Eligibility Specialist

Promise Early Education Center•Lewiston, ME

2d•$20 - $23•Onsite

About The Position

The Eligibility Specialist (Head Start) will work 30 hours per week and oversee the implementation of the Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance (ERSEA) component, ensure appropriate recruitment, retention, and representation of service area community populations through direct in-home program intakes, actively participate within community coalition networks and attend meetings, and educate the community at large on the Riverside Early Head Start (REHS) Program priorities. Promise Early Education Center (PROMISE) promotes the positive growth of children, families, and staff. PROMISE provides early education/Pre-K services, full and part year, to children age 6 weeks to 5 years through home based and center programming in nine locations throughout Androscoggin County. Head Start recognizes that parents are children's first and most important teachers. Caring, professional educators' partner with families providing information, education and support helping to ensure children enter school ready to learn.

Requirements

Minimum 2 year preferred but will consider other relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Conduct, process and maintain intake and eligibility applications in accordance with current OHS Standards-including but not limited to verification of age, residency, and income.
Input and maintain eligibility, selection criteria, enrollment data, and programs initial intake screener within program's data management system.
Regularly inform participants of eligibility/waitlist status and follow-up with waitlist families to support referral and delivery of support services as appropriate.
Create, implement and oversee the recruitment plan for the program, ensuring plan supports short and long-term program needs, priorities, and service area demographics.
Ensure close collaboration and communication with Program Director and component management team includes regular and reliable status reports for: selected, enrolled, waitlisted, and applied clients; summary reports outlining attendance and priorities of community and coalition meetings; programs initial intake screenings and supportive service needs; and other reports as needed.
Build and foster working relationships with outside agencies and community members which support cultural, linguistic, and diagnostic referral and recruitment efforts that assist in building a diverse and sustainable waitlist.
Seek out and attend recruitment/community events which support target populations as well as underserved communities.
Analyze community assessment information, PIR, Intake, Enrollment, and Drop Status Reports, to ensure recruitment and retention planning and outreach efforts align with current and projected community trends as well as program objectives