Education Coordinator

Bright Stars helps families in Rhode Island access QUALITY child care, early learning, and school-age programs. We help child care providers learn about best practices in early learning and apply them to the care children receive. We recognize program quality and give parents information to make choices about their children’s care and education.

Program Address:
31 John Clarke Road
Middletown
RI
02842

What You’ll Be Doing

You will collaborate with the Director of Sandpipers to structure and implement a program that will meet the needs of the children enrolled into the center and their families. Communicate with, and support families to promote each child’s inclusion in all ongoing classroom activities and assist in obtaining and coordinating services to meet the needs of the child. The Education Coordinator will manage the site and be responsible for the day-to-day needs and activities of the children;

and supervise the childcare staff to ensure appropriate delivery of the program as well as the safety and wellbeing of the children. Additionally, the Education Coordinator will oversee the state funded Pre-K classrooms and staff.

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

• Assist the Program Director in conducting regular staff meetings and coordinating trainings.
• Supervise interns in the program (i.e., assign, orient, train, and evaluate).
• Meet regularly with program staff to complete supervision, and review classroom activities – determine any program changes as needed.
• Provide training and resource materials for staff to ensure understanding of appropriate activities for children in the program.
• Maintain accurate and updated files for children, reviews developmental profile for each child.
• Promote wholesome interpersonal relationships among staff and support a holistic approach to strengthen the delivery of services to children and their families.
• Prioritize the health and safety of children and staff by maintaining a clean and safe environment, adhering to all safety protocols.
• Engage in professional development opportunities and stays up to date on relevant industry topics.

• Direct Service Staff:
  This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group…