**This position is for the new 26-27 school year effective 7/1/26
Position Compensation: $27.22/hour plus excellent benefits.
Pace offers a Total Rewards Package to its employees:
- 401k
- Vacation
- Sick pay
- 14 Paid Holidays
- Pet Insurance
- FSA - Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision packages extended to your family as well.
- Supplemental Insurance Plans
- Opportunity to promote within, just to name a few.
JOB PURPOSE:
Under general supervision of the Site Director, delivers high quality Early Childhood Development services to children enrolled in an 11-hour, full year classroom, including educational, social, physical, nutritional, and psychological development of children under their care. Communicates with parents on their child’s individual progress and maintains records of attendance and educational achievement. Plans lessons, serves meals, and ensures a healthy and safe learning environment for children.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for the care and supervision of all enrolled PACE Education center-based children, planning and implementing classroom lessons, conducting meetings and conferences with parents, coordinating activities and events for children and parents, interacting with the public and providing customer service by phone, email and in person, and preparing correspondence, reports, records, and other paperwork required by the early childhood education program.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES OF THE POSITION INCLUDE:
General Floater Responsibilities
Provide assistance to interested families, including completion of pre-enrollment forms, answering questions, touring the facility, etc.
Conduct safety checks and maintain a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and handwashing, and assure the well-being and safety of all the children in the environment and sanitize all areas of the classroom, including food preparation and eating area.
Tend to children’s personal hygiene needs, during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
Ability to attend assignments away from assigned site, such as in-service trainings, home visits, parent conferences, etc.
Prepare and serve meals and snacks; holding infants, sitting with toddlers to encourage social interaction, good nutrition, and performs housekeeping tasks (including but not limited to preparing meals, dishwashing and laundering of sheets/blankets bibs etc.).
Provide appropriate customer service to parents, children, community representatives/members, and all PACE staff daily.
Cooperate with Site Director, Site Lead Teacher, and other Service Area Coordinators in planning, supervision, and implementation of overall program
Provide a well-supervised and safe learning environment. This includes cleaning and sanitizing of toys, materials and equipment in the classroom, outdoor learning environments and as well as the meal prepping/dishwashing and toileting/diapering areas).
Assists in accomplishing the program's non-federal share through the access of community resources (services, donations, discounts, and/or goods).
Responsibilities when Covering for an Early Head Start Teacher
Develop and utilize integrated curriculum plans, which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of Head Start children.
Prepare attendance records, first aid/injury reports, food service records, meal participation records, family contact records, memos, correspondence, and other job-related documents.
Maintain records of enrollment, attendance, and other required paperwork, both manually and digitally.
Schedule, support, and follow through with the developmental screening and ongoing assessment of preschoolers’ motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills (including DRDP-2025 IT, ASQ-3, ASQ: SE-2, etc.). Record and analyze children’s observations.
QUALIFICATIONS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE):
Promote children’s progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five and applicable state early learning and development standards, including for children with disabilities and dual language learners, as appropriate.
Include developmentally appropriate learning experiences in language, literacy, social and emotional development, math, science, social studies, creative arts, and physical development that are focused on achieving progress outlined in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS:
Must complete 15 clock hours of professional development annually that builds the knowledge, experience, skills, and abilities of staff to improve child, family, and staff outcomes. Of this, a minimum of 50% of the 15 hours (or 7.5 hours) must be focused on the specific content area or job assignment. Must also complete an annual Professional Development Plan (PDP) to be reviewed 3 times during the year.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The working conditions and physical demands of this position will be those that must be met to successfully perform the essential duties of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. The physical environment the incumbent will work in is typically a pre-school environment with moderate noise levels that would be expected in that type of work environment. Outdoor and indoor supervision of playgrounds / workplace for on-going periods occurs regularly. Lift and carry up to 45 lbs. or more. The individual must be able to work with children at their eye level and always maintain visual supervision of children, as well as hear, communicate, and comprehend effectively with children, staff, and parents. The individual also must be able to walk, sit, kneel, crawl, carry, push, pull and participate in activities indoors and outdoors as needed in an environment with children and adults.
Representative physical demands of the job include normal vision and hearing, standing for extended periods, sitting for extended periods, kneeling, and stooping, manipulating objects with hands, reaching overhead, and occasionally lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 45 pounds.
