Save The Children
Advisor I, Education & Inclusion
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $68,850 - $84,150
💻 Product Development
🗓️ February 29th, 2024
Early Childhood PKDescription
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Summary
The Advisor, Head Start Education and Inclusion (A-Ed/I) serves as an expert for Save the Children’s Head Start operations in the content area of early childhood education and child development birth to five including center-based and home-based program options. In this role, you will ensure the Education and Child Development program services are delivered to fidelity meeting the requirements of the Head Start Program Performance Standards and other applicable State and federal regulations.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Education Services Implementation (35%)
- Ensures the successful implementation of curricula and recognized best practices in the field of early childhood education across all programs
- Supports the development of School Readiness Goals that are uniform across all Save the Children Head Start programs and measures ongoing progress toward each.
- Ensures programs establish a School Readiness committee.
- Ensures cross-program participation in program planning activities, including self-assessment processes, T/TA opportunities, and the development and/or revision of program policies and procedures.
- Ensures program staff integrates education services with disability-, health-, nutrition-, and parent engagement/family support services.
- Ensures programs establish Memorandums of Understanding with Part C and Part B providers to support children with special needs.
- Cultivates a culture of child safeguarding across programs, guiding and monitoring the implementation of active supervision techniques to ensure that there are no incidences of child maltreatment including children being left alone, unsupervised, and/or abused in any way.
Staff Capacity-Building (30%)
- Builds the capacities of program level Education Inclusion Managers/Specialists of program-level to support the successful implementation of education services through reflective and relationship-based practices and guidance that include weekly/bi-weekly meetings and remote and onsite training and technical assistance.
- Builds the capacities of program- level Education Inclusion Managers/Specialists to ensure that education services across programs include developmentally appropriate learning experiences in language and literacy; social and emotional development; math and science concepts; social studies; creative arts; and physical development that are focused toward achieving progress outlined in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five.
- Builds the capacities of program level Education Inclusion Managers/Specialists to ensure that the services provided are culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate and inclusive of individual levels of ability, interests, and developmental skills
- Builds capacities of program-level Education Inclusion Managers to meet the needs of children with special needs including in-service training to include training in special education.
- Builds capacities of program-level Education Inclusion Mangers to meet the needs of children who exhibit behaviors that challenge adults including In-service training.
- Support program-level Education Inclusion Managers/Specialists with cultivating and monitoring partnerships with public and private agencies that are developed to enhance Head Start & Early Head Start education services to include the recruitment of children with disabilities.
- Coordinates the development and implementation of appropriate and effective professional development and training and technical assistance/coaching experiences that are responsive to the needs of education staff of Save the Children Head Start programs and, as appropriate, contracted partners.
Program Monitoring (30%)
- Monitors education program data – performing trend analysis within and across programs – to ensure consistency of high-quality service delivery. Provides regular reports to Head Start Program leadership that capture data from Teaching Strategies GOLD, CLASS™, classroom monitoring reports, and other sources of child assessment/outcomes, school readiness, and environmental health and safety data.
- Monitors program data related to disability referral, identification, and follow-up for children with special needs.
- In partnership with program level counterparts, monitors the overall impact of the performance of education support services contractors across programs to ensure compliance with Head Start regulations and Save the Children program goals; makes recommendations for improvements, when needed.
- Analyze data to ensure high quality and to prevent non-compliance.
- Monitors to ensure that teaching staff have regular communication with parents regarding their child’s growth and development, feeding patterns, strengths, and interests. This includes monitoring to ensure parents receive no less than 2 home visits and 2 parent-teacher conferences per year.
- Monitors the educational services budget to ensure efficient operation and appropriate environment set up, which includes developmentally appropriate, sufficient and safe materials at each of the sites.
Other duties as assigned (5%)
- As part of the Head Start leadership team, participates in program wide activities that include, but are not limited to, program planning, self-assessment, community assessment, preparing funding applications, developing and/or revising policies, procedures, forms and plans.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in early childhood development or related field
- Minimum of three years Head Start/Early Head Start experience
- Minimum of three years management experience in early childhood education
- Remote-Extensive travel (25% in-state and out-of-state to include overnight travel)
- Experience with monitoring and training/coaching adults
- Experience teaching children in the birth to 5 years age range (preferred, not required)
- Knowledge and experience in the philosophy and practices of Head Start/Early Head Start (or comparable child development programs) & early childhood education developmentally appropriate practices
- Experience working with culturally and socio-economically diverse families and children
- Must have knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards and Head Start Act
- Must be a certified Reliable CLASS™ Observer
- Experience in managing programs in data-managed or data-sensitive environment
- Ability to work with families from a strength-based approach
- Proficient use of computers and software packages (especially MS Office, Child Plus, and email) to store data, write reports and conduct research related to early childhood education.
- Use of web-based conferencing technology like Microsoft TEAMS, GoToMeeting™, Webex, etc.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
- Professional level of technical or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to manage the operational activities of a unit or team or provide the technical and management support related to various size programs, grants or projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in early childhood development or related field
Compensation
The base pay for this position starts between $68,850-$84,150. Actual base salary may vary based upon the Geo Structure, but not limited to, experience, credentials, base salary of internal peers and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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About Save the Children
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.
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