Enrollment Specialist

Enrollment Specialist

Child Start, Inc. is currently seeking an enthusiastic and detail-oriented Enrollment Specialist to join our team. As an Enrollment Specialist, you will play a vital role in the enrollment process for our early childhood education programs. You will be responsible for assisting families with the application process, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of enrollment documents, and maintaining up-to-date records in our database.

Responsibilities include:

• Establishing a comfortable working relationship with families beginning at the time of application.
• Conducting interviews and reviewing family documentation to verify essential eligibility criteria and maintaining comprehensive and accurate electronic eligibility determination records.
• Conducting home visits when needed, alone or with appropriate staff, to complete application interviews or to make contact when other means of communication are lacking.
• Forming and maintaining working relationships with outside agencies to facilitate both recruitment and services to enrolled and waitlisted families.
• Setting up and staffing recruitment tables to sign up potential new families at community organizations and events.
• Supporting efforts to ensure centers maintain funded enrollment level and an ongoing waitlist.
• Managing Child Start's hotline and online pre-application process.
• Providing appropriate information and referrals to waitlisted families, including paperwork required before a child may attend a center-based program.
• Ensuring data is entered accurately along with all applicable documentation to complete applications.
• Processing EHS to HS transition eligibility verifications, as assigned.