EHS CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP SPECIALIST

Help Build A Stronger Start For Colorado's Youngest Learners

Every child deserves a high-quality early start and the providers who deliver that care deserve a partner who makes it sustainable. As a CCP Specialist at Early Learning Ventures, you'll be that partner. Working hands-on with two to four child care sites, you'll coach leaders, grow great teachers, engage families, and bring comprehensive Early Head Start services to infants and toddlers in high-need communities. If you're energized by the idea of strengthening whole programs not just one classroom at a time this role was built for you.

About Early Learning Ventures

Early Learning Ventures (ELV) is a nonprofit on a mission to expand access to high-quality Early Care and Education. Through a unique shared-services model and a cost-effective online business platform, we take the back-office burden off providers so they can stay financially stable, save time and money, and focus on what matters most: caring for more children, better.

Through an Early Head StartChild Care Partnerships (EHS-CCP) grant, ELV and its collaborators deliver best-in-class, comprehensive early childhood services to eligible children across six Colorado counties leveraging our model to stretch every resource in support of infant and toddler development.

Your Impact

You'll serve as the bridge between ELV program management and your assigned CCP sites part coach, part compliance guide, part community connector. Your work spans five areas of development: Leadership, Professional, Business, Family Engagement, and Community. Day to day, that means showing up on-site, building trusting relationships, solving real problems, and helping good programs become great ones.

What You'll Do

Develop strong site leaders

• Provide on-site technical assistance, coaching, and support around center management, operations, human resources, and business development.
• Guide site leaders through a continuous improvement process to reach full compliance with the federal Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) and standards set by licensing, health, fire, and other regulatory agencies.
• Lead assigned sites through targeted quality improvement projects.

Grow great teachers

• Implement a teacher and director professional development program, including coordinating and delivering training, coaching, and the teacher credentialing process.
• Deliver Practice-Based Coaching for EHS teachers through individualized coaching plans supporting an evidence-based infant/toddler curriculum, ongoing authentic assessment, and classroom observations that pinpoint teacher, classroom, and PD needs.
• Ensure adherence to EHS service plans guiding early childhood development, health and safety, and effective classroom management.

Partner with families

• Offer a family development program aligned with HSPPS and the Parent, Family and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework that supports families' progress toward self-reliance.
• Build a comprehensive family engagement program parent curriculum, home visits, parent-teacher conferences, intentional engagement events, and county-based policy council participation.
• Facilitate the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) system per HSPPS and program policy, and maintain accurate data within the management system.

Strengthen communities and comprehensive services

• Develop, revise, and oversee program policies and procedures including annual service plans and monitoring processes and participate in the Health Services Advisory Committee (HSAC).
• Coordinate comprehensive health services with community providers, including a range of health screenings, and ensure compliance with EHS plans covering health, safety, nutrition, and disabilities services.
• Support the development and tracking of contracts and MOUs that enable countywide Early Head Start services.
• Represent ELV positively and professionally, building relationships with local agencies and connecting those resources to programs and families.

Keep everything on track

• Document and maintain required records and reports continuous improvement checkpoints, child health and development data, PD and coaching plans, case notes, referrals and follow-up, and monthly reports in the Alliance CORE database.
• Execute a monitoring and reporting structure with child care partners that ensures full HSPPS compliance and meets the needs of enrolled families.
• Take on other duties as assigned as the program grows.

What You Bring

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Social Welfare, Public Administration, or a related human services field (preferred).

Experience & knowledge

• Minimum 2 years in human services, including at least 1 year in an early childhood environment.
• Experience working with children and families from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Early Childhood Development theory and practice.
• Proven leadership ability facilitating relationships with ECE programs, community partners, and parents.
• Working knowledge of case management, community engagement, continuous improvement, change management, and/or practice-based coaching.

Credentials & skills

• Current Colorado Coaching Credential or willingness to pursue it and certify on other relevant coaching tools.
• Bilingual English/Spanish (preferred).
• Strong customer service skills and the ability to partner effectively with both organizations and individuals.
• Comfort with technology or the willingness to learn including Alliance CORE, remote meetings, and Microsoft Office & Teams.

Travel & Requirements

• Local in-county travel up to 60%; out-of-county travel up to 10%.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required.

What Does Early Learning Ventures Have to Offer You?

Excellent benefits (medical, dental, & vision)

Company-paid life insurance

Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Insurance

401(k) with company match

Company-Paid Employee assistance programs

Paid vacation days

Paid personal days

Paid holidays

Sick Days