EDUCATION DIRECTOR

Responsibilities

• Provide Early Head start education staff with instructional leadership through design, delivery and coordination of intensive professional development;
• Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration;
• Administer administrative support;
• Build relationships with FirstStepNYC staff, families and children in order to lead School Readiness Efforts;
• Offer reflective supervision to develop, and evaluate the performance of Early Head Start staff and support their professional development;
• Collaborate with EHS Social Services Supervisor, Director, and others to provide the home visitors and teachers with individualized coaching to develop their performance and support their professional development;
• Collaborate with the Family Support to meet the needs of children and families;
• Lead the Early Head Start staff in developing and implementing an evidenced-based, responsive, intentional and developmentally appropriate curriculum, instruction, and teacher-child interactions;
• Monitor and ensure education plans, family partnership agreements, and other required documentation are completed;
• Collaborate with SCO and FirstStepNYC staff to meet Early Head Start performance standards;
• Gather and analyze community information and facilitate planning efforts to determine design options, recruitment efforts and enrollment guidelines for Early Head Start;
• Participate in Early Head Start ongoing monitoring activities and reporting; health and safety, comprehensive services, fiscal, school readiness, ERSEA, Self-Assessment and PIR;
• Create, facilitate, and report on School Readiness Goals;
• Attend trainings pertaining to Early Head Start programming;
• Participate in the development of program policies, service delivery plans, and ongoing monitoring of program quality;
• Establish strong working relationships and continuous collaboration with community partners;
• Represent FirstStepNYC at inter-agency meetings, open houses, trainings, etc.
• Liaise with external regulatory bodies as needed, including the Office of Head Start (OHS), Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and others;
• Perform administrative tasks critical to the daily operations of the SCO Family of Services Early Head Start Home Based and Center Based Program;

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or higher in early childhood education;
• NYS certification in early Childhood Education;
• Infant/toddler program experience;