Early Childhood Coach

Center for Inclusive Child Care

5d•$22 - $27•Remote

About The Position

The Center for Inclusive Child Care is seeking part-time Early Childhood Coaches in Duluth, Rochester, and the Twin Cities Metro areas. This role supports early childhood educators, helping them gain confidence in their work with young children. The Center believes that strong support for early childhood educators leads to better experiences and outcomes for educators, children, and families. They are looking for passionate individuals committed to early childhood, relationships, and helping educators grow. The Center is committed to building a diverse team and encourages applications from people of color and bilingual candidates, especially those fluent in Spanish.

Requirements

5 years of experience providing direct service in early childhood education.
Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, or related field.
Must possess and maintain a valid MN state driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
Satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening.
3 years of experience providing mentoring, coaching, consultation, or technical assistance.
Knowledge of Minnesota child care licensing and programmatic requirements in the early care and education system in Minnesota.
English and Spanish language proficiency.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual candidates, particularly those fluent in Spanish, are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Provide culturally sensitive relationship-based professional development (RBPD) and coaching to early care and education settings, including child care centers and family child care providers throughout Minnesota.
Encourage and support collaboration between families, providers, community programs and organizations.
Provide coaching to assist early childhood professionals through modeling, goal setting, reflection and resource sharing with a focus on inclusion, health and safety and infant and toddler best practices.
Work collaboratively with early childhood educators to jointly develop and implement action plans to meet ongoing goals.
Assist those being coached to structure environments, routines and interactions that contribute to positive social-emotional outcomes for the children and families in a program.
Connect programs, families, and individuals to CICC resources and/or to community partners to access external support.