The job of Early Head Start/ Head Start Education Manager is done for the purpose of leading and coordinating the educational and child development program and related activities in terms of: guidance and coaching to the instructional staff; the alignment of school readiness goals and effective teaching practices; providing information to parents and volunteers in child growth and development, family services, health and nutrition; implementing and maintaining home visit and family worker services within established guidelines and standards in the area of early childhood development; and individual professional development. Partners with and supports the Assistant Director of Student Services HS/EHS Director, Education Coordinator, and Education Specialist.

Essential Functions

• Leads, supports, and supervises instructional staff in the implementation of curriculum and use of resources to facilitate school readiness goals.
• Leads and provides oversight to the education team to ensure that Performance Standards, State, and Federal requirements are met.
• Monitors and supports education staff to ensure that individualized instruction based on each child’s level of development, learning style, culture/ethnicity is provided.
• Leads and facilitates training based on program data to enhance the professional growth and development of the instructional staff and fulfill program goals.
• Ensures successful onboarding of staff, provides input for formal evaluations, and 45 and 90 day evaluations and training of content area and center assigned staff.
• Evaluates classrooms (using the CLASS observation tool as appropriate) to ensure classrooms are performing at the highest level in all domains and dimensions at least three times per year. Provide immediate feedback and professional development opportunities.
• Analyzes data to identify trends, strengths/needs of staff prior to organizing professional development in-services (Behavior Incident Reports, IFSP’s, IEP’s, Child Outcomes); to develop culturally appropriate programs and activities; and ensure the implementation of Head Start Program Performance Standards
• Prepares reports, collection of data, records maintenance, etc.to ensure the availability of data for established requirements (i.e. grants/self-assessment/child outcomes/class observations, eligibility & funding options, and activity logs).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or equivalent coursework in Early Childhood Education with early education teaching experience.  Master’s Degree preferred.
• CLASS Evaluator Certification Required; Early Childhood Education Certification preferred
• Job related experience within a specialized field with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Oral and written communication skills, computer literacy regarding management information systems, strong organizational skills, must use tact and diplomacy, display leadership on Early Childhood and grant funded program issues.

This is a 12 Month Position