Early Head Start - Home Visiting Manager

Riverside Community Care • Somerville, MA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Early Head Start Home Visiting Manager provides reflective and administrative supervision to Home Visitors (HV), supports their professional growth and high-quality service delivery, ensures fidelity to the home-based program model and Head Start Performance Standards, and collaborates with program leadership to support day-to-day operations. The Home Visiting Manager also partners with the leadership team to advance continuous quality improvement through data-informed planning, assessment, reporting, evaluation, and decision-making to strengthen program outcomes, services, and policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Child Development, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or related field required.
• 3-5 years’ experience in supervision preferred.
• Prior experience in Head Start, Early Education, Home Visiting, Counseling, Adult Education, Community Organizing or other related field preferred.
• Early Head Start/Head Start experience a plus.
• Experience with families with very young children and pre-natal women preferred.
• Experience with low-income families preferred.
• Experience with immigrant population preferred.
• Experience with adult learners preferred.
• Fluent in Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Portuguese, or Spanish preferred.
• Has knowledge of early childhood education, developmental milestones, principles of child health, safety, and nutrition; adult learning principles; and family dynamics.
• Is able to collaborate, communicate and motivate people.
• Has knowledge of community resources and the skills to link families to appropriate agencies and services.
• Knowledge of, or interest in, Reggio Emilia teaching approaches preferred.
• Access to reliable transportation.

Responsibilities

• Provides reflective and administrative supervision to Home Visitors (HV).
• Supports professional growth and high-quality service delivery of Home Visitors.
• Ensures fidelity to the home-based program model and Head Start Performance Standards.
• Collaborates with program leadership to support day-to-day operations.
• Partners with the leadership team to advance continuous quality improvement through data-informed planning, assessment, reporting, evaluation, and decision-making to strengthen program outcomes, services, and policies.

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
• Career Level: Manager