National Director, Family Child Care (FCC) Initiative

Description:

ParentChild+ is an international early childhood development/school readiness home-visiting organization, which began its work in 1965 in New York. and currently supports its one-on-one and family child care models in 16 states and 6 countries. We provide our copyrighted and evidence-based model curricula and the training on how to implement the curricula to school districts, social service agencies, community-based organizations. ParentChild+ has worked with over 70,000 families since our founding, and we currently reach over 9,000 diverse families and caregivers each year. A key tenent of our work is remediating institutionalized racism by eliminating barriers to opportunity, providing staff opportunities for growth, and working toward equitable access for families and caregivers to the programming we offer.

Building on our deep community connections, over the past decade we have adapted our one-on-one model (core model) to work with family child care (FCC) providers, with a focus on bringing the unique supports of home visiting to isolated and under-supported home-based providers and to the many families who cannot directly access home visiting services because their children are with another caregiver 8–10 hours per day. We work with both licensed providers in family and group-family settings and with family, friend, and neighbor providers, with a focus on bringing professional development and school readiness supports to care environments and engaging the families of children in care to increase their access to school readiness information, materials, and activities.

Responsibilities:

To lead this expansion, ParentChild+ seeks a motivated leader who is passionate about our mission to expand early learning supports to FCC providers and families in diverse underserved communities. This role is interdisciplinary and requires an entrepreneurial work ethic, nimble project management skills, and visionary disposition. This position reports to the Chief Executive Officer and serves as a member of the Executive team providing leadership and strategic visioning for ParentChild+’s Family Child Care Initiative.

Program Support

• Manage the ParentChild+ FCC network, comprised of all partners implementing the FCC model, providing technical support to sites on implementation, curriculum, data collection, and reporting to ensure model fidelity, cross-learning, and identification of best practices.

• Lead organizational work to further inform and design/expand/enhance the FCC model with learnings from the field, including developing and updating curricular, family engagement, and model support materials.

• Develop, deliver, and regularly update training for all staff/sites that are or will be implementing the FCC model, and produce professional development content to be delivered through ParentChild+’s online learning management system, webinars, and in-person.

• Support content development related to data and outcomes reporting, grant applications and reports, strategic communications, and other internal and external materials.

• Establish and support Communities of Practice for ParentChild+ FCC staff and FCC providers. 
  
  Strategic Planning

• Manage the ongoing scaling of the FCC model, collaborating on the development of a multi-year growth plan.

• Conduct outreach to early childhood and child care stakeholders across direct service, advocacy, and research to position the FCC model within the larger early childhood education and care system.

• Identify and develop public and private partnerships and funding streams to support the expansion of the FCC model, at the local, state, and federal level.

  Research and Evaluation

• In conjunction with the Research and Evaluation team, support evaluation of and research on the FCC model, assisting in research design development, data management, and analysis.

• Lead the ongoing review of the FCC model’s impact assessment strategy, adjusting data collection protocols where necessary.

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