Child Care Licensing & Provider Growth Specialist — North Carolina
Recruit new child care providers
Go find the people who should be doing this and bring them in.
Motivate and coach
Motivate and coach them through licensing, from first conversation to open doors, for both centers and family child care homes.
Teach providers how to run a business
- Enrollment
- Operations
- Compliance
- The numbers that keep the lights on
Translate licensing rules
Translate North Carolina’s licensing rules (DCDEE) into plain steps people can act on, and keep providers compliant once they’re open.
Build playbooks, training, and materials
Build the playbooks, training, and materials that let us help the next hundred providers faster than the last.
Partner with state agencies and community organizations
Partner with state agencies and community organizations to expand child care supply where it’s needed most.
Who You Are
- A person who can walk into a room and get someone to bet on themselves
- Part recruiter, part coach, part operator
- You know how businesses actually run
- You’re relentless about detail
- People trust you fast
- You’re genuinely willing to travel
- You’d rather be in the field than behind a screen
Knowledge of North Carolina child care licensing — ideally from inside or alongside DCDEE — is a strong advantage, but the instinct to recruit, motivate, and teach is what makes this role work.
Big pluses:
- An MBA, or a business-school undergraduate degree
- You know how to use AI tools and can figure things out on your own — you don’t wait to be told how
- You have experience recruiting, coaching, or consulting to small business owners or child care providers
- You are familiar with North Carolina’s quality rating and improvement work
Pay
Competitive compensation, full-time.