Center Aide - Head Start & Early Head Start
for sections present: About the role? The posting includes Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties, Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Additional Qualifications, Working Conditions and Important Information, Benefits (Mt. Hood Community College offers...), Compensation (Salary range), Schedule (40 hours per week, Monday – Friday). Also maybe Job Details (Employee Group etc.) but we can fold into a short
or drop. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID etc. We need to preserve all substantive info, no boilerplate. Remove application instructions etc. We need sections only when real specific content. Let's extract: Job Summary: "Assists with conducting the day-to-day Head Start Preschool and Early Head start programs by working in multiple classrooms and performing other duties to support the operation of the center. Provides classroom coverage for staff breaks and planning. Provides support for meal services and other basic administrative supports. Meets performance standards, and follows the agency and licensing policies, procedures, rules, and regulations." Essential Duties list bullet points. Additional Duties list bullet points. Minimum Qualifications: "Ability to carry out oral and written directions, read, write and speak at a level sufficient to fulfill the duties to be performed for the position described Experience working with the backgrounds of the College’s community, students, and employees" Preferred Qualifications: "Experience working with young children Bilingual skills in English and another language that meets program and/or community needs" Additional Qualifications: list of requirements: Must be enrolled in Oregon Central Background Registry..., Post-offer fitness..., TB screening, Health appraisal, Complete required DELC licensing within 30 days of hire, Must possess or obtain current Infant/Child First Aid/CPR certification within 60 days of hire, Must possess or obtain Food Handlers Certificate within 30 days of hire. Working Conditions and Important Information: includes Employee Group, Classification, Employment Type, FTE, Program runs August - June, FLSA Status, Compensation, Schedule, Remote Eligibility, Working Conditions Physical Requirements, Exposure to Hazards, Working conditions include indoor/outdoor..., Salary Placement paragraph, Benefits paragraph. We need sections: About the role (maybe Job Summary), Responsibilities (Essential Duties + Additional Duties?), Requirements (Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Additional Qualifications), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Also maybe Working Conditions could be part of About the role? But we can include a section "Working Conditions" if there is specific content. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). They gave examples but we can use those headings. We need to decide which sections to include. We have content for: - About the role: Job Summary (maybe combine with responsibilities). Could use "About the role" heading for Job Summary paragraph. - Responsibilities: Essential Duties and Additional Duties (list). - Requirements: Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Additional Qualifications (maybe combine). Could use "Requirements" heading. - Benefits: paragraph about benefits. - Pay: compensation range. - Schedule: schedule details (40 hours per week, Monday – Friday) plus maybe FTE etc. We should not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual numbers. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /. Use
for each section heading. Use - for lists. Use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title. No Job ID.
We must drop boilerplate like "Posted Date", "Applying to this job will open a new window", "For best consideration, please submit application materials by September 25, 2026." etc. Also drop "Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties" heading (we replace with our own). Also drop "Minimum and Desired Qualifications" heading (we use our own). Also drop "Additional Qualifications" heading? We'll incorporate.
We need to preserve all substantive info: ensure we include all bullet points.
Let's list essential duties bullet points:
- Assists in carrying out classroom schedule and daily routines and implementing planned classroom curriculum.
- Assists in preparing activities, maintaining supplies, and equipment.
- Assists with cleaning and maintenance as required by the site.
- Assists with supervising and ensuring the safety of children within the Head Start Preschool and Early Head Start programs.
- Assists children with learning routines, social skills, and positive interaction through positive guidance.
- Prepares food for meals in a safe and sanitary environment following local and CACFP regulations.
- Helps with setting up the meals in the classroom and with meal clean up.
- Provides basic administrative support within the center.
Additional duties bullet points:
- Administers medications, and diapers as needed.
- Participates on various committees and projects as directed.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications bullet? It's a sentence: "Ability to carry out oral and written directions, read, write and speak at a level sufficient to fulfill the duties to be performed for the position described Experience working with the backgrounds of the College’s community, students, and employees". Could be two sentences? We'll keep as paragraph.
Preferred Qualifications: "Experience working with young children Bilingual skills in English and another language that meets program and/or community needs". Could be two bullet points? We'll keep as paragraph or list? Since it's a list of qualifications, we can make
- for each.
Additional Qualifications bullet list:
- Must be enrolled in the Oregon Central Background Registry prior to beginning employment and enrollment must be maintained throughout employment
- Post-offer fitness for duty evaluation, must be obtained within 30 days of hire date:
- TB screening
- Health appraisal
- Complete required Department of Early Learning and Care (DELC) licensing within 30 days of hire
- Must possess or obtain current Infant/Child First Aid/CPR certification within 60 days of hire
- Must possess or obtain Food Handlers Certificate within 30 days of hire
We need to preserve all details.
Working Conditions and Important Information: includes many details. We'll need to capture them.
Let's extract:
- Employee Group: Oregon School Employees Association (OSEA)
- Classification: OSEA Range 5
- Employment Type: Full-Time, Partial Year .80384 FTE - Program runs August - June
- FLSA Status: Non-Exempt (Hourly)
- Compensation: $17.70-$18.69 Per Hour
- Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday
- Remote Eligibility: On-Site (Not eligible for remote work)
- Working Conditions Physical Requirements:
- Ability to lift/carry up to 50 lbs. a distance of 10 feet.
- Ability to push/pull up to 50 lbs. a distance of 10 yards.
- Sufficient mobility and range of motion to perform repetitive standing, walking, balancing, stooping, bending, crouching, crawling, sitting on the floor, reaching, squatting, kneeling, and twisting for up to 8 hours per day.
- Sufficient stamina to perform job duties at frequency required.
- Ability to react quickly to the physical actions of children.
- Sufficient vision and hearing to perform job duties.
- Sufficient manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination to perform job duties.
- Exposure to Hazards: Unpredictable child and family behavior, hazardous chemicals, contagious conditions, work with office equipment.
- Working conditions include indoor/outdoor environments, preschool center classrooms, playgrounds, and offices.
- Salary Placement: Initial salary placement will be based on applicable education and/or years of relevant full-time equivalent experience at the sole discretion of the College, per the guidelines in the Collective Bargaining Agreement and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. Please include all relevant education and full and part-time experience (including unpaid and volunteer experience) in your application that you want the College to review towards potential placement. Hired employees will not have an opportunity to update past education and/or experience or appeal initial placement after the time of hire.
- Benefits: Mt. Hood Community College offers an exceptional benefits package that includes vacation, sick and personal leave; medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance; optional short-term disability, optional life, and optional AD&D insurance; retirement through Oregon PERS, including generous employer contributions; a tuition waiver plan and access to professional training and development; and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). For more information about our benefits and wellness offerings, please visit our website here: https://www.mhcc.edu/about/jobs/work-at-mhcc
We need to include Benefits section (we already have). Pay section: compensation range. Schedule section: schedule details.
We might also include a "Working Conditions" section if we want, but the instruction list didn't include it as example but we can still include if we have content. However they said "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests we should limit to those headings. But they didn't forbid other headings; they gave examples. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Working Conditions into About the role or Responsibilities? But it's substantive. Perhaps we can include a "Working Conditions" heading as it's substantive. The examples are not exhaustive. I'd include a Working Conditions section to keep clarity.
But we must not create sections with filler. We have real content.
Thus sections:
- About the role (Job Summary)
- Responsibilities (Essential Duties + Additional Duties)
- Requirements (Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Additional Qualifications)
- Benefits
- Pay
- Schedule
- Working Conditions (maybe)
We need to ensure we don't duplicate info.
Let's craft HTML.
We'll start with About the role
Job Summary paragraph.
Then Responsibilities
- ... essential duties...
- ... additional duties...
but we need separate lists? Could combine all duties in one list. But we might separate essential vs additional. However we can just list all duties. The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make one list for duties.
We'll list all duties (essential + additional) as
- .
Then
Requirements
maybe split into Minimum, Preferred, Additional. Could use subheadings? Not allowed? We could just make a list with all requirements. But we need to preserve distinctions? Not required but we can keep as list items.
Better: Minimum Qualifications
...
then Preferred Qualifications
- ...
- ...
then Additional Qualifications
...
. However the instruction only gave examples of headings but didn't forbid others. It said "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It seems they expect those headings. But they also said "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". So we could use those headings only. If we add extra headings like Minimum Qualifications, that might be considered extra but still a section heading. The examples are not exhaustive; they said e.g. So we can use other headings as needed. I think it's fine.
But to be safe, we could follow the examples: Use "Requirements" heading for all qualifications combined. Then we can list them in - . That would lose the distinction between minimum, preferred, additional but we keep all content. That's acceptable.
Similarly for "Qualifications" maybe not needed.
for prose. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. We must drop boilerplate like "Posted Date", "Applying to this job will open a new window", "For best consideration, please submit application materials by September 25, 2026." etc. Also drop "Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties" heading (we replace with our own). Also drop "Minimum and Desired Qualifications" heading (we use our own). Also drop "Additional Qualifications" heading? We'll incorporate. We need to preserve all substantive info: ensure we include all bullet points. Let's list essential duties bullet points: - Assists in carrying out classroom schedule and daily routines and implementing planned classroom curriculum. - Assists in preparing activities, maintaining supplies, and equipment. - Assists with cleaning and maintenance as required by the site. - Assists with supervising and ensuring the safety of children within the Head Start Preschool and Early Head Start programs. - Assists children with learning routines, social skills, and positive interaction through positive guidance. - Prepares food for meals in a safe and sanitary environment following local and CACFP regulations. - Helps with setting up the meals in the classroom and with meal clean up. - Provides basic administrative support within the center. Additional duties bullet points: - Administers medications, and diapers as needed. - Participates on various committees and projects as directed. - Performs all other duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications bullet? It's a sentence: "Ability to carry out oral and written directions, read, write and speak at a level sufficient to fulfill the duties to be performed for the position described Experience working with the backgrounds of the College’s community, students, and employees". Could be two sentences? We'll keep as paragraph. Preferred Qualifications: "Experience working with young children Bilingual skills in English and another language that meets program and/or community needs". Could be two bullet points? We'll keep as paragraph or list? Since it's a list of qualifications, we can make
- for each.
Additional Qualifications bullet list:
- Must be enrolled in the Oregon Central Background Registry prior to beginning employment and enrollment must be maintained throughout employment
- Post-offer fitness for duty evaluation, must be obtained within 30 days of hire date:
- TB screening
- Health appraisal
- Complete required Department of Early Learning and Care (DELC) licensing within 30 days of hire
- Must possess or obtain current Infant/Child First Aid/CPR certification within 60 days of hire
- Must possess or obtain Food Handlers Certificate within 30 days of hire
We need to preserve all details.
Working Conditions and Important Information: includes many details. We'll need to capture them.
Let's extract:
- Employee Group: Oregon School Employees Association (OSEA)
- Classification: OSEA Range 5
- Employment Type: Full-Time, Partial Year .80384 FTE - Program runs August - June
- FLSA Status: Non-Exempt (Hourly)
- Compensation: $17.70-$18.69 Per Hour
- Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday
- Remote Eligibility: On-Site (Not eligible for remote work)
- Working Conditions Physical Requirements:
- Ability to lift/carry up to 50 lbs. a distance of 10 feet.
- Ability to push/pull up to 50 lbs. a distance of 10 yards.
- Sufficient mobility and range of motion to perform repetitive standing, walking, balancing, stooping, bending, crouching, crawling, sitting on the floor, reaching, squatting, kneeling, and twisting for up to 8 hours per day.
- Sufficient stamina to perform job duties at frequency required.
- Ability to react quickly to the physical actions of children.
- Sufficient vision and hearing to perform job duties.
- Sufficient manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination to perform job duties.
- Exposure to Hazards: Unpredictable child and family behavior, hazardous chemicals, contagious conditions, work with office equipment.
- Working conditions include indoor/outdoor environments, preschool center classrooms, playgrounds, and offices.
- Salary Placement: Initial salary placement will be based on applicable education and/or years of relevant full-time equivalent experience at the sole discretion of the College, per the guidelines in the Collective Bargaining Agreement and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. Please include all relevant education and full and part-time experience (including unpaid and volunteer experience) in your application that you want the College to review towards potential placement. Hired employees will not have an opportunity to update past education and/or experience or appeal initial placement after the time of hire.
- Benefits: Mt. Hood Community College offers an exceptional benefits package that includes vacation, sick and personal leave; medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance; optional short-term disability, optional life, and optional AD&D insurance; retirement through Oregon PERS, including generous employer contributions; a tuition waiver plan and access to professional training and development; and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). For more information about our benefits and wellness offerings, please visit our website here: https://www.mhcc.edu/about/jobs/work-at-mhcc
We need to include Benefits section (we already have). Pay section: compensation range. Schedule section: schedule details.
We might also include a "Working Conditions" section if we want, but the instruction list didn't include it as example but we can still include if we have content. However they said "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That suggests we should limit to those headings. But they didn't forbid other headings; they gave examples. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Working Conditions into About the role or Responsibilities? But it's substantive. Perhaps we can include a "Working Conditions" heading as it's substantive. The examples are not exhaustive. I'd include a Working Conditions section to keep clarity. But we must not create sections with filler. We have real content. Thus sections: - About the role (Job Summary) - Responsibilities (Essential Duties + Additional Duties) - Requirements (Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Additional Qualifications) - Benefits - Pay - Schedule - Working Conditions (maybe) We need to ensure we don't duplicate info. Let's craft HTML. We'll start with
About the role
Job Summary paragraph.
ThenResponsibilities
- ... essential duties...
- ... additional duties...
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make one list for duties. We'll list all duties (essential + additional) as
- .
Then
Requirements
maybe split into Minimum, Preferred, Additional. Could use subheadings? Not allowed? We could just make a list with all requirements. But we need to preserve distinctions? Not required but we can keep as list items. Better:Minimum Qualifications
...
thenPreferred Qualifications
- ...
- ...
Additional Qualifications
- ...
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It seems they expect those headings. But they also said "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". So we could use those headings only. If we add extra headings like Minimum Qualifications, that might be considered extra but still a section heading. The examples are not exhaustive; they said e.g. So we can use other headings as needed. I think it's fine. But to be safe, we could follow the examples: Use "Requirements" heading for all qualifications combined. Then we can list them in
- . That would lose the distinction between minimum, preferred, additional but we keep all content. That's acceptable. Similarly for "Qualifications" maybe not needed.