Preschool Promise Teacher

Preschool Promise Lead Teacher

Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery is recruiting a Preschool Promise Lead Teacher to join their team in Prineville, Oregon for the upcoming school year. The position start date is Monday, August 31, 2026. 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 in 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.

Our values are:

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

What's in it for you:

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.

About the environment:

• 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

About the Role:

• Plan, organize, and facilitate a Preschool Promise classroom for up to 16 preschoolers
• Implement "Creative Curriculum" and complete TS Gold assessments for assigned children
• Serve USDA meals following family style meal service guidelines
• Accurate record keeping including meals and attendance
• Daily bus/car transportation for children (no CDL required) in various weather conditions
• Case Management of 7-9 children and their families, including:
• Culturally competent relationship/rapport building with parents
• At least quarterly strength-based home visits with Spanish and English-speaking families
• Referral assistance and crises intervention
• Parent coaching and education, and facilitating positive parent-child interaction
• Maintain records including daily observations, home visit records, family and child assessments
• Support other Mountain Star activities - at times outside of regular hours
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Early Childhood Education or a related field with preschool teaching experience. Bachelors in progress, AA/AS or comparable Oregon Registry level…