Child Care Associates (CCA), the largest child development nonprofit organization in North Texas, has served nearly 600,000 vulnerable young children and their families since 1968. Regional support for young children has increased over the past 5 years, creating an opportunity to propel CCAs services and the early learning system to new levels of impact and quality. Child Care Associates is a nonprofit of scale in Texas, poised to help build a strong early childhood system, to partner with families and to build an early education infrastructure to help achieve outcomes at scale. CCA is seeking a qualified Compliance Specialist for our Abilene Child Care Services office.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing appropriate monitoring instruments too accurately measure desired variables and/or results.
• Create monitoring schedules to track cases from intake through the payment process. Monitor data integrity throughout the program.
• Analyze compliance with CCMS policies and procedures and provide information for assessing training needs.
• Assist with internal and external audits as required.
• Create and preserve training materials
• Responsible for assisting management personnel with the development of training plans for continued staff development.
• Training new staff and conducting staff updates.
• Monitor activities relating to the operational units of the CCMS program.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in child development or a closely related field OR a high school diploma or equivalent with a minimum of three years work experience in a CCS support position.
• Computer proficiency required
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

*Note: Possession of a Child Development Association Credential may be substituted for one (1) year (30 semester hours) of required college.

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements for this position are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Frequent sitting;
• Repetitive use of hands; reaching and turning;
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds; light lifting of supplies and materials;
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.  

Preferred Skills:

• Bilingual abilities preferred.
• Access to reliable transportation

BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Child Care Associates offers a competitive benefits package that is provided to all fulltime employees that include health, dental and life insurance coverage. Additional voluntary benefits are offered to all fulltime employees in addition to the core benefits package. 

After completing one (1) year of service, the company contributes 4% of the employees earnings to the 403(b) retirement plan. If the employee also elects to make a contribution to the plan, Child Care Associates will match half (50%) of the employees contribution up to 4% of base salary.

Child Care Associates provides other benefits, which are outlined in the Staff Handbook, such as paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).