Share Email Opening Title Quality Specialist, Early Childhood Education  Position Quality Specialist, Early Childhood Education   Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time   Base Wage $18.00 - $20.00 per hour based on education level. Comprehensive benefit package available.   Description Summary The Quality Specialist will work with child care center and family child care practitioners to promote best practice, share information and provide training/technical assistance on ExceleRate Illinois Quality Recognition & Improvement System (QRIS). The role of the Specialist should be relationship-based, specific, intensive consultation with child care practitioners including staff, directors and family child care practitioners. The Quality Specialist works as part of the Child Care Resource and Referral team to increase practitioner quality of care. Upon hire, Specialist receives detailed training on assessment tools and other aspects of QRIS, in which a score threshold is required. Examples of Essential Functions include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Develop working relationships with child care practitioners (centers and home providers) to support them around improving the quality of services to children. Provide consultation, technical assistance and trainings regarding child development, brain science and development, positive discipline, designing environments, transitions, routines, communication/relationships-building with parents/guardians and other related topics. Provide consultation, technical assistance and training to providers who are involved with ExceleRate Illinois or have expressed an interest and need support at different stages in the process. Offer resources and information to child care providers in person, via website, phone &/or email. Assist in facilitating cohorts, including those for providers involved in the Quality Improvement funds process, additionally provide training, technical assistance, reflective practice, and on site consultation. Work in partnership with providers and other specialists and agencies to jointly assess and identity program needs and concerns. Maintain documentation of the contract related activities through specified data recording, through timely submissions. Meet IDHS requirements for the Quality Specialist position including: Complete required Assessment Scale training over a six-month period, achieving a minimum score of at least 80%. Become an Approved Trainer for the Gateways to Opportunity Registry (within 12 months of employment) Achieve Gateway Credential ECE Level 2 (within 12 months of employment) Attend required meetings, work days and events locally and sometimes statewide.   About the Organization Mission SAL Community Services (SALCS) strengthens children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities. About Us SALCS operates Skip-a-Long Child Development Services - early care and education centers in Iowa and Illinois, The Home Child Care Network - a network of licensed and license-exempt home child care providers in both the Quad Cities and Peoria areas, Open Door - a crisis assistance program funded by IDHS to help individuals and families in crisis navigate local social services, SAL Child Care Connection - the child care resource and referral program in Peoria, IL, the Child Care Resource and Referral of Midwestern Illinois that serves the Illinois Quad Cities and surrounding counties, and Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships that serve Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer Counties in Illinois. SALCS is at the forefront of public policy and issues regarding early care and education and individual and family social services, and is dedicated to making sure all families have what they need to be successful, regardless of financial means.   EOE Statement SAL Community Services is an equal opportunity employer and believes in equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. Accordingly, all employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity. These decisions include recruitment, selection, promotion, transfer, discipline, compensation, benefits, training and other personnel actions involving persons in all job titles and shall occur without regard to actual or perceived race, creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, religion (or for requesting an accommodation for a religious belief), sex, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information (as defined in Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)), military status or discharge status, veteran status, qualified disabled veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, transgenderism, marital status, citizenship status, familial status, physical or mental disability (or for requesting an accommodation for a disability), association with a disabled person(s), medical condition (including HIV or AIDS status, cancer related or genetic characteristics) arrest record (unless doing so violates contractual, funding, or licensing requirements), order of protection status, pregnancy (including conditions related to childbirth or breast feeding), homelessness or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.   Location SAL Child Care Connection   Exempt/Non-Exempt Non-Exempt   Open Date 1/15/2020   This position is currently not accepting applications. 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