Child Care Resource Specialist
Who We Are:
Child Care Resource Network’s mission is to promote quality, affordable, accessible care and learning for all children by supporting and empowering families, caregivers, education professionals, and employers. We are a family-friendly agency, supporting our employees and their families with excellent benefits and a commitment to making CCRN a great place to work for everyone.
How CCRN Supports Our Employees:
- Babies at Work program to support new parents and their babies
- Access to Shared Company vehicles, to minimize wear and tear or mileage on your personal vehicle
- Generous PTO that begins accruing immediately upon employment
- 16 days of paid holiday pay, including a floating holiday
- Competitive Health insurance
- Discounted Dental and Eyeglass coverage
- Trainings, Professional Memberships, and Professional Development Classes paid for by CCRN to help your professional growth!
Position Summary:
The Child Care Resource Specialist is responsible for providing support to child care providers in sustainable business practices and providing technical assistance on grant opportunities. This position will also handle intakes for community members who are searching for services and referrals.
As a Customer Service Resource Specialist, You Will:
- Develop an understanding of best practices for child care businesses and aid child care businesses to follow best practices.
- Provide technical assistance and training as necessary.
- Provide one-on-one and or small group assistance and onsite visits for programs who need individualized support.
- Attain and improve knowledge of grant opportunities and grant deliverables for providers.
- Promote or conduct business trainings for the quarterly training calendar thorough the service delivery area.
- Work collaboratively with OCFS and the Early Care and Learning Council on Business Specialist initiatives and attend monthly meetings.
- Assist in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of an annual Business Services & Child Care Supply work plan
- Counsel referral clients who are seeking child care
- Provide outreach presentations to providers and community partners to promote services of CCRN while seeking to establish and strengthen partnerships and collaborations.
What You’ll Bring to this Position:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field with one year experience in administrative support and customer service; or Associate Degree in Business or related field and three years of experience.
- Willingness to travel in Erie County
- Knowledge of early care and education.
- General knowledge of Child Care Facility System (CCFS) and Empire State Child Care Match preferred
- Efficient keyboarding, phone etiquette and filing skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize, pay attention to detail and effectively handle multiple tasks and projects.
- Excellent human relation skills as well as the ability to communicate, orally and in writing, with a wide range of people including the current predominant linguistic, racial and ethnic populations of Erie County.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft© Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Ability to carry out assignments without direct supervision.
- Multilingual in English and Spanish or other languages that would support servicing our customers, a plus.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Valid NYS Driver License
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $18.72 – $19.47 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Relocate:
- Buffalo, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
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Education and Training Specialist
Who We Are:
Child Care Resource Network’s mission is to promote quality, affordable, accessible care and learning for all children by supporting and empowering families, caregivers, education professionals, and employers. We are a family-friendly agency, supporting our employees and their families with excellent benefits and a commitment to making CCRN a great place to work for everyone.
How CCRN Supports Our Employees:
- Babies at Work program to support new parents and their babies
- Access to Shared Company vehicles, to minimize wear and tear or mileage on your personal vehicle
- Generous PTO that begins accruing immediately upon employment
- 16 days of paid holiday pay, including a floating holiday
- Competitive Health insurance
- Discounted Dental and Eyeglass coverage
- Trainings, Professional Memberships, and Professional Development Classes paid for by CCRN to help your professional growth!
Position Summary:
Under the direction of the Director of Education and Training, the Education and Training Specialist is responsible for providing training, technical assistance, and education programs to child care providers of all modalities with a focus on school-age.
As An Education and Training Associate, You Will:
- Be a great teacher and an engaging speaker
- Be passionate about learning and educating school-age providers in the community
- Provide training, coaching, and technical assistance to school-age providers using all modalities
- Implement professional development training which will include the School-Age Care Credential (SACC)
- Utilize current research-based and best practice information
- Use feedback from evaluative tools to guide decision making and planning
- Meet the diverse needs of providers in the community
- Implement Education and Training Department programs and initiatives
- Conduct school-age program observations and assessments
- Track data related to Education and Training Department programs and initiatives
- Serve as a member of the Education and Training team and attend meetings and trainings
- Serve on a committee supporting our internal and/or external community
- Serve as a member of the CCRN team and actively participate in required meetings, trainings and outreach events.
- Carry out or assist with other tasks in addition to the duties listed on this job description, in accordance with the agency’s team philosophy
What You’ll Bring to this Position:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development, Childhood Education, and/or Elementary Education or related field and three years of direct school-age program experience; or an Associate Degree and/or NYS School-Age Care Credential with six years of direct experience.
- Current New York State Training and Technical Assistance Professional Credential (T-TAP) Credential or plan of action to achieve credential within first six months of hire
- Minimum one year experience training adults, including planning and development of curriculum
- Strong knowledge of child development Birth-12, with a focus on school-age
- Ability to apply knowledge in varied school age settings.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent human relation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups of people including the current predominant linguistic, racial and ethnic populations of Erie County
- Ability to work independently
- Willingness to regularly travel in Erie County
- Available to work evenings and weekends
- Multilingual in English and Spanish or other languages that would support servicing our customers a plus
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Valid NYS Driver License and a vehicle with current registration and insurance
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $21.32 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Relocate:
- Buffalo, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
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Education and Training Specialist (Multilingual)
Who We Are:
If you have experience with Child Care and Training, come work at one of Buffalo’s Best Places to Work 2024!
Child Care Resource Network’s mission is to promote quality, affordable, accessible care and learning for all children by supporting and empowering families, caregivers, education professionals, and employers. We are a family-friendly agency, supporting our employees and their families with excellent benefits and a commitment to making CCRN a great place to work for everyone.
How CCRN Supports Our Employees:
- Babies at Work program to support new parents and their babies
- Access to Shared Company vehicles, to minimize wear and tear or mileage on your personal vehicle
- Generous PTO that begins accruing immediately upon employment
- 16 days of paid holiday pay, including a floating holiday
- Competitive Health insurance
- Discounted Dental and Eyeglass coverage
- Trainings, Professional Memberships, and Professional Development Classes paid for by CCRN to help your professional growth!
Position Summary:
Under the direction of the Director of Education and Training, the Education and Training Specialist is responsible for providing training, technical assistance, and education programs to child care providers of all modalities including school-age.
As An Education and Training Specialist, You Will:
- Be a great teacher and an engaging speaker
- Be passionate about learning and educating providers in the community
- Provide training, coaching, and technical assistance to school-age providers using all modalities
- Implement professional development training which will include the Child Development Associate (CDA)
- Use feedback from evaluative tools to guide decision making and planning
- Utilize current research-based and best practice information
- Meet the diverse needs of providers in the community
- Develop and implement Education and Training Department programs and initiatives
- Conduct child care and school-age program observations and assessments
- Track data related to Education and Training Department programs and initiatives
- Serve as a member of the Education and Training team and attend meetings and trainings as required
- Serve on at least one (1) committee supporting our internal and/or external community
- Serve as a member of the CCRN team and actively participate in required meetings, trainings and outreach events.
- Carry out or assist with other tasks in addition to the duties listed on this job description, in accordance with the agency’s team philosophy
What You’ll Bring to this Position:
- Multilingual/Bilingual in English and Spanish or other languages that would support servicing our customers
- Bachelor Degree in Early Education and/or Childhood Education or related field and three years of direct child care/school-age program experience; or an Associate Degree with six years of direct experience.
- Minimum one-year experience training adults, including planning and development of curriculum
- Current New York State Training and Technical Assistance Professional Credential (T-TAP) Credential or plan of action to achieve credential within first year of hire
- Strong knowledge of child development Birth-12 years.
- Ability to apply knowledge in varied child care settings.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as group presentation skills
- Excellent human relation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups of people including the current predominant linguistic, racial and ethnic populations of Erie County
- Ability to execute assignments with little supervision.
- Willingness to regularly travel in Erie County
- Available to work evenings and weekends, as needed
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Valid NYS Driver License and a vehicle with current registration and insurance
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.32 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
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