IRC - International Rescue Committee
Requisition ID: req50835
Job Title: Early Childhood Schooling Specialist
Sector: Schooling
Employment Class: Common
Employment Kind: Half-Time
Compensation: USD 20.20 – 22.50 Hourly
Location: Atlanta, GA USA
Work Association: In-person
Job Description
Job Overview:
The Early Childhood Schooling Specialist is chargeable for offering academic programming for infants, toddlers, and youngsters beneath the age of 5 in addition to making certain their welfare and security. Mother and father of engaged kids will probably be lively in built-in English language instruction for English language learners and/or receiving resettlement and financial empowerment providers from on-site IRC packages. This position will help in getting ready newly arrived households with kids with the data they are going to must be profitable upon getting into the general public college system. The Early Childhood Schooling Specialist will present supportive behaviors with kids in this system and work to advertise youngster growth best-practices with dad and mom. This system expects that each grownup and youngster individuals could have primary to intermediate English language proficiency and speaking by way of Interpreters will probably be required for sure actions.
This place will probably be beginning at part-time, 18.75 hours per week, with the opportunity of elevated hours sooner or later, and can report back to the Two Era Schooling Coordinator. Whereas some actions for this place will embrace on-line conferences and digital or hybrid periods, this position will probably be primarily in-person, on the IRC Atlanta major workplace, with early childhood programming supplied mornings, Monday by way of Friday.
Main Obligations:
Obligations embrace, however should not restricted to:
- Oversee child-watch actions
- Take care of and actively have interaction with infants, toddlers, and youngsters taking part in this system.
- Plan and ship age-appropriate actions and classes.
- Work with dad and mom to develop at-home optimistic early childhood training practices.
- Keep a protected and sanitary setting for kids, together with each day set-up and clean-up actions
- Make the most of and delegate duties to group volunteers as childcare assistants.
- Help with record-keeping and knowledge assortment to assist program administration and compliance with programmatic necessities. Guarantee documentation of all individuals (kids and oldsters) by way of program actions.
- Keep a optimistic studying setting. Facilitate scholar studying actions that construct cultural and group data and encourage collaboration and optimistic peer assist.
- Keep open and efficient communication with grownup training crew members. Report usually on program objectives, shopper attendance, studying actions, scholar progress and any issues or issues with purchasers or program.
- Actively take part in usually scheduled employees conferences {and professional} growth alternatives.
- Different duties as assigned
Job Necessities:
Schooling:
Bachelor’s diploma most popular.
Completion of a certificates as a Baby Growth Affiliate or in early childhood training or a associated certificates is required.
Licensed in CPR / First Assist is desired.
Work Expertise:
- Prior childcare expertise or expertise in early childhood training required.
- Related skilled expertise in training and/or human providers strongly most popular.
- Expertise working with immigrants or refugees most popular.
Demonstrated Abilities & Competencies:
- Robust want to assist weak people and households and enthusiasm for working in a multi-cultural setting.
- Enthusiasm for early childhood training and language studying, with kids and their households.
- An understanding of the ideas of early childhood growth and a capability to adapt to fulfill the wants of immigrant and refugee households.
- An curiosity in immigrant and refugee and asylee points and the resettlement course of.
- Robust communication skills, together with the power to steer teams of scholars and oversee group volunteers.
- Snug working in a cross-cultural setting and with grownup and youngster language learners, typically with little or no English proficiency.
- Means to take initiative, work independently on tasks, and observe by way of on essential duties.
- Means to work in a collaborative setting, typically co-teaching and typically facilitating studying by way of interpretation.
- Robust time-management expertise and comfortability with pc and web-based communication platforms.
- Fluent in English, each spoken and written; proficiency in language(s) spoken by shopper group is desired.
Working Setting:
An workplace workspace with built-in grownup lecture rooms and childcare areas.
Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based mostly on numerous elements together with the labor market, job sort, inside fairness, and price range. Precise presents are calibrated by work location, particular person candidate expertise and expertise relative to the outlined job necessities.
Gender Equality: IRC is dedicated to narrowing the gender hole in management positions. We provide advantages that present an enabling setting for ladies to take part in our workforce together with parental go away, gender-sensitive safety protocols and different supportive advantages and allowances.
Equal Alternative Employer: We’re an equal alternative employer and worth range at our firm. We don’t discriminate on the premise of race, faith, coloration, nationwide origin, intercourse, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, or incapacity standing. We’ll be certain that people with disabilities are supplied affordable lodging to take part within the job utility or interview course of, to carry out important job features, and to obtain different advantages and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request lodging.
US Advantages: The IRC presents a complete and extremely aggressive set of advantages. All US staff are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement financial savings plans: as much as 4.5% instantly vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% further IRC contribution, and an Worker Help Program which is offered to our employees and their households to assist in occasions of disaster and psychological well being struggles.
As well as, full-time staff are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid break day days, incapacity & life insurance coverage, medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage (worker contribution beginning at $135, $7, and $5 monthly respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter prices. Half-time staff are eligible for a proportionate quantity of paid break day. These further advantages apply to staff who work no less than 6 months inside a 12-month time interval.
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