Family & Center Specialist

52 weeks/40 hours a week/ Full Time

Purpose:
To oversee and support EHS Center staff and families in providing relational learning to meet Head Start Program Performance Standards by providing quality services to enrolled children and families as delineated by NMCAA Head Start Program goals and plans, including social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families.

Position Objectives:

• Be responsible for the general management of the center.
• Develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate center policies and the program.
• Administer day-to-day operations, including being available to address parent, child, and staff issues.
• Monitor staff and conduct evaluations for each staff member.
• Oversee child assessment and the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the classroom program.
• Oversee staff and ensure overall care and supervision of children.
• To establish Head Start community partnerships, and support family well-being through the family partnership process, assisting families in resources, referrals, and meeting individualized goals, and planning family engagement activities.
• The parameters established by the Head Start Parent Engagement Framework will be met through developing trusting and respectful relationships with parents, engaging parents in their child's learning and development, and honoring and nurturing parent-child relationships.
• To offer opportunities for parents to participate in the research-based parenting curriculum, Your Journey Together to build upon parents' knowledge and to practice parenting skills while promoting children's learning and development.
• To represent NMCAA in a professional, supportive, and knowledgeable manner.
• To ensure full enrollment of the NMCAA EHS Center Program.

Essential Functions:

Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance

• Responsible for recruitment, application process, caseload selection and full enrollment for EHS Center.
• Maintain and update EHS waitlists.
• Work with the education staff to provide information about the benefits of regular attendance.