Educational Qualifications and Experience

Must possess a bachelor’s degree in mental health, early childhood, education, or related field with experience in home visiting, child care, working with families with young children (ages birth to 5) and/or advocacy.

The Family Engagement Specialist is a versatile role at The Promise Resource Center. The individual in this role will provide parenting education, family workshops, and social skills groups under the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Support

Services Program, Project First Choice.

General Qualifications

The successful person must:

Understand and be committed to the field of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

Maintain respect for confidentiality of information divulged by or on behalf of participants.

Possess the ability to relate to people of diverse educational, cultural, and economic backgrounds.

Model and facilitate appropriate interaction with young children and parents.

Have the ability to work independently and as a team member.

Be willing to submit to a criminal background investigation.

Be comfortable dealing with families in crisis by helping them problem solve and making referrals where necessary.

Have familiarity with the Southern Maryland region (Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary’s Counties)

Be willing to offer support as needed to parents around parent-child issues and/or interpersonal difficulties.

Be familiar with and able to discuss early childhood and parent development.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide referrals to partnering community agencies when needed.
• Develop and implement family engagement events and activities.
• Provide parent education sessions.
• Facilitate evidence-based parenting programs.
• Create and facilitate family workshops and social skills groups.
• Assist parents in assessing family needs and the strength of the parent-child relationship.
• Provide coaching as needed to parents around parent-child issues and/or interpersonal difficulties.
• Attend all scheduled professional development trainings.
• Attend local and regional community meetings including LECAC meetings.
• Work cooperatively with the Project First Choice team.
• Meet all requirements for collection of statistical material needed PFC, PRC, and MSDE.
• Maintain records on all families to PRC and MSDE standards.
• Promote the program at community events and health fairs.
• Attend and promote partners’ events.
• Participate in outreach to build partnerships in the community.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in mental health, early childhood, or education-related field.
• Be familiar with the Southern Maryland region.
• Possess reliable transportation and a current driver’s license.
• Willingness to lift up to 50lbs.
• Willingness to sit on the floor for at least 25 minutes at a time.
  Preferred:Bi-cultural and/or bilingual with a language other than English.

Comfortability with programs including Canva, Microsoft Office Suite, and Google Drive.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $22.00 per hour

Benefits:

Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Life insurance
Retirement plan
Vision insurance

Associate degree in Early Childhood Education preferred. Associate degree in related field or High School Diploma with 90-hour Child Care Certificate or Infant-Toddler CDA acceptable. Minimum of one year supervised classroom experience with children age zero through three years.

General Qualifications

The successful person must:

• Understand and be committed to the overall philosophy of Family Support.
• Maintain respect for confidentiality of information divulged by or on behalf of participants.
• Possess the ability to relate to people of diverse educational, cultural, and economic backgrounds.
• Be willing and able to do aggressive outreach and recruitment.
• Model appropriate interaction with young children and parents.
• Have the ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Be willing to submit to a criminal background investigation.
• Have current medical evaluation, including a tuberculosis screen within 6 months before the individual begins work in the Center.
• Have a valid Maryland Driver’s License.

Specific Qualifications

This staff person must:

Have ability to participate in training classes pertaining to child development, children at risk, special needs, etc.
Have ability and desire to work with infants and toddlers, and be willing to work with preschoolers.
Have ability to accept supervision.
Have ability to communicate effectively with parents.
Have ability to provide support and education to parents in a positive, non-judgmental manner.
Have ability to respect participants’ communications as confidential and discuss pertinent information with Child Development Specialist.
Have ability to involve the parent in working with his/her child.
Have ability to follow through on instructions as they pertain to nursery management.
Have ability to implement the activity plans for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Have ability to model/teach to parents how to nurture and interact with their babies.
Have ability to effectively enhance the development of children.
Have ability to write observations of children.
Have ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Have ability to get up and down off of a floor.

Job Responsibilities

• Assists with the care, safety, and well-being of all of the children.
• Assists with the implementation of a developmentally appropriate program for infants and toddlers.
• Provides informal parenting education to participants in the Center.
• Attends trainings required by The Promise Resource Center and Maryland Family Network.
• Other duties as assigned.
  Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $16.00 per hour

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

These examples are illustrative and not all inclusive:

• Provides behavior management assistance for child care providers and children who have been identified as having significantly challenging behaviors.
• When appropriate, participates with other agencies in the implementation of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or
• Individualized Family Service Plan for children who challenging behaviors.
• Provides child-specific and general training on topics of related interest.
• Maintains current files on all referrals.
• Maintains professionalism and confidentiality at all times.
• Collects data necessary for evaluation of the program.
• Perform other duties as assigned by PRC.
• QUALIFICATIONS:
• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in social work, mental health, early childhoood education, child development, or related field is required.
• At least two years of experience in providing direct behavioral intervention to children 0-5 years old with challenging behaviors.
• Knowledge of early childhood mental health, developmental milestones, early childhood classroom set up and management, and experience working with children 0-5 years.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply the Pyramid Model (formerly Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning) is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability in working with parents, child care, and early childhood care and education personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with a broad variety of individuals and agencies, both orally and in writing.
• Good organizational skills.
• Reliable transportation.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Life insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance