Early Learning Behavior Specialist

Hope House Colorado; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Simple IRA

Vacation & Holidays

Sick Leave

Employer Based Childcare

PSLF program assistance

Job summary

Hope House Colorado is seeking an Early Learning Behavior Specialist to promote healthy social-emotional development for children in the ELC. The role partners with staff to provide individualized support and group-based social-emotional learning, using Positive Behavior Support plans and trauma-informed approaches.

The specialist will train and coach teachers, collaborate with families, and help ensure high-quality classroom environments that nurture growth and development in children aged 1–12.

Qualifications

• Experience applying trauma-responsive care with children aged 1–12.
• Strong knowledge of child development and social-emotional milestones.
• Experience coaching teachers and families in positive behavior support.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teaching teams to support healthy social-emotional development.
• Use data and observations to identify growth opportunities and plan supports.
• Implement evidence-based behavior strategies to enhance emotional regulation.
• Develop Positive Behavior Support Plans with families and staff.
• Create trauma-informed, nurturing classroom environments with staff.
• Provide in-classroom coaching and staff trainings on behavior support.
• Support transition plans for children with their families and teams.
• Promote Hope House Colorado’s core values in daily work.

Skills

Trauma responsive care

Child development

Positive social-emotional strategies

Coaching/training

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Bachelor’s in Psychology/Sociology/Education/Special Education (ages 1-12)

Job description

Description

Position Summary

Hope House Colorado (HHC) is hiring Early Learning Behavior Specialist, referred to internally as the ELC Behavior Specialist. The ELC Behavior Specialist will collaborate with Early Learning Center (ELC) staff and the ELC leadership team to promote healthy social-emotional interactions and provide responsive care for children enrolled in the ELC. The behavior therapist will provide in classroom support working collaboratively with ELC teaching staff, to provide individualized support for children as well as provide social-emotional skills-based groups for children to enhance emotional regulation and positive peer interactions. The Behavior Specialist will identify areas of growth and exemplify positive behavior support and techniques to support children’s social emotional development including but not limited to direct teacher support, staff training and coaching, support of the whole family and developing Positive Behavior Support Plans.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with and equip diverse teaching teams to build positive relationships with children and their peers, facilitating an environment that promotes each child’s healthy social and emotional development.
• Identify patterns of behavior of teacher/child interaction through use of data assessments, and classroom observation to find areas of growth.
• Work with teaching teams to understand and appropriately respond to children’s emotional needs; including implementing positive research-based techniques that provide positive support to enhance emotional regulation skills to decrease challenging behaviors.
• Collaborate with the ELC leadership team, teaching team and families to develop Positive Behavior Support Plans to support a student’s social emotional needs.
• Collaborate with staff to create warm, nurturing Trauma-informed, responsive environmental settings.
• Provide in-classroom coaching to teachers around positive behavior support strategies for the classroom and individual kids.
• Provide training to ELC staff around positive behavior supports, trauma-informed environments, and/or other relevant topics related to classroom management and behavior support for children.
• Work with the treatment team of Early Interventionists and ELC Leadership to support children and families ensuring appropriate plans are implemented to ensure goals/expectations are met in the classroom, at home and through transitional placements.
• Promoting Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships

We want to hear from you if …

• You have extensive working knowledge/training in Trauma Responsive Care as it relates to children ages 1-12 years old and adolescents. (required)
• You have extensive working knowledge/training regarding child development and social emotional milestones (required)
• You have extensive working knowledge/training in Positive Social Emotional Strategies such as the Pyramid Model and Conscious Discipline (required)
• You have experience working with children both individually and in a classroom setting (preferred)
• Bilingual in English and Spanish (preferred)
• Bachelor of Psychology, Sociology, Education or Special Education for children ages 1-12 years old (preferred).
• You have extensive experience training providing coaching to teachers and families with positive behavioral support techniques (preferred)
• You can pass ELC background checks – fingerprinting, child abuse & neglect (TRAILS) screening, out of state screens, if applicable, and drug screen (required)

Who we are

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility, and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor, and even a little bit of silliness each day! We are proud to say our Early Learning Center is a CO Shines 5-star rated Program!

Salary Range

$22.12-26.92/hour

Benefits

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 24 hours per week or more are eligible for the below benefits. You can find our full list of benefits here: Join Our Team - Hope House Colorado

• Health Benefits: Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA: Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee’s annual salary.
• Vacation: Upon hire, employees earn 4.61 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays: HHC observes eleven (11) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees are paid for these holidays according to the nationally recognized observation day for each holiday. In addition, salaried employees are currently gifted either the week of Christmas or the week of New Year’s off, to be scheduled at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Sick Leave: HHC provides eligible employees with Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) and Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) in accordance with the requirements of Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA).
• Employer Based Childcare: Employer Based Childcare: Employees receive a discount for their child(ren)’s child care tuition if they are enrolled in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center.
• Hope House Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! HHC provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness

Job Application Deadline

August 21, 2026