Home Educator - PCEP Uvalde

Job Responsibilities

• Promote and model the organization’s Core Values in all interactions and activities.
• Actively encourage newly enrolled parents to participate in and remain engaged with program activities.
• Collaborate with parents to develop individualized family plans.
• Foster professional, caring relationships with families based on mutual trust and respect.
• Support parents in understanding child development and how children grow and learn.
• Plan and facilitate child-centered educational activities addressing intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development.
• Provide parents with education on health and nutrition, integrating these topics into program activities.
• Cookordination with staff and parents to support health and nutrition efforts.
• Provide information, referrals, and assistance to parents accessing community resources.
• Support families in problem-solving and overcoming barriers.
• Conduct 30-minute home visits per program participant, ensuring compliance with program requirements.
• Organize at least two group socialization activities per program guidelines.
• Manage an assigned caseload of families.
• Develop and implement home visit plans focused on parents or legal guardians.
• Organize and supervise socialization activities that promote peer interaction through age-appropriate play and learning experiences.
• Conduct activities in various settings such as classrooms, community facilities, homes, or on field trips.
• Encourage parental involvement through observation, volunteering, or participation in children’s activities.
• Ensure compliance with nutritional guidelines by providing appropriate snacks and meals during socialization sessions.
• Prepare materials for toy-making lessons, including creating handouts and gathering supplies.
• Maintain inventory records and a sample exhibit of all AVANCE toys.
• Sew, cut, and prepare materials for toy-making sessions.
• Conduct toy-making sessions and reinforce AVANCE Possibility Sheets.
• Maintain accurate sign-in sheets for toy-making sessions.

Education

• Required: Associate degree in Early Childhood Education or in a related field, or a CDA (Child Development Associate) with at least 18 hours of early childhood development completed.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or in a related field with at least 18 hours of early childhood development completed.

Work Experience

• Required: A minimum of six months in a licensed childcare facility or in a public/private school or early childhood facility or has completed an early childhood degree program where practicum(s) were required. For PCEP Home Educators a minimum of work experience is not required, AVANCE provides training and support for PCEP.
• Preferred: For EHS Home Educators a minimum of one (1) year of experience in a licensed childcare facility or in a public/private school or early childhood facility or has completed an early childhood degree program where practicum(s) were required.

Additional Skills

• First Aid and CPR training.
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office software applications with advanced skills using Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and Adobe Acrobat.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish – Oral and Written).
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail.
• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, external partners, and donors.
• Emotional maturity.
• Highly resourceful team player, with the ability to be extremely effective independently with the capability of managing numerous simultaneous projects.
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions.
• Strong analytical, presentation, verbal and written communication, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to generate, analyze, evaluate, and summarize reports.
• Ability to travel to various training sessions and to assign caseload homes.
• Must have dependable transportation daily, valid driver’s license, a clean driving record (subject to annual MVR check and policy), current auto liability insurance and be bondable by AVANCE, San Antonio, Inc.