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Use your excellent interpersonal skills and knowledge of early head start to provide in home visits to help young children and their families thrive! Become an Early Head Start Educator and apply today!

Early Head Start at Opportunity Council is seeking a caring professional to provide comprehensive early childhood services and case management to low-income pregnant women, parents/guardians, and their children, ages 0 to 3 years, through our weekly home visiting program. The Home Educator provides a coordinated system of service delivery, providing child development, health, mental health, nutrition and social services to support the healthy growth and development of the child and the development of positive attachments between the child and their parents and primary caregivers. The Home Educator also makes referrals for families to necessary community resources, and supports the creation and implementation of a family partnership plan to address a family's goals for themselves and their child.

Opportunity Council's Early Learning and Family Services department values the future of our community and offers a high-quality, family-focused EHS program designed to support families as the first and most important teachers of their infants and toddlers because we know that every parent wants the very best for their child. We are a trauma informed, strengths-based, equity-focused program committed to promoting parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships, and we work to maintain an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each family.

1. Supports the parent/guardian as primary caregiver through the planning and implementation of weekly 90-minute home visits and monthly socialization experiences.
2. Works in partnership with parents/guardians, appropriate program staff, service area specialists and coordinators, and other community service providers to design individualized programming, a family partnership plan, and appropriate goals that support the infant and/or toddler, including goals related to the child's formation of positive attachments with their parents and primary caregivers.
3. Assists families by working with other Opportunity Council staff and service area specialists, as well as other community service providers, ensure that each child, parent/guardian, and pregnant woman to has access to appropriate health, mental health and nutritional resources necessary to meet needs and achieve goals, and to ensure a coordinated system of service delivery.
   
4. Works with other community service providers with whom families are involved to ensure a coordinated system of service delivery.
5. Helps transition families from Early Head Start to the next environment in the continuum of early childhood services;
6. Documents all services, including but not limited to, screenings, assessments, home visits and parent contacts, as required by Head Start performance standards and program policy.
7. Maintains working knowledge of Head Start Performance Standards, agency policies and procedures and other applicable regulations.

Required Education, Experience, and Training:

1. B.A. or A.A. in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Adult Education/Development, or Child Development Associate-Home Visitor Infant/Toddler credential, or degree/coursework relevant to the essential duties of the position.
   
2. One to three years’ experience with infants/toddlers in a child development setting, including classroom experience and experience working with parents regarding on a child's goals and objectives.

Other Requirements:

• Valid Washington State Driver's License or obtain by date of hire, submission of driving abstract, and ability to be insured under Opportunity Council's policy throughout course of employment in this position.

Remote Work: Requires in-home family visits

Working Conditions:

Work is generally performed in clients' homes under unpredictable conditions that may include exposure to volatile family situations, secondhand smoke, etc. or in a crowded office environment. Regular exposure to communicable diseases and body fluids and occasional crisis situations. Regularly requires local travel to and from administrative office and clients' homes or shelter sites, as well as for community networking, meetings, special workshops and trainings, and other job-related activities. May drive program vehicles to transport children.

Benefits @ Opportunity Council

Opportunity Council offers the following benefits to eligible employees:

• Paid time off earned on an accrual basis (vacation, sick, personal holidays)
• Paid time off for wellness needs>
• Employer-paid holidays (13 in 2023)
• Employer-paid HDHP and low-cost traditional health care options
• HSA and FSA, subject to plan terms
• Eligibility for Critical Illness coverage
• 403(b) retirement plan (5% employer contribution)
• Eligibility for health coverage for legal dependents
• Eligibility for employee/family dental and vision coverage
• Voluntary benefits such as life insurance, long-term disability, long-term care and personal legal services

Opportunity Council is a private, non-profit Community Action Agency serving homeless and low-income families and individuals. Our mission is to help people improve their lives through education, support, and direct assistance while advocating for just and equitable communities. For over 50 years we have offered a broad scope of services that range from addressing immediate and crisis-oriented needs (food, emergency shelter, eviction-prevention) to longer-term programs that promote self-sufficiency in our community (early childhood education, home weatherization). For more details, please visit our website at https://www.oppco.org.