Early Head Start Instructor (Continuous)

The City of Oakland is currently recruiting to fill Early Head Instructor vacancies (in either/or Center-based and Home-based settings) within the Human Services Department. Oakland is proud to offer their employees a generous comprehensive benefit package and is committed to the well-being of its employees. Benefits can include: Medical coverage, dental plans, vision care as well as deferred compensation, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

Under direction in the Human Services Department, Early Head Start Instructors instruct children enrolled in Early Head Start Programs; instruct parents on early childhood development concepts; assist in developmental assessments; organize and set up education and play materials for classroom and/or make home visits; and perform related duties as assigned.

**Required at the time of application:  Copy of College Transcript and copy of a State of California Child Development Permit at Teacher level or higher (or copy of proof of application).  Applications without the required documents will be considered incomplete. Please be sure to scan and attached the required documents to your online application. 

This is a public contact position.  Although no current vacancies require a specific language, the eligible list may be used to fill future vacancies that may require bilingual skills.

The eligible list established from this recruitment may be use to fill other permanent and part-time vacancies as they may occur in this classification.

This recruitment may close without notice once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Instruct children in basic infant/toddler education concepts.
• Organize and set up developmentally appropriate education and play materials for the classroom and/or the home.
• Conduct fire, disaster and safety drills in the classroom; inspect facility for safety standards and maintenance needs.
• Assist in planning, organizing and scheduling daily activities at the center classroom or in the home.
• Conduct developmental screenings, ongoing child observations, developmental assessments and devise Individual Development Plans (IDP) on all children enrolled in program; assist in developing Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP) for special needs children.
• Maintain a clean and organized indoor and outdoor environment, including the food service area.
• Make initial and final home visits; make additional/on-going home visits as needed.
• Prepare snacks and serve meals.
• Conduct outreach and recruit children and families for enrollment in the program.
• Observe and supervise children in activities and ensure their health and safety at all times.
• Observe children for unusual behavior or illness and notify parents.
• Conduct parent conferences.
• Keep routine records for daily attendance and progress of children in the classroom and/or the home.
• Conduct weekly home visits for 1.5 hours per session.
• Collaborate with parents in providing an individualized educational program for their children in the home.
• Provide parent education, planning, and goal setting for parents.
• May assist with the process of planning and implementing the health programs in areas such as physical examination, vision, hearing, dental screening, and growth/nutritional assessment; complete vision, hearing, growth, and nutrition assessments as needed; provide all necessary follow-up in these or other health needs.
• Implement and plan socializations twice a month for three-hour sessions.
• Promote parent/child bonding and nurturing parent/child relationships through modeling developmentally and culturally sensitive interactions and communications.
• Administer Pediatric First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), as needed.

Any combination of education and experience that is equivalent to the following minimum qualifications is acceptable.

Education:
An Associate, Bachelor's or advanced degree in Early Childhood Education/Child Development (ECE/CD) or related field including three (3) units supervised field experience in early childhood education/child development (ECE/CD) completed at an accredited or approved college or university, six (6) units of which must be in infant/toddler coursework.

                                                                         OR
 
Twenty-four (24) units in ECE/CD including core courses plus sixteen (16) General Education (GE) units completed at an accredited or approved college or university, six (6) units of which must be in infant/toddler coursework.
 
AND hold, or qualify for, a Teacher Permit (or higher level permit) issued by the State of California.

Experience:
Six months of full-time work experience or one year of part-time experience in a licensed child care center or comparable group child care program.
 

• Infant, toddler, and early childhood development, growth and behavior.
• Motor skills and development.
• Teaching in an early childhood setting.
• Classroom management with Infant-Toddler children.
• Report writing.
• Safe work practices.
• Modern office equipment
• Personal computer and software applications.

• Maintain high quality classroom environments that meet or exceed the national average.
• Lead learning activities for children and parents.
• Maintain records and effectively prepare reports.
• Screen and assess children using developmentally appropriate tools; input data into program management tracking software.
• Plan developmentally appropriate activities for children.
• Learn and follow Early Head Start program procedures and regulations.
• Communicate effectively with children and parents.
• Follow oral and written directions.
• Work as part of a team in a culturally diverse environment.
• Organize and complete work assignments to meet established deadlines pursuant to performance standards and departmental policies and procedures.
• Make objective observations of children and communicate the findings in writing.
• Stand, walk, squat, kneel, bend, twist, reach above shoulder level and below waist level, push and pull, and lift up to 30 lbs. while monitoring children.
• Grasp and manipulate items such as writing utensils.
• Sit on the floor while working with infants, toddlers and children.
• Carry and bottle feed infants/toddlers.
• Walk from a parked car to a home site and climb up flights of stairs as necessary.
• Administer CPR and Pediatric First Aid.
• Establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.