Parent Family and Community Engagement Coordinator

Description

The Parent, Family and Community Engagement Coordinator is primarily responsible for achieving the following outcomes for the Head Start program:

• Work in collaboration with the Health Coordinator and network family services leadership to develop, implement and refine AVANCE’s family service approach in order to promote family outcomes that support children’s school readiness and well-being
• Coach and provide supervisory guidance to Family Service team members in order to strengthen staff capacity and move staff towards mastery in core competencies included in the Family Advocate Success Rubric
• Build a team that works collaboratively with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition staff in order to enhance family life practices and circumstances that promote child development and well-being
• Maintain qualitative and quantitative quality improvement and monitoring systems in order to assure that program strategies are executed with reliability, fidelity and quality.

• Assure effective coordination with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition leadership and staff to develop and implement group and Center-based campaigns and activities that build a program wide culture among staff and families to promote family life practices to close the achievement gap.
• Implement the AVANCE Parent Child-Education Education Curriculum that extends our classroom curriculum into the family's home, modeling high quality adult- child interactions teachers use in their classrooms for families around the four Family Life Practices.
• Assist family services staff to build proficiency in engaging families in conversations regarding the impact of high-risk behaviors on children’s development and motivating them to engage in treatment or support.
• Assist Director of Family Services, Health & Nutrition to identify community partners to pro-actively support families impacted by MH concerns, domestic violence, substance abuse, child abuse and other high-risk circumstances that could act as barriers to healthy child development

• Manage eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance oversight to ensure that all systems and operations are in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards and reflect integration of community assessment and other community indicator data.
• Oversee ERSEA Assistant to assure that program maintains active and up to date waiting list, fills vacancies within required time frames and assures that children are selected according to HS Performance Standards eligibility guidelines.
• Works in coordination with program leadership to develop and implement targeted recruitment strategies that assure enrollment of children with greatest need, including children of working families eligible for childcare subsidies.
• Coordinates with Center leadership to assure that family services and early learning teams work together to assure on‑time daily attendance of all children, and to implement strategies to reduce chronic absence outcomes‑based family services.
• Work with agency leadership to align program’s Family Services approach with the Office of Head Start’s Parent Family Community Engagement Framework, and to enhance interventions to achieve family outcomes in the seven targeted outcome areas.
• Assure effective coordination with Early Learning, Mental Health and Disabilities and Health and Nutrition leadership and staff to develop and implement group and Center‑based campaigns and activities that build a program wide culture among staff and families to promote family life practices to close the achievement gap.
• Focus on Coordination and collaboration with education.
• Work with the Director of Family Services, Health and Nutrition to secure self‑sufficiency partnerships that result in 50% of families achieving significant progress on self‑sufficiency goals.
• Assist staff to build family networks and create on‑site self‑sufficiency workshops/interventions to allow them to support one another to achieve self‑sufficiency goals.
• Coordinate with Early…