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Early Childhood Growth Accelerator Administrative & Project Support Coordinator
Hybrid I Contract (September 2026 – January 2027) I $32 – $38/hour, commensurate with experience
Position Type: Independent contractor with an estimated time commitment of 5 – 10 hours per week; potential opportunity to extend for an additional 4 – 6 months.
Westport, CT
Interested? Click HERE to learn more and apply.
NOTE: Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and answers to candidate exploration questions through the Workable online platform. Applications received through other channels will not be reviewed. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Social Impact Partners (SIP) is seeking a reliable, proactive, and highly organized contractor to provide administrative, logistical, and project support for SIP’s Early Child Education Growth Accelerator. This role offers the opportunity to help mission-driven organizations become stronger, more sustainable, and better positioned to serve children and families.
The contractor will help ensure program preparation, cohort sessions, and follow-up activities run smoothly, with a focus on strong execution, organization, and attention to detail.
This is a hands-on role for someone who can work independently, manage multiple priorities, anticipate needs, and provide occasional in-person logistical support.
Connecticut is investing in early childhood education through a historic ECE Endowment and a statewide goal to expand affordable, high-quality child care. Since 2020, SIP has supported this work through partnership with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, contributions to the Blue Ribbon Panel on Child Care, Child Care for CT, and direct support to ECE organizations. This role brings finance and operations expertise to organizations that are essential to Connecticut’s children, families, workforce, and communities.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate program supplies, participant materials, printing, binders, folders, and giveaways.
- Research and coordinate venues, catering, and other session logistics.
- Support volunteer orientation and cohort session preparation.
- Proofread and organize program materials.
- Maintain organized electronic files and upload materials to SharePoint.
- Coordinate with vendors and obtain required documentation, such as Certificates of Insurance.
- Provide occasional local support, including venue visits, food pickup, or transporting materials.
- Support post-program organization, documentation, and wrap-up activities.
- Track expenses and coordinate payments with the Director of Operations.
Ideal Qualifications
- Highly reliable, organized, and detail-oriented.
- Takes initiative and anticipates needs with limited oversight.
- Can manage multiple assignments and shifting priorities effectively.
- Communicates clearly and professionally with staff, vendors, and partners.
- Comfortable conducting research, comparing options, and making practical recommendations.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office and comfortable learning SharePoint.
- Flexible and willing to provide occasional in-person logistical support.
- Experience supporting events, professional learning programs, nonprofit organizations, or project coordination is helpful but not required.
Director, Early Childhood Education Finance, Operations & Growth
Hybrid I Full-time I $135,000 – $150,000
Position Type: Employee or consulting/contractor engagement; structure and level of commitment may be tailored based on the candidate’s experience and availability.
Westport, CT
Interested? Click HERE to learn more and apply.
NOTE: Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and answers to candidate exploration questions through the Workable online platform. Applications received through other channels will not be reviewed. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Social Impact Partners (SIP) seeks a Director, Early Childhood Education Finance, Operations & Growth to work directly with executive directors and senior teams at early childhood education (ECE) programs across Connecticut that participate in SIP’s ECE Growth Accelerator to strengthen financial and operating models and implement priority changes that support growth and the conditions for high-quality early education. The role combines strategic advising with hands-on analysis, helping organizations prioritize opportunities, make sound decisions, and carry out practical solutions through implementation. The Director also identifies recurring field-level challenges and develops practical solutions in partnership with program leaders that can benefit Connecticut’s broader ECE system.
Connecticut is investing in early childhood education through a historic ECE Endowment and a statewide goal to expand affordable, high-quality child care. Since 2020, SIP has supported this work through partnership with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, contributions to the Blue Ribbon Panel on Child Care, Child Care for CT, and direct support to ECE organizations. This role brings finance and operations expertise to organizations that are essential to Connecticut’s children, families, workforce, and communities.
During the first 12–18 months of the role or engagement, the Director will establish an advisory model, complete financial and operational diagnostics, help organizations advance priority implementation goals, and identify at least one cross-organizational pilot, partnership, or funding strategy.
The successful candidate will bring strong finance and operations experience, analytical rigor, curiosity, interpersonal judgment, and a low-ego, partnership-oriented approach. They may come from business, consulting, finance, operations, the nonprofit sector, or across sectors, and will be energized by applying their expertise in a mission-driven context. This role is best suited to someone comfortable moving between executive-level advising and hands-on work, including financial analysis, modeling, tools, research, facilitation, and implementation support.
We welcome candidates from the private, public, or nonprofit sectors who want to apply finance and operations experience to direct, meaningful social impact. This role offers the opportunity to help mission-driven organizations become stronger, more sustainable, and better positioned to serve children and families. Deep ECE experience is not required; curiosity about the sector and the ability to quickly understand the economics of complex, labor-intensive organizations are more important.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Advising and Decision Support
- Build trusted relationships with ECE executive directors, senior teams, finance and operations leaders, and boards; provide clear objectives, practical analysis, candid counsel, and accountability
- Help leaders clarify complex problems, evaluate tradeoffs, pressure-test assumptions, and make strategic decisions about sustainability and growth
Financial and Operational Strategy
- Conduct financial and operational diagnostics across revenue, staffing, utilization, facilities, administrative costs, and other key operating drivers.
- Develop financial models, scenarios, dashboards, decision tools, and recommendations that help leaders and boards assess options and plan for changing funding and operating conditions.
Implementation and Change Management
- Support leaders in moving from analysis to action by advising on implementation plans, risks, resources, stakeholder alignment, progress tracking, and needed adjustments.
- Engage specialized staff, volunteers, or external expertise when additional capacity is needed.
Field Learning and Scalable Solutions
- Identify recurring financial and operational challenges across ECE organizations and develop shared solutions, partnerships, pilots, business cases, or tools in collaboration with providers.
- Translate provider-level insights into practical resources that strengthen future SIP Growth Accelerator cohorts and inform SIP’s broader ECE work.
Director of Major Gifts
Hybrid I Part-time (60%) I $80,000 – $100,000
Westport, CT
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NOTE: Interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and answers to candidate exploration questions through the Workable online platform. Applications received through other channels will not be reviewed. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Social Impact Partners (SIP) seeks a Director of Major Gifts to lead and grow a high-impact major gifts fundraising program including individuals, corporations, and local and national foundation grants at a pivotal moment in the organization’s trajectory. This is an entrepreneurial, senior-level opportunity for a seasoned development leader to secure transformative philanthropic investments that fuel systems-level change across Connecticut.
The Director of Major Gifts will design and execute strategies to identify, cultivate, and solicit high-net-worth individuals and foundations capable of making six- and seven-figure and multi-year commitments. This role is well-suited for a sophisticated relationship builder with a demonstrated ability to close complex gifts, navigate long cultivation cycles, and engage donors around big, bold solutions to entrenched social challenges.
The Director of Major Gifts will not inherit a large major donor portfolio. Instead, they will build one—developing new prospects and activating introductions through SIP’s volunteers, Board, existing donors, and an extensive cross-sector network. The organization’s leadership and Board are deeply committed to expanding SIP’s philanthropic partnerships and will actively support relationship development, donor engagement, and closing gifts.
Success in this role requires someone who thrives in an entrepreneurial growth environment, who is motivated by SIP’s mission, who is energized by prospect development and strategic networking, and who brings both persistence and creativity to relationship building.
Working closely with SIP’s leadership and Board, the Director of Major Gifts will help shape fundraising strategy, activate and steward high-level donor relationships, and develop proposals and donor communications that compellingly articulate SIP’s vision, impact, and path to scale. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable operating strategically and executing tactically—and can confidently serve as a senior ambassador for SIP with philanthropic partners.
Key Responsibilities
Fundraising Strategy & Leadership
- Lead SIP’s major gifts fundraising strategy across individuals, corporations, and local and national foundation grants in partnership with the Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, and Board of Directors
- Increase the number of donors to ensure that SIP has a diversified revenue base
Prospect Identification & Research
- Map and assess the high-net-worth philanthropic landscape in Connecticut.
- Identify national foundations aligned with SIP’s mission and strategy that may support SIP
- Mine SIP’s donor network of supporters, volunteers, and Board members for financial support and for introductions to other potential donors.
- Identify and research potential individual donors.
- Develop and qualify a portfolio of prospective donors capable of giving at the six- and seven-figure level.
Donor Cultivation, Solicitation and Stewardship
- Secure and conduct face-to-face meetings with prospects (80% of time).
- Present the mission, impact and investment case of Social Impact Partners in a strategic, persuasive and compelling manner.
- Strategically move prospects through the donor pipeline toward investment in collaboration with the Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, members of the Board of Directors, and key stakeholder investors.
- Nurture strategic relationships with current donors to encourage renewals and increased support.
Fundraising & Goal Achievement
- Drive toward a target of $15 – $20 million in new funding (over 3 – 5 years)
- Develop and execute customized engagement and solicitation strategies.
- Close six- and seven-figure and multi-year gifts that align donor interests with organizational priorities.
Relationship Management
- Build authentic, trust-based relationships with high-net-worth individuals, families and foundations.
- Serve as the lead external representative of the organization in donor-facing contexts.
- Collaborate with internal teams, board members, and other volunteers to advance fundraising strategies and goals and steward and advance strategic donor partnerships.
- Organize targeted fundraising events to support donor cultivation
- Work with marketing team to develop communications that support fundraising strategies
Reporting and Analysis
- Prepare reports on fundraising performance and donor/foundation cultivation pipeline.
Marketing and Communications Manager
Are you an experienced and versatile marketer/storyteller looking to be part of a dynamic team that is on a mission to be a catalyst for positive social change in Connecticut? We’re looking for a part-time (20 hours a week) Marketing and Communications Manager. This individual will play a critical role building awareness for Social Impact Partners and inspiring engagement among its constituents. Responsibilities will include:
- Develop results-driven marketing and communications plans to promote Social Impact Partners across all relevant media, digital, and social platforms.
- Design engaging content across all channels that enhances the organization’s visibility with consistent branding and messaging.
- Write press releases and pitch media Ongoing management of website, social media, and email marketing (Mailchimp) platforms.
- Develop and manage event promotions, fundraising, and donor engagement campaigns in collaboration with other staff.
- Track, analyze, and report marketing data to inform communications strategies.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is entrepreneurial, collaborative, and passionate about social change.
This position will report directly to Social Impact Partners’ Chief Operating Officer. Please CLICK HERE to learn more and apply.