Assistant Teacher (Infants)

About the Organization
YWCA Minneapolis is a nonprofit organization founded in 1891 as a member of YWCA USA, the oldest and largest multicultural organization in the world.
The mission of YWCA Minneapolis is eliminating racism, empowering women and girls, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Our vision is to be the most trusted and effective change agent in the journey to eliminate racism and sexism in our community.
We are a trusted social justice organization with a 130+ year history of advocacy for women and children. More than 30,000 people in our community are served every year by YWCA Minneapolis, through award-winning programs, classes, and workshops.
YWCA Minneapolis strives every day for:
• Race and gender equity
• Economic independence for women
• Respect for diverse cultures
• Children and youth who thrive
• A community that is vibrant and healthy
Category
Early Childhood Education
Description
JOB SUMMARY:
**** Pay range: $16.19 - $17.81 Hourly ****
Responsible for assisting Lead Teacher/Teacher in developing and implementing a high quality, nurturing, anti-bias, developmentally appropriate environment, utilizing the YWCA's Anti-Bias Curriculum for a diverse classroom. Maintain a safe environment for children by assisting classroom staff. Responsible for the assisting with daily care and nurturing of a primary group of children with a team of staff and reporting the child's progress in social, physical, emotional, and cognitive development to parents/guardians.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Day to day responsibilities

• With the classroom staff team, assist Lead Teacher/Teacher in the development of theme based classroom and age group curriculum, implement and ensure compliance with a developmentally appropriate, anti-bias, multi-cultural curriculum, following the YWCA's Anti-Bias Curriculum, for the classroom and primary care group.
• Assist in fostering a classroom environment conducive to the curriculum objectives and NAEYC Accreditation standards.
• Assisting in ensuring nurturing, culturally sensitive care for each child.
• Assisting Lead Teacher/Teacher with assessing, documenting and reporting children's progress in social, physical, emotional, and cognitive development for data needs and to parents/guardians.
• Foster and model cultural sensitivity to the families we serve.
• Assist in ensuring all DHS Rule standards are maintained in classroom at all times.
• Assist in maintaining a high level of health and safety and assure emergency procedures are known and practiced.
• Assist Lead Teacher/Teacher in ensuring all child assessments and child portfolios are up to date and current.
• This position does not have any direct reports.
• Fulfill the duties of Lead Teacher/Teacher in their absence.

Contribute to an overall cohesive program of Early Childhood Education at YWCA Minneapolis

• Actively participate in center events and meetings.
• Provide support for other classrooms and the center as needed.
• Attend all staff training days and complete required number of DHS in-service hours yearly.

RELATIONSHIPS:
This position reports to the Early Childhood Education Director who reports to the ECE Director of Operations. Lead Teachers will interact with Teachers, Assistant Teachers and Teacher Aides, ECE Specialist, volunteers, students, and parents.
Position Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
Education and Experience

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• High School Diploma/ General Education Degree (GED).
• Must have a minimum of three months of experience working in a group setting with children ages 0-9 years.
• Currently enrolled in an Early Childhood Education college program and/or actively working on obtaining CDA - OR-have already completed 12 college credits in or related to ECE.
• Have the ability and desire to work with special needs children and/or at risk families.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to communicate effectively to parents and co-workers.
• Ability to serve and meet the needs of the customers (parents, children, and co-workers) in an exceptional manner.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective relationship with customers to gain their trust, respect and involvement with activities.
• Ability to uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Acts with a need to finish responsibilities.
• Seeks and is proactive in finding challenging opportunities and responsibilities for self-development.

Preferred:
• Current First Aid and CPR certifications

• Bilingual is preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, sit, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee frequently is required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
Individual must have the ability to get to and from various sites/events/meetings in the metro area on an occasional basis.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: This job description represents the major functions but is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time
Salary
$16.19 - $17.52 Hourly DOQ
Number of Openings
1
Exempt/Non-Exempt
Non-Exempt
Location
YWCA South location
EOE Statement
YWCA Minneapolis is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
HoursPerWk
None Specified
This position is currently accepting applications.