Preschool Teacher Coordinator

## Job Summary and Minimum Qualifications

**Location:**Northwest Head Start Center 2160 North 6th Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705, 1 position

**Level**: Experienced

**Position Type:** 40 hours/week (mid July through mid June)

**Salary Range:**$1,886.40 biweekly

**Travel %:**In Town

**Job Shift:** Day (M-F), 7:30am-3:30pm, work is in-person and has limited eligibility for remote work, may require working some evenings and weekends.

**Job Categories:**Education

**Classification:** Salary, Exempt

**Supervisor:** Program Services Coordinator

**Supervises:** Preschool Teacher (1), Preschool Co-Teacher (2), Cook (1), Driver/Custodian (1)

**Job Summary:**

Child-Parent Centers (CPC) is seeking professionals who share our values and principles for building trusting relationships with children, families, and colleagues. Successful candidates welcome individual differences and perspectives, respect cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and are sensitive to current circumstances. Candidates display a commitment to teamwork, open communication, and are eager to work in a fast-paced, high quality preschool environment. This is a great opportunity for organized and dependable early childhood professionals with a strong work ethic and a desire to grow. If you have previous experience working in an early childhood center and are interested in joining our growing team, we encourage you to apply.

Reporting to the program services coordinator, the Preschool Teacher Coordinator will supervise, lead, oversee, and support center staff in their implementation of the Head Start (HS) program and the delivery of high-quality comprehensive services to enrolled children and families. The Preschool Teacher Coordinator oversees the administrative requirements of the center including compliance with a broad range of local, state, and federal regulations such as childcare licensing (BCCL) and ERSEA (eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance). The Preschool Teacher Coordinator implements daily routines with children that promote children’s cognitive, social, health, and emotional growth for later success in school. The Preschool Teacher Coordinator serves as the parent’s primary contact for all Head Start services. The Preschool Teacher Coordinator receives regular on-going support from the program services coordinator and the education specialist (coach) to implement the agency’s curriculum that includes creating a safe and enriching environment, embedding responsive and effective teacher-child interactions, and fostering partnerships with families by respecting values, strengths, and cultures and welcoming parent's contributions and participation. The Preschool Teacher Coordinator position is funded for eight hours per day Monday through Friday, working directly with children for 6.75 hours per day four days of the week. When children are not attending class, the Preschool Teacher Coordinator guides the center team activities such as regulatory compliance, food service oversight, transportation oversight, parent meetings, curriculum planning lessons, documenting children's work and outcomes, entering and analyzing child and family data, setting goals, and attending professional development opportunities.

**Benefits:**

• Paid Leave - 25 paid holidays, 5 days paid vacation after one year and up to 10 days each year thereafter, and 5 days paid Personal leave first year, 8 days each year thereafter, up to 5 days paid Sick leave each year.
• Insurance benefits - Dental, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, PPO medical (3 plans), Vision, and Supplemental Life coverage for self, spouse, and child ($25,000 basic life and Accidental Death and Disability provided by employer). Supplemental coverages (Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance), and pet insurance.
• Retirement Plan - Agency contribution after years of services and hours eligibility criteria are met. Employee 401k deferral once eligibility is met.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

• Must be 21 years of age.
• Possess bachelor's from a recognized educational institution in Early Childhood Education or related program as determined by the agency*.*
• Four (4) years documented work experience with preschool children.
• Two (2) years documented experience as a supervisor.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Read, write, and speak English.
• Submit a current AZ Department of Public Safety Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card prior to start date.
• Able to pass a company paid physical exam prior to starting work.
• Able to pass a DES Centralized Background Check prior to starting work.

**Competencies:**

• Accountability and Dependability
• Safety Focus
• Listening
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Building Relationships
• Teamwork
• Self-Management
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Development and Continual Learning
• Technology

**Other Requirements (post hire):**

• Must be able to travel to and from various sites as needed.
• Provide proof of immunizations: MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), Tdap (adult Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis), and a Tuberculosis Self-Assessment
• Ability to maintain a valid level fingerprint clearance card and annual DES Centralized Background Check.
• Must be able to prove the right to work in the USA by providing appropriate documents to complete the Federal I-9 form.
• Must possess or have the ability to possess and keep current certification in First Aid Training/CPR training including Infants and Children.
• Must be able to obtain the State of Arizona Food Safety Manager Certification and Food Handlers Class within one month of employment.

**Desired Qualifications:**

• Six (6) years’ work or volunteer experience with groups or individuals from a variety of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds or with Head Start.
• Able to read, write, and speak Spanish.

**Work Environment:**

• Indoor classroom – temperature controlled
• Outdoor playground – exposure to hot and cold
• Possible exposure to communicable illness, blood borne pathogens
• Exposure to cleaning and sanitizing chemicals

**Physical Requirements**

Frequently

• Ability to see or hear and respond quickly to unsafe situations
• Stooping, bending, reaching
• Moving quickly around objects (run, jump, jog)
• Up and down from carpet/floor and/or 12”-14”chairs
• Lift children (3-5 year old children) {30 – 40 lb}

Occasionally

• Picking up and dropping off supplies
• Push and pull furniture {20 to 50lb}
• Lifting +/- 50 lb

## Duties and Responsibilities
**Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities:**
**Direct Services:**

• Implement the Languages of Learning curriculum with a minimum of 4-6.5 hours per day four days per week. Ensure and support the completion of at least two parent conferences and two home visits during the program year.
• Set learning goals and plan learning experiences by integrating knowledge of each child’s temperament, interests, gender, culture, language, learning approaches, understanding, misconceptions, and abilities and by working collaboratively with families and a range of specialists (e.g., medical, dental, speech, nutrition, mental health)
• Promote children’s active exploration, creativity, and development in all domains by designing indoor and outdoor environments based on knowledge of how children develop and learn, and their individual abilities.
• Build children’s pride in their cultures, families, and communities by ensuring that classroom learning centers and materials reflect children’s cultures and communities (e.g., books and print in families’ languages, family photographs, items from their culture)
• Ensure that children are intellectually challenged by selecting, organizing, and using high-quality materials and equipment and by adapting the environment to support each child’s skill acquisition and success.
• Use information about children obtained through home visits, parent-teacher conferences, and other parent-staff interactions by incorporating this data into daily routines and interactions with children.
• Maintain a healthy physical environment by developing and implementing health and safety policies and procedures (e.g., following universal precautions, regularly sanitizing equipment, and child-proofing environments).
• Build children’s awareness of and ability to follow basic health and safety rules by providing opportunities for health and safety learning (e.g., implementing and discussing routines—washing hands, fire drills, crossing streets) and by supervising children at all times and positively redirecting them from potentially harmful activities.
• Develop and implement the child supervision system, child count system, and active supervision implementation plan to ensure all children are supervised at all times.
• Support parents in extending children’s learning at home by providing newsletters, take-home activities, home visits, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Help children who are learning English by providing them with the supports (e.g., props, gestures, incorporating basic words in the child’s home language, securing volunteers who speak the child’s language) they need to fully participate in classroom experiences.
• Enhance children’s knowledge and language and literacy development by regularly reading books with children individually, in small groups, and in various settings (e.g., block area, housekeeping area)
• Encourage children’s emergent writing skills, their awareness of print, and the varied purposes for writing by providing and using a range of writing materials (e.g., markers, crayons, finger paint, letter magnets) and environmental print (e.g., traffic signs, labels in the classroom, store signs)
• Support children’s interest in and awareness of numbers, counting, and problem solving by initiating counting games and activities and by providing materials that link number concepts to numerals and mathematical understanding and vocabulary.
• Promoting children’s understanding of size, shape, color, and directionality by engaging them is small and large-motor activities that require them to sort, match, and identify patterns, group objects, and measure objects.
• Build children’s ability to compare and talk about the similarities and differences between objects by providing experiences with sorting, matching, patterns, grouping, and measurement.
• Assist children in understanding math and science concepts by embedding math and science experiences into everyday routines, music, movement, literacy, art, and play.
• Help children expand their knowledge of their bodies and the world around them by planning and implementing in-depth exploration of topics in physical, life, and earth sciences.
• Encourage children’s use of scientific inquiry by offering experiences and opportunities to engage in questioning, predicting, investigating, and collecting and analyzing data.
• Expand children’s knowledge of nature, living things, and materials and processes by providing objects, tools, and experiences that enable them to closely observe and explore nature and scientific concepts (e.g., cause and effect, time, temperature, buoyancy, changes in materials).
• Facilitate children’s ability to listen to, interact with, and appreciate different types of music by providing individual and group experiences with singing, finger plays, creative movement, and musical instruments.
• Develop children’s imagination and creativity by providing child-directed and teacher-guided opportunities for them to express their thoughts, ideas, experiences, and feelings through various media (e.g., movement, dance, drama, music, visual arts).
• Help children learn about themselves and others by designing and implementing meaningful experiences to explore similarities and differences between people.
• Align goals and approaches to support childre