Careers

$24.20 – 29.17 per hour
2% Bilingual Enhancement

Job Description:

The Infant Care Teacher is responsible for assisting the Site Supervisor in the administration of an infant and toddler program based on an understanding of the following knowledge and essential job duties and responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Adhere to KidZCommunity’s vision, mission, values, NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, Head Start Performance Standards, and personnel policies.
• Maintain Title 22 ratio and licensing guidelines while ensuring active supervision and a safe classroom/yard environment, including accommodations for children with disabilities.
• Implement the 3 R’s curriculum, create lesson plans, use curriculum enhancements, and align with school readiness goals.
• Follow PITC philosophy, engage families in curriculum planning, and support parent involvement through meetings, conferences, and educational home visits.
• Conduct child assessments (ASQ, ASQ-SE, DRDP), create individual development plans, and maintain accurate records using ChildPlus.net.
• Support children’s transition plans and assist families with health and medical record maintenance, adhering to health, safety, and CACFP food service requirements.
• Participate in child family focus meetings, staff meetings, and follow agency timelines, recruitment plans, attendance policies, and enrollment processes.
• Perform additional duties as assigned while fostering positive interactions with children, families, and staff.

The Infant Care Teacher is directly supervised by the Site Supervisor. This is a full-time, non-exempt position. Number of months per year varies according to site.

Experience:

One year experience in infant/toddler care is a plus.

Education and Permit:

Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or comparable credential, and have been trained or have equivalent coursework in early childhood development with a focus on infant and toddler development (Six (6) Infant/Toddler ECE/CD units completed).

$20.36 – $25.29 per hour
2% Bilingual Enhancement

Job Description:

This position is responsible for assisting with the planning and delivery of the Fatherhood Engagement program. The aim of the Fatherhood Engagement program is to enhance the health and well-being of children and families by supporting, encouraging, and promoting fathers’ roles in their child’s lives. This position is responsible for providing direct services to support fathers’ involvement through case management, care coordination, education services, and fatherhood engagement initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Plan and conduct personal visits with fathers using evidence-based curriculum activities, methods, and materials.
  • Support expecting and or parenting fathers by facilitating educational, economic, employment, mental health, housing, and healthcare needs as required.
  • Make referrals on behalf of fathers to needed resources and services in the community.
  • Maintain timely and accurate records of all personal visits, contacts, screenings, and resource linkages in the case management system.
  • Maintain client confidentiality and integrity in keeping with agency policies, practices, professional standards, and program requirements.
  • Recruit fathers to participate in fatherhood services and Policy Council.
  • Participate in outreach activities to identify fathers, inform community of services, and build community collaborative relationships.
  • Co-facilitate group engagement activities for fathers.
  • Collaborate with direct service providers and connect representatives to facilitate enrollment of fathers into services.
  • Have the ability to prioritize work requirements, work with diverse populations, and to work evenings and weekends as required.
  • Stay current with literature relevant to KidZCommunity, such as but not limited to racial disparities, infant mortality, prematurity, low birth weight, maternal infections, maternal stress, repeat teen births, smoking cessation during pregnancy, depression, optimal birth spacing, protective factors, father inclusion, social determinants of health, SUIDS, strategies for evidence-based interventions, substance use during pregnancy, trauma informed care.
  • Attend meetings and trainings to provide information to management which can be used for the purpose of guiding future program design and budget planning decisions.
  • Perform all other duties as assigned and adhere to ongoing polices, program standards, and supervisory directives.
  • Operate within the KidZCommunity vision/mission/values.
  • Operate from the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
  • Understand and operate using Equity Practices.
  • Follow the Head Start Performance Standards.
  • Follow the personnel policies & procedures.

The Father Engagement Family Advocate is directly supervised by the Family Services Manager.

Experience:

• One-year relevant work experience in community outreach and/or working with at risk fathers/families, social science, public health, health related filed such as nursing, health education, health panning, or health care administration preferred.
• Maternal and child health experience desirable.

Education and Permit:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology or Social Work preferred.

Continuing Education:

• Participate in the agency’s Professional Development and Career Path Program, taking related courses when necessary or other training when directed as a program requirement.

$24.20 – 29.17 per hour
2% Bilingual Enhancement

Job Description:

The Substitute Infant Care Teacher is responsible for assisting the Site Supervisor in the administration of an infant and toddler program in conformance with the Head Start Performance Standards, Title 22 and Title 5 of the California Administrative Code as applicable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensures Title 22 ratio and licensing guidelines are followed.
• Interacts with children, families, and staff appropriately.
• Implements the 3 R’s curriculum with fidelity.
• Creates lesson plans.
• Uses curriculum enhancements.
• Uses the school readiness goals for planning.
• Ensures Active Supervision at all times.
• Follows the PITC philosophy.
• Includes families in curriculum planning.
• Works with parents for ASQ and ASQ-SE.
• Observes and does the record keeping for DRDP Assessments.
• Creates individual child development plans.
• Conducts parent/teacher conferences.
• Conducts educational home visits.
• Supports the process of children’s transition plans.
• Sets up the classroom/yard environment, including modifications for children with disabilities.
• Assists families with maintenance of health and medical records.
• Operates within the KidZCommunity health & safety policies & procedures (i.e., timely health & safety checklist).
• Engages parents in the classroom and at parent meetings.
• Follows agency timelines.
• Participation at child family focus meetings.
• Participation at scheduled site staff meetings.
• Follows CACFP requirements when preparing and serving food.
• Uses ChildPlus.net to gain needed information on children.
• Follows the recruitment plan, attendance policy & enrollment process.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Operates within the KidZCommunity vision/mission/values.
• Operates from the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
• Follows the Head Start Performance Standards.
• Follows the personnel policies & procedures.
• Understands and operates using Equity Practices.

The Substitute Infant Care Teacher is directly supervised by the Site Supervisor. This position varies in hours and months and is a non-exempt position.

Experience:

One year experience in infant/toddler care is a plus.

Education and Permit:

• Six (6) Infant/Toddler ECE/CD units completed and a minimum of twelve (12) units in ECE, including Core Course requirements. An Associate Teacher Permit must be, at a minimum, applied for within 60 days of hire date and must be maintained or upgraded throughout the course of employment.

or

• Three (3) Infant/Toddler ECE/CD units completed and a minimum of twelve (12) units in ECE, including Core Course requirements; the second Infant/Toddler class must be completed within one (1) year. An Associate Teacher Permit must be, at minimum, applied for within 60 days of hire and must be maintained or upgraded throughout the course of employment.

Continuing Education:

• Training as required

$16.66 – $18.31 per hour
2% Bilingual Enhancement

Job Description:

The Substitute Teacher/Associate Teacher is responsible for assisting the Site Supervisor in the preparation and execution of the program in conformance with the Head Start Performance Standards and/or State Preschool Guideline, Title 22 and Title 5 of the California Administrative Code as applicable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operates within the KidZCommunity vision/mission/values.
• Operates from the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
• Follows the Head Start Performance Standards & Title 5.
• Follows the personnel policies & procedures.
• Operates within the KidZCommunity health & safety policies & procedures (i.e., timely health & safety daily checklist).
• Operates from the KidZCommunity Operations Manual and Child Development Classroom Policies and Procedures.
• Follows procedures for the operation of the program in the center that conform to Head Start Performance Standards and/or State Preschool Guidelines, licensing and staffing requirements of Title 22 of the California Administrative Code and KidZCommunity Policies and Procedures.
• Assists in the modification of activities; removes barriers and provides support as needed for inclusion of children with disabilities in the full range of program activities.
• Follows the group environment plans, daily routine schedule, and maintain a developmentally appropriate learning environment, applying the principles, practices and philosophies of High/Scope.
• Assists in meeting all children’s identifiable individual nutritional needs as applicable by law; ensuring that a variety of foods take into account cultural and ethnic preferences while providing nutrition education to parents and children in a family style setting.
• Ensures that the health and safety of children is assured through: 1.Teaching children and parent’s preventative health practice; and 2. the establishment and practice of health emergency procedures including methods of handling suspected or known child abuse.
• Adheres to the agency personnel policies and the Head Start performance standards as relates to work performance and personal conduct.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

The Substitute Associate Teacher/Teacher is directly supervised by the Site Supervisor or Teacher-in-Charge.

Experience:

One year of preschool teaching experience, preferably with Head Start.

Education and Permit:

• 24 ECE units or 12 ECE/CD units including core courses.
• High/Scope Certification a plus.

Continuing Education:

• Training as required