Technology Leadership Circle

Job Description

Job Description

OVERVIEW

Foster America connects and activates changemakers to challenge injustice in the child welfare system and champion opportunities so every child, family and community thrives.

We do this by…

• Talent : Seeking out and supporting talent — both in and beyond the field — with the determination and imagination to drive transformational change
• Knowledge : Actively listening to and learning with as well as across communities, to build and share knowledge
• Innovation : Imagining and advancing innovative ideas and equitable solutions

Together, we’re expanding resources and bolstering the relationships necessary to achieve systemic change for the well-being of all children and families.

The Technology Leadership Circle is a professional and leadership development fellowship for people who have been personally impacted by the child welfare system. Foster America is seeking 10-15 early-stage adult leaders for this 10-month paid opportunity.

In January 2025, Foster America will expand on the efforts presented at the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, and launch a new national initiative to bring leaders together in a technology focused learning community. We are seeking 12-15 Lived Experts who are interested in designing technologies for a 10-month technology leadership fellowship.

Currently, there is a lack of technology innovation that centers the needs of children and families who are most in need of support. Through the Fostering Futures Forum (FFF) it became apparent that this is not due to lack of interest in the child welfare field nor a lack of innovative ideas. We would like to create a space of both innovation and learning where the ideas presented at the FFF gets closer to becoming a reality. With the help of Technologists with experience in designing and creating tangible technology-based products, we hope to further the innovative work that was presented at the FFF in Spring 2024. This will be the first of what we hope will be many cohorts. In this first cohort, the focus will be on taking ideas brought forward by lived experience experts and further refining them in stages, with the goal of creating clear product designs that the next cohort can build, launch and evaluate.

We are seeking leaders

WHAT

We aim to create a cohort experience where changemakers are empowered to design, research and create new technology solutions to better connect to their community, and promote healing and belonging for those affected by injustice in the child welfare system.

Over the 10-month experience, participants will join virtual programming 2 hours per month at the end of which participants will travel to Boston for an in person convening on September 29th & 30th 2025. All travel expenses will be covered by Foster America.

WHEN

The sessions will take place from 7pm - 9pm ET on the following dates.

Requirements

Be sure to include in your cover letter a description of the project you are working to advance this year as well as any leadership growth goals you may have.