Education Manager

Metropolitan Family Services • Chicago, IL

6h • $68,000 - $72,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Metropolitan Family Services is hiring an Education Manager at its Midway office. The role supports Early Head Start, Preschool for All, and Prevention Initiative programs by implementing program policies, procedures, and standards; monitoring program quality and compliance; and providing coaching, training, and technical assistance to early learning classroom teachers. The manager works with staff, parents, and program partners to support children’s educational, health, social, mental health, and special needs. The position requires driving a personally owned vehicle and traveling between sites.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, or a related field.
• Professional Educator License (PEL).
• English as a Second Language endorsement or enrollment in an endorsement program.
• Special Education Approval or enrollment in an approval program.
• At least 3 years of early childhood education experience with increasing administrative responsibility.
• At least 1 year of the required experience at the supervisory level in an early childhood setting or licensed day care center.
• Ability to satisfactorily pass all screenings and criminal background checks.
• Ability to drive for work using a personally owned vehicle and travel between sites.
• Competence in the principles of Early Head Start, Head Start, Preschool for All, and Prevention Initiative programs, including the ability to coach and mentor teachers and provide compliance-related technical assistance.
• Understanding of current principles of developmentally appropriate practice, bilingual education, inclusion, disabilities, and cultural competency.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in early childhood education, child development, or a related field.
• Experience teaching preschool-age children.

Responsibilities

• Implement policies, procedures, and standards for Early Head Start, Head Start, Preschool for All, and Prevention Initiative programs.
• Conduct ongoing program monitoring, including quarterly classroom observations and reviews of files, lesson plans, and program data, with follow-up as needed.
• Monitor, train, and provide technical support to classroom teachers on curriculum implementation and developmentally appropriate practices.
• Support educational services in accordance with program plans, policies, procedures, performance standards, requirements, and regulations.
• Review and compile required education and disabilities reports and documentation in collaboration with supervisors, program managers, and teaching staff.
• Work with early childhood staff and parents to integrate children’s medical, dental, health, social service, mental health, and special needs into the classroom environment and curriculum.
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings as needed.
• Assist with recruitment, hiring, orientation, and ongoing professional development of teaching staff to support compliance with funding requirements.
• Monitor data and generate reports for the Director of Early Learning and Head Start Oversight Board as required.
• Ensure children’s screening and assessment are completed within required time frames and recorded in program electronic databases.
• Meet with teaching teams or cohorts and develop and track professional development plans for teaching staff as warranted.
• Participate with staff and the Policy Council in designing and implementing the annual program self-assessment.
• Assist in developing procedures for transitioning children into and out of early childhood programs and ensure the procedures are implemented.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield medical coverage.
• Guardian dental coverage.
• VSP vision coverage.
• Employer contributions of $2,000 to individual and $4,000 to family HSA accounts, prorated to the benefits start date.
• Free Teladoc general medicine and behavioral health services for team members.
• Ascensus 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match, vested at 100% on the first day of eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager