Job Description

Job Location: 176 Eldridge Street - New York, NY 10002
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range: $25.00 - $26.00 Hourly

University Settlement partners with 40,000+ New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn every year to build on our collective strengths as we achieve healthy, stable, and remarkable lives. For nearly 140 years, we’ve fought poverty and systemic inequality by building highly effective social services in collaboration with our neighbors. Established in 1886 as the first Settlement House in the United States, we bring the values of that movement into the 21st century by meeting New Yorkers where they live, listening deeply to all perspectives, and creating space for responsive cooperation.
Joining with our neighbors to make stable foundations where people of all ages can grow and pursue their dreams, we build community strength. We infuse a commitment to civic engagement, equality, and communal action into each of our programs, which include early childhood education, youth development, healthy aging, mental health and wellness, English classes for adult immigrants, community centers, and the arts.
Family Child Care Network (FCCN) and Department of Education (DOE) view Family childcare as a respected and valued profession within the Early care and Education system in New York City. We seek to support and enhance the existing strengths of family childcare as birth4 programs that promote continuous and responsive relationships, strengthen early learning skills, build resilience, and lay the foundation for all future learning. The primary role of the Education Specialist/ Assistant Family Coordinator is to build strengths based relationships with affiliated providers to support them as needed and in implementing high quality play based instruction
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with all staff including the FCC Education Director, FCC Family Support Worker, and FCC Monitors, Coordinators, and other staff to meet the needs of all children and families.
- Provide strength based practice based coaching 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 gathering observations of children and entering child assessment data in a timely manner and support its use for curriculum and lesson planning.
- Review and enter ASQ and ASQSE into database
- Document all coaching sessions aligned with the DOEs Early Childhood Framework for Quality (EFQ).
- Enter data in Network tracking tool on a timely manner
- Assist in ongoing outreach, enrollment, and all other administrative tasks.
- Support FCC Education Director in coordinating all required professional learning days throughout the year.
- Maintain relationships with community partners who provide mental health, special needs, and other support services for all affiliated providers and families. Make referrals as needed.
- Create and regularly update Community Partner Resource Guide within FCC Network.
- Participate in all FCC Network staff meetings to connect about individual providers, families, and coordinate all services.
- Participate in individual supervision on a regular basis
- Monitor and generate reports in database (TSG , Salesforce, others as needed)
- Participate in Network staff professional learning sessions delivered.
- Other tasks as assigned by FCC Education Director.

Qualifications
- BA/BS in early childhood or infant/toddler studies required
- Experience teaching children under six required
- Experience working in family childcare and/or with infants and toddlers
- Position requires travel within FCC Network catchment area
- Experience with Salesforce
- Must have excellent writing and communication skills
- Excellent time management and multitasking abilities
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to work as part of a team
- Appreciation for the unique needs of all providers and families.
Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm, 35 hours per week
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive community. We support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to our organization. We are an equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.