Parent, Family, Community Engagement Specialist - Head Start

Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties

For best consideration, please submit application materials by October 5, 2025.

FTE: 0.86923, Full-Time Partial Year. Annual salary will be prorated based on start date and FTE.

Job Summary

Develops and supports community partnerships and parent engagement activities, and promotes involvement, engagement and leadership among parents and staff. Provides coaching, mentoring, training and/or technical assistance and resources to family services staff and parents. Oversees projects relating to family and community services. Compiles and analyzes data, prepares reports and recommendations for action by supervisor. Serves as a lead position over other support staff.

Essential Duties

• Coordinates and oversees program activities including staff meetings, parent activities, community events and other program activities.
• Provides coaching, mentoring, training and technical assistance to family services staff.
• Observes home visits and parent meetings and provides feedback to staff.
• Participates in ongoing monitoring of the family services component, using evidence-based observation tools and assigned self-assessment activities.
• Coaches staff to promote leadership development in parents through goal setting and connecting parents with leadership opportunities. Assists with strategies and resources to achieve goals.
• Provides training and technical assistance to staff in the area of parent engagement.
• Acts as the liaison between the family services manager and sites.
• Partners with community, social service, health, and mental health agencies, and acts as the liaison on councils, committees, and other collaborations as assigned.
• Assists management in developing parenting curriculums and trains staff on how to implement parent education programs. Helps evaluate programs based on outcomes and input from program staff and parents.
• Maintains records in compliance with federal, state and program guidelines.
• Supports family service staff in provision of crisis intervention supports to families to help them quickly achieve safety and stability.
• Assists with outreach activities to recruit families.

Additional Duties

• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Minimum and Desired Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum (3) years of experience providing training, coaching, and/or mentoring
• Demonstrated proficiency in general office operations
• Experience working with populations with diverse backgrounds similar to the College’s community
• Current driver’s license, insurance, and access to a reliable automobile during work hours. Must have at least three (3) years of driving history

At the College’s discretion, additional qualifying education/experience may substitute for education/experience, on a year for year basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, or related field
• Bilingual skills with oral and written fluency in English and in Spanish, Russian or another language that meets community/department’s needs
• Experience in Head Start or Early Head Start

Additional Qualifications and/or Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Additional Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in the Oregon Criminal History Registry prior to beginning employment and enrollment must be maintained throughout employment
• Post-offer fitness for duty evaluation, must be obtained within 30 days of hire date:
• TB screening
• Health appraisal
• Food handler’s card, must be obtained within 30 days of hire
• Complete required Department of Early Learning and Care (DELC) licensing within 30 days of hire

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Ability to prioritize tasks in order to meet changing deadlines
• Ability to pay close attention to details
• Ability to solve problems independently
• Excellent customer service skills
• Knowledge of best practices in the area of parent engagement and social services
• Ability to establish working relationships with staff, program families, and community members
• Ability to motivate, train and develop adult performance skills
• Ability to work effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders
• High personal integrity and sound professional ethics
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Computer proficiency (in Microsoft Windows environment preferably, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, Internet, and publishing software)
• Knowledge of and commitment to the use of information technology to support advancement programs

Working Conditions and Important Information

Working Conditions

Works assigned schedule, and exhibits regular and predictable attendance. As necessary to meet workload demands, works outside of typical schedule, including evening/weekend hours. Work may require travel to off-campus locations. Work is sometimes performed in an emotional and stressful environment.

The following is a brief description of the benefits offered by Mt. Hood Community, this is intended to be a summary only - any errors or omissions are unintentional. Please refer to benefit booklets, plan documents, college policy and regulations for more detailed information.

COLLEGE PAID BENEFITS
Health Benefit Options
MHCC is a member of the Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB) which administers Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), Long Term Disability (LTD) and Employee Assistance Plan (EAP). The effective date of employer-provided benefits is the beginning of the month after the employee’s date of hire at MHCC, unless otherwise indicated.

MHCC will only pay the premium portion for medical, dental and vision coverage for your spouse/domestic partner and/or eligible dependents if they are not covered under another policy.

If you elect to have double coverage for a spouse/domestic partner or eligible dependent, you will be required to have the premium associated with the double coverage deducted out of your payroll check each month.

Retirement Exception: The College will waive the double coverage premiums when an employee is adding a spouse/domestic partner and/or eligible dependents during open enrollment prior to the employee’s anticipated retirement date for that plan year.

Other College Paid Insurances

• Life Insurance Coverage = $50,000
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment(AD&D) Coverage = $50,000
• Long Term Disability (LTD)

• Public Employees Retirement System – Tier One/Tier Two Hired by a PERS employer before August 28, 2003 and have an active account.
• Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan - OPSRP Hired on or after August 28, 2003 and do not have active account in the PERS Program.

• Part-time hourly employees who worked a minimum of four hundred (400) hours in the immediate past fiscal year (July-June), and who reasonably expect to continue at that same level of employment, are eligible for a three (3) credit waiver during each term of employment.

• Part-time hourly employees (non-substitute employees) may apply for optional training through the employer’s Child Care Resource and Referral program. If approved, up to two (2) classes will be made available per year at no cost to the employee. These training programs are on non-paid time.

• Substitute employees who have completed fifty (50) hours of work in a fiscal year may apply for one (1) optional training class per year through Child Care Resource and Referral program at no cost to the employee. This training program is on non-paid time.