Early Childhood Education Content Specialist

About Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC):

Oregon Child Development Coalition (OCDC) is a nonprofit organization serving children and families across Oregon through early education and family support programs. At OCDC, our work has purpose. Every role contributes to creating stronger families, healthier communities, and brighter futures for children across Oregon.

Position Summary:

Builds content matter expertise and technical capacity of the Agency and disseminates to center staff through providing technical assistance, training, and mentoring. Provides support to counties in ensuring the quality and compliance of Agency programs.

Each Content Specialist is responsible for service delivery in specified content area of expertise:

Education – Infant Toddler:
Early care and education services for children 0-3 years.

Education – Preschool:
Early care and education services for children 3-5 years.

Family and Health Services:
Family and Health Services for children 0-5 years.

Mental Health/Inclusion and Special Needs:
Mental Health Services for children 0-5 years or Inclusion for special educational needs of children 0-5 years.

Head Start
- Technical Expertise in Head Start Performance Standards, OAR’s, Data Analysis, PIR, Coaching/Mentoring and Quality Assurance systems.

Relationship-Based Practice – Technical Expertise in Head Start Relationship-Based Practices, including coaching, motivational interviewing, reflective practice, and trauma-informed care.

Essential Functions:

Technical Assistance:
Subject Matter Content Development and Consultation:

Maintains subject matter expertise and disseminates such knowledge by providing ongoing quality technical assistance to staff

Develops, updates, disseminates, and supports policies, procedures, forms, work plans, and guidelines in the assigned program/content area.

Researches and incorporates national, state and local program priorities and program improvement initiatives into program services and activities as directed.

Conducts research to develop and improve statewide systems to assist Agency in complying with mandated performance outcomes.

Promotes Continuous Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance efforts for Agency at State and local level.

Designs and delivers projects, processes/systems and initiatives that support excellence in service delivery including the self-assessment process

Provides content area specific knowledge to support Agency’s resource development efforts.

Develops and disseminates resources and best practices for the process of implementing quality improvement efforts.

Develops and maintains in-house resources in program/content area such as research studies, resource manuals, internet resources, publications, journal articles, and statistics.

Additional Responsibilities –Mental Health/ Inclusion and Special

Education:

Collaborates with counties to ensure timeliness and appropriateness of developmental screening completion.

Training, Coaching, & Mentoring:

Develops and delivers group, regional, on-site trainings and conferences on program content and activities, including developing training materials, curricula, and learning assessment tools.

Develops training resources that are linguistically and culturally appropriate.

Supports county in-service and pre-service activities.

Provides skill development and mentoring to staff progressing in their position by performing on-the-job technical assistance and mentoring of specific skills.

Provides guidance to staff in building skills and competence in all areas of their work.

Supports the professional development of all staff by delivering coaching and technical assistance.

Additional Responsibilities – Mental Health/ Inclusion and Special

Education:

Supports staff in engaging parents with understanding their role in the advocating, planning, implementation, and individual services for children.

Assessments & Evaluations:

Utilizes standardized assessment tools in accordance with established assessment calendars

Delivers assessment scores and observation information to appropriate staff.

Synthesizes assessment data for various audiences and provides analysis of data with recommendations for continuous quality…