South Family Engagement Manager

South Family Engagement Manager

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Educare of Omaha, Inc. is a non-profit organization that has a collaborative partnership between Early Head Start/Head Start, Omaha Public Schools and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund. Comprised of the two Educare Omaha Schools (Kellom and Indian Hill) and three Early Learning Centers (Skinner, Gateway and Kennedy), the mission of Educare of Omaha, Inc. is to promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children ages 0 to 5 through the provision of evidence-based education, health, nutritional, social, family engagement and other services to enrolled children and their families.

Leadership and Family Engagement Programming

• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and reflective supervision to Family Engagement Staff.
• Ensure high-quality intensive family engagement is provided to all enrolled families.
• Establish performance expectations and periodically monitor staff's effectiveness through observations at home visits, engagement events, and provide performance evaluations.
• Facilitate regular school level family engagement meetings and professional development opportunities to increase their knowledge of child development, including training in proactive, positive approaches to discipline and intervention with children and families with challenging behaviors.
• Ensure PIR (Program Information Report) information is entered for all families.
• Lead the internal planning and subsequent involvement of parents in all their children's program transitions, i.e., into the program, from EHS to HS and from HS to kindergarten.
• Support FACE Specialists in the use of child screening, assessment, and progress data to inform the development of goals in the Family Partnership Agreement.
• Ensure timely and accurate documentation of family engagement activities, referrals, and family partnership goals.
• Ensure and lead Parent Committees at their site.
• Conduct data debriefs with FACE team on results from program assessments and family outcome results to ensure intentionality in attempts to improve program outcomes.
• Support staff in addressing barriers that may impact children's attendance, family engagement, or family well-being.

Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Coordination

• Collaborate with Education, Health, Mental Health, Disabilities, ERSEA, and Administrative staff to ensure coordinated service delivery.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and case consultations.
• Assist with planning and implementation of family engagement initiatives that align with organizational goals and school readiness objectives.
• Work closely with the School Director to identify trends, concerns, and opportunities impacting family outcomes.
• Participation in the Evaluation Leadership Team meetings as requested by School Director and ensure continuous quality improvement within family engagement services at the school.
• Lead efforts to engage and collaborate with Mentor Teacher Supervisor (MTS) and/or Early Childhood Supervisor and School Director (SD) to establish site specific programming for families.
• Provide support of the Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment & Attendance (ERSEA) process and participate in recruitment efforts of program participants to help maintain full program enrollment at assigned school.

Self-Management & Leadership

• Employee is seen as an ambassador to the organization.
• Consistently follows through to accomplish job functions and/or meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to be flexible and adaptable to changing work conditions and/or project requirements.
• Exhibits a positive attitude and good work ethic; works well with others.
• Provides excellent customer service, both internally and externally.
• Adheres to all organizational policies, procedures, regulations as well as the expected.
• Code of conduct and ethics relating to IT security, OPS User Agreement, and Confidentiality.
• Maintains professional appearance and attire.
• Punctual and reliable attendance at the assigned work location.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Willingness to participate in Educare's commitment to continuously review, analyze and apply findings from local and national evaluations to current program design.
• Ability to establish supportive relationships and form an alliance with community stakeholders that come onsite, staff, and families from diverse backgrounds on behalf of children.
• Knowledge of community resources and capacity to develop community cooperation to ensure that the community is aware of Educare's programs and services and that programs remain "full".
• Ability to travel to community agencies, cover cases, and/or make home visits, if needed.
• Ability to effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, in a manner that demonstrates and fosters cooperation, respect, concern, and openness to change.
• Ability to take or think about the…