Quality Mentor Coach

Child Care Associates is an equal opportunity employer who offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, mental or physical disability, political affiliation, beliefs, protected veteran status in accordance with applicable federal laws, or any other protected class.

Location: NCT Curantis (Denton) FT/PT Status: Full Time

Position Overview

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Quality Mentor Coach to support and guide child care providers in enhancing the quality of care and education they offer. The ideal candidate will work closely with providers to assess their needs, offer individualized coaching, and support the implementation of best practices in early childhood education.

Responsibilities include:

• Conducting on-site visits, providing feedback and training, assisting with curriculum development, and helping providers meet state licensing and quality standards.
• Fostering strong relationships with providers, offering ongoing support and resources to improve program quality and ensure positive outcomes for children in care.

Mentor

• Provide on-site mentoring to child care providers attaining and maintaining Texas Rising Star (TRS) certification.
• Assist facilities to move towards 4 Star or National Accreditation status by providing ongoing support through professional development and modelling developmentally appropriate practices.
• Maintain a bi-monthly visit schedule to ensure all TRS sites receive on-site visits regularly.
• Submit weekly reports detailing site visits, successes and obstacles.
• Develop instructional materials and provide instructional trainings on a monthly basis for the TRS facility.
• Recruit RSACC providers and provide on-site training in attaining TRS status.
• Participate in community events as required.
• Assist in ordering materials and resources through the Quality Initiatives program as needed for the TRS program.
• Set goals with the director.
• Work with the Director on TRS categories which are: Director and Staff Qualifications, Program Administration, and Indoor and Outdoor Environments.
• Support TRS category Teacher Child Interactions as needed.
• Responsible for Service Improvement Agreement (SIA) with providers, probations, star level drops, uploading of documents and administrative supports.
• Responsible for all documentation needed for financial agreement and finance (W-9, rate changes, Holiday changes and other documents).
• Work collaboratively with the TRS Coach and Assessor.

Coach

• Provide in-classroom guidance for teachers utilizing research-based techniques, approaches, and interactions to successfully facilitate the learning process for children.
• Work with the program to support the Mentor on TRS categories: Director and Staff Qualifications, Program Administration, and Indoor and Outdoor Environments, as needed.
• Participate in Community events as required.
• Positively impact the results of Child Assessments in your teachers’ classrooms.
• Complete Classroom Behavior Checklists each month on each teacher.
• Train teaching staff to enhance their abilities to provide children with developmentally appropriate classroom environments.
• Ensure that all classroom teachers receive ongoing training and staff development to master the skills to improve TRS category, Teacher Child Interactions.
• Complete Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) on each child care facility and individual staff that is being coached.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the latest research-based early education information.
• Maintain individual records for each teacher to track progress on a regular basis and accomplishments.
• Identify teachers who are unable to incorporate best practices into their daily performance and coordinate the process of getting needs addressed.
• Evaluate and analyze the impact of the mentoring process with the teacher on child outcome results.
• Observe classrooms and offer creative, new ideas for improvement.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with at least 18 credit hours in early childhood education, child development, special education, child psychology, educational psychology, elementary education, or family science.
• A minimum of 1 year experience in an early childhood setting.
• Previous experience and proven ability in preparing and conducting training and development workshops for adults with effective results.
• Be conversant in best practices and research.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly convey thoughts, ideas and concepts to others.
• Computer proficiency and current technological skills are required.
• Must be able to pass a pre-employment and/or periodic physical examination, annual TB skin test, and complete background check every 24 months.
• Must have access to insured and reliable transportation.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to frequently walk, stand and sit for extended time periods.
• Repetitive use of hands; reaching and turning; Ability to lift up to 30 pounds; light lifting of supplies and materials.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to twist, turn, kneel, bend and stoop.
• Must be able to monitor children’s safety in activities when needed.