Project Facilitator -Bachelors in Education Required - Brooklyn

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, a designated Level 3 Medical Home, is the largest federally qualified health center network in New York State, and the second largest in the nation. It includes eight primary care sites, 40 school-based health centers and dental clinics, four day care centers, the nation's largest dental residency program, and New York State's largest behavioral health program. The network also provides care to disenfranchised New Yorkers through 12 community medicine sites, comprehensive HIV services, chemical dependency programs, and a family support center offering educational, vocational, and other social support programs.

About the role

The Sunset Park Family Child Care Network is a place-based initiative that supports and monitors affiliated family child care providers to ensure the delivery of high-quality services to children and families. The Family Health Centers seek to support and enhance the existing strengths of family child care as birth-4 programs that promote continuous and responsive relationships, strengthen early learning skills, build resilience, and lay the foundation for all future learning.

The primary role of the Education Specialist (Project Facilitator) is to build strength-based relationships with affiliated providers to support them around implementing high-quality play-based instruction.

Responsibilities

• Provide twice monthly strength-based practice-based coaching to up to 17 affiliated providers as they implement a mixed-age curriculum.
• Document all coaching sessions.
• Assist affiliated providers in gathering observations of children and entering child assessment data in a timely manner, and support its use for curriculum and lesson planning.
• Review and adapt appropriate curriculum supports and documents with affiliated providers that foster hands-on developmentally appropriate and relationship-based interactions with all children.
• Adapt and provide guidance to affiliated providers on the implementation of an evidence-based curriculum for mixed-age group settings that meets the individual needs of all children.
• Support FCC Education Director in coordinating all required professional learning days throughout the year.
• Participate in Network staff professional learning sessions delivered.
• Collaborate with the FCC Education Director, FCC Family Support Worker, and FCC Monitors to meet the needs of all children and families.
• Participate in twice monthly FCC Network staff meetings to connect about individual providers, families, and coordinate all services.
• Assist in ongoing outreach, enrollment, and all other administrative tasks.
• Other tasks as assigned by Program Leadership.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Early Childhood or Infant/Toddler studies.
• 2 years' experience teaching children under six years old.

Qualifications

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

• 3 years' experience teaching children under six years old (preferred).
• Willingness to travel within FCC Network catchment area (preferred).
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as a team member (preferred).

Benefits

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provides a comprehensive benefits and wellness package, including:

• Financial security benefits.
• A generous time-off program.
• Employee resource groups for peer support.
• Access to a holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care well-being.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $42,783.13 - $50,000.00 annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. This range does not include bonuses, incentive pay, differential pay, or other forms of compensation or benefits.