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SALARY: $60 - 62K DOE

OVERVIEW:

The Early Childhood Coach will have professional experience implementing strategies to maintain high quality in early childhood settings, including those operating as a licensed, registered, or listed home-based provider, as defined by Texas Health and Human Services, Child Care Regulation. The Coach will demonstrate understanding of early childhood development (ages 0-5), continuous quality improvement, and a firm experiential understanding of the impact of early childhood education (ECE) on student and family trajectories.  Works with home-based childcare providers and external ECE partners in Houston-Galveston Area Council’s 13- county region (Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, and Wharton) with

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES: 

Provides coaching and professional development for home-based providers and teachers.   Manages a portfolio of home-based early childcare education centers, located in Houston-Galveston Area Council’s 13- county region, prioritizing individual educator and child needs to meet program outcomes. Provides guidance to educators in executing the Reggio Emilia Approach in a home-based center environment that leads to positive child outcomes. Assists with developing classroom improvement plans in partnership with home-based childcare center teachers and directors to support high quality child outcomes. Conducts individualized professional development to providers, and other training to meet program goals.

Monitors and promotes excellent program service. Conducts bi-monthly home-based center site and/or virtual observations to support Reggio Emilio-inspired quality standards and developmentally appropriate practices. Works with home-based center staff and external assessors, to conduct and support teachers in their creation of CLASS© assessments and classroom baselines. Develops CLASS© action plans and partners with Director and staff with the implementation of the action plan.   Provides strategies using early childhood models to enhance family engagement.

Serves as subject matter expert in early childhood education and the Reggio Emilio Approach.  Shares expertise with home-based center directors and teacher to support their quality growth. Stays current on developments in the field of early childhood education and brain development.  Maintains and shares understanding of resources available to families served by the home-based centers to support them.

Supports building and maintaining partnerships with early childhood professionals and networks. Collaborates with individuals, public and private sector community institutions and nonprofit organizations to identify local early childhood needs, develops approaches to meeting needs, and ensures successful implementation of the home-based center program’s mission in the community and early childhood sector. Utilizes relationships with expert community stakeholders to determine the best practices for achieving highest impact results, identify effective home-based center investments and analyze results of programming. Supports outreach as needed to communicate services available through early childhood initiatives.

Other activities in support of home-based centers: Compiles and assists in communicating outcomes and results of  program to Houston-Galveston Area Council’s Workforce Board staff and stakeholders.  Provide support to other efforts that advance the goals of the program such as: presentations, tours and trainings to service providers and potential clients, community conversations, reporting results and promotion of key initiative activities. Performs other related duties or special assignments in support of the program.

Constituent Relationships:  Works with program staff to identify, develop and implement opportunities to communicate impact of the program, program goals and priorities to constituents. Be an effective and compelling communicator of the same to advance engagement and brand value.

Other: Performs special assignments and other work, on an as-needed basis. A willingness to take on additional duties to ensure the success of the team is essential. Evening and weekend work is required.