Hope House Colorado·Arvada, Colorado
The Behavior Specialist collaborates with teaching staff to provide individualized support for children and implement positive behavior strategies in the classroom. They also facilitate social-emotional skills groups and provide coaching to teachers and families to ensure healthy development.
Hope House Colorado (HHC) is hiring Early Learning Behavior Specialist, referred to internally as the ELC Behavior Specialist. The ELC Behavior Specialist will collaborate with Early Learning Center (ELC) staff and the ELC leadership team to promote healthy social-emotional interactions and provide responsive care for children enrolled in the ELC. The behavior therapist will provide in classroom support working collaboratively with ELC teaching staff, to provide individualized support for children as well as provide social-emotional skills-based groups for children to enhance emotional regulation and positive peer interactions. The Behavior Specialist will identify areas of growth and exemplify positive behavior support and techniques to support children’s social emotional development including but not limited to direct teacher support, staff training and coaching, support of the whole family and developing Positive Behavior Support Plans.
What you’ll be doing Work with and equip diverse teaching teams to build positive relationships with children and their peers, facilitating an environment that promotes each child’s healthy social and emotional development.
Identify patterns of behavior of teacher/child interaction through use of data assessments, and classroom observation to find areas of growth.
Work with teaching teams to understand and appropriately respond to children’s emotional needs; including implementing positive research-based techniques that provide positive support to enhance emotional regulation skills to decrease challenging behaviors.
Collaborate with the ELC leadership team, teaching team and families to develop Positive Behavior Support Plans to support a student’s social emotional needs.
Collaborate with staff to create warm, nurturing Trauma-informed, responsive environmental settings.
Provide in-classroom coaching to teachers around positive behavior support strategies for the classroom and individual kids.
Provide training to ELC staff around positive behavior supports, trauma-informed environments, and/or other relevant topics related to classroom management and behavior support for children.
Work with the treatment team of Early Interventionists and ELC Leadership to support children and families ensuring appropriate plans are implemented to ensure goals/expectations are met in the classroom, at home and through transitional placements.
Promoting Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships We want to hear from you if … You have extensive working knowledge/training in Trauma Responsive Care as it relates to children ages 1-12 years old and adolescents. (required) You have extensive working knowledge/training regarding child development and social emotional milestones (required) You have extensive working knowledge/training in Positive Social Emotional Strategies such as the Pyramid Model and Conscious Discipline (required) You have experience working with children both individually and in a classroom setting (preferred) Bilingual in English and Spanish (preferred) Bachelor of Psychology, Sociology, Education or Special Education for children ages 1-12 years old (preferred).
You have extensive experience training providing coaching to teachers and families with positive behavioral support techniques (preferred) You can pass ELC background checks – fingerprinting, child abuse & neglect (TRAILS) screening, out of state screens, if applicable, and drug screen (required)
Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility, and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor, and even a little bit of silliness each day! We are proud to say our Early Learning Center is a CO Shines 5-star rated Program!
$22.12-26.92/hour
Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 24 hours per week or more are eligible for the below benefits. You can find our full list of benefits here: Join Our Team - Hope House Colorado Health Benefits: Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans. Simple IRA: Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee’s annual salary.
Upon hire, employees earn 4.61 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
Candidates must have extensive training in trauma-responsive care, child development, and positive social-emotional strategies. A bachelor's degree in psychology, sociology, education, or special education is preferred, along with the ability to pass comprehensive background checks.
Market context
In Colorado, early learning behavior specialist roles are often sought by programs supporting children with social-emotional, behavioral, and trauma-related needs. Competition can be stronger for candidates with trauma-responsive care experience, child development knowledge, and bilingual English-Spanish skills, especially when programs want to support diverse families. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to quickly compare fit, then tailor your application to specific experience with positive behavior supports and early childhood settings.