ERSEA Specialist

Job Title: ERSEA Specialist
Wage/Hour Status: Exempt
Reports to: Head Start Director
Pay Grade: AP-1
Days: 226
Dept./School: SSAISD Early Childhood/Head Start Department
Fund Source: 205/199

Primary Purpose:

The Enrollment, Recruitment, Selection, Eligibility, and Attendance (ERSEA) Specialist supports the planning, development, and implementation of ERSEA content areas for the South San Antonio ISD Head Start program. This role includes assisting in the monitoring and analysis of content systems, providing feedback, and managing related information and budget items. The ERSEA Specialist also develops and implements appropriate training and technical assistance, establishes and maintains effective recordkeeping systems, and actively participates as a team member in community networking. Furthermore, they develop and manage content contracts, collaborations, and memorandums of understanding as needed, and work with the Quality Assurance Team to implement systems for planning, record-keeping, reporting, and monitoring ERSEA aspects. This position ensures continuous quality improvement in ERSEA through the establishment and monitoring of delegate and partnership systems, and also monitors delegate and partnership agencies to ensure compliance with Head Start Performance Standards.

Qualifications:
Education/Certification

• Degree in Education, Early Child Educator (ECE), Social Work or closely related field from an accredited institution.
• Bachelors preferred.
• All education must be from an accredited institution.
• Candidate must have a satisfactory outcome of fingerprinting background check. Non-refundable fee (approximately $50.00) paid by the employee

Experience

• Experience providing Head Start Enrollment, Application, Recruitment, and Attendance T/TA and consultation services to preschool programs.
• Experience assisting in working with low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse families

Special Knowledge/Skills

• Advanced computer skills including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, internet, and email.
• Texas driver's license, proof of insurance, and provide a vehicle for program business.
• Knowledge of Head Start Procedure Standards, Head Start's Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework, and School Readiness Goals.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required. Bilingual preferred.
• Data processing methods, information storage, Head Start Performance Standards, and information retrieval techniques required.
• Possess the ability to work in an office setting.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Child Plus System reporting system, signs, and symptoms of child abuse and neglect

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

Essential Functions:

1. Provide workshops, training, and/or technical assistance regarding ERSEA topics to staff, families, and the community in large and small group settings or individually as needed.
2. Assists with planning, development, and implementation of ERSEA content areas.
3. Managing eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance meeting the needs of Head Start-eligible families.
4. Ensure campuses maintain funded enrollment level and waiting list, assist to fill vacancies as needed at the individual sites and analyze enrollment data to inform the planning process.
5. Analyze causes of absenteeism when average daily attendance falls below 95%.
6. Analyzing community assessment information and facilitate planning efforts to determine design options, recruitment efforts and enrollment guidelines for Head Start.
7. Provide input and solutions to develop and/or revise the program's ERSEA systems and agency policies and procedures.
8. Evaluate, design, and monitor systems to process enrollment applications, including determination of eligibility and selection criteria.
9. Oversee processing applications for accuracy and timeliness.
10. Prepare and distribute timely reports and tracking regarding ERSEA updates.
11. Promote consistent exchange of information in all directions by communicating professionally through verbal/written means while maintaining confidentiality at all times.
12. The ERSEA Specialist will ultimately be evaluated on a combination of skills, dispositions, and behaviors, some of which are related to the specific service area of this position and others that represent general expectations of all our agency employees.
13. May perform other tasks and/or duties as assigned.

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Tools/Equipment Used: Standard office equipment including personal computer and peripherals
Posture: Able to walk, sit, stand, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach
Motion: Critical sensory requirements include general vision; specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Hear or listen in the normal range (corrected) and speak and give directions clearly.
Lifting: Lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects up to 10 lbs., and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Environment: Work is performed in a classroom/office setting where minimal exposure to injury exists. District-wide travel to multiple work locations as assigned; frequent prolonged and irregular hours
Physical Exposure: Frequent cold and heat
Mental Demands: Work with frequent interruptions; ability to communicate (verbal and written); ability to instruct; maintain emotional control under stress. There will be work variations in work hours due to employee special projects, deadlines, and other concerns.

The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.

I acknowledge that I am aware that my salary is fully funded out of the Head Start program and that 100% of my time and effort is focused on meeting the Head Start program goal to prepare young students to succeed in school and life beyond school by delivering services to children and families in core areas of early learning, health, and family wellbeing while engaging parents as partners every step of the way. This position is supported and funded through a single cost objective.

Salary : $50,904 - $74,788