Description

Job Title : Child Care Licensor (SHPC2)

Location : Tacoma, WA Flexible / Hybrid Although the position involves working in an office, there will be required visits where work will be conducted remotely at the various child care facilities.

Closes : Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Salary : $ 4,968 - $ 6,676 Monthly

We are seeking a Child Care Licensor (Social and Health Program Consultant 2) to join our team of licensors in our Tacoma office.

The ideal candidate will possess a history of effective communication and collaborative skills when communicating with peers, clients, and the public in regards to child care. Apply today.

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The Opportunity :

As a Child Care Licensor, you will function as a licensor for child care and early learning services. You will be responsible for administering uniform procedures in accordance with RCWs, WACs, and policies for recruitment, development, licensing, technical assistance, monitoring, complaint inspections, and legal activities for all required child care and early learning environments.

This includes, but is not limited to, Child Care Center, School Age, and Family Home Child Care programs.

Some of what you'll do :

• Conduct initial and annual evaluations of required child care and early learning environments.
• Assess childcare facilities, childcare activities, and equipment to ensure the environment is safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate.
• Verify care licensing qualifications in MERIT for applicants, licensees, family members, and staff for all required early learning providers.
• Provide ongoing technical assistance to early learning providers.
• Establish and / or maintain a file for each required early learning provider in accordance with DCYF agency-specific schedule and DCYF Child Care policies and procedures.
• Complete licensing complaints in accordance with DCYF Child Care policies and procedures and document in the licensing management system activities related to the complaint in accordance with DCYF Child Care policies and procedures.
• Initiate adverse actions, when necessary, in consultation with the Child Care Licensing Supervisor.
• Provide information on becoming licensed, including licensing orientation; Early Achievers program requirements, enrollment, training, resources, and support services.

Required Qualifications :

• A Bachelor's degree in early childhood education, social work, health or social science, public administration, or a related field.
• A Master's degree or higher in early childhood education, social work, health or social science, public administration, or a related field.
• Two (2) years of professional experience in planning, administering, developing, or delivering social, financial, health, or chemical dependency treatment services programs.
• One (1) year of experience AS A Social and Health Program Consultant 1.

Note(s) :

College-level course work may substitute for degree type if 30 semester or 45 quarter credits are in social services or child development disciplines.

Above experience may also include the following :

• Professional level child care licensing or early childhood education in a licensed childcare setting, or formal early childhood setting.
• Experience in child care compiling and evaluating facts to recommend for management action or decide compliance with program guidelines and regulations.

A degree in Social Work must be from an educational program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

Degree must be obtained from an accredited college or university whose accreditation is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), or foreign equivalent verified by a NACES-approved organization at naces.org.

Foreign Equivalency certification must be attached to the application for degrees obtained outside the U.S. Incomplete applications may be screened out of the recruitment process. *

In addition to those required qualifications, our ideal applicant will also have some or all of the following :

• Experience in monitoring or overseeing licensed child care, Head Start or ECEAP performance standards.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles of child development; risk assessment and decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to research and apply law and regulations.
• Demonstrated interviewing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to serve the role of expert representative in both court proceedings and multi-disciplinary team service delivery.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current literature on early care and education practices as well as concepts of community organization as applied to the development of community resources.
• Demonstrated ability to deduce potential impacts of conditions or assess risk.
• Demonstrated skills in Microsoft Office products and the use of mobile computing devices.

Last updated : 2024-05-01