Family and Community Engagement Specialist

Summary

The Family and Community Engagement Specialist will recruit families and support providers, families, and the community by providing; parent cafés, resources, referral services, parent training, parent advocate home visits, provider updates and technical assistance to their caseload of child care providers around parent engagement and parent & community consumer education.

Duties

• Recruit families and identify opportunities to reach families with resources related to:

-High-quality early care and education settings – SUTQ, Accreditation, etc.

-Locating early education programs to meet family and children’s needs

-Potential foster/adoptive caregivers

-Protective Factors including Parent Cafés and Concrete Supports

-Fully implement the CCRC mission through a caseload model of service delivery and meaningful relationships.

• Maintain an accurate database (Work Life Systems) of all providers on your caseload within the CCRC service delivery area. Must ensure provider updates are completed every six months.
• Refer families to providers in database and contact parents to verify program effectiveness, questions or additional information. Referrals are emailed, mailed or provided over the phone.
• Provide Parent Advocate Home Visits that empowering the parent through:

-Parent-child relationships; home-school relationships; co-coordinator-parent relationships; and parent-parent/ community relationships

-Educating parents re: children’s physical and emotional development and realistic expectations of child behavior

-Role-modeling appropriate parenting techniques including positive communication, listening and age-appropriate limit setting and discipline

-Enhancement of home-management skills such as, budgeting, organization and nutrition

-Support in times of crisis

• Provide services to families related to agency grants or projects (i.e. strengthening families, Parent Café’s, Parenting Wisely, Triple P, Foster Families, Trainings etc.)
• Help educate families, and community organizations on child development issues, nutrition, and other CCRC services through outreach, consultation, meetings, and newsletters.
• Contribute to leadership in the community concerning advocacy for quality child care.
• Represent the agency at various meetings as assigned.
• Assume other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
• Identify innovative strategies to continuously challenge all CCRC team members to make 212 degrees their personal target.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in early care and education or closely related field preferred with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in early care and education
• Ability to coordinate/conduct small group sessions
• Knowledge of parent engagement planning and implementation
• Ability to collect, compile, and analyze data
• Ability to work independently as well as a team leader and team member
• Excellent communication and organization skills including social media and blogging

Nice To Haves

• Speaks Spanish
• Masters Degree
• over 5 years experience in foster, kinship or adoption services

Benefits

• Fulltime position

• Medical (CCRC pays 70%), Life insurance (paid by employer), 403b Retirement, Sick Leave, Vacation Time, Hybrid work after 3months