Head Start Special Needs Assistant @ Agra HS, Lincoln County

Crossroads Youth & Family Services, Inc. is seeking a Special Needs Assistant for its Agra Head Start located in Lincoln County. The Special Needs Assistant assists in creating and managing an attractive, warm, and challenging learning environment for children with disabilities, incorporating developmentally appropriate early intervention, learning, and care activities that meet the needs of the group as well as those of individual children and families.

Here is your chance to make a difference in a child’s life, to help families, and to build relationships while working in a fun, challenging environment that fosters teamwork encourages leadership, and inspires professional excellence.

We offer

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefit plans with some employer paid benefits
• Life insurance & long term disability insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Tuition assistance
• Paid holidays, sick, and vacation/school breaks

Education/Experience

• Two (2) years of credits from an accredited college or university with a minimum of six (6) semester or equivalent quarter hours in early child development or related courses; OR
• Minimum one (1) year of full-time early childhood experience in a licensed early childhood program and one (1) year of credits from an accredited college or university with six (6) semester or equivalent quarter hours in early child development or related courses, OR
• Current Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.

License

• Must possess a valid Driver’s License and maintain acceptable liability insurance

Knowledge

• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, problem-solving, interpersonal and analytical skills required;
• Must be knowledgeable in computers and other basic office equipment;
• Knowledge of community resources, methods and practices of health and safety precautions, providing age-appropriate education services and facilitating family involvement in program services.

Physical, Mental and Environmental Requirements

It is the policy of Crossroads Youth & Family Services, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or handicap. Persons of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.