Job Goal:

To provide quality training and technical assistance and support to early care and education programs in their continuous quality improvement processes. Assistance will be through licensing, Oregon Registry and Spark which includes achieving higher levels of quality and support once levels are achieved in Union, Umatilla, and Morrow counties.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Technical Assistance and Support
  • Build the supply of child care through recruitment and retention activities across Morrow, Umatilla, and Union Counties: Increasing the number of childcare providers offering infant toddler care, as well as odd hour and weekend care.
  • Assist early learning professionals with professional development planning, navigating college systems and connecting providers to training opportunities.
  • Support early educators as they navigate Oregon’s early learning systems such as licensure, DHS listing, Oregon Registry, USDA and others.
  • Maintain and conduct updates in early learning systems data base on monthly basis
  • Relationship Based Professional development.
  • Provide Assessments, including self, quality rating, CLASS, and High needs assessments, consultations ad trainings in partnership with Inclusive partners.
  • Creates ongoing trusting relationships with early education programs and a range of educators to develop the most conducive environment for learning, reflection and establish collaborative coaching relationships.
  • Utilizes reflective practices with programs to facilitate goal setting, data evaluation, and observation feedback.
  • Supports for continuous quality improvement in state funded grant programs, NAEYC Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and implementation of best practices in early learning, inclusion, dual language learning and social/emotional development.
  • Uses data to help inform training and technical assistance plans.
• Professional Learning
  • Ability to develop and provide OCCD approved trainings and instruct classes for Early Educators on developmentally appropriate practices and sustainable business practices.
  • Familiar with adult learning practices and all learning styles.
  • Ability to become a Master Trainer to provide Set 2 and Set 3 trainings within first one.
  • Supports early educators in developing individual Professional Development Plans and navigating higher education pathways.
  • Develops new Set Two and Set Three trainings to support professional development and quality improvement of early educators.
• Focus Networks
  • Creates, recruits, and manages Focused Child Care Networks, and supports participants to implement quality standards on an ongoing basis.
  • Increase the supply of high quality care and education in the community targeting those providers serving children and families furthest from opportunity.
  • Coordinate and mentor early educators in short-term cohorts, networks, and work groups
  • Support implementation of best practices, access and share resources.
  • Recruit new programs to participate in Spark which includes but not limited to Technical assistance and support to current programs, new programs, and recruiting need for quality care in the community.
  • Collaborate with community partners using community demographics that inform services
  • Maintain and submit monthly End of Month Reports including Food Handler and RRCAN Logs to Program Manager.
  • Assist in maintaining the Early Learning Division’s Office of Child Care’s training calendar that encompass trainings provided to providers and community in counties served.
  • Use the Find Child Care Oregon database to access and maintain current data on child care providers in the region.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• AA/BA degree in Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Development or related field, or a Step 9 or above in the Oregon Registry
• Minimum Two years’ experience in early childhood program with a focus on birth – 5 years
• Minimum Two years’ experience providing technical assistance and training to early education programs, providing classroom observations and/or home visits to families of young children
• Current CPR/First Aid and Food Handler cards
• Adequate means of transportation
• Ability to keep accurate records in Find Child Care Oregon
• Ability and desire to effectively work with low-income children and their families
• Ability to read, write and speak Spanish preferred

General Staff Responsibilities:

• Participate in staff meetings, conferences, training sessions and workshops as assigned.
• Demonstrate familiarity with employment policies, performance standards, work plan and objectives of Agency.
• Maintain congenial and respectful relations with staff, children, families, and community.
• Keep current and accurate records.
• Maintain confidentiality in regards to provider and family information.
• Maintain objectives and professional standards.
• Improve self-skills and education.
• Fulfill role as mandated reporter as stated in Child Abuse and Neglect Policy.
• Perform any other work-related duties as requested by supervisor.
• Be present at work in order to provide consistency of services.
• Be a contributory team member in a positive/productive manner.
• Demonstrate commitment to mission, values, and policies in the performance of daily duties
• Apply safe practices in the performance of duties
  • Reporting of unsafe or hazardous working conditions and/or any injury immediately
  • Complying with Agency safety standards
  • Participate in emergency drills
  • Promote a culture of safe environments in the workplace

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:

• Observe, compare, and monitor behaviors, records and data to determine compliance with prescribed standards
• Comprehend, analyze, and make inferences and references from written material
• Lift up/ move up to 50 pounds
• Frequently crouch to a child’s height and maintain eye contact at a child’s level when providing support; stand tall; stand or sit for long periods of time; walk up and down stairs; walk or run quickly; walk over rough or uneven ground.
• Frequently bend and kneel.
• Maintain the safety of the environment through visual, auditory and smelling senses
• Set up/break down a classroom which requires moving of tables, chairs, shelves etc.
• Kneel or sit on the floor or in child sized furniture.
• Make precise arm‐hand positioning movements and maintain static arm‐hand positions
• Make skillful, controlled manipulations of small objects
• Perform regular sanitation of office, lending library, classroom and equipment which may require the use of broom, carpet sweeper, and mop.
• Sit for long periods of time with daily use of computer screen;
• Do tasks involving repetitive arm and hand movements, such as heavy word processing/keyboarding, using various office tools to collate, punch, cut, or stamp paper and other repetitive or high-volume tasks such as bulk mailings, filing projects, etc.;
• Occasional filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bending as necessary;
• Frequent requirement to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms

Work Environment/Conditions:

• Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions, as well as in an outdoor environment (exposure to weather)
• Requires exposure to cleaning fluids and sanitizing agents.
• Job tasks are performed in close physical proximity to other people

Agency‐Wide Requirements:

• Current enrollment in the Child Care Division’s Central Background Registry
• Current physical examination, drug screen, and TB screen documentation prior to hire
• Ability to drive a private or Agency vehicle; must possess a valid driver's license and personal automobile or provide a plan that will allow fulfillment of position requirements. A DMV Record check will be conducted prior to hire.
• Desire to work with low‐income children and their families
• Communicate effectively with staff, child care programs and providers, families, children, and the public using the telephone, email, and in face to‐face, one‐to‐one, and in group settings
• To protect the health and safety of our employees and families, and pursuant to the Governor's Order, all employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID‐19 as a condition of employment. If you are unable to comply with this policy due to pregnancy, disability, or because of a sincerely held religious belief, we will ask for written verification.