The Family Community Partnerships Coordinator ensures active and meaningful participation by Early Head Start/Head Start families, to ensure a high-level of staff awareness of community resources by collaborating and networking with agencies in the community; to ensure staff, children, and families have access to resources. Position hours: Full time 40 hrs per week On-site position Location: 880 Clay Street San Francisco CA 94108 (Req1603)Family Community Partnerships Coordinator Responsiblities
- Assist the Family Community Partnership manager in maintaining a database of social services and other resources and provide that information to staff and families as needed; collaborate with and do outreach to social services agencies to form formal and informal partnerships to meet the needs of the families and children in the program
- Ensure that a family-strengths/family-centered practice is understood and followed by staff.
- Support the Family advocate, Center manager and classroom staff in ensuring Family Committee activities are coordinated and offered monthly
- Assist in the coordination of any other program option/center based family related events/activities.
- Conduct continuous monitoring and evaluation of activities within the program to assure that family's needs are being met.
- Works with FCP manager to ensure a system for the implementation of family partnership agreements and the tracking of referrals, individual contracts, and follow-ups.
- Assist Family advocates to recruit parents to participate on advisory committees and advising the Policy Council on program operations, training opportunities and providing technical assistance, as needed.
- Ensure compliance with all performance standards and regulations.
- Serve as a member of a community committee/attend community meetings as a representative of the program as needed.
- Must be involved in ongoing professional development.
- Coordinating workshops and resources around professional development for Wu Yee staff.
- Participate in Multi-disciplinary meetings as needed in support to center-based/ program option staff
- Attend IFSP/ IEP meetings in support to family and FA as needed
- Has knowledge of CPS reporting and ability to update staff of CPS reporting changes and requirements
- Provide coaching to FAs on providing strengths-based and family-centered practices to meet the HS performance standards
- Partner with Center Managers in evaluating and addressing center-based family and community partnerships
- Work in collaboration with other content areas to help support the needs of the program and families
- Support the implementation of the Parent Family Community Engagement (PFCE) framework
- Support the linkage of the PFCE framework to the agency's School Readiness goals
- Support FCP manager to monitor family services resource and referrals in Childplus.net.
- Maintain regular communication with appropriate program staff and families to facilitate effective program performance and ensure that significant family information is shared, including but not limited to: family goals, issues, concerns, challenges, and successes.
- Monitor the information in child's files and in ChildPlus to reflect accurate and most current case records, family and emergency contacts, health, and family-partnership requirements
- Develop family partnerships to empower families in identifying strengths and needs to set realistic goals for themselves and their family
- Other duties as assigned
Family Community Partnerships Coordinator Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology or related field
- MA in Child Development, Social work, Psychology preferred.
- Minimum 3 years work experience with children and families in a social service agency
- Ability to work with and understand unique issues of families with infants, children with special needs, and pregnant women
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience working with diverse populations
- Ability to work with and coordinate services with other community and government agencies
- Familiar with San Francisco community resources
Physical position requirements; machines and/or equipment used:
- Must be PC literate; MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Regularly required to operate standard office equipment (personal computer,photocopy machine, fax machine, etc.)
- Ability to work on a computer up to 7 hours a day.
- Regularly required to sit for long periods of time, and occasionally stand and walk.
- Regularly required to use hands to operate computer and other office equipment.
- Close vision required for computer usage.
- Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, climb, and lift 5-10 pounds.
Working Conditions:
- Standard office environment without unpleasant or hazardous conditions. Work entails typical physical demands involved in office work.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary $88,000 - $91,350 per year.
- Fully paid employee health, dental, and vision.
- 403b with matching contribution after 1 year.
- 14 holidays, 10 days vacation, and paid sick leave.
- Wellness program Stipend of $250.00 per month.
- Lots of opportunities for advancement across the organization.
- Extensive paid training and professional development.
NOTE: This description is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities or requirements for the position. This position may change or assume additional duties at any time. The employee may be requested to perform different and additional duties as assigned. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records to apply for any open position in which they feel qualified. Wu Yee Children's Services is an equal opportunity employer.