Childcare Teacher - Bilingual Float

Domestic Violence Intervention Services • Tulsa, OK

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Child Care Teacher serves as a staff member at will of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS). The Child Care Teacher will provide quality child care, recreational care, and/or educational activities for children birth – eighteen years of age; to assist with child advocacy projects as time permits when no children are in child care. Additionally, the Child Care Teacher will provide coverage at additional childcare sites as needed.

Requirements

• Proven computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, Excel, Word, and Adobe, are necessary.
• Requires dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize work and tasks.
• Requires adaptability to produce and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-task, and changing environment, with frequent pressure related to meeting deadlines and scheduling requirements.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must have good negotiation skills and the ability to handle sensitive information with diplomacy.
• Requires the ability to embrace, support, and integrate DVIS’s philosophies to promote and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.
• Minimum of one year of experience working with children.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of or experience working with social justice issues, specifically intimate partner and gender-based domestic and sexual violence, and racial, class, gender, and sexual orientation issues, and intervention/prevention services strongly preferred.
• Experience applying an equitable analysis to all duties to achieve organizational goals and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism preferred.
• Diplomacy in confronting personal, individual, and internal discrimination requiring sharing and discussing personal identities relative to the work environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with a nonprofit and with children who have experienced trauma, specifically domestic violence, are strongly preferred; or any equivalent combination of experience, lived experience, and/or special skills.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing child care at the Family Safety Center and at other sites as requested or needed; this includes ensuring caregivers check their child(ren) in and out of child care correctly.
• Utilize appropriate non-physical guidance and discipline techniques when necessary, and provide feedback to parents on time spent in a childcare center.
• Responsible for creating, planning, and implementing recreational and/or educational childcare lesson plans for the Family Safety Center that focus on the social, emotional, developmental, and physical well-being of children and caregivers.
• Keep childcare center clean and orderly, sanitizing at the opening, after every child, and at closing, and picking up trash when necessary.
• Prepare and set up the childcare center at the start of every day.
• Adhere to Licensing Regulations when providing coverage at additional sites.
• Other assistance to support the overall goals of the department and organization. DVIS retains the right to add or change duties and/or responsibilities at any time.

Benefits

• The nature of this position requires safeguarding against the release of confidential and proprietary information of DVIS and its clients.
• DVIS requires employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines. Some exceptions may be made for health reasons, sincerely held religious beliefs or historical trauma. Exception requests should be made in writing if you receive a conditional offer of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED