EDUCATION DIRECTOR

Education Director

Position: Early Childhood Education Director

Department: Early Childhood

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Hours: 35 Hours/Week; Exempt

Reports to: Vice President of Education and Community Services

Responsibilities:

Provide Early Head Start education staff with instructional leadership through design, delivery and coordination of intensive professional development; facilitation of interdisciplinary collaboration; and administrative support.

Report to the FirstStepNYC Center Director

Build relationships with FirstStepNYC staff, families and children in order to lead School Readiness Efforts

Provide Early Head Start staff with reflective supervision to develop, and evaluate their performance and support their professional development

Collaborate with EHS Social Services Supervisor, Director, and others to provide the home visitors and teachers with individualized coaching to develop their performance and support their professional development

Collaborate with the Family Support to meet the needs of children and families

Lead the Early Head Start staff in developing and implementing an evidenced-based, responsive, intentional and developmentally appropriate curriculum, instruction, and teacher-child interactions

Monitor and ensure education plans, family partnership agreements, and other required documentation are completed

Collaborate with SCO and FirstStepNYC staff to meet Early Head Start performance standards

Gather and analyze community information and facilitate planning efforts to determine design options, recruitment efforts and enrollment guidelines for Early Head Start

Participates in Early Head Start ongoing monitoring activities and reporting; health and safety, comprehensive services, fiscal, school readiness, ERSEA, Self-Assessment and PIR

Creates, facilitates, and reports on School Readiness Goals

Attend trainings pertaining to Early Head Start programming

Participate in the development of program policies, service delivery plans, and ongoing monitoring of program quality

Establish strong working relationships and continuous collaboration with community partners

Represent FirstStepNYC at inter-agency meetings, open houses, trainings, etc

Liaise with external regulatory bodies as needed, including the Office of Head Start (OHS), Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and others

Responsible for administrative tasks critical to the daily operations of the SCO Family of Services Early Head Start Home Based and Center Based Program

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Skills:

Master's Degree or higher in early childhood education and NYS certification in early Childhood Education

Infant/ toddler program experience

NYS teaching certification required