CCRR Family Child Care Coach

Our Family Childcare Homes are a Critical Part of the Childcare Landscape in TN! Are you experienced with Owning/Directing a Family Childcare Home and have a Desire to help other Providers?

Our Family Child Care Coaches have some of the following responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain relationships with family childcare providers.
• Provide coaching, training, technical assistance and support to local family child care providers in response to referrals from the state and/or CCDF partners.
• Collaborate with specialty coaches to provide targeted technical assistance to family childcare educators.
• Maintain professional working relationship with area coaches.
• Maintain knowledge on the principles of effective Family Child Care engagement and business practices.
• Contact all family childcare agencies in service delivery area at least two times per year.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of Tennessee Quality Rating and Improvement System.
• Deliver scheduled training events for the quarterly training calendar both virtually and in person.
• Become a CPR/First Aid certified trainer and maintain certification.
• Identify and work with Family Child Care Demonstration Sites.
• Support family childcare educators participating in the Family Child Care Specialization.
• Support family childcare agencies seeking national accreditation through the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) and/or other national accreditation systems.
• Support the development of Enhanced Quality Improvement Plans with family childcare providers.
• Provide support for the regional Children in Disaster Task Force including but not limited to consultation with family childcare providers for emergency preparedness planning.
• Create and facilitate peer learning groups for family childcare providers.
• Submit data on TA, TTA, training and coaching within three days of when service was delivered.
• Coordinate and support Family Child Care statewide and regional conferences.
• Participate in planning and family childcare program development meetings.
• Attend required trainings to increase knowledge and skills.
• Participate in advisory committee meetings, partner meetings, and other meetings as requested.
• Provide technical support to local CCR&R staff.
• Serve as a facilitator for the Train the Trainer Institutes and Supplemental trainings.
• Author content for CCR&R newsletter/social media/website and the agency newsletter.
• Positively market the CCR&R Network to the community.
• Attain and maintain AIMHiTN endorsement.

Qualifications Include:

• Must have bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in education, Early Childhood Education, Child & Family Studies, or a closely related field.

• A minimum of three years of early childhood/education experience. Direct care experience preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of the QRIS and licensing programs in TN and the role of the Tennessee Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
• Ability to work remotely from a home office within the state of Tennessee.
• Ability to train adults using principles of adult learning.
• Physical examination and record of negative TB test results must be on file with Signal Centers.
• Dependable transportation, valid driver’s license and insurance required.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.

Willingness and ability to travel frequently within the assigned Tennessee service area.

Special skills/aptitudes:

• Knowledge of quality practices as they pertain to caring for children in family child care settings.
• Ability to provide coaching, training and/or technical assistance, and develop applicable training resources for family child care providers.
• Ability to be solution focused.

Signal Centers is an EEO employer and seeks to affirm the dignity and worth of every person. It is, therefore, the policy of the organization to practice and ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all applicants and employees with respect to race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender, or ability and promote the full realization of this policy through all employment practices.