Child Care Initiatives Educational & Curriculum Manager

Child Care Initiatives Educational & Curriculum Manager

The Educational & Curriculum Manager delivers individualized, in-home coaching to family child care providers pursuing CDA credentialing and NAFCC accreditation, and owns the network's curriculum — selecting, adapting, delivering, and continuously improving it based on real outcomes data. This role combines deep early childhood education and coaching expertise with direct knowledge of family child care as a business and a practice, and requires genuine comfort building relationships in providers' homes with a bilingual, largely immigrant population.

The value of this role is relational as much as instructional: knowing each provider, showing up consistently, and turning training and curriculum into something a provider actually completes.

• Deliver 1:1 coaching using the Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) model — shared goal-setting, in-home observation, reflection and feedback — to the network's accreditation-track providers
• Manage a coaching caseload and schedule directly, prioritizing across providers based on where they are in the accreditation timeline

• Guide providers through the CDA credential and NAFCC accreditation process from start to finish, grounded in real knowledge of how a family child care business actually operates
• Provide hands-on help with the actual enrollment and registration steps, including sitting with a provider through a college registration portal
• Design and deliver a six-session, NAFCC-aligned bilingual training series:
  Relationships, The Environment, Developmental Learning Activities, Safety & Health, Professional Practices, and Business Practices
• Anchor each session to evidence a provider can use directly in a CDA portfolio or NAFCC self-study
• Own and maintain the network's curriculum resources
• Adapt and translate curriculum materials for bilingual delivery, ensuring content is linguistically and culturally appropriate for the population served
• Evaluate curriculum effectiveness using program outcomes data
• Keep curriculum current with evolving CDA and NAFCC standards, updating materials as accreditation requirements change
• Serve as the network's curriculum resource for any future facilitators of group learning content, so quality and consistency don't depend on one person's institutional memory

• Log coaching contacts, sessions, and observations in the network's data platform as part of the coaching cycle itself
• Document each Practice-Based Coaching cycle (goal, observation, feedback) so a provider's progress is trackable over time
• Track each provider's CDA/NAFCC milestone progress in the system so it feeds directly into program-wide reporting
• Administer and record brief post-visit and post-session feedback consistently — incomplete data quietly undermines the whole outcomes framework
• Encourage and record developmental screening completion as a routine part of coaching visits

• Coordinate directly with partner organizations on bilingual co-facilitation and shared training content
• Use plain-language materials, teach-back techniques, and native-language-first instruction suited to adult learners with a wide range of formal education
• Treat lived caregiving experience as a resource to build on

• Degree or credential in early childhood education or child development specifically
• Demonstrated educational coaching experience with adult learners, ideally in an early childhood or home-visiting context
• Experience developing, adapting, or evaluating curriculum for adult learners
• Substantive knowledge of family child care specifically — licensing, business operations, day-to-day practice
• Comfortable doing sustained, hands-on work in providers' homes

• Direct familiarity with CDA and/or NAFCC standards
• Experience with Practice-Based Coaching or a comparable evidence-based coaching model
• Experience working with bilingual and first-generation populations navigating formal credentialing systems

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