JACOB NOZAKI

Core day-to-day team member on Social Finance's engagement with the Missouri Children's Trust Fund — the state agency that, as of July 2025, administers the majority of Missouri's evidence-based home visiting funding across Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, and other models reaching thousands of Missouri families.

Co-manage project delivery — workplan, timelines, weekly client check-ins with CTF leadership, and cross-team coordination.

Own the provider survey workstream end-to-end — instrument design, deployment, and analysis in Excel and Stata including crosstabs, multivariable insights, and categorical coding of open-response data. The data presentation contributed directly to a 2026 scope expansion with CTF — new work redesigning CTF's funding system across the full lifespan of funding, from application through procurement, allocation, contracting, monitoring, and renewal.

Co-authored the home visiting vision document. Authored interview guides and an Excel model mapping the state's providers and funding streams. Lead interviewer for provider and stakeholder interviews, and facilitated breakout sessions at the in-person provider convening.

Core team member on Social Finance's ongoing engagement with the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, addressing the barriers and opportunities in attracting, training, retaining, and advancing the state's early childhood education workforce.

Own the data and analysis workstream — modeling Connecticut's ECE workforce and education pipeline across the OEC Professional Registry, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities student and program data, Lightcast labor market data, ACS, and BLS, with analysis in Stata, Census MDAT, and Excel. Drafted FOIA and data requests where datasets were incomplete.

Own the student focus group workstream — design, recruitment, and sole facilitation of a 75-minute focus group with current and former students of Connecticut's Lab Schools Investment Initiative.

Lead interviewer for 10+ stakeholder interviews with practitioners, higher education administrators, and state agency leaders. Regularly present findings to the client, the bi-weekly OEC workgroup, the higher education committee (ECHEC), and the project task force. Authored the data section of the Phase 1 deliverable and the 2025 summary / 2026 vision narrative for the year-end client readout.

Contributed to Social Finance's role as a technical assistance partner to ARPA-H's HEalth care Rewards to Achieve Improved OutcomES (HEROES) program — a federal initiative offering up to $99 million per Health Accelerator in outcomes-based reward payments to community coalitions delivering measurable reductions across four preventable health challenges: severe obstetric complications, cardiovascular disease, opioid overdose, and alcohol-related harms.

In partnership with Third Sector Capital Partners and VentureWell (administrators of the ARPANET-H Investor Catalyst Hub), the team provided one-on-one TA to health care coalitions — groupings of providers, public health agencies, insurers, philanthropies, and community organizations — developing proposals for the program.

Owned the applicant payment calculator — a model that let coalitions stress-test outcomes-based payment scenarios under different program assumptions. Coordinated cross-organization reporting to VentureWell and TA team alignment.

Core team member on Social Finance's engagement with the Texas Workforce Commission, producing practitioner-grounded research and recommendations for TWC's 2026–2028 Child Care Workforce Strategic Plan.

Co-developed the survey instrument and owned its deployment and active management. A 100+ question Qualtrics instrument with advanced branching and custom validation reached a representative sample of Texas child care program directors, producing 1,129 completed responses with ~$50,000 in participant compensation. Tracked response trends to identify under-represented groups and ran 200+ targeted outreach calls to close representativeness gaps.

Co-authored the national literature review on child care workforce trends. Helped facilitate four in-person expert workgroup convenings bringing together state policymakers, advocacy organizations, workforce boards, child care employers, and program staff. Delivered a 40-minute solo synthesis of survey and focus group findings to the multi-stakeholder workgroup.

Co-authored interim reports and the final recommendations that fed into TWC's strategic plan, organized around child care program support, professional development, and pipeline and recruitment.