Early Head Start Caregiver

Early Head Start Infant and Toddler Caregiver

• Date Posted:
  1/24/2025
• Location:
  
  Swainsboro Early Head Start
• Date Available:
  
  02/12/2025

Position Purpose /

Qualifications:

1. AA degree or higher in Early Childhood/Child Development from an accredited college preferred.
2. Diploma in Child Development or Early Childhood or related field required.
3. A minimum of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential or Comparable Credential
4. Experience working with infants and toddlers.
5. Ability to work with infants, toddlers, and at-risk families.
6. Sound moral character, high ethical standards, and good health.

Performance Factors:
Sedentary Work: exerting in excess of 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Interaction with Others:
Ability to maintain on a regular basis relationships characterized by high expectations, teamwork, and collaboration. Ability to be flexible relative to daily routines. Demonstrate sensitivity to the differences among diverse populations.
Concentration:
Ability to maintain workflow and thought processes in the presence of frequent distractions. Ability to ignore irrelevant sights or sounds and intrusive thoughts or stimuli. Ability to manage multiple simultaneously with few or no errors.
Stressful Circumstances:
Ability to produce quality work when short or unexpected deadlines are presented. Adjust work processes when new directions are given. Maintainure with demanding or less-than-polite individuals.
Independent Judgment:
Ability to complete work tasks without precise directions.
Organizational

Skills:

Establish priorities, manage multiple tasks, and deliver quality work by deadline.
Public Contact:
Communicate professionally and effectively in writing and verbally with superiors, colleagues, parents, and others inside and outside the school system.
Attendance and Dependability:
Report to work at scheduled time, maintain prompt attendance, process absence paperwork per procedures, perform work timely and accurately.

Evaluation:
Performance will be evaluated annually by the designated Supervisor in accordance with Policy GBI - Evaluation of Personnel.

Salary:
Determined by training and experience.

Reports to:

Early Head Start Director.

For additional information contact:
Mrs. Maria Daniels, Director, Emanuel County Early Head Start, 308 Tiger Trail, Swainsboro, Georgia 30401, .

FLSA Status:
Non-exempt.

Postings current as of 11/27/2025 3:39:05 PM CST.