Higher Education and Workforce Development Navigator - Child Care Connection

About the role

The Higher Education and Workforce Development Navigator at Child Care Connection is responsible for creating positive impacts in the early care and education field. This involves recruiting and connecting the incumbent workforce with Early Childhood Education programs at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities, and supporting the attainment of additional degrees, licenses, and credentials.

Responsibilities

• Plan, publicize, and facilitate informational/educational sessions on higher education, scholarship, and financial aid processes/opportunities for incumbent Early Childhood Education workforce.
• Provide support to incumbent workforce on assessing needs, sharing information, and connecting them to higher education opportunities through phone calls, email, in-person / virtual meetings.
• Build relationships with key staff at Early Childhood Education programs at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities to understand programs and help identify appropriate candidates from incumbent workforce.
• Conduct outreach activities to members of the Early Childhood Education workforce in matters related to the recruitment of interested members of the incumbent workforce, technical assistance, and informational outreach.
• Collect information on barriers to higher education experienced by incumbent workforce members.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of two years of work experience in early childhood care and education, counseling/social work, family support, adult education, or higher education.
• PREFERRED: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Child Psychology/Behavioral Sciences, Family Consumer Sciences, Social Work, Elementary Education, Child Welfare, Family Services.

Benefits

Our entire compensation package includes paid time off and paid holidays; health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) with employer contribution; and pet insurance. A full list of benefits is available on our website at salcommunityservices.org.

About the organization

SAL Community Services (SAL) strengthens children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities. Founded in 1970, we have a history of listening to the needs of our community and responding. We provide Support, Advocacy, and Learning in our communities—from childhood to adulthood. Our mission is to strengthen children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities. SAL has a bi-state 17 county regional footprint from the Quad Cities to Central Illinois area. We advocate with and for the people we support, the communities we serve, and the solutions we champion, and we offer an inclusive, welcoming community for the people we serve—and our employees.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe in equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. Accordingly, all employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity. These decisions include recruitment, selection, promotion, transfer, discipline, compensation, benefits, training and other personnel actions involving persons in all job titles and shall occur without regard to actual or perceived race, creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, religion (or for requesting an accommodation for a religious belief), sex, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information (as defined in Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)), military status or discharge status, veteran status, qualified disabled veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, transgenderism, marital status, citizenship status, familial status, physical or mental disability (or for requesting an accommodation for a disability), association with a disabled person(s), medical condition (including HIV or AIDS status, cancer related or genetic characteristics) arrest record (unless doing so violates contractual, funding, or licensing requirements), order of protection status, pregnancy (including conditions related to childbirth or breast feeding), homelessness or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.