Early Childhood Instructor North -South

Position: Early Childhood Instructor - Hiring for 2 Full Time Positions (1-North and 1-South)

Description

Job Overview

The Early Childhood Instructor is responsible for providing a safe, educationally stimulating and nurturing environment for children at the AVANCE-Austin service sites and teaching developmentally appropriate concepts and skills to young children.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children, with a focus on pre-literacy and math skills leading to enhanced cognitive development.
• Creates and prepares activities according to lesson plans and leads the preparation of materials.
• Follows daily schedule of children’s activities and lesson plans that meet children’s needs and interests
• Maintains theme areas in the classroom.
• Maintaining accurate, complete and correct records of children such as class attendance, health records and injury reports.
• Assures that parents sign-in all children on attendance sheet.
• Maintains a healthy, safe, stimulating and attractive learning environment for the young children.
• Regulates children in developing eating, resting and toileting skills.
• Change diapers when needed and ensure each child’s personal hygiene by changing clothing when necessary, and teaching them hand washing skills.
• Labels all children belongings and makes sure parent pick up all belongings at the end of the session.
• Conducts and documents child assessment processes. (Administering of Brigance).
• Attends staff meetings, workshops and trainings as scheduled by supervisor.
• Maintains proper hygiene in the children and all equipment and space used for care of children.
• Protects all children from physical punishment or verbal abuse by anyone in any program activity, and immediately reports any such incident to the center director or person in charge.
• Participates in recruitment activities by tabling at community events, canvassing neighborhoods and distributing flyers at targeted locations.
• Participates in organizing and planning for special events, ex. Holiday Party, Dia de los Niños, graduation etc.
• Establishes and maintains an environment conducive to positive morale and directed towards achievement of the project mission.
• Ensures high standards of ethics by maintaining high standards for participant confidentiality.
• Facilitates effective resolution of conflicts.
• Maintains a positive attitude.
• Works well with a team and independently.
• Performs other duties as assigned

For Services provided outside of the AVANCE-Austin center:

• Assist in preparing all materials and supplies transported to external sites and used in the program and childcare services.
• Assists in setting up children’s centers and assorted activities in non-permanent sites and proper removal thereof.

AVANCE Core Competencies

• Execution & Accountability
• Problem Solving & Decision-Making
• Communication & Influence
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Stakeholder Focus
• Adaptability & Continuous Learning

Education

Required:

• High School Diploma and/or equivalent Child Development Associate (CDA). CDA or an equivalent credential that addresses comparable competencies, or equivalent experience in the field.

Work Experience

Required:

• 1+ years of experience in early Childhood Program serving infants and toddlers in a developmentally appropriate environment.

Preferred:

• Graduate of AVANCE to College Program or AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program.

Additional Skills

• Very important to this position: problem solving, active listening, reading comprehension, speaking, service orientation, writing coordination, time management, social perceptiveness, monitoring and active learning.
• Important to this position: written comprehension, oral comprehension, oral expression, speech recognition, written expression and effective presentation.

Travel

• Ability to travel to various sites:
  Dependable transportation is required daily with a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record (subject to annual MVR (Motor Vehicle Report) check and policy), current auto liability insurance and be bondable by AVANCE, Inc.
• This position can require up to 15% of local travel. The Early Childhood Instructor will conduct travel to and from partner and AVANCE Austin sites as required.

Working Conditions

• Work is generally performed in a virtual/hybrid work…