Child Development Consultant

Riverside Community Care • Somerville, MA

3d • $61,030 - $69,477

About The Position

The Child Development Consultant will work within Riverside Early Childhood Services for Cambridge and Somerville, which is home to two programs, Early Intervention, and the Early Years Project.

Both programs share our guiding statement:

At Riverside Early Childhood Services, we co-create relationships, experiences, and environments which promote positive development, amongst team members and the people we serve. We are committed to clinical excellence, collaboration, and the process of continual learning. We meet all people where they are, recognize and nurture strengths, and attend to challenges. As a staff, we value our differences, flexibility, autonomy, and accountability, and show up for one another with kindness, support and direct communication.

As a member of the Early Years Project Team, the Child Development Consultant provides consultation and training in licensed center-based and family childcare settings.
Consultations are typically for individual children, from infancy through preschool. Service frequency depends on the level of need and our overall caseload. When there are safety concerns, services may be intensive and provided daily. We also provide whole classroom consultations, director support, and family support, as well as creating resource materials, including handouts and workshops.

We understand behavior is communication, and we use a neuro-relational, brain-body approach for educators, parents, guardians, and children, which incorporates stress, regulation, and social emotional learning. Our work is grounded in cultural humility as we develop relationships with teachers and families, and grow in our understanding of their priorities, pedagogy, values, beliefs, strengths, sources of stress, and intervention needs. We engage in a collaborative process of change with caregivers through a blend of generative questions, reflective practice, modeling, and coaching, while offering frameworks and specific suggestions as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation and training in licensed center-based and family childcare settings.
• Provide individual child consultations, from infancy through preschool.
• Provide whole classroom consultations, director support, and family support.
• Create resource materials, including handouts and workshops.
• Use a neuro-relational, brain-body approach for educators, parents, guardians, and children, which incorporates stress, regulation, and social emotional learning.
• Engage in a collaborative process of change with caregivers through a blend of generative questions, reflective practice, modeling, and coaching, while offering frameworks and specific suggestions as appropriate.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
• Eleven paid holidays
• Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
• Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
• Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
• Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
• Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees