Head Start​/Early Head Start Director

About the Organization MAOF uses a multi-generational approach to uplift the whole family. We provide social services for infants through seniors across four pillars: early child education services, senior services, community development services, and community partnership services.

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Title: Head Start/Early Head Start Director I

Program: MAOF Head Start Program (Contra Costa County)

Salary: $ - $ annually

Openings: 1 Position

Status: Full Time

Closing Date: Open until filled

The Director I is tasked with planning, directing, and overseeing the operations and comprehensive services of the Head Start/Early Head Start and CDE programs. As a strategic thinker and skilled leader, the Director I manages operational systems to ensure the effective, efficient, and timely delivery of high-quality services. This role involves setting program goals and developing policies and procedures that align with contractual obligations and foster continuous quality improvement.

The Director I will also promote service integration and coordination while handling related administrative functions to ensure compliance with all relevant federal, state, and local regulations, as well as Community Care Licensing, Child, and agency contracts as applicable.

• Provide vision, leadership, plans, directs, manages, and administers the operations of the program.
• Implements the organization's strategic plans through leadership and oversight of grantee program design and development, monitoring, and capacity building.
• Ensures staff conducts monitoring activities in all areas of the comprehensive services. Compiles and analyzes monitoring results by aggregating monitoring data, identifying trends, patterns, and developing effective and sustainable corrective actions with the comprehensive services team.
• Oversees the ongoing monitoring for program performance in school readiness goals/outcomes and program goals/outcomes. In collaboration with the comprehensive services team, develops strategies that support continuous quality improvement and improve child/family outcomes.
• Coordinates ongoing monitoring activities with the partners and delegate agency. Develops quality improvement plans as necessary to correct findings and to ensure continuous program quality improvement.
• Establish operating and administrative policies and procedures to assure efficient operations and compliance with all contractual terms, conditions, and obligations.
• Review data for compliance with federal and state regulations, for program planning, and monitoring of progress in meeting program goals and objectives.
• Directs staff activities for the deliverance of quality services and to effectively work with delegate agencies, partners, staff, parents, and families.
• Identifies status and progress of delegate agencies' quality improvement plans and makes recommendations to the Senior Director for appropriate action steps.
• Ensures that appropriate consultative and technical assistance is provided to delegate agencies and partners.
• Directs the activities of capacity building to ensure that training and support is provided to internal staff, delegate agencies, and partners.
• Supports the management of program budget, ensuring compliance with contracts; implements changes as needed; develops budgets and monitors expenses in accord with approved budgets.
• In collaboration with Senior Director and Fiscal Officer, directs the development of program financial plans, and budgets including operating costs, capital, and extraordinary expenditures.
• Develops and monitors service area budgets. Ensures services are appropriately supported with and by the necessary fiscal resources. Oversees the purchase by service areas to ensure direct service staff have the necessary materials to provide quality services and maintain quality, safe and compliant environments.
• In collaboration with Senior Director, oversee the development of funding applications, including budget development, annual program Self-Assessment, program goals and objectives, Community Assessments, and annual Program Information Report.
• Directs the development and revision of policies and procedures that set expectations and timelines for…