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About The Centers  

The Centers fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential. We provide health, family, and workforce services at 11 locations throughout Greater Cleveland, creating life-changing solutions for people to lead healthier and more successful lives.  

Our Early Learning Centers and programs provides high-quality care for children during the critical first 2,000 days of life by operating seven high-quality early learning centers, serving children birth through five years old, in Cleveland and the inner-ring suburbs. Because of our high standards, all sites achieved a 5-Star rating on the Step-Up-To-Quality Rating and been recognized and selected to be part of Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) and PRE4CLE. 
 

We strive to be an equitable, anti-racist, and service-orientedworkplace that pioneersand co-createssolutions while fostering an inclusivecommunity where our team members thrive. 

The Benefits

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff’s well-being. That’s why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff. We support our staff’s financial well-being by providing employer paid long-term disability, a very competitive defined contribution towards retirement and access to a financial advisor when you need it. We have nutrition and fitness coaches available for consultation. We also have a generous time off program as well as other benefits we can share with you based on your individual interests.

About the Role

Job Summary Provide home visits to families eligible for Early Head Start and Head Start (0-5) through the Smart Start Home Visiting Program.  Responsible for recruitment, enrollment, planning, care coordination, and implementation of all essential components of the curriculum, assisting assigned families in identifying, accessing and utilizing community resources, while encouraging and promoting each family’s empowerment and self-sufficiency and reinforcing positive self-help skills.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, Social Services or related.
• Experience in child development and early childhood education
• Completion of Growing Great Kids Curriculum Training required after hire.
• Certification in First Aide, communicable disease and child abuse recognition required after hire.
• Valid Driver’s License, with proof of valid insurance required.
• No record of child abuse or moral turpitude as determined by background check based on fingerprints.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) a plus

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Screening, Observation, Assessment, and Curriculum Planning
• Visit families once per week for 90 minutes per visit
• Collaborate with parents to prepare and implement weekly lesson plans
• Collaborate with families on obtaining immunization records, well child checks, dental visits and follow-ups to comply with Head Start Performance Standards.
• Plan and implement group experiences twice a month for families
• Agency and Community Collaboration
• Participate in agency recruitment activities throughout the school year, i.e. open enrollment, special events in order to maintain funded enrollment for the Early Learning Program.
• Recruit and maintain maximum caseload of 12 children throughout the entire year
• Assist with agency recruitment activities throughout the school year i.e., open enrollment, special events.

Core Competencies

• Ability to Conceptualize.
• Attention to Detail.
• Coaches and Mentors.
• Client Focus.
• Continuous Learning.
• Empathy of Others.
• Flexible/Adaptive.
• Gains Commitment.
• Maintains Perspective.
• Planning and Prioritizing.

The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.