Center Resource Partner

About the role

The Center Resource Partner assists the teacher in planning, organizing, and directing the operation of programs for a specific group of children, ensuring a high-quality environment conducive to their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure classroom environment is age-appropriate and meets HS and licensing standards.
• Maintain a clean classroom environment, sweeping throughout the day, wiping up spills, and removing trash and vacuuming classroom rugs as needed.
• Assist in organizing and using space, materials, and routines to construct an interesting, secure, and enjoyable environment that encourages play, exploration, and learning.
• Achieve the highest level of social, emotional, physical, and intellectual competence in children by advancing their literacy, phonemic awareness, language, vocabulary, book appreciation, early math, and science understanding, and problem-solving abilities.
• Support the social and emotional development of children.
• Encourage the involvement of families in the Head Start program and foster relationships between children and their families.
• Perform bus monitoring duties as assigned, ensuring the safety of all passengers during transport, loading, and unloading.
• Participate in after-hours family engagement and enrichment activities.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Completion of the Infant/Toddler or preschool CDA Track (based on program needs).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with supervisors, children, parents, and volunteers.
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to working with different age groups of children.
• Demonstrated ability to perform effectively the duties required for the job, including verbal and auditory capacities, visual acuity, and physical stamina.
• Demonstrated willingness to actively pursue appropriate professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bilingual (Spanish) skills are a plus.
• Must be able to sit and stand for extended periods, lift up to 35 lbs, bend and stoop, and walk extended periods throughout the day monitoring.
• Must be able to adjust focus, hear clearly, see close, distance, color, peripheral depth, and adjust focus.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with supervisors, children, parents, and volunteers.
• Ability to adjust to working with different age groups of children.
• Ability to perform effectively the duties required for the job, including verbal ability to communicate, auditory capacity to respond to children and adults, visual ability to complete written assignments, and physical ability to complete assignments given accommodations as required by law.
• Willingness to actively pursue appropriate professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.