The application deadline is November 30, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific.
Best Starts for Kids is hiring a Youth Well-Being Program Coordinator!
Job Duties
- Participate in planning and program development for the Public Health-Seattle King County Cannabis, Commercial Tobacco, and Vaping Prevention (CCTV) program and the (BSK) Community Well-Being Initiative (CWI) strategies with the respective teams and leads.
- Execute contracts and contract amendments with the support of the program Leads.
- This may include developing templates and workflows, negotiating scopes of work, assisting to develop budgets, helping partners to provide needed documentation for contract execution (e.g., proof of insurance), and helping to ensure contracts are executed in a timely fashion.
- Ensure that contract management is being conducted according to PHSKC and BSK guidelines.
- This can include processing invoices, gathering financial reports, and conducting site visits Assist in the creation, tracking, and improvement of a fiscal monitoring program for contractors, in cooperation with program Leads and the Health Sciences and Best Starts for Kids fiscal teams.
- Assist in creation and maintenance of invoice review and approval processes, including checking invoices for accuracy and appropriate documentation, and approving for payment.
- Provide technical assistance to providers as needed to ensure they are submitting timely invoices and meeting their reporting requirements, including contractor meeting, trainings, and guidance.
- Support internal and external document organization and management via Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, and other platforms as appropriate.
- Support partnerships with the other programs for young people in King County and work to coordinate efforts to maximize resources and results.
- Assist the programs with developing and managing types of solicitations, including Requests for Proposals (RFPs), to meet program goals.
- Support grants program monitoring and evaluation by working with program leads to track, analyze, and report fiscal and program indicators.
- Participate in and support the implementation of CCTV and BSK CWI provider learning circles and convenings.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
Ideal experience:
- Solid understanding of equity and social justice principles and practices, and the effects of place-, race- and policy & systems-based inequities on marginalized communities and populations.
- Two years of recent experience with fiscal contract management or monitoring and/or equivalent education and experience.
- Professional, personal and/or educational experience and interest within mental health, substance use prevention, public health and/or youth development or related fields.
- Experience negotiating terms of contracts or similar formal agreements, and/or equivalent education and experience.
- Demonstrated professional level organizational skills, tracking multiple projects at once, and giving attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement systems for financial and/or information management.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information effectively to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated high-level professional communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to collaborate and build consensus across diverse partners and community members.
- Ability to multi-task and work in stressful situations involving changing deadlines and expectations.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
- Ability to develop formal written reports for professional and community audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with stakeholders.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, including Sharepoint, Excel, Teams and Outlook email or demonstrated ability to learn new software systems and use them for information and document management
- Have the ability to travel around the county in a timely manner.
Desired experience:
- Bi/multilingual
- Awareness and knowledge of resources in King County related to youth mental health, substance use, and/or emotional well-being
Best Starts for Kids
Building on the deep knowledge, connections, and skills within King County communities, and backed by what science and research tells us about human development, the Best Starts for Kids King County initiative meets children and families with the right services at the right time. The first Best Starts for Kids levy, approved by King County voters in 2015, reached 490,000 of King County’s youngest children and their families and 40,000 youth and young adults, catalyzing strong starts in a child’s earliest years, and sustaining those gains through to adulthood. In August 2021, King County voters chose to renew the levy with over 62% approval for another six years. The plan for the second Best Starts for Kids levy will maintain current Best Starts for Kids investments in promotion, prevention, and early intervention, while deepening our investments to address critical needs in our community. View the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan: 2022 – 2027.
