Infant Toddler Educator

About the Role

At Youth In Need, we value community and relationships. We encourage courageous spaces, leaning into discomfort, and stretching your learning muscles. As an Infant Toddler Educator, you'll create a warm, welcoming classroom environment that helps children reach their highest potential while partnering with parents and your colleagues to help make this happen. You'll show exemplary Infant/Toddler responsive care, while demonstrating classroom management skills, lesson planning and developmentally appropriate practice.

About Our Company

Youth In Need has been around since 1974 helping to create safe places for the area's most vulnerable children. We have more than 400 full- and part-time staff who serve more than 8,000 children, teens and families at nearly 100 locations in six counties in Eastern Missouri. Youth In Need has been named a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplace for seven straight years. We are nationally recognized by the US Department of Health and Human Services as an exemplary program.

Qualifications

• Minimum of an Infant/Toddler Child Development Associate (we can help you get this!) OR a degree in Early Childhood Education/Child Development
• Related degree or credential will be considered with at least 12 hours of ECE/Child Development coursework
• Experience working in an Early Head Start Program or a licensed community childcare program
• 3 or more years' experience

Pay

This is an hourly position, starting at $22.14/hour with the required CDA credential or equivalent or $16.29/hour prior to obtaining the required CDA credential or equivalent.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance at low cost
• Paid Time Off including 12 Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, 12 Sick Days and 2 Weeks Vacation (which increases with years of service)
• 401k with 3% Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance
• Opportunity for growth

For the full job description, please email Careers@YouthInNeed.org or visit www.youthinneed.org.