Head Start/Early Head Start Coach

Are you an educator looking for your next challenge?  Could you see yourself mentoring and coaching pre-school teachers?  If so, we have an opportunity for you! Seeking Instructional Coach to work with our Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms.  Must have excellent communication skills, be detail oriented and goal driven, have the ability to work independently, and be organized.  Prerequisites include BA degree in early childhood or related field with ECE endorsement and experience teaching.  Excellent benefit package including IPERS.  EOE

EXPECTATION FOR ALL EMPLOYEES:

Supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: excellence and competence, collaboration, innovation, respect, personalization, commitment to our community, and accountability and ownership

 GENERAL SUMMARY:

A Head Start Program Coach will establish coaching partnerships with Head Start Teachers that promote early childhood best practices, curriculum implementation, and effective teacher-child interactions. The Coach will be responsible for providing one on one coaching and collaborating with teachers as well as monitoring and tracking results and progress of each individual in order to increase job skills.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Perform observations of classrooms using various observational tools.
2. Assist with implementation of PBIS and social emotional instruction in each classroom.
3. Adhere to the research-based Practice Based Coaching strategy through the consistent implementation of the program’s coaching plan for teachers.
4. Review or conduct assessments on all education staff to identify strengths and areas of needed support. Based upon assessments, determine level of coaching required for each teacher and provide coaching based upon the levels illustrated within the program coaching plan.
5. Receive necessary training and maintain reliability for observation tools as required.
6. Develop and monitor individual coaching plans with specific goals and areas for growth.
7. Review coaching goals with Center Supervisors and other necessary leadership staff and report on implementation progress.
8. Maintain ongoing communication with Center Supervisors, Educational Coordinator, Head Start/Early Head Start Assistant Director and Head Start/Early Head Start Director.
9. Perform other duties or complete other projects as assigned.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, and ABILITIES: 

1.               Ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.

2.               Ability to obtain and maintain a driver’s license, automobile, and current valid insurance in order to travel to designation locations.

3.               Knowledge of Agency’s policies, practices and procedures.

4.               Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, management, and various other business and community contacts.

5.               Ability to work with confidential information.

6.               Ability to work in a team-based environment.

7.               Ability to adapt to the organization’s changing needs.

8.               Ability to pass a physical examination. 

NOTE:  A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of essential functions.  All duties and responsibilities listed above are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.  To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, knowledge, and abilities to perform each duty or function proficiently. 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

Educational requirements of the position include a baccalaureate or advanced degree in early childhood education with experience teaching preschool-age children.

Additional requirements include

• the ability to pass all child care licensing requirements
• computer experience

 PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 

WORKING CONDITIONS: 

This factor measures the surrounding or physical conditions under which a job must be done and the extent to which those conditions make the job disagreeable.  Consider the presence and relative amount of exposure to dust, fuel, dirt, heat fumes, contaminants, cold, noise, vibration, wetness, etc. 

Normal working conditions with the absence of disagreeable conditions 

GENERAL INFORMATION: 

The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  Individuals may perform other duties as assigned.  Furthermore, this document does not establish a contract for employment and is subject to change at the discretion of the employer.