Teacher - Infants

About the role

This position will remain open until filled.

Job Summary

The Infant Teacher creates a warm, nurturing, responsive, and safe classroom environment where infants feel secure, valued, and supported as they explore, grow, and achieve developmental milestones. This position supports each infant’s physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language development through intentional caregiving, responsive relationships, developmentally appropriate experiences, and consistent daily routines. Working in partnership with the Lead Teacher and classroom team, the Infant Teacher helps plan and implement meaningful learning experiences that support individualized growth and early development. This role partners with families to understand each infant’s needs, routines, culture, and development, while maintaining strong communication and trust.

Essential Duties

• Create a nurturing, responsive infant classroom.
• Build secure, trusting relationships with infants through warm interactions, responsive caregiving, consistency, and attention to each child’s individual needs, cues, routines, temperament, and developmental stage.
• Support infant growth and developmental milestones.
• Plan and implement developmentally appropriate experiences that support infants’ physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language development, including opportunities for exploration, sensory learning, movement, communication, and relationship-building.
• Partner with the Lead Teacher and classroom team. Collaborate with the Lead Teacher in planning, implementing, and maintaining a safe, engaging, and developmentally appropriate infant classroom. Support classroom routines, transitions, curriculum activities, caregiving responsibilities, and individualized learning goals.
• Lead with confidence when needed. Assume classroom responsibilities when the Lead Teacher is absent or unavailable, ensuring consistency, safety, nurturing care, and clear communication with children, families, and staff.
• Maintain a safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate environment. Ensure indoor and outdoor learning spaces are clean, safe, welcoming, and appropriate for infants. Follow Colorado Department of Early Childhood Licensing, Health and Safety standards, USDA food and sanitization requirements, CACFP requirements, and the NAEYC Cleaning and Sanitation Table.
• Use infant-development knowledge in daily practice. Understand and apply principles, theories, and best practices of early childhood and infant development, including attachment, responsive caregiving, safe sleep practices, feeding routines, diapering, supervision, and individualized care.
• Support inclusion and belonging. Create a classroom culture that honors each child’s identity, family, culture, language, background, abilities, and individual needs. Adapt care and learning experiences to support each infant’s full participation and sense of belonging.
• Engage families as partners. Build positive, respectful relationships with parents and caregivers through open communication, daily updates, family engagement opportunities, and parent-teacher conferences. Collaborate with families to share progress, concerns, routines, and strategies that support each infant’s development and well-being.
• Document and observe with purpose. Accurately complete required classroom documentation, including attendance, meal records, diapering and care logs, incident reports, assessment data, developmental observations, and other required records. Use observation and documentation to support individualized learning goals and communicate child progress.
• Promote health, safety, and high-quality care. Request, prepare, and maintain classroom materials that are safe, appropriate, clean, and responsive to infant developmental needs. Follow all supervision, sanitation, safe sleep, feeding, diapering, handwashing, and health procedures that protect children’s well-being.
• Model professionalism and continuous learning. Demonstrate sound judgment, reliability, compassion, creativity, and professionalism in all aspects of the role. Stay current with required training, classroom expectations, and program standards to ensure compliance with Early Connections, CDEC, NAEYC, CACFP, and other applicable requirements.

Secondary Duties

• Support the development of positive relationships between children and their families, while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Communicate and collaborate with colleagues, specialists, supervisors, and community partners to support children’s needs, classroom goals, and family partnerships.
• Share relevant information with coworkers and supervisors as appropriate to ensure continuity of care, safety, compliance, and effective classroom operations.
• Maintain confidentiality and discretion in all matters related to children, families, staff, and the program.
• Represent Early Connections with professionalism, positivity, reliability, and pride in the important work of early childhood education.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one of the following:
• CDA (Infant & Toddler)
• PDIS Level 2
• 6+ credit hours in ECE college courses and 21 months of experience
• 18+ credit hours in ECE college courses and 3 months of experience

Must meet Colorado minimum Rules and Regulations for Teachers; must be Early Childhood Teacher qualified. Additional coursework may be required based on classroom assignment.

Documented experience teaching in the Early Childhood Education field working with children birth to age six.

Demonstrated passion for working with infants and young children and a strong professional foundation in the principles, theories, and best practices of early childhood education, including infant care, responsive caregiving, and developmentally appropriate practice.

Prior to employment, candidates must pass federal and state criminal and Colorado Department of Early Childhood background checks, pre-employment drug screen, physical, and verification of employment, education and/or credentials and, by position, valid driver’s license.

Physical Demands

• Position requires physical mobility, with or without reasonable accommodation if requested, to perform essential functions of the job, including but not limited to sitting, standing, walking, lifting, carrying, squatting.
• Should be able to: Exert 20 to 40 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently to move objects and occasionally children.
• Make fast, simple, repeated movements.
• Endure physically and emotionally working with infant through school-age children for long periods of time.
• See objects or movement of objects to one’s side when the eyes are focused forward.
• See details at a distance and close range.
• Detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
• Keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Generous paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Paid Family Medical Leave for qualifying individuals
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Free Employee Assistance Program
• Childcare Benefit
• Other Insurance

Pay Range

$19.59 - $24.79 per hour

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