Preschool Promise Assistant

Description

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is recruiting a Preschool Promise Assistant Teacher to join their team in Madras, Oregon for the upcoming school year. Position is from Monday, August 31, 2026 through Wednesday, June 30, 2027. This is a 10-month contract with scheduled breaks. Summers are off (unpaid) with the opportunity to join again during the following school year. This is your chance to be a part of something bigger and help shape the future of this vibrant community.

You believe that every child deserves the best start possible. You believe that parenting is hard even in the best circumstances. You care about children who have experienced trauma and want to work to support vulnerable families to succeed. You enjoy working with children in a trauma informed workplace and a therapeutic classroom environment. You are motivated to engage with families and offer resources so that families are supported in nurturing their child’s emotional, physical, and intellectual development.

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is a local non-profit that has been in Central Oregon for 20 plus years. We are a strength-based child abuse and neglect prevention program to support families with children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. We provide high quality trauma-informed care and services for children and families experiencing high stress. Services include a therapeutic classroom emphasizing social-emotional development, home visits, parenting classes and other full wrap around services.

1. Caring – welcoming, trauma-informed, non-judgmental, family-focused, compassionate, honest, and fun. 2. Collaborative – engaged with clients, supporters, program partners, and communities.
3. Excellence – committed to quality programs, current research, continuous learning, and robust evaluation.
4. Inclusive – seek out and value diverse perspectives, understand and address systemic barriers equitably.

Mountain Star offers comprehensive compensation and benefit package that includes 100% employer paid medical, vision, prescription, & dental (premium value of $772 monthly), Simple IRA Retirement Plan match up to 3%, vacation & sick pay accrued semi-monthly, 11 paid holidays, Oregon Paid Leave covered in full (employee cost covered by MtStar), Wellness Reimbursement Program, and a Short-Term Disability Plan. Mountain Star offers a professional, agile workplace with its primary goal being a workplace of choice.

Mountain Star offers excellent leadership that works hard to align strategies with the company s mission statement, core values, empower employees’ autonomy, provide trauma informed workplaces, a culture of transparency, wellness days, learning and development opportunities. Mountain Star was ranked the 100 best nonprofits to work for in 2022 and 2023, based on the survey responses of Mountain Star’s employees and their work experience.

• Wellness days and Team Appreciation days
• Professional growth opportunities
• Continuing Education
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Engaging, purposeful, values-based work
• Meaningful connections
• Work/life balance
• Focus on well-being & health
• Positive, supportive work culture

• Assist Preschool Promise Lead in providing a high-quality early childhood education program including:
• Assisting with Creative Curriculum, TS Gold and other assessments
• Being present in the classroom as needed to support children’s behaviors
• Providing USDA compliant meal service (preparing meals and snacks)
• Safely transporting children to and from the program
• Maintaining a clean and safe classroom
• Lead the class during teacher meal/break periods
• Interact with families and co-workers in a strengths-based and compassionate manner
• Support Mountain Star in following regulations and guidelines from Office of Child Care, Spark!, Preschool Promise and other applicable standards.
• Support Relief Nursery program with transporting children, cleaning, or other activities on a limited basis (4 hours per week)
• Support other Mountain Star activities - at times outside of regular hours
• Other…