Tien Ung

• Design, implement, and continuously improve Children Team's knowledge management and evidence building infrastructure, systems, and practices;
• Work with internal and external partners to center lived experience and integrate current trauma and resilience science and research into actionable insights for domestic violence prevention, practice, program, and policy innovation;
• Design, implement, and cultivate environments, strategies, resources, and activities to discover and proliferate innovative culturally authentic and responsive knowledge to address impacts of violence on children and families and promote healing and resilience;
• Mobilize internal leadership for knowledge management as well as team and organizational learning;
• Leverage human centered design methods and 21st Century science to develop face to face and virtual programming aimed at advancing equity focused, healing centered, resilience driven, and culturally meaningful domestic violence prevention, practice, program, and policy innovation;
• Collaborate with senior leadership to set strategic direction and priorities for Children's Team ensuring effective alignment with organization wide priorities;
• Leads planning of national meetings and convenings, advisory boards, and working groups related to advancing care and systems change for children, youth and their families and communities;
• Cultivates and maintains funder relationships, in collaboration with the Director and President; leads translation of lessons learned into actionable and fundable proposals and strategies.
  

• Established strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders for collaborative problemsolving.
• Managed cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional program outcomes within budget and time constraints.
• Developed high-impact programs for optimal results, focusing on strategic planning and execution.
• Designed customized training to enhance staff knowledge and skills in applying science of resilience and trauma
• Collaborated closely with executive leadership to develop strategic plans for long-term growth.
• Mentored team members for professional development, resulting in increased productivity and job satisfaction.
• Collaborated with various teams to uncover issues, identify applicable solutions, and offer guidance.
• Led, developed, and established team's north star, bridged the vision to specific and measurable outcomes, and aligned it with organization's overall mission.

Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Transform Center's leadership portfolio into revenue generating stream; sourced and secured $1,170,000.00 for the portfolio in first 18 months of employment;
• Grew Center's partnerships with public sector, non-profits, and system leaders to co-create authentic "bench to practice" knowledge transfer for explicit purpose of guiding program improvements, achieving system impact and advancing service to trauma saturated communities and trauma impacted children and families during early childhood;
• Created, implemented, and managed skills-focused, evidence informed leadership programs ensuring alignment with mission to drive science based innovation to improve lives of children facing adversity;
• Built capacity of leaders across diverse settings to apply science of adversity and resilience, sustain innovation mindset, successfully lead adaptive change, and promote knowledge transfer strategies that strengthens impact and advances system change efforts;
• Lead all aspects of impact measurement, program or initiative design and execution, grant related project management, and strategic planning related to field building and leadership development;
• Led team responsible for Center wide learning and knowledge management, to include developing operational infrastructure and systems for measuring, learning, and evaluating impact across range of portfolios and key indicators;
• Designed, prototyped, piloted, scaled, and sustained knowledge engineering strategies and practices across Center;
• Teamed with other Directors at Center to align impact and change agendas, ensure efficiency, reduce redundancy, promote collaboration and increase successful cross-functional learning/teaming.

• 2006 - 2019 Senior Faculty, Post Graduate Trauma Certificate Program
• 2013 - 2015 Director, Urban Leadership Program
• 2009 - 2012 Chair, Child and Family Specialty
• 2005 - 2015 Assistant Professor

• 1999 - 2002 Investigation & Assessment Supervisor
• 1999 - 2002 Child Abuse Hotline Supervisor
• 1993 - 1999 Child Protection Worker
• 1994 - 1999 Child Abuse Hotline Investigator