Education Manager

Job Description Job Description Job Goal: To develop and coordinate a comprehensive center program which complies with Federal Performance Standards; Ensure that staff, parents, and volunteers receive instruction and training in Early Childhood Education; and assist Component Managers in implementing the Family/Community Partnerships Component, ERSEA, and Health Services component of the program. Essential Responsibilities: * Education ProgramManagement * Assistin the planning and coordination of an Educational Services Program for Early Head Start/Head Start/OPP/Family Child Careproviders * Assist theAssistant Director of Head Start & Early Childhood Servicesin educationcomponentplanning, development, andoperation * Assistin the maintenance and updating of a program curriculum to include major themes and related activities for the classroom and homevisits * Act as an advisor for site staff, parents and volunteers, concerning Early Childhood Education and supervisionas directed * Act as the Literacy Specialist and provide coaching in areas of language and literacy enhancement for designated classrooms * Ensure coordination of Comprehensive Parent/Staff Conferences with staff to include a written report on each family from allcomponentstaff, two times eachyear * Ensure that each Early Head Start/Head Start/OPP/FCC family receives the required amount of homevisits * Assist staff in follow‐up regarding possible difficulties with classroom and/or home visit attendance * Record keeping andmonitoring * Assistin monitoring classroom and home visitattendance * Assistwiththetrackingandreportingofongoingassessmentandscreeningaccordingtoassessmentschedule * Ensure that all education forms are completed and utilized effectively and appropriately * Evaluate education staffs' daily plans and conduct post‐evaluationconference * Ensure that goals for individual children and families are being recorded and tracked on Staffing Forms and progress notes and that related activities are planned on the daily planning book * Ensure that education staff maintain the required component information in each child's notebook and portfolio * Ensure that the requiredcomponentinformation ismaintainedin each child'sfile * Staff Development andSupport * Supervise Site Staff in program operations, to include using all agency policies and procedures for developing staff skills for successful job taskcompletion * Trains and mentors new and continuing teaching staff on all classroomprocedures * Mentor staff using positive role modeling and reflective supervision techniques, in order to strengthen skill levels and confidence * Provide supervision support to staff in components other than education by providingguidance indaily activities and communicating with directcomponentsupervisorof any performance relatedissues. * Observe and record monthly, the performance of education staff in the classroom, family child care homes, and/or home visits following the observation cycle * Monitor and evaluate job performance of education staff and develop and/or revise Professional Success Plans with staff annually. Provide input on center staff performance tocomponentsupervisors. * Delegate work assignments andduties * Assistwiththe screening,interviewingand hiring teams for site educationstaff * Assistin Staff Development by developing and implementing a training plan forstaff. * Participate as a member of agency committees asassigned * Assistin assessing trainingneeds * Develop training resources withassistancefrom othercomponentstaff * Assistin coordinating and implementing training at Staff Meetings and as needed throughout theyear. * Provide training in Early Childhood Education for staff, parents, and/or volunteers at In‐Service meetings and/or by becoming an instructor of record at a universityin order toprovidetrainingswhichresultin ECE credits for staff. * Coordination ofServices * Assist the Family Services Manager as the contact person for Human Service agencies for social service issues and concerns. * Maintain a system for making social services referrals * Assist the Family Engagement Director in orienting training to staff and community partners on family strengthening * Assist the Health & Mental Health Manager in the Health Servicescomponent * Help families establish an ongoing relationship with health and dental care providers * Ensure that all medical and dental screens and appropriate follow‐up and/or referrals are completed, including initial education with parents with first screening and each 6 month follow up there after with HS families regarding Lift the Lip exams * Ensure that the nutrition assessments arecompletedandappropriate follow‐upand/or referrals are completed to include discussing WIC/Nutrition goals with classroom staff and following up withparents * Encourage parents to complete required immunizations for their children and keep CIS/Immunization Record up to date with all changes routed to ERSEA DataSpecialist * Review ChildPlus Health Tracking record for accuracy, making changes and submitting them to ERSEA Data Specialist monthly * Assistin the implementation of an agency wide Parent InvolvementProgram * Work with center teams to encourage parents to be involved in all components and programs of the agency * Promote prevention and family strengthening activities (picnics, leadership training, parenting classes, sewing classes, quilting classes, etc.) with center staff and parents * Ensure that volunteers are always supervised and never left alone with a child * Be available as a resource person for Parent Center training uponrequest * Provide assistance tocenter teams for involving parents in all components and programs of theagency * Provide assistance tocenter teams for involving families in the agencyprograms For Education Managers providing Regional Support: * Conduct recruitment,selectionand enrollment of children andmaintainenrollment levelsas prescribed byHead Start Policies and PerformanceStandards * Be knowledgeable of Agency eligibility requirements * Assist in planning and implementing the recruitment process; identify and recruit children with documented disabilities/special needs * Make a recruitment home visit for all completedapplications * Orient parents to Agency policies and program design at the recruitment home visit * Work with Family Engagement Director and other appropriate staff to enroll children within agency guidelines * Coordinate enrollment with the Center team * Work with the Selection Committee and Family Services Manager to develop the agency selectioncriteria * Maintain an adequate social services referral system for coordinating the resolution of family needs andgoals. * Make home visits with each family for the completion of the Family Partnership agreement and follow up on goalsestablished * Assist families in developing resources for resolving emergent social service needs and follow up with families on the appropriateness of the resources * Refer families to appropriate agencies and follow up on referrals * Develop andmaintainworking relationships with community resources/partners by making on‐sitevisits * Orient and provide information to staff and parentsregardingsocial services and communityresources * Provide Parent Education as directed * Center Oversight * Coordinate with primary supervisor to provide on-site orientation, leadership, and direction to center staff team members * Organize and conduct regularly scheduled team meetings, to pass along community and agency information * Ensure communication flows from Management/ Administration to Center staff and from Center staff to Management/Administration