The Infant Teacher creates a nurturing and safe classroom environment to support the physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language development of infants. This role involves planning meaningful learning experiences, partnering with families, and maintaining strict adherence to licensing and accreditation standards.
Requirements summary
Candidates must be Early Childhood Teacher qualified with a CDA, PDIS Level 2, or specific ECE college credits combined with experience. Documented experience teaching children birth to age six and the ability to pass comprehensive background checks are required.
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Job description
This position will remain open until filled.
ABOUT EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTERS Early Connections Learning Centers is dedicated to providing comprehensive, high quality early care and education for ALL children.
Every position works in coordination to achieve this mission.
Since 1897, our work to provide high quality early childhood education has positively impacted thousands of children and families in the Pikes Peak region.
Our nationally accredited programs help build a strong foundation for young children to be happy and successful in learning and life.
JOB SUMMARY The Infant Teacher creates a warm, nurturing, responsive, and safe classroom environment where infants feel secure, valued, and supported as they explore, grow, and achieve developmental milestones.
This position supports each infant’s physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language development through intentional caregiving, responsive relationships, developmentally appropriate experiences, and consistent daily routines.
Working in partnership with the Lead Teacher and classroom team, the Infant Teacher helps plan and implement meaningful learning experiences that support individualized growth and early development.
This role partners with families to understand each infant’s needs, routines, culture, and development, while maintaining strong communication and trust.
The Infant Teacher upholds the highest standards of care by following Colorado Department of Human Services licensing requirements, NAEYC Accreditation Standards, Early Connections policies and values, health and safety requirements, and classroom documentation expectations. $1,000 SIGN-ON BONUS!
Essential duties
Create a nurturing, responsive infant classroom. Build secure, trusting relationships with infants through warm interactions, responsive caregiving, consistency, and attention to each child’s individual needs, cues, routines, temperament, and developmental stage.
Support infant growth and developmental milestones. Plan and implement developmentally appropriate experiences that support infants’ physical, social-emotional, cognitive, and language development, including opportunities for exploration, sensory learning, movement, communication, and relationship-building.
Partner with the Lead Teacher and classroom team. Collaborate with the Lead Teacher in planning, implementing, and maintaining a safe, engaging, and developmentally appropriate infant classroom. Support classroom routines, transitions, curriculum activities, caregiving responsibilities, and individualized learning goals.
Benefits
Dental Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Holidays
Paid Time Off
Vision Insurance
Medical Insurance
AD&D Insurance
Paid Vacation
Tuition Reimbursement
Basic Term Life Insurance
Paid Sick Days
Childcare Discount
Continuing Education and Training
Voluntary Short Term Disability Insurance
Paid Family Medical Leave
Paid Anniversary Day
Lead with confidence when needed. Assume classroom responsibilities when the Lead Teacher is absent or unavailable, ensuring consistency, safety, nurturing care, and clear communication with children, families, and staff.
Maintain a safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate environment. Ensure indoor and outdoor learning spaces are clean, safe, welcoming, and appropriate for infants. Follow Colorado Department of Early Childhood Licensing, Health and Safety standards, USDA food and sanitization requirements, CACFP requirements, and the NAEYC Cleaning and Sanitation Table.Use infant-development knowledge in daily practice. Understand and apply principles, theories, and best practices of early childhood and infant development, including attachment, responsive caregiving, safe sleep practices, feeding routines, diapering, supervision, and individualized care.
Support inclusion and belonging. Create a classroom culture that honors each child’s identity, family, culture, language, background, abilities, and individual needs. Adapt care and learning experiences to support each infant’s full participation and sense of belonging.
Engage families as partners. Build positive, respectful relationships with parents and caregivers through open communication, daily updates, family engagement opportunities, and parent-teacher conferences. Collaborate with families to share progress, concerns, routines, and strategies that support each infant’s development and well-being.
Document and observe with purpose. Accurately complete required classroom documentation, including attendance, meal records, diapering and care logs, incident reports, assessment data, developmental observations, and other required records. Use observation and documentation to support individualized learning goals and communicate child progress.
Promote health, safety, and high-quality care. Request, prepare, and maintain classroom materials that are safe, appropriate, clean, and responsive to infant developmental needs. Follow all supervision, sanitation, safe sleep, feeding, diapering, handwashing, and health procedures that protect children’s well-being.
Model professionalism and continuous learning. Demonstrate sound judgment, reliability, compassion, creativity, and professionalism in all aspects of the role. Stay current with required training, classroom expectations, and program standards to ensure compliance with Early Connections, CDEC, NAEYC, CACFP, and other applicable requirements.
Secondary duties
Support the development of positive relationships between children and their families, while maintaining professional boundaries
Communicate and collaborate with colleagues, specialists, supervisors, and community partners to support children’s needs, classroom goals, and family partnerships.
Share relevant information with coworkers and supervisors as appropriate to ensure continuity of care, safety, compliance, and effective classroom operations.
Maintain confidentiality and discretion in all matters related to children, families, staff, and the program.
Represent Early Connections with professionalism, positivity, reliability, and pride in the important work of early childhood education.
Qualifications
Minimum of one of the following:
CDA (Infant & Toddler)
PDIS Level 2
6+ credit hours in ECE college courses and 21 months of experience
18+ credit hours in ECE college courses and 3 months of experience
Must meet Colorado minimum Rules and Regulations for Teachers; must be Early Childhood Teacher qualified. Additional coursework may be required based on classroom assignment.
Documented experience teaching in the Early Childhood Education field working with children birth to age six.
Demonstrated passion for working with infants and young children and a strong professional foundation in the principles, theories, and best practices of early childhood education, including infant care, responsive caregiving, and developmentally appropriate practice.
Prior to employment, candidates must pass federal and state criminal and Colorado Department of Early Childhood background checks, pre-employment drug screen, physical, and verification of employment, education and/or credentials and, by position, valid driver’s license.
Physical demands
Position requires physical mobility, with or without reasonable accommodation if requested, to perform essential functions of the job, including but not limited to sitting, standing, walking, lifting, carrying, squatting. Should be able to:
Exert 20 to 40 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently to move objects and occasionally children
Make fast, simple, repeated movements
Endure physically and emotionally working with infant through school-age children for long periods of time
See objects or movement of objects to one’s side when the eyes are focused forward
See details at a distance and close range
Detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness
Keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position
TRAVEL AND REMOTE WORK All positions at Early Connections Learning Centers are on site. This position does not qualify for any remote working capability.
CURRENT BENEFITS Paid Time Off
13 paid holidays scheduled in 2026
Generous paid vacation
8 paid sick days
1 paid anniversary day
Paid Family Medical Leave for qualifying individuals – this benefit does not provide 100% wage replacement
Medical, Dental, Vision
Medical insurance – ECLC pays up to 75% of employee premium
Dental and Vision insurance
Free Employee Assistance Program
Childcare Benefit • Substantial discount for childcare: employees pay $25/week for children 3+ who are enrolled at Early Connections Learning Centers
*This benefit depends on having an enrollment opening Tuition Reimbursement, Continuing Education and Training
Tuition reimbursement of $150 per 3-credit hour course is available to staff enrolled in approved coursework in Early Childhood Education or related to their position and who maintain the required grade point average.
Reimbursement may be available for pre-approved job-related certificate programs
Other Insurance
100% employer-paid Basic Term Life and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary Short Term Disability Insurance
This position will remain open until filled.
Market context
Colorado classroom teacher demand remains steady
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