Mobile Early Learning Program Job Description: Program Coordinator
June 2024
The “Mobile Early Learning” program will provide support for children 0-5 and their families to help strengthen knowledge and build skills to support family health and wellbeing. The project will promote the value of play, family time and the importance of early childhood development in the first 5 years. The programs will offer an opportunity to socially connect with others while building skills through play.
The “Mobile Early Learning” Program Coordinator will:
• Demonstrate skills and experience in working with, engaging and supporting a wide variety of families and parents or caregivers in respectful, welcoming and non-stigmatizing ways.
• Demonstrate a passion for working with children.
• Have detailed knowledge about child development, including how children acquire language, problem solve and develop physically, cognitively, socially and emotionally.
• Create and maintain collaborative working relationships so that community partners can integrate their professional expertise into the programming offered through the “Mobile Early Learning” program.
• Have experience in developing and facilitating programming with children and adults.
• Demonstrate strong cultural competence and awareness and respect for family diversity.
Overview of responsibilities
The supervision and direction for this position is provided by the Tisdale and Area Community Action Cooperative Ltd (TACACL). The coordinator will have responsibility for the following areas:
- Programming
- Develop and deliver programming, with support by TACACL. Programming will occur in smaller rural communities in NE Sask (which may include Hudson Bay, Porcupine Plain,
Star City, Arborfield etc.)
- Plan, organize and facilitate age-appropriate play based learning and sessions for children and parents that will enhance opportunities for children to experience playbased, holistic programming that supports skill development in the social-emotional, physical, cognitive, language, and spiritual domains
- Develop opportunities to support parent-child engagement and attachment and enhance parent knowledge about the sequence of child development including how
they can support this development at home.
- Provide parents and caregivers with high quality information and resources to help
them support their young children’s development across all developmental domains.
- Partnerships – Establish relationship with partnering agencies and their representatives.
- Work with partners to develop and deliver innovative programming.
- Build relationship with partners in order to promote “Mobile Early Learning” programs to other agency’s clients and to remain familiar with their services to facilitate referrals
to outside agencies.
- Family engagement – Engage parents, caregivers and young children.
- Actively engage and welcome families in strength-based ways.
- Actively seek out new families to attend the programs, including through other community agencies or face to face contact.
- Seek out parent, caregiver and child voice, including through parent surveys, parent feedback forms and face to face engagement.
- Provide families with information and linkages or referrals to outside agencies when required.
- Administration
- Promote the program in a variety of ways, including social media, through partners and word of mouth, etc.
- Establish program registration processes, track and report on attendance.
- Track and manage financial expenditures in cooperation with TACACL
Qualifications
The successful applicant will have a combination of the following experience and training:
• Experience and training in the planning and delivery of programs and services to adults and children, both one-on-one and in groups.
• Knowledge of quality early learning environments
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with partners.
• Valid first aid / CPR.
• Valid Driver’s license and ability to commute to communities.
• Valid criminal record check and vulnerable sector check.
• The ability to work flexible hours, including regular business hours and occasional early evening and weekends.
• Experience using technology to facilitate reporting and parent and community engagement.
This is a contract position (Term August 1, 2024-Mar 31, 2025) with possibility to extend.
Wage dependent on experience.
Hours per week will be flexible, 10-20 hours per week.
Mileage will be paid for travel to rural communities.
To apply, please send resume to: heather.turcotte@saskhealthauthority.ca by 4:00pm June 19, 2024
If you have any questions, feel free to call or email.
Heather.turcotte@saskhealthauthority or 306-873-8278