Child Care Assistant

Job Description

OMB NO:

Expiration Date: 01/30/2025

Announcement: 6574

Opening Date: 29 December 2025 Pay Plan/Series/Pay Band: NF-1702-02

Closing Date:
Until Filled

Work Schedule:

Full Time (30-40 hours/week)

Position:
Child Care Assistant (3) Salary: $18.38/hour +DOE

Who May Apply:
All Sources

Location:

Kodiak, AK

Child Development Center

• Plans and executes appropriate early childhood education experiences with a variety of material to promote the healthy emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development of each child.
• Works with the director and teachers in developing and implementing age appropriate curriculum and activities.
• Helps establish a program environment that promotes positive child and youth interactions with other children, youth and adults.
• Assists in providing and leading planned activities for program participants.
• Interacts with children and youth using approved child guidance and youth development techniques.
• Interacts professionally with staff members, parents, and the command.
• Assists in maintaining program participation data and completing required daily reports.
• Helps prepare, arrange, and maintain indoor and outdoor activity areas and materials to accommodate daily schedule.
• Monitors children in the classroom, on the playground, in hallways and restrooms, during study halls, during lunch, and in bus loading areas.
• Maintains control of and accounts for whereabouts and safety of children at all times.
• Helps arrange for/serve appropriate snacks/meals where applicable.
• Performs routine caregiving tasks, assists with materials and activities, receives children, interacts with children, and attends to their physical needs.
• Ensures care is provided in accordance with standards, assists in planning and conducting activities, conducts health checks, ensures safety and well-being of children, completes reports, and interacts with parents.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

You will be evaluated for this position based on how well you meet the qualifications below. Your resume/application must demonstrate the required experience/education. Please see additional information on how your application is evaluated.

Minimum
:

Preferred (in addition to the minimum):

• Paid Annual and Sick Leave
• Holiday Pay
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Flexible/Dependent Spending Account
• Pension Plan
• 401k Savings Plan
• Life Insurance
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave

• Residency Requirements:
  Non-U.S. nationals, who are authorized to work in the U.S. and applying for any DHS position, must have resided within the United States, or U.S. territories, for at least three of the last five years.
• Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required as the standard method of payment for payroll and travel purposes.
• Males born after 12/31/59 and at least 18 years of age must be registered with the Selective Service System, unless exempted.
• Must satisfactorily complete a Federal Background check and all pre-employment requirements, which may include background checks, security clearances, drug testing,…