Early Childhood Intervention Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Practice equity in daily decisions. Apply an equity lens to goals, planning, materials, outreach/enrollment, communications, follow-through and partnerships and seek input from people most affected by decisions.
• Build a culture of belonging. Use inclusive meeting norms, invite under-represented perspectives, offer constructive feedback, and address harm respectfully.
• Improve practices that cause harm. Flag practices, processes, and/or policies that undermine the dignity, safety, or equitable treatment of children, families, educators; propose and help implement and evaluate improvements.
• Identify Allegheny County agencies familiar with the early childhood education system, early intervention behavioral health, and infant/early childhood mental health systems that have the capacity to provide support to early educators and program administrators.
• Identify key stakeholders and develop and maintain a Rapid Response Team for Allegheny County.
• Serve as a consultant to early learning program administrators and educators in collaboration with the ELRC 5 Quality Coach.
• Use observational tools, interviews, and data collection to determine the function of a child’s behavior.
• Create Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) in early care and education settings for children who have been referred to the Rapid Response Team.
• Coach educators on the implementation of Functional Behavior Assessments.
• Respond within 48 hours after a referral is received.
• Ensure that the Team works through a Pyramid Model in partnership with the early learning program administrator and educators, family, and child.
• Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, early intervention staff, Team, and Quality Coach to assess and develop strategies to support the family and child.
• Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, early intervention staff, Team, and Quality Coach to create a plan of action to support the child.
• Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, Team, and Quality Coach to support families by connecting them to resources and information throughout the process.
• Ensure that there is follow up with the early learning program director, Team, early intervention staff, and Quality Coach.
• Collect data from the beginning of the process to the conclusion of the intervention with the early learning program.
• Serve as an active member of the Quality Initiatives and ELRC teams to effectively respond to the needs of the field and the systems they work within.
• Meet regularly with the Quality Initiatives and ELRC teams to provide feedback and brainstorm new ideas.
• Work collaboratively across departments within Trying Together to meet the mission and accomplish the work.
• Participate in initial and ongoing professional development for the purposes of continuous learning and expanding one’s professional knowledge base.
• Consistently use the NeonCRM platform to build relationships with constituents, record data that measure project performance, and support continuous quality improvement in the organization's resources and services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Early Intervention, Special Education or related field and five years of related experience working with young children and families in early intervention, special education, and/or behavioral health environments. Masters degree preferred.
• Direct training and/or course work in Applied Behavioral Analysis
• Ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work both independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to maintain a project timeline and monitor progress toward goals.
• Must be able to interact with others in a positive and professional manner.
• Recognize that children are best understood and supported in the context of family, culture, community, and society.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Excellent data collection and analysis skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and/or weekends.
• Must own a reliable vehicle as the nature of this job includes regularly visiting early learning programs in-person across Allegheny County.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Appreciative inquiry and strengths-based review process.