Early Learning Preschool Teacher

Healthy Child Care Colorado; Arvada (CO); On-site; USD 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to empowering teen moms and their children. As an early learning teacher at a newly established center, you will play a vital role in creating a safe and engaging environment for infants through Pre-K children. This position allows you to foster meaningful relationships with families while implementing developmentally appropriate lessons. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive team atmosphere, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of children and families. If you are passionate about early childhood education and ready to grow with us, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Health Benefits

Simple IRA with employer match

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Sick Leave

Mental Health Days

Employer Based Childcare

Public Service Loan Forgiveness assistance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or related field preferred.
• Experience working with children ages infancy through five required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage a group of young children in a nurturing environment.
• Plan and implement engaging lessons to support child development.

Skills

Child Development

Lesson Planning

Classroom Management

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education

36 college credit hours in related field

PDIS Level 3 Credential

Tools

Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment

Creative Curriculum

Orange Curriculum

Job description

Position Summary:

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of children and families? This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our inaugural staff in our brand-new, beautifully designed early learning center with a focus on year-round, play-based education for infants through Pre-K children. The Hope House Colorado (HHC) Early Learning Center (ELC) is for children of Hope House teen moms and staff. As an early learning teacher at the ELC, you will be creating a safe, fun and engaging environment where children can learn, grow and thrive. You will create and maintain relationships with children and families to foster trust and work with other amazing staff to make HHC Early Learning Center a great place to work, have fun and make a positive impact.

A preschool teacher is responsible for the supervision, responsive care, education and classroom management of a group of young children enrolled in the ELC. The teacher develops and maintains respectful and nurturing relationships and works collaboratively with parents, staff, and volunteers. As a preschool teacher, you will work within a team to support children across all developmental domains by engaging in curriculum planning and implementation, and classroom management strategies, to meet each child’s individual needs. The preschool teacher is knowledgeable about Colorado Child Care Licensing and health and safety rules and regulations. This position is responsible for maintaining complete and timely records and for maintaining the classroom and building safety and appearance. Teachers are responsible for continuing to develop professional techniques and skills that promote quality early childhood education.

What you will be doing:

• Build a positive, trusting and working relationship with each child and family through daily communication in a warm, approachable and supportive manner
• Provide consistent, nurturing and responsive interactions with each child using positive techniques
• Provide individualized care for children to ensure children’s health and safety
• Provide daily activities based on a child’s needs and interests that stimulate learning in all areas of child development to include physical, social, emotional and cognitive needs of children
• Plan and implement engaging, fun and developmentally appropriate daily lessons using the Creative Curriculum, providing individualized support for children to meet developmental milestones across all learning domains
• Plan, prepare and implement daily Orange Curriculum to foster the spiritual development of each child, including sending weekly parent cue cards home to support family engagement
• Assess each child’s developmental needs on an ongoing basis using the Teaching Strategies Gold Assessment tool, and share frequent updates with parents
• Work in collaboration with leadership team and early intervention professionals to provide parents with referrals to early intervention services for their child when necessary
• Positively interact with classroom volunteers
• Participate in on-site ongoing professional development to enhance individual skills as a learner to provide and ensure best practices and quality early childhood education
• Ensure compliance with Colorado Department of Human Services Licensing Regulations, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Regulations that govern child care facilities
• Promote Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships

We want to hear from you if …

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, elementary education or early childhood special education or a bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field with at least 36 college credit hours in early childhood education or related field (preferred) OR meet Colorado State Child Care Licensing educational qualification standards (required)
• You have a PDIS Level 3 Credential (required)
• Experience working with children ages infancy through five, including lesson planning (required)
• Don’t quite meet all the educational requirements? Consider applying anyway and we can discuss a professional development plan to get you there.

Who we are:

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, with great benefits, 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!

Salary Range:

$44,720-$51,688/year depending on education and experience

Hours:

This role is expected to work 40 hours/week on the HHC campus, except when offsite for HHC work-related purposes. The existing schedule is eight hours per day between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Benefits:

HHC benefits are available to employees who consistently work a minimum of 24 hours a week. Benefits offered are subject to change at HHC’s sole discretion.

• 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 4.62 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 twelve (12) holidays throughout the year. Hourly employees who work on actual holidays will be paid time and one-half. In addition, the ELC is closed the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
• 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).
• Mental Health Days: Employees are given two (2) mental health days per year to use at their discretion.
• Employer Based Childcare: Full-time (40-hours per week or more) Hope House Colorado employees are eligible to enroll their children in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center. Exceptions may be considered for part-time staff and part-time childcare needs on a case-by-case basis.
• 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:

Hope House Colorado is accepting applications on an ongoing basis.