Kansas Children's Service League (KCSL) in Liberal, KS is actively seeking a full-time bilingual Parent & Child Educator for Early Head Start. Are you interested in starting a career in early childhood education or social services? Would you like to work with a nonprofit that helps prevent abuse and create stronger families? If yes, keep reading!

This entry-level Parent & Child Educator / Early Head Start position earns up to $16.50/hr. We also provide great benefits and perks, including health insurance, paid time off (PTO), and sick leave. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you to start your career in early childhood education or social services with a great nonprofit, apply today!

ABOUT KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE (KCSL)

Our mission is to protect and promote the well-being of children. We work with children and their families to help them succeed and break neglect, abuse, and trauma cycles. We do this through health, safety, and educational outreach. Our programs help children and parents develop successful skills in their families, schools, and workplaces. We work to create and restore healthy parent-child relationships and pledge to serve through advocacy and community engagement. Stronger families start here!

We treat customers, partners, and each other with respect as well as work to always build positive working relationships. Quality, competence, and courageous service are important in all we do. Our employees live up to these values and are key to our mission. For our amazing team, we offer a comprehensive full-time benefits package, rewarding work, and opportunities for growth and advancement!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ENTRY-LEVEL BILINGUAL PARENT & CHILD EDUCATOR / EARLY HEAD START

As a Parent & Child Educator for our Early Head Start Home Base program, you provide services to a caseload of children and their families. Through weekly home visits, you promote the continued involvement of parents in their children's education. You provide guidance, support, and services to help the child and parent better function both individually and within their family unit. It is also your responsibility to coordinate any required program services and ensure compliance with any Health and Family Services mandates. You work with families to identify and continually access the services and resources available to them in the community. Highly communicative, you touch base regularly with both your supervisor and your families.

You also conduct 2-hour socialization events twice per week and parent meetings 12 times per year. Using the ChildPlus.net and Frog Street Aim systems, you accurately perform the required data entry for any documentation related to your caseload. You maintain all case files in accordance with governmental regulations as well as our organizational philosophies and policies. To support our programming, you help recruit income- and age-eligible children as well as parent representatives for our policy council and parenting committees. As needed, you help transport children and their families for medical appointments and emergencies. You find working to promote the well-being of children to be highly rewarding!

QUALIFICATIONS FOR AN ENTRY-LEVEL BILINGUAL PARENT & CHILD EDUCATOR / EARLY HEAD START

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Do you have good communication skills, both written and verbal? Are you patient, respectful, tactful, and calm under pressure? Do you have excellent interpersonal skills? Can you show empathy while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries? Do you have strong organizational and time management skills? If so, you might just be perfect for this entry-level position in early childhood education and social services with our nonprofit!

WORK SCHEDULE

This full-time social services position requires extensive local travel to homes, trainings, and recruitment events as well as providing transportation to group socialization and parent meetings.

READY TO JOIN OUR NONPROFIT TEAM?

If you are bilingual in Spanish and English and feel that you would be right for this entry-level early childhood education job with our nonprofit, apply now using our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application.

KCSL requires all employees to be fully vaccinated by January 2022. Religious and medical exemptions are available. Are you vaccinated or plan on being vaccinated before employment?

Location: 67901