Director of Head Start/Early Head Start Profe
Cliffside Park, NJ
Full Time
POSTED ON 8/18/2022
CLOSED ON 10/2/2022
Job Posting for Director of Head Start/Early Head Start Profe at Greater Bergen Community Action
JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: Director of Head Start/Early Head Start Professional Development
Reports to: Associate Director, HS/EHS Programs
FLSA: Exempt
Position Summary:
The Director of Head Start/Early Head Start Professional Development serves as the Coordinator and Monitor of all Head Start/Early Head Start professional development. This includes monitoring a data management system, planning, and coordinating staff development, and providing individual career development.
Job Description:
- Learns and adheres to the philosophy and mandates of Head Start and Early Head Start as outlined in the Performance Standards, licensing requirements, and the Policies and Procedures of Greater Bergen Community Action
- Monitors compliance with Head Start Performance Standards
- Maintains knowledge of the current trends and research in ECE
- Organizes and/or provides staff development and training for all Head Start /Early Head Start staff
- Tracks all professional development to ensure compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, licensing regulations and collaborating BOE requirements.
- Ensures all individual Professional Development Plans are completed annually and reviewed by the staff member and his/her supervisor twice during the school year.
- Utilizes Head Start iPDU, NJCCIS and, if needed, other learning management systems.
- Explore/Utilize all resources on ECLKC to align with OHS compliance re: credentialing.
- Responsible for the collection of all mandated Professional Development documentation.
- Coordinates with Data Management to ensure all professional development is recorded in Child Plus.
- Assists in planning and attends in-service and pre-service training workshops as required and/or requested.
- Ensures all staff consultants have sufficient knowledge, training, experience, and competencies to fulfill their roles and positions.
- Understands how adults develop and learn in a variety of school, family and community contexts and provides opportunities that support their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development.
- Creates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
- Knows and understands how education research and other methods of inquiry can be used as a means for continuous learning, self-assessment, and development.
- Attends all meetings as specified by supervisor and/or requested by administration.
- Is punctual and adheres to the work schedule assigned.
- Employs strong oral and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft office.
- Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with management, clients, representative of community organizations and other staff members.
- Assumes and performs any other additional assignment as directed by supervisor and/or administration to ensure the effective servicing the clients in our care.
- Responsible for the overall safety of each child in the GBCA HS/EHS program.
- According to the New Jersey mandated reporting guidelines, any person having reasonable cause to believe that a child has been subjected to abuse or acts of abuse should immediately report this information to the State Central Registry (SCR). If the child is in immediate danger, call 911 as well as 1-877 NJ ABUSE (1-877-652-2873).
Knowledge of:
- Principles and practices involving the implementation of a developmentally appropriate curriculum for children and adults
- Applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating to Head Start, preschools and childcare
- Head Start Performance Standards, licensing requirements and GBCA policies and procedures
- Instruction & training of adults in a group setting and/or one-on-one. how adults develop and learn in a variety of school, family and community contexts and provides opportunities that support their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development
- Cultural and socio-economic issues relevant to providing appropriate services to special population groups
- How student learning is influenced by individual experiences, talents, and prior learning, as well as language, culture, family and community values
- Writing, filing, and maintaining concise and accurate reports, correspondence, and other written materials
Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ degree in early childhood education or related field
- Advanced degree a plus.
- Valid NJ driver’s license preferred, local travel in all three counties may be required
- High proficiency in Microsoft office suite and familiarity with data management systems
- Desire and ability to work with diverse populations
Physical & Mental Demands:
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand or bend; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone, use hands to find, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms to lift to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will also work outdoors with children during some part of the day during each season.
Mental Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use written and oral communication skill; read and interpret date, information, and documents; analyze and solve problems; observe and interpret situations; perform work on multiple, concurrent tasks and constant interruptions; and interact with management, staff, clients, state representatives, and other encountered in the course of work.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee may have occasional contact with abusive and/or physically violent clients. If the employee works in a typical office condition, the noise level is generally quiet. If the employee works in a classroom setting, the noise level, at times, will be above a standard noise level.
AAP/EEO Statement
Greater Bergen Community Action, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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