EHS Teacher II (Center-Based) (South Park)

**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 Regional Site Director/Site Director delivers high quality Early Childhood Development services to the infants and toddlers enrolled in center programs, 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 Division 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: Supervise children for up to 7 hours per day. Ensure the child/adult ratio is met and maintained. Conduct safety checks and maintain a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and handwashing, and assures 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 Respond quickly to children�s different personal needs (verbal and non-verbal cues), temperament styles, abilities, and cultures. Implement and document individualized feeding plans for infants and toddlers and respect individual preferences and eating style. Tend to infants� and toddlers� personal hygiene needs, during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes. Prepare and serve meals and snacks; holding infants, sitting with toddlers to encourage social interaction, good nutrition, and perform housekeeping tasks. Maintain a clean, safe and sanitized environment (including sanitizing materials and dishwashing as needed). Supervise children during nap time. Develop and utilize weekly lesson plans which reflect mandated elements and components, parental and cultural influences, and promote the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of Early Head Start children in accordance with all PACE Education Division selected curriculums and Head Start Performance Standards. Work with parents to develop individual lesson plans, goals, and objectives for each child�s development in the domains required by the Head Start Performance Standards. Organize each day�s activities to provide children with a variety of experiences. Schedule, support, and follow through with the developmental screening and ongoing assessment of infants� and toddlers� motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills (including but not limited to DRDP-2015 IT, ASQ-3, ASQ: SE-2, etc.). Encourage and support parents in participation of children�s screening and assessment process, including anecdotal information. Participate and assist in implementation of the Individual Family Service Plan. Coordinate services between families and other community agencies. Ensure that education timelines are met within their required calendar day (I.e. 30-45-60-90 timelines etc.). Prepare the infant/toddler learning environment for children to learn through active exploration and interaction with adult caregiv…