Education Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

GenerationEd

Job title

Education Specialist

Program

Head Start / Early Head Start Program

Reports to

Education Manager

General Description

The Education Specialist will assist the Education Manager with administration of child development activities to achieve the levels of quality as described by the Head Start Performance Standards, the NC Child Day Care Licensing Laws, and regulations, and the NAEYC Accreditation Criteria as applicable. The Education Specialist will offer consultation, training, and technical assistance in a variety of settings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the Education Manager with the following responsibilities by completing specific, assigned tasks, or assisting with tasks :
• Provide or arrange consultation, training, and technical assistance in specialization to assist staff in providing services and programs in one or more of the following subject areas :

§ Services to Infants and Toddlers / Early Head Start

§ Multi-Age Classroom Activities

§ Room Arrangement and environment

§ Classroom Management

§ Assessment

§ Outcomes

§ Transition Times

§ Activity Planning

§ Coaching / Mentoring to individual staff

§ Abide by the NAEYC Code of Ethics.

§ Identify areas for professional growth and actively pursue opportunities for addressing these areas. Some options for increasing knowledge and skills are actively participating in in-service staff development programs; taking college courses; reading articles in professional journals and / or books; and, attending local, state, regional and national conferences, and seminars.

§ Develop relationships with appropriate persons and agencies to collaborate on service delivery, training, needs assessment and other activities.

§ Seek opportunities to give presentations at conferences and / or write articles for professional magazines and journals.

§ Participate in activities which inform the community of the services and goals of the agency.

§ Maintain memberships in appropriate professional organizations.

§ Provide training for staff in Educational Policies & Procedures, Gold, ITERS, ECERS, and other educational pertinent information

§ Perform any other job-related tasks as assigned.

Essential Qualifications

Americans with Disability and Workers’ Compensation Specifications

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk hear, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, color, peripheral depth and the ability to adjust focus.