Early Childhood Education Consultant

The Bureau of Child Care is seeking an Early Childhood Education Consultant to monitor and make recommendations to childcare programs throughout New York City to ensure that childcare services operate within regulatory compliance. The consultant will evaluate and assess child care programs to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulations and applicable performance standards. The consultant will provide consultation, guidance and technical assistance to prospective and current child care providers and staff concerning educational programming, appropriate organization and classroom management techniques, and other best practices within the field.

What You Will Do

The consultant will evaluate and assess child care programs, provide consultation and guidance to providers and staff, serve as a resource person for the Bureau and providers on current trends and research in Early Childhood Education, issue notices of violation, and make recommendations for issuance or denial of child care permits or licenses.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have strong communication, analytic, and observational skills, ability to deduce potential impacts of conditions or assess risk, and writing skills including the ability to adequately describe observations in detail.

Requirements

• Professional Certification in Early Childhood Education
• Master's degree in education from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 12 semester hour graduate credits in early childhood or elementary education
• Three years of full-time satisfactory experience in one or a combination of the following: director or educational director of a licensed school or licensed program, teacher director of a licensed school or licensed program, consultant in early childhood education who evaluates such programs and/or provides expert advice for such programs

Benefits

• Premium-free health insurance plan
• Additional health, fitness, and financial benefits
• Public sector defined benefit pension plan
• Tax-deferred savings program
• Worksite Wellness Program
• Job security