Child Care Initiatives Educational & Curriculum Manager

Position Summary

The Educational & Curriculum Manager delivers individualized, in-home coaching to family child care providers pursuing CDA credentialing and NAFCC accreditation, and owns the network's curriculum — selecting, adapting, delivering, and continuously improving it based on real outcomes data. This role combines deep early childhood education and coaching expertise with direct knowledge of family child care as a business and a practice, and requires genuine comfort building relationships in providers' homes with a bilingual, largely immigrant population. The value of this role is relational as much as instructional: knowing each provider, showing up consistently, and turning training and curriculum into something a provider actually completes.

Key Responsibilities

Individualized Coaching

• Deliver 1:1 coaching using the Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) model — shared goal-setting, in-home observation, reflection and feedback — to the network's accreditation-track providers

• Manage a coaching caseload and schedule directly, prioritizing across providers based on where they are in the accreditation timeline

Accreditation Support & Knowledge of Family Child Care

• Guide providers through the CDA credential and NAFCC accreditation process from start to finish, grounded in real knowledge of how a family child care business actually operates

• Provide hands-on help with the actual enrollment and registration steps, including sitting with a provider through a college registration portal

Curriculum Development & Management

• Design and deliver a six-session, NAFCC-aligned bilingual training series: Relationships, The Environment, Developmental Learning Activities, Safety & Health, Professional Practices, and Business Practices

• Anchor each session to evidence a provider can use directly in a CDA portfolio or NAFCC self-study

• Own and maintain the network's curriculum resources

• Adapt and translate curriculum materials for bilingual delivery, ensuring content is linguistically and culturally appropriate for the population served

• Evaluate curriculum effectiveness using program outcomes data

• Keep curriculum current with evolving CDA and NAFCC standards, updating materials as accreditation requirements change

• Serve as the network's curriculum resource for any future facilitators of group learning content, so quality and consistency don't depend on one person's institutional memory

Data Management & Documentation

• Log coaching contacts, sessions, and observations in the network's data platform as part of the coaching cycle itself

• Document each Practice-Based Coaching cycle (goal, observation, feedback) so a provider's progress is trackable over time

• Track each provider's CDA/NAFCC milestone progress in the system so it feeds directly into program-wide reporting

• Administer and record brief post-visit and post-session feedback consistently — incomplete data quietly undermines the whole outcomes framework

• Encourage and record developmental screening completion as a routine part of coaching visits

External Relationships

• Coordinate directly with partner organizations on bilingual co-facilitation and shared training content

Adult-Learning-Informed Practice

• Use plain-language materials, teach-back techniques, and native-language-first instruction suited to adult learners with a wide range of formal education

• Treat lived caregiving experience as a resource to build on

Experience and Education

Required

• Degree or credential in early childhood education or child development specifically

• Demonstrated educational coaching experience with adult learners, ideally in an early childhood or home-visiting context

• Experience developing, adapting, or evaluating curriculum for adult learners

• Substantive knowledge of family child care specifically — licensing, business operations, day-to-day practice

• Comfortable doing sustained, hands-on work in providers' homes

• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Preferred

• Direct familiarity with CDA and/or NAFCC standards

• Experience with Practice-Based Coaching or a comparable evidence-based coaching model

• Experience working with bilingual and first-generation populations navigating formal credentialing systems

Statements in this Job Description are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed. They are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

Salary Range: $60,000 to $68,000

United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut includes an excellent benefits package and flexible working arrangements:

1. Paid Time Off – vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays including 1 floating holiday

2. CT Paid Leave

3. Health Insurance – medical, dental, and vision

4. Life Insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and related coverage

5. Hybrid work arrangements

United Way is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to hire staff members who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. All positions are filled without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, employment status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If much of this job describes you, please apply. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet all qualifications. We recognize this and encourage those with relevant skills and experience to apply.