Family Child Care Network Educational Specialist

Description:

FCCN and Department of Education (DOE) view family child care as a respected and valued profession within
the early care and education system in New York City. We seek to support and enhance the existing strengths of family
child care as birth-4 programs that promote continuous and responsive relationships, strengthen early learning skills,
build resilience, and lay the foundation for all future learning. The primary role of the Education Specialist is to build
strengths-based relationships with affiliated providers to support them as needed and, in particular, with implementing
high quality play-based instruction.

Responsibilities:

●Collaborate with the FCC Education Director, FCC Family Support Worker, and FCC Monitors to meet the needs
of all children and families.
● Provide twice monthly strength-based practice-based coaching to up to 17 affiliated providers as they
implement a mixed-age curriculum.
● Adapt and provide guidance to affiliated providers on the implementation of an evidence-based curriculum for
mixed-age group settings that meets the individual needs of all children.
● Review and adapt appropriate curriculum supports and documents with affiliated providers that foster hands-on
developmentally appropriate and relationship-based interactions with all children.
● Assist affiliated providers gathering observations of children and entering child assessment data in a timely
manner and support its use for curriculum and lesson planning.
● Document all coaching sessions aligned with the DOE’s Early Childhood Framework for Quality (EFQ).
● Assist in ongoing outreach, enrollment, and all other administrative tasks.
● Support FCC Education Director in coordinating all required professional learning days throughout the year.
● Maintain relationships with community partners who provide mental health, special needs, and other support
services for all affiliated providers and families.
● Create and regularly update Community Partner Resource Guide within FCC Network.
● Participate in twice monthly FCC Network staff meetings to connect about individual providers, families, and
coordinate all services.
● Participate in Network staff professional learning sessions delivered.
● Other tasks as assigned by FCC Education Director.

Qualifications: