Parent Family and Community Engagement Coordinator

AVANCE Inc • Alamo, TX

99d

About The Position

The Parent, Family and Community Engagement Coordinator is primarily responsible for achieving the following outcomes for the Head Start program: Work in collaboration with the Health Coordinator and network family services leadership to develop, implement and refine AVANCE’s family service approach in order to promote family outcomes that support children’s school readiness and well-being. Coach and provide supervisory guidance to Family Service team members in order to strengthen staff capacity and move staff towards mastery in core competencies included in the Family Advocate Success Rubric. Build a team that works collaboratively with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition staff in order to enhance family life practices and circumstances that promote child development and well-being. Maintain qualitative and quantitative quality improvement and monitoring systems in order to assure that program strategies are executed with reliability, fidelity and quality.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Family and Child Development, Public Health, Social Work or related field. Masters preferred.
• At least 3 years' experience working with diverse families in low-income communities, with supervisory responsibilities.
• Background and experience executing evidence-based strategies to strengthen outcomes for children and families.
• Maintain certification in CPR and First Aid.
• Physical exam and background checks are required for this position.
• Ability to travel locally or long-distance up to 10% of the time for work-related meetings and functions.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; demonstrated flexibility to handle multiple priorities.
• Ability to interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Must be honest, dependable and able to meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Assure effective coordination with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition leadership and staff to develop and implement group and Center-based campaigns and activities that build a program wide culture among staff and families to promote family life practices to close the achievement gap.
• Implement the AVANCE Parent Child-Education Education Curriculum that extends our classroom curriculum into the family's home, modeling high quality adult- child interactions teachers use in their classrooms for families around the four Family Life Practices.
• Assist family services staff to build proficiency in engaging families in conversations regarding the impact of high-risk behaviors on children’s development and motivating them to engage in treatment or support.
• Assist Director of Family Services, Health & Nutrition to identify community partners to pro-actively support families impacted by MH concerns, domestic violence, substance abuse, child abuse and other high-risk circumstances that could act as barriers to healthy child development.
• Manage eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance oversight to ensure that all systems and operations are in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards and reflect integration of community assessment and other community indicator data.
• Oversee ERSEA Assistant to assure that program maintains active and up to date waiting list, fills vacancies within required timeframes and assures that children are selected according to HS Performance Standards eligibility guidelines.
• Works in coordination with program leadership to develop and implement targeted recruitment strategies that assure enrollment of children with greatest need, including children of working families eligible for childcare subsidies.
• Coordinates with Center leadership to assure that family services and early learning teams work together to assure on-time daily attendance of all children, and to implement strategies to reduce chronic absence outcomes-based family services.
• Work with agency leadership to align program’s Family Services approach with the Office of Head Start’s Parent Family Community Engagement Framework, and to enhance interventions to achieve family outcomes in the seven targeted outcome areas.
• Focus on Coordination and collaboration with education.
• Work with the Director of Family Services, Health and Nutrition to secure self-sufficiency partnerships that result in 50% of families achieving significant progress on self-sufficiency goals.
• Assist staff to build family networks and create on-site self-sufficiency workshops/interventions to allow them to support one another to achieve self-sufficiency goals.
• Coordinate with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition teams to execute high quality case consultation and case conferencing systems to address the needs of children with chronic health conditions and/or special needs.
• Work with program leadership to secure external partnerships to provide on-site support for families of children with chronic health conditions/special needs.
• Oversee and monitor family goal setting, follow-up and coordination for children with chronic health conditions and special needs to assure coordination of home/school strategies.
• Oversee ongoing family assessment to assure that vulnerable families are identified and referred to clinical social workers, as appropriate, for more intensive support and follow-up.
• Participates in assigned meetings, events and training as required.
• Represents team and/or department at meetings, events, and training as required.
• Utilize qualitative audit and external evaluation data to track family outcomes and to refine strategies to enhance family impact.
• Utilize family data sources to understand self-sufficiency trends and assist staff to understand priority family self-sufficiency needs.
• Fully integrate Family Advocate Success Rubric data into staff coaching, supervision and on-going professional development.
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative data to inform coaching and supervision, and to analyze staff trends.
• Provide coaching and support to family services staff to assure the reliability of family assessment and goal progress data and to strengthen staff focus on outcomes-focused family interventions.
• Consistent coaching and supervision result in 75% of all family services staff scoring at an average score of implementing or higher on the Family Advocate Success Rubric.
• Support Family Services staff to assist families to set individualized evidence-based goals and make demonstrable changes in family life practices linked in the research to school readiness.
• Establish and maintain a safe, healthy, and positive learning environment.
• Supervises assigned department personnel. Includes the following responsibilities, but are not limited to hiring, training, scheduling, evaluating, and ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and the completion of all work performed by direct reports.
• Educates direct reports on all department and agency policies and procedures.
• Meets with assigned staff at least monthly to identify and resolve problems, manage projects, track goals, and review work processes and procedures.
• Performs any and all other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees