Home Visiting Training Specialist

Overview

The Education Secretariat is committed to equity and valuing the unique and diverse characteristics and experiences of every member of its workforce. We encourage an authentic workplace where colleagues show up as their full selves, where collaboration, innovation, and connections are key to realizing our mission that all children, youth, and families thrive socially, academically, and economically. We seek teammates who are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive work environment, where everyone is valued and engaged.

We encourage you to apply and identify your strengths in these areas.

The Children’s Trust prevents child abuse and neglect by addressing root causes and strengthening the systems that support families — programs, policies, communities, and the workforce. As a public-private organization, the Children’s Trust is in a unique position to bring the day-to-day experiences of families and the family support workforce to life, ensuring policy is data-informed and grounded in the real experiences of families.

The Children’s Trust works across sectors and communities to share learnings and resources, and to turn bold ideas into action so every family can thrive. Learn more at childrenstrustma.org.

Home Visiting Training Specialist – this position will contribute to the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of training content for the home visiting workforce as part of the Children’s Trust Training Institute. This role leads curriculum development, facilitates training across multiple modalities, and provides content expertise and support to internal staff and contracted trainers.

The Home Visiting Training Specialist ensures that training content and delivery frameworks align with evidence-based home visiting models and applicable state, federal, and accreditation requirements. Training is delivered statewide to support child abuse and neglect prevention efforts and is offered through in-person, virtual, hybrid, conference-based, and learning management system platforms.

The candidate will work a hybrid schedule, with a mix of remote, in the field, and in-office work at the Children’s Trust office in Boston.

Responsibilities:

• Training delivery and Facilitation – Facilitate training to support statewide child abuse and neglect prevention efforts in a variety of modalities (virtual, in-person, hybrid/asynchronous, and/or recorded) on various home visiting and Healthy Families Massachusetts specific topics. This includes becoming trained, as needed, to deliver model-specific content including, but not limited to, Foundations for Family Support Core Training, Facilitating Attuned Interactions (FAN), evidence-informed home visiting curricula, validated parent–child interaction tools, and others.
• Assess the diverse needs of learners, considering learning differences, and utilize varied methods of training instruction and delivery to accommodate, including delivering training in languages other than English, when possible
• Stay current on the latest research on adult learning, training design and delivery, as well as content and integrate learnings to continually improve training modules
• Create learning environments that encourage active participation and foster deep learner engagement
• Facilitate sessions to support the expansion of reflective practice endorsements and credentials for home visiting professionals

• Curriculum development & Resource Management – Develop home visiting training curricula that is responsive to the needs in the field and meets national model and/or federal requirements
• Lead the development of model neutral, broadly applicable competencies for home visiting staff and oversee the content, delivery, and organization of training content and materials based in these competencies
• Develop training objectives, competencies, and measures
• Tailor materials to ensure they are relevant, accessible, and effective by considering the needs of the audience, learning objectives, insights from program collaboration, current events, etc.
• Manage training materials, ensuring tools and technologies are up to date and prepared for each session.
• Systematically and regularly…