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About Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC):

Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) is a nonprofit organization serving children and families across Oregon through early education and family support programs. At OCDC, our work has purpose. Every role contributes to creating stronger families, healthier communities, and brighter futures for children across Oregon.

Position Summary:

Provide comprehensive child development and parent support services to families with children from prenatal to age 3 through weekly home visiting and regular group socializations emphasizing parents as the child's first and most important relationships. Collaborate with families and community providers to ensure child and family health and well-being.

Essential Functions:

Relationship Building:

• Engages in mutually respectful, goal-oriented partnerships with families to promote parent-child relationships and family well-being.

• Uses positive communication and active listening techniques with children and families to establish and maintain relationships.

• Fosters meaningful, reciprocal relationships that are both culturally receptive and responsive to meet families where they are and engages them in opportunities to identify their own interests, strengths, needs, and resources.

• Maintains effective relationships within professional boundaries.

Culturally Sensitive Approaches:

• Respects and responds appropriately to the culture, language, values, and family structures of each family served.

• Demonstrates a non-judgmental, respectful approach with children and families.

• Conducts culturally and linguistically responsive services to children and families.

• Provides materials to families that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Family Partnerships and Goal Setting:

• Supports families' safety, health, financial stability, life goals, and aspirations.

• Works with families as they identify and achieve their goals

• Supports families in accessing program and community supports and resources that promote progress on child development and family goals.

• Supports family members' efforts to connect with and be responsible for their child at all ages and stages of development.

Family Engagement:

• Facilitates networks and group activities that support families' strengths, interests, and needs.

• Provides or connects families with opportunities that support health, safety, family literacy, and family well-being.

• Educates parents on Policy Council and other available committee or community opportunities that will promote parent leadership and advocacy.

• Includes parents as active participants in groups and training so they can share skills, culture, and talents.

• Supports parents as they engage in volunteering, collaborating with the community, and other ways of contributing to program activities and the larger community.

Community Resources and Referrals:

• Establishes and maintains effective community partnerships that support family wellness and children's learning and development.

• Supports families in using community resources that enhance family well-being and children's learning and development.

• Collaborates with agency staff and partners with families as they access services from community partners such as health, mental health, child development, early intervention, or child welfare as indicated to address specific issues or family needs.

• Links parents to education and training that contribute to self-sufficiency and to reaching goals around their education and/or career training.

• Links families to resources and provides referrals to community agencies to obtain emergency assistance, health, mental health, and dental services, including ensuring the establishment of medical and dental homes.

• Follows up with families on the effectiveness of referrals to community resources.

Observation and Assessment:

• Engages with families as equal partners in learning about their child while acknowledging parents as the primary nurturer, first and life-long educator and advocate.

• Engages with parents in sharing child development outcome information in an understandable family-friendly format.

• Collaborates with families to use ongoing developmental assessment tools to plan for meaningful individualized experiences that address all developmental domains while using materials that reflect family home environment, culture, and language and incorporates plans for children with special health and education needs.

• Partners with parents to ensure that health and developmental screenings, assessments and evaluations are conducted, and follow-up has occurred in a timely manner.

• Share information about children's social, emotional, and cognitive development and the importance of the home language (with families of children who are multi- language learners).

Curriculum Planning:

• Enhances the parent-child relationship and supports parents' role as the first and lifelong educators of their children.

• Collaborates with families to plan and provide home visits that discuss child and family progress, provides parents with prenatal and child development education and promotes parents as primary nurturers and teachers through parent-child interactions.

• Uses family input, developmental assessments, and selected curriculum resources to plan and facilitate socializations that foster individual child development through parent-child relationships.

• Provides opportunities for families to learn about expectant parenting and prenatal health, the developing role of young parents (for adolescent parents), and/or about their role as new mothers and fathers.

• Provides families with appropriate information, training, and connections to future early care and educational settings to help facilitate the transition process for parents and children.

Data Collection and Assessment:

• Performs effective recordkeeping and internal and external reporting tasks to track individual child, family, and program progress.

• Enters data and runs reports utilizing electronic tracking system.

• Compiles, documents, and sorts data related to program services and individual child development and family case management.

• Uses data results to inform the design of workshops, meetings, and other activities for children and families.

• Collects and analyzes information to find new solutions to challenges as part of ongoing monitoring in order to continuously improve services.

• Tracks child development outcomes that align with OCDC's school readiness goals.

Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Acts as a member of a comprehensive services team so that family service activities are coordinated and integrated throughout the program and community.

• Collaborates with agency staff and community partners from multiple disciplines to deliver comprehensive services.

• Ensures that pertinent knowledge about families is appropriately shared with colleagues and professionals in a way that assures confidentiality and increases service coordination.

• Maintains positive team relations with other staff by working to resolve issues and problems among co-workers cooperatively and respectfully.

Program Knowledge:

• Assures that home visiting activities correlate with established goals, objectives and work plans.

• Assures program compliance with applicable regulations and rules.

Skill and Knowledge Development:

• Maintains skill and technical knowledge in assigned subject area.

• Attends educational workshops, trainings and seminars, establishing personal networks to maintain expertise in field.

Professional & Ethical Conduct:

• Supports Our Mission, What We Do, and Our Vision & Values in daily activities.

• Demonstrates and applies continually the principles and values of OCDC's Code of Ethics, Code of Behavior, and Code of Conduct.

• Maintains confidence and protects agency operations by keeping information confidential in compliance with OCDC policy and procedures.

• Applies safety practices in all facets of the performance of duties in compliance with safety standards and immediately reports any unsafe or hazardous working conditions and/or any injury.

• Abides by the Head Start Standards of Conduct.

Other:

• Performs other work related or assigned duties.

• Adheres to and promotes health and safety practices.

• Seeks and pursues opportunities to promote the health and well-being of families.

• Assists with limited translation and interpretation for communicating related to program and community services.


Education and Experience Requirements:

High school diploma or GED:

AND

• Current home visitor's child development associate (CDA) credential.

AND

• Minimum 3 years of experience working directly with children from prenatal to 3 years of age and their families.

OR

Associates degree or higher in:

• Early childhood education or child development WITH training or coursework with a focus on both infant and toddler development and family relations; or

• Any field and coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education or child development WITH training or coursework with a focus on both infant and toddler development and family relations.

And

• Minimum 1 year of experience working directly with children from prenatal to 3 years of age and their families.


Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is $22.69 to $28.37 hourly. Placement within the range is determined by factors such as relevant experience, skills, certifications, and internal equity.

Benefits:

OCDC offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial wellbeing, and work-life balance. Eligible employees (20+ hours/week) may receive:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Retirement plan with employer contribution

• Paid time off, sick leave, holidays, and paid leave programs

• Employer paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options available

• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness resources

• Optional benefits including pet insurance

At OCDC, employee wellbeing is a priority and an essential part of supporting our mission and communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

OCDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.

OCDC is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation. If you need an accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please let us know.