Early Childhood Education Teacher

Early Childhood Education Teacher

YWCA Rock County is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Job Summary

The ECE Teacher is responsible for creating a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment for all children. They design and implement age- appropriate learning activities that promote social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. The teacher will also observe and track the development progress through assessments and provide parents with regular updates.

Major Responsibilities

• Develop and implement lesson plans: Plan educational activities that support social, cognitive, emotional and physical development. These may include art, music, sensory play, story time and motor skill exercises.
• Provide care and supervision of assigned children: Attend to the children's basic needs, including feeding themselves and helping with potty training.
• Create a safe and engaging learning environment: Ensure that the classroom is welcoming, clean and safe for the children. Set up age- appropriate games and activities.
• Encourage social interactions: Promote cooperative play, sharing, and communication among the children. Teach basic social skills like taking turns, expressing emotions and following simple directions.
• Maintain open communication with parents: Provide regular updates on children's progress and any concerns. Address any questions or issues raised by parents in a positive, professional manner.
• Collaborate with other staff members: Work closely with other teachers, assistants and administrators to ensure consistency in classroom management and educational goals.
• Attend staff, departmental, and other YWCA meetings as assigned.
• Maintain familiarity with YWCA goals, mission and programs.
• Other duties as assigned.

YWCA is committed to recognizing and valuing diversity and strives to create a work place in which diversity is intentionally developed and celebrated. YWCA will not accept any intolerant or discriminatory behavior – especially that related to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information, military status, political belief or any additional characteristic protected by applicable law.

To successfully perform this job, the individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities. Job descriptions represent a general outline of job responsibilities and qualifications. They are not intended to be comprehensive in nature. In addition, jobs evolve over time and, therefore, their descriptions may not reflect the precise nature of the position at a given point of time.

Supervisor: Child Care Program Director

Hours: Available from 6:15 AM- 5:30 PM Monday-Friday, One night per month for in-service meetings, and any other services needed.

Compensation: NON-EXEMPT, 30-40 hours per week

YWCA Rock Cause-Driven Leadership Competencies:

• Community: Demonstrates a commitment to improving lives and securing futures with themselves and others. Effectively communicates the benefits and impact of YWCA efforts. Ensures community engagement. Ensures the voices of the community are heard.
• Values: Models and teaches YWCA values. Reinforces YWCA values within the organization and the community. Incorporates values into the organization's vision and strategies.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Develops strategies to ensure staff and volunteers reflect the community. Champions inclusion activities, strategies and initiatives. Develops and implements intentional systems of DEI throughout the organization.
• Relationships: Builds relationships to create community. Builds and nurtures strategic relationships to enhance support for the YWCA. Develops relationships with influential leaders to impact and strengthen the community.
• Communication: Demonstrates active listening. Seeks to understand, asks questions. Communicates to obtain buy-in and support of YWCA goals. Communicates to engage and inspire people within and outside the YWCA
• Developing Others: Provides others with feedback, coaching, guidance and support. Provides tools and resources for the development of others. Ensures that a talent management system is in place and executed effectively.
• Decision Making: Provides others with frameworks for making decisions. Integrates multiple thinking processes to make decisions. Possesses penetrating insight and strong strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Innovation: Involves the community and seeks input in the development of policies, programs and activities. Invests resources in well-designed innovation initiatives.
• Project Management: Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team. Ensures executions of plans. Creates a structure to deliver organization-wide results to achieve objectives.
• Finance: Effectively creates and manages budgets. Develops and implements stewardship strategies.
• Quality Results: Holds staff accountable for high- quality results using a formal process to measure progress. Assigns clear accountability and ensures continuous improvement. Determines benchmarks and ensures appropriate leadership to meet objectives.
• Self-Development: Shares new insights. Fosters a learning environment embracing diverse abilities and approaches. Creates a learning organization.
• Flexibility: Creates positivity in self and fosters it in others to support change. Partners to create positive change in the community.

Requirements

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, or equivalent; advanced degree in child development preferred
• 1-3 years' experience working with children with at least 240 hours working as an assistant teacher in a group child care setting
• Completion of Four (4) credits in Early Childhood Education; or Two (2) non- credit department approved courses in Early Childhood Education (Introduction to the Child Care Profession and Skills and Strategies for the Child Care Teacher; or an Associates degree in early childhood education; or
• forty-eight (48) credits from an institution of higher education with at least three (3) credits in early childhood education
• Current CPR and AED certification.
• Ability to provide a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment for children.
• Detail-oriented with good communication, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to develop a team approach with staff, volunteers and community partners.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; enthusiastic, warm and approachable.
• Experience working with culturally and economically diverse populations.
• Good judgement when making decisions. Able to make collaborative decisions for the good of the YWCA.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to lift and carry children up to 40 pounds.
• Ability to bend, squat, kneel, and sit on the floor for extended periods.
• Must be able to stand or walk for extended periods.