Quality Lead Mentor

Child Care Associates (CCA), the largest child development nonprofit organization in North Texas, has served nearly 600,000 vulnerable young children and their families since 1968. Regional support for young children has increased over the past 5 years, creating an opportunity to propel CCA's services and the early learning system to new levels of impact and quality. Child Care Associates is a nonprofit of scale in the DFW region poised to help build a strong early childhood system, to partner with families and to build an early education infrastructure to help achieve outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities:

·        Provide direction and serve as the lead support to the mentoring team.

·        Implement training plans for new hire mentor staff.

·        Conduct and review shadowing of mentor staff for training enhancement and job performance.

·        Provide on-site mentoring to child care providers attaining and maintaining Texas Rising Star certification.

·        Responsible for assisting facilities to move towards 4 Star or National Accreditation status by providing on- going support through professional development and modeling developmentally appropriate practices.

·        Maintain a visit schedule to insure all TRS sites receive on-site visits regularly.

·        Submit weekly reports to Lead Program Support Mentor detailing site visits, successes and obstacles.

·        Develop instructional materials and provide instructional trainings on a monthly basis.

·        Provide training to TRS Mentors in content areas, coaching strategies and tools.

·        Provide face-to-face coaching to classroom teachers as scheduled/required and use a variety of coaching strategies as trained to model for TRS Mentors;

·        Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

·        Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Special Education, Child Psychology, Educational Psychology, Elementary Education or Family Consumer Science.

·        A minimum of 3 year experience in an early childhood setting.

·        Previous experience and proven ability in preparing and conducting training and development workshops for adults with effective results

·        Certified Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) Observer for Infant, Toddler and PreK.

·        Experience using research-based materials and instructional strategies in an early childhood setting;

·        Experience across a diversity of early childhood settings and programs preferred.

·        Be conversant in best practices and research.

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly convey thoughts, ideas and concepts to others.

·        Computer proficiency required.

·        Insured and reliable vehicle for transportation

·        Must be able to pass a pre-employment and/or periodic physical examination, TB skin test, and complete background check every 24 months.

Physical Requirements:

The physical requirements for this position are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·        Repetitive use of hands; reaching and turning;

·        Ability to lift up to 30 pounds; light lifting of supplies and materials;

·        Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

·        Must be able to twist, turn, kneel, bend and stoop.

BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Child Care Associates offers a competitive benefits package that is provided to all fulltime

employees that include health, dental and life insurance coverage. Additional voluntary benefits are offered to all fulltime employees in addition to the core benefits package.

After completing one (1) year of service, the company contributes 4% of the employee’s earnings to the 403(b) retirement plan. If the employee also elects to make a contribution to the plan, Child Care Associates will match half (50%) of the employee’s contribution up to 4% of base salary.

Child Care Associates provides other benefits, which are outlined in the Staff Handbook, such as paid holidays,  and paid time off (PTO).

Salary : $45,000 - $68,000