Early Learning Program Certification Representative

THE POSITION

Are you ready to help strengthen child care quality across your community? The Early Learning Program Certification Representative position with the Office of Child Development and Early Learning offers a meaningful chance to support safe and high-quality child care across the region. This role gives you the opportunity to visit facilities, guide operators, and ensure important regulations are followed. You will help providers understand requirements that keep children healthy and protected.

Be part of a mission-driven team and make a positive impact on families and communities—apply today!

This role inspects child care providers, offers technical guidance, and ensures adherence to state regulations. As an Early Learning Program Certification Representative, you will perform the following duties:

• Public Guidance:
  Respond to inquiries, provide technical assistance, and offer orientation information to operators
• Facility Inspection:
  Investigate provider compliance for applications, inspections, monitoring visits, and complaints
• Certification Follow-Up:
  Complete reports, determine compliance, and prepare documents for certification actions
• Interagency
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Participate in initiatives, review drafts, and represent regulatory positions in meetings
• Program Support:
  Use electronic systems, prepare documents, and update provider information in required databases

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 60-minute lunch.
• You will have the ability to request home headquartering after 6 months on the job.
• You must be willing to travel frequently, including overnight to facilities located in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the Commonwealth. Travel expenses will be paid.
• Telework:
  You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary:
  
  In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• Two years of professional experience providing direct services to children and youth and a bachelor’s degree that includes 24 semester hours of college level courses in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education, psychology, or human development; or
• An equivalent combination of professional experience and training, which includes one year of professional experience providing direct services to children and youth and 24 semester hours of college level courses in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education, psychology, or human development.

• You must reside in or be willing to relocate to one of the following counties within the Western Region within the first 6 months of employment:
  Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette Forest, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Somerset, Venango, Warren, Washington, or Westmoreland.
• You must meet the PA residency requirement . For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• This position falls under the provisions of the Child Protective Services Law.
• Under the Law, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports including, but not limited to, PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse history clearance, and FBI Fingerprint clearance.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S.
• 7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to…