Description

Position Summary:

The enrollment specialist (ES) is responsible for the recruitment and enrollment, and ensuring children and families integrate into the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center (ELC). The ES is responsible for the tracking of the on-site Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Colorado Child Care Assistance Program (CCCAP). This position will manage all children's health statuses and files to ensure licensure compliance. The ES will work closely with the operations & finance team around ELC parent tuition and ELC finance processes.
Looking to hire in July for an August 19th first day of school.

What you will be doing:

• Responsible for recruitment and enrollment of children in the ELC
• Facilitate the initial enrollment of children in the ELC by handling inquiries, providing information, giving tours, processing initial applications and completing all required enrollment forms
• In partnership with the business manager, ensure tuition payments are received from staff and teen moms (CCCAP parent portion), as well as other funding streams accepted by the ELC to include summer camp, and private pay for children of HHC staff
• Coordinate family resources, engagement and learning opportunities at the ELC; and ensure quality as outlined in Colorado Shines
• Maintain each student file and ensure that health records are up-to-date
• Work with business manager to ensure county CCCAP financial agreements are kept up to date
• Ensure all children are signed in and out in Early Learning Ventures each day, track late arrivals/early pickups, ensure parents enter any missed punches within 48 hours
• Responsible for maintaining compliance with CACFP administrative requirements
• Work with kitchen manager to maintain compliance with CACFP
• Collect, maintain and ensure accuracy of weekly ROMS from classroom teachers and weekly/monthly menus from kitchen manager
• Promoting Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships

We want to hear from you if …

• You have experience in early childhood setting serving infants, toddlers and/or preschoolers (required)
• You are familiar with ELC licensing regulations (preferred)
• You are Large Center Director Qualification (preferred) or willing to work toward obtaining
• You have experience or knowledge with the CACFP and CCCAP (preferred)
• You have previous professional financial experience to include managing accounts payable and receivable (preferred)

Who we are:

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor and even a little bit of silliness each day!

Hope House Early Learning Center Educational Philosophy:

In support of our mission and vision, the Hope House Early Learning Center believes all children are a gift from God and are created in His image. This belief is at the heart of our philosophy and desire to nurture the whole child in a play-based learning environment that is a fun, engaging, and nurturing place of belonging for children of Hope House teen moms and staff, ranging in ages from 6 weeks to 5 years old. We believe that learning is best supported when built on a strong social-emotional foundation in an environment where children feel seen, heard, loved, and valued and ultimately free to be who God created them to be. We believe in a family centered approach, working in partnership with families to help children build a strong, secure, social-emotional foundation allowing them to realize their full potential.
Salary Range:

$44,000 - $52,000

Benefits:

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 24 hours per week or more are eligible for the below benefits

• Health Benefits: Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA: Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee’s annual salary.
• Vacation: Upon hire, employees earn 4.62 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays: HHC observes twelve (12) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees are paid for these holidays according to the nationally recognized observation day for each holiday. In addition, salaried employees are currently gifted the week of Christmas off, to be scheduled at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Sick Leave: HHC provides eligible employees with Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) and Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) in accordance with the requirements of Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA).
• Mental Health Days: Employees are given two (2) mental health days per year to use at their discretion. 
• Employer Based Childcare: Full-time (40-hours per week or more) Hope House Colorado employees are eligible to enroll their children in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center. Exceptions may be considered for part-time staff and part-time childcare needs on a case-by-case basis.
• Hope House Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! HHC provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness

Job Application Deadline:

June 7, 2024