadership Team meetings, TAEM Team Share meetings, and People & Process meetings.
• Leads TAEM’s continuous improvement process, People & Process, ensuring that any challenges and opportunities that surfaced by staff and have not been solved / addressed in TAEM learning and leadership spaces (communities of practice, working groups, Steering Committee, Caregiver Advisory Committee, ad-hoc feedback, etc.

or TAEM teams, are worked to solution / addressed in Leadership Team, and then People & Process if needed and documented in ongoing Improvement Reports.

Represent TAEM at meetings that are essential to the success of TAEM’s pilot (e.g. planning meetings with facilitation partners, county-level working groups, meetings with researchers, meetings with the state) and continued shared learning (e.

g. meeting with other pilots, Beyond the Cliff collaborative meetings).

• Engages in cross-team projects as relevant and supports their successful completion.
• Develops and sends partner communications and meeting invites as requested by TAEM’s leadership, the TAEM Leadership Team, other TAEM staff, and facilitation partners.
• Support TAEM’s compliance with TDHS requirements (e.g. prior authorizations, audit).
• Leads planning and coordination for TAEM team development (i.e. retreats and professional development), team celebrations, and individual team member celebrations.
• Assumes any recurring responsibilities of TAEM’s leadership when they are out of office due to work-related travel or otherwise and also serves as the lead contact for TAEM during that time.

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities Required :

• Ability to lead people and teams through a collaborative leadership style (including meeting preparation, facilitation, and follow-up).
• Ability to center people before process, equity, asset-based approaches, continuous learning, growth, celebration, and embracing change.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, including comfort in managing conflict.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; adept at communicating complex ideas and presenting to groups.
• Strong process management skills (e.g. continuous improvement).
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong organizational skills including time management (e.g. using time effectively and consistently meeting deadlines).
• Capacity to focus on details and the big picture and sustain motivation toward goals.
• Exercises good and consistently fair judgment, courtesy, and tact in dealing with the staff and public in giving and obtaining information.
• Comfort with project and team management tools (e.g. Basecamp, Microsoft Teams).

Experience Preferred :

• Experience managing partnerships (ideally 3-5 years)
• Experiencing managing continuous improvement processes (ideally 3-5 years)

Personal Qualities :

• Person-centered
• Collaborative
• Responsible
• Strategic
• Self-directed

Travel and any other special conditions or requirements :

County / regional travel required with mileage reimbursement

This position is expected to start mid- to late-May, 2024.