Description

Job Summary:

The Education Coordinator collaborates with the Director of Education and Inclusion to ensure full implementation of all aspects of AVANCEs early learning system, policies/procedures, and tools, with the goal of ensuring high-quality Early Childhood education services are provided to program participants and Family Child Care providers. This is a fantastic opportunity for an educational leader to play a key role in leading programs that have tremendous impact on families and children.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

The Education Coordinator systematically collects and analyzes data as the basis for decision making for program improvement to accomplish the following.

• Provides individual and group support for education team in implementing educational initiatives and coaching.
• Supervises and coaches the Early Learning Leaders and Education Coaches including home educators and early childhood aides, who support childcare partners.
• Plans and implements comprehensive, differentiated and sequential professional development for education staff.
• Collaborates and coordinates with other service area leadership and initiatives to ensure:

• Timely and appropriate support for children with specific needs
• Parent education and outreach activities are consistent with education goals and activities

• Consistently contributes to region, network and professional excellence through productive leadership and participation in:

• Regional planning and leadership (1:1 with DOEI, policy council relations, leadership team meetings)
• Participates in AVANCEs network leadership and collaboration meetings
• Tracks, monitors and ensures all Education and Disabilities/Mental Health Roadmap milestones are achieved and Transition Rubric benchmarks are met
• External community relationships (LEAs, ISDs, higher education, NHSA, state agencies, policymakers)

• Ensures fiscal management by monitoring educational expenditures.
• Communicates with leadership on programmatic status, updates and any concerns regarding the classroom staff or facilities.
• Provide training to staff on education models and practices.
• Participates in assigned meetings, events and training as required

Supervision

• Supervises assigned department personnel. Includes the following responsibilities, but are not limited to: hiring, training, scheduling, evaluating, and ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and the completion of all work performed by direct reports.
• Plans and oversees on-boarding of Education team.
• Educates direct reports on all department and agency policies and procedures.
• Meets with assigned staff at least monthly to identify and resolve problems, manage projects, track goals, and review work processes and procedures.
• Represents the team and/or department at meetings, events, and training as required.

Non-Essential Duties:

• Performs any and all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Job Specifications:

Requirements:

1. Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood Education OR Bachelors degree in related field with at least six (6) courses in early childhood education and experience teaching preschool-aged children OR state awarded preschool teaching certification with experience teaching preschool-aged children; Masters degree preferred
2. 3-5 years experience supervising and coaching teachers and education leaders; experience with early childhood education and special education strongly preferred
3. Prior Early Head Start experience highly preferred
4. Experience with infant/toddler curricula, ongoing assessment systems. Reliable in CLASS, ITERS-R, and ECERS-R
5. Physical exam and background checks are required for this position.
6. Travel required locally or long-distance up to 10% of the time for work-related meetings and functions.
7. Must have a valid drivers license and reliable transportation.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Ability to interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated computer literacy skills, using MS Office applications and other basic data systems including internet navigation.
• Must be honest, dependable and able to meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.

• Ability to engage in repetitive movement of wrists, hands, and fingers typing and/or writing.