Full-time (40 hours/week), Hourly, Non-Exempt.

Compensation: $19.17-$22.08 per hour

Location: YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA 95112

Department: Child Care

Join a passionate, dynamic team dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. For over 100 years, YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley has provided programs and services that form a critical continuum of response, healing, and prevention. Our dedication to the people we serve is unparalleled. We have an exciting future, and the team to deliver on that lasting change for the people we serve. To encourage survivor self-determination, services are delivered through a strengths-based, non-judgmental, and trauma-informed lens that aligns with our mission. Be a key part of shaping this future as our new Teacher in our Childcare Department.

Reporting the Youth and Family Services Program Director provides child care services to individuals and families. We are seeking a compassionate, organized, and reliable individual with a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Essential to this role is a demonstrated ability to work with culturally and economically diverse individuals and families. Candidates must have excellent interpersonal skills to work independently and as part of a team. The ideal candidate is a warm, self-starter deeply committed to providing services from a strengths-based, social justice and anti-oppression framework.

Candidates must have the following:

• Twelve (12) units of Early Childhood Education units (ECE) in early childhood education from an accredited college, including courses covering child growth and development; child, family, and community; and program/curriculum
• Meet the requirements outlined by Title 22
• The ability to work as a member of a teaching group, prepare lesson plans, and engage with parents
• Has two years of experience

Work hours are primarily days. Schedule TBD. This is a in-person and onsite position. Delivery of service may include after-hour work to accomplish the task at hand. Work includes lifting up to 30 pounds.

Required: Cleared background check (fingerprinting), valid TB test, Tdap, and Influenza MMR. This position requires a COVID-19 vaccination due to the in-person interfacing required to promote the health and safety of others in the workplace and our community.

YWCA BENEFITS:

• A competitive benefits plan: Employer covers employee’s premium for health, dental, vision, and life insurance (depending on the plan you choose)
• A high deductible medical plan available including employer contributions and optional employee contributions and a limited Flexible Spending Account available
• 15 paid holidays are made available each year: New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Women’s International Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, Veteran Day, Thanksgiving, and the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
• 20 days of annual accrued PTO to start
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Talkspace for employees and their household members
• Immediate Employee contributed 403b, and an Employer Contributed 401a Retirement Plan with optional employee contributions after eligibility is met
• Parental leave for eligible employees for up to the first eight weeks
• Annual Retention Bonus
• Employee Discounts with TicketsatWork
• Free Access to the Calm App
• With access through Kaiser for Ginger App and Class Pass.

TO APPLY: Submit Resume & Cover Letter to hr@yourywca.org with “Teacher” in subject line. The YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley is an Equal Opportunity Employer.