What are the responsibilities and job description for the Child Care Consultant I position at Cherokee Nation?
Job Summary:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Child Care Consultant I provides child care resources, referral services, and consumer education to child care programs, families, and communities. This position facilitates growth and professional advancement of early childhood professionals by providing training, technical assistance, and coaching.
Job Duties:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designs, coordinates, and facilitates ongoing training for early childhood teachers to ensure quality service delivery and teacher effectiveness.
- Utilizes knowledge of childcare licensing requirements, health and safety requirements, quality standards, and evidence-based teaching methods to expand the knowledge and practices of early childhood teachers.
- Assists in ensuring compliance with quality rating improvement systems and state licensing requirements.
- Provides technical assistance to meet quality standards through developmentally appropriate lesson plans, learning observations, assessments, school readiness skills, and curriculum in the classroom.
- Supports teaching methods that ensure classroom learning environments are appropriate and include all early childhood core competencies.
- Observes, models, coaches, and provides consultation on developmentally appropriate and best-practice early childhood instructional methods.
- Provides tools, strategies, and feedback to promote teacher-identified goals.
- Ensures ongoing communication with program director and relevant staff regarding coaching practices.
- Supports childcare directors and administrators in program operation and management.
- Stays informed and knowledgeable about early childhood program resources and initiatives.
- Travels to childcare facilities throughout the reservation to deliver services.
- Provides childcare referrals and consumer education to families seeking childcare.
- Engages with early childhood and community partners to foster and strengthen collaborations and partnerships.
- Coordinates special events with an early childhood emphasis.
- Assists with maintaining updated information for the website, brochures, newsletter, and outreach.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Performs work under direct supervision.
- Handles basic issues and problems, and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff.
- Possesses beginning to working knowledge of subject matter.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Counseling, Early Childhood, Education, Family and Consumer Science, Human Services, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field.
- At least one (1) year of experience in a related field.
COMPETENCIES
Time management skills.- Planning skills.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships.
- Interpersonal skills.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Must possess a valid driver's license with a driving history verified through a motor vehicle report that meets requirements for Cherokee Nation underwriting rating.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- The employee must not be and will not be under sanction by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) or by the General Services Administration (GSA) or listed on the OIG's Cumulative Sanction Report, or the GSA's List of Excluded Providers, or listed on the OIG's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE).
- Must meet and maintain pre-employment and periodic background investigation and adjudication for childcare.
