Responsibilities

While the role will evolve, specific immediate responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the Education Director, Family Support Worker, and Monitors to meet the needs of all children and families.
• Provide twice monthly strength-based practice-based coaching to assigned affiliated providers as they implement a mixed-age curriculum.
• Adapt and provide guidance to affiliated providers on the implementation of an evidence-based curriculum for mixed-age group settings that meets the individual needs of all children.
• Review and adapt appropriate curriculum support and documents with affiliated providers that foster hands-on, developmentally appropriate, and relationship-based interactions with all children.
• Assist affiliated providers in conducting observations of children and entering child assessment data in a timely manner, and supporting its use for curriculum and lesson planning.
• Document all coaching sessions aligned with the DOE’s Early Childhood Framework for Quality (EFQ).
• Assist in ongoing outreach, enrollment, and all other administrative tasks.
• Support the Education Director in coordinating all required professional learning days.
• Maintain relationships with community partners who provide mental health, special needs, and other support services for all affiliated providers and families.
• Create and regularly update Community Partner Resource Guide within FCC Network.
• Participate in twice-monthly Network staff meetings to discuss individual providers and families and coordinate all services.
• Participate in Network staff professional learning sessions delivered.
• Other tasks as assigned by the Education Director.

As a small organization, DCCNY team members engage in multiple areas of the organization’s operation. DCCNY welcomes proposals for new initiatives from its team members and encourages candidates with a strong interest in our mission to apply.

Qualifications, Skills, Abilities, and Characteristics

The following items represent the required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience. This position requires effectively establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships within a diverse, multicultural environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or infant and toddler studies is required.
• Previous experience teaching children aged birth to five.
• Familiarity with the NYC child care system is a plus.
• Valid NYS driver’s license and registered vehicle are strongly preferred.
• Strong computer literacy; proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google G-Suite.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Strong management and organizational skills.
• Strategic thinking with the capacity to be adaptable, navigate ambiguity, and be solution oriented.
• Bi-lingual ability in a language other than English.
• Ability to engage with internal colleagues and external constituents using diplomacy, tact, and discretion.
• Act effectively and efficiently under pressure.
• Flexibility to function in a changing work environment with the ability to set priorities and multitask.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Deep commitment to our mission and nuanced understanding of systemic and structural racism and inequity.
• Follow through with all projects and assignments, follow timelines, and meet scheduled deadlines.
• Be assertive and persuasive as necessary while maintaining positive and productive relationships.
• Manage light to moderate carrying and lifting of items.

• Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Preferred Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Please apply through Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/job/educational-specialist-family-child-care-network-6195931280b4e71b

This coaching position requires the ability to build respectful, trust-based relationships with home-based educators, supporting their individualized professional development goals through monthly visits grounded in early childhood best practices and curriculum support. Prior experience with home-based child care is preferred.