About the Role
El Buen seeks a Partner Site Coordinator – OST Partners to lead implementation support for Out of School Time (OST) partnerships through the Academic Center of Excellence (ACE). This role ensures high-quality, culturally grounded, bilingual, and data-informed OST programming across partner sites that support academic growth, social-emotional development, leadership, and connected pathways for middle and high school youth.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate implementation support for ACE OST partner sites across afterschool, summer, school breaks, and other approved access points, ensuring alignment with ACE expectations and approved workplans.
- Reinforce daily operational readiness, including schedules, staffing coverage, youth supervision, session flow, materials, and implementation routines, and help sites resolve barriers.
- Monitor attendance and dosage practices that sustain participation, including re-engagement routines, family follow-up, and barrier-solving.
- Guide sites through launch periods, seasonal transitions, and other implementation shifts so programming remains stable, coordinated, and responsive to participant needs.
- Observe program flow and participant experience in real time, identify breakdowns or inconsistencies, and support site staff in making timely operational adjustments.
- Troubleshoot site-level challenges with a solutions-oriented approach, resolving issues directly when appropriate and escalating higher-risk concerns.
- Lead observation and coaching cycles with partner site leads and frontline staff, providing timely feedback and supporting staff goal-setting.
- Reinforce fidelity to ACE Program Protocols, streamlined OST standards, required tools, and culturally sustaining practices.
- Strengthen site staff capacity to deliver high-quality, culturally grounded, bilingual programming that promotes belonging, safety, positive youth development, and strong academic and social-emotional engagement.
- Support consistent use of structured session plans, quality expectations, youth experience checks, and coaching follow-up.
- Monitor alignment between services delivered, documentation completed, and data entered, and provide targeted coaching and corrective support.
- Ensure accurate, timely site-level documentation in Apricot and related systems, including attendance, dosage, services delivered, referrals, and other required implementation records.
- Support data quality through routine validation and corrective action.
- Partner with leadership and the Data Analyst to ensure data collection and reporting are complete and on time.
- Contribute to dashboards, partner scorecards, monitoring tools, and reporting readiness.
- Review site-level program data to identify trends in attendance, engagement, fidelity, and implementation quality and use findings to inform coaching, problem-solving, and improvement actions.
- Support site-level preparation for performance reviews, monitoring visits, and audit readiness activities.
- Document recurring challenges and contribute to identification of systemic issues that should inform CQI priorities, technical assistance plans, and leadership decision-making.
- Maintain strong relationships with OST partners, schools, and community-based sites, coordinating communication and collaboration.
- Strengthen site-level family engagement by reinforcing bilingual, culturally grounded communication practices and follow-up routines.
- Maintain ongoing coordination with the Puentes y Futuros Manager to support pathway continuity, participant progression, and smooth transitions.
- Support cross-site referral and navigation practices, ensuring that referral processes are documented accurately, follow-through occurs, and participants are connected to the services most appropriate to their needs.
- Participate in cross-department initiatives, organizational committees, strategic planning, partner convenings, and special events.
- Support El Buen’s emergency-response efforts by assisting with implementation coordination, documentation, and reporting during community crises.
- Perform additional duties as assigned, including substituting within the ACE program.
- Participate in emergency response operations as needed to address community disasters.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Youth Development, Social Work, or a related field required (Master’s preferred).
- Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of experience in youth development, OST programming, education, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience supporting multi-site or multi-partner program implementation.
- Strong knowledge of bilingual practices and youth development approaches for Latino and immigrant communities.
- Data literacy and experience using program data systems (Apricot or comparable) for documentation, reporting, and improvement.
- Strong program coordination skills, including planning, implementation follow-through, communication, and operational troubleshooting.
- Effective coaching and relationship management skills; ability to strengthen staff practice through feedback, modeling, and follow-up.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills with staff, partners, families, and community stakeholders; bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred.
- Ability to analyze implementation and participation data, identify trends, and translate findings into site-level improvement actions.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and data systems.
- Ability to work across internal teams, including ongoing coordination with the Puentes y Futuros Manager, to support pathway continuity and participant progression.
- Experience working within coordinated or collective impact models involving multiple partner organizations.
- Familiarity with Travis County OST requirements, quality frameworks such as YPQA, or similar OST quality and compliance structures.
- Experience supporting monitoring visits, site reviews, or audit preparation processes.
- Experience working in culturally responsive, community-based education environments.
- Experience supporting family engagement, referral coordination, and participant retention strategies across OST settings.
- Safeguarding certification is required.
- Criminal background check will be conducted on all final candidates.
Skills
- Program coordination
- Implementation follow-through
- Communication
- Operational troubleshooting
- Coaching
- Relationship management
- Facilitation
- Data analysis
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Data systems proficiency
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
Location
- Central Texas
- El Buen headquarters
Work Type
- Full-time
- Exempt
- Hybrid
- Remote (one day per week after probationary period)
Experience Level
- 3-5 years of experience in youth development, OST programming, education, or a related field
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Youth Development, Social Work, or a related field
- Master's degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $55,000 - $60,000
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 403(b)-retirement plan with immediate eligibility
- Employer match on 403(b) contributions up to 4%
- 5% employer retirement contribution
- Employer paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Professional Development Opportunities
- 7 paid holidays
- Thanksgiving Week (including rest days)
- Winter Break (including rest days) in December (up to 10 days) through New Year’s Day
- 80 hours annual vacation time
- 12 days per year sick leave
About the Company
- For more than 35 years, El Buen Samaritano (El Buen) has been a trusted community resource for Latino and immigrant families in Central Texas.
- Through culturally responsive food access, health literacy, and education programs, El Buen serves more than 30,000 individuals annually.
- The organization is recognized as both a direct service provider and a systems leader, working collaboratively to build equitable pathways to health, education, and economic stability.
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with the ADA to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
