Head Start Family Educator

Program and Location: Home Based Office located in McCook, Areas of service include Frontier, Hitchcock and Red Willow Counties.

Position Summary: The Family Educator is a resource for parents and a facilitator for learning and assists parents to strengthen their knowledge of child development and community resources.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit eligible families, including toddlers, and children with disabilities.
• Maintain funded enrollment and a waitlist throughout the program year and replace open enrollment slots within 30 days of an opening.
• Complete developmental screenings in motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills.
• Implement office filing system for child/family files to ensure performance standard compliance.
• Complete required home visits with families during program year.
• Conduct required group socializations.
• Implement the Home-Based curriculum with fidelity.
• Maintain Family Partnership Agreements with each family served.
• Pursue partnerships with community resources.

Tasks and Duties:

• Provide information to families on community events, parent education classes, and other items of importance.
• Completion and submission of child outcomes.
• Maintain a current center inventory.
• Conduct required food experience and provide nutrition information to families.
• Work with parent or guardian to ensure children’s immunizations are up to date.
• Ensure all Dental, vision, physical and hearing exams are completed and followed up on with in the mandate timeframe.
• Actively refer families to resources available in the community.
• Work with parents/guardians to strengthen knowledge of child development, including assisting parents to understand how children grow and learn. Plan and conduct child education activities in conjunction with parents/guardians that meet the child’s intellectual, physical, emotional and social needs.

Education Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED. AA or Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Social Work or Human Services preferred.
• Experience in a child care environment is preferred.

Required Skills:

• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with the general public and agency employees.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Model appropriate and professional behavior.

Schedule/Hours: 40 hours per week for 42 weeks (August-May) then 30 hours per week for 10 weeks (June-July). Approximate hours are between 7:30 am – 4:00 pm, Monday-Friday.

Pay Rate: The starting rate of pay is $14.16.

Benefits:With benefits, the wage calculates to a value of approximately $18.12 per hour. Agency benefits provided include: paid holidays, PTO, short term disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program. Other benefits available include: health, dental, vision, cancer/critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance, as well as retirement and flexible spending account. Benefits are available during the months the employee is working.

For more information, contact Taner Nixon at 308-865-5690 or email tanern@mnca.net .