Kansas Children's Service League (KCSL) of Garden City, KS is looking for a full-time Spanish-speaking Early Head Start Parent & Child Educator to join our nonprofit team and help provide services to a caseload of children and their families. This entry-level education advocate position on our team earns a competitive hourly pay of $16.50. If you desire to positively impact children and families in your community and you're looking for purpose-driven and community-focused nonprofit to do it with, keep reading about what we have to offer!

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!

OUR POSITIVE NONPROFIT COMPANY CULTURE

We treat customers, partners, and each other with respect and strive 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!

BENEFITS

We are proud to offer excellent benefits, including health insurance, paid time off (PTO), and sick leave. If this sounds like the right next step to take in your career as an early childhood and parent educator, keep reading to find out what we need from you!

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Completed high school diploma or equivalent
• Fluent in English and Spanish

OUR IDEAL SPANISH-SPEAKING EARLY HEAD START PARENT & CHILD EDUCATOR

We are looking for someone who is Spanish-speaking and passionate about educating families and children toward future growth and stability.

YOUR DAY TO DAY

In this Spanish-speaking Early Head Start Parent & Child Educator role at our nonprofit, we rely on you to work closely with children and their families as you come alongside them to promote continued parental involvement in their children's education. You regularly provide guidance, support, and services to aide children and their parents to better function both individually and within their family unit. Further, you complete home visits and coordinate any required program services, ensuring any Health and Family Services mandates are followed. Being a hands-on resource, dedicated to keeping open lines of communication, you work closely with families to help identify and continually access the services and resources available to them in the community. And, you regularly communicate with your supervisor as well.

In addition to keeping close contact with the families in your charge, you further promote education by conducting 2-hour socialization events twice per week and parent meetings 12 times per year. You effectively utilize the ChildPlus.net and Frog Street Aim systems to accurately perform required data entry for any documentation related to your caseload. Being highly organized, you understand the importance of accurately maintaining all case files in accordance with governmental regulations as well as our organizational philosophies and policies. You provide ample support for our programming through recruitment of income- and age-eligible children as well as parent representatives for our policy council and parenting committees. When needed, you are happy to help transport children and their families to and from medical appointments and if emergencies arise. At the end of the day, you take pride in your role of facilitating strong family relationships and enjoy seeing your hard work pay off in the overall success of the children and families in your care!

WORK SCHEDULE

This full-time Spanish-speaking Head Start educator position requires extensive local travel to homes, trainings, and recruitment events as well as providing transportation to group socialization and parent meetings.

THE NEXT STEP

If this sounds like the perfect health and human services job for you, please feel free to apply using our easy initial 3-minute online application. This will put you one step closer to joining our nonprofit team as our new Spanish-speaking Early Head Start Parent & Child Educator!

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: 67846