Home Educator - PCEP

This position serves as a resource and support for parents while acting as a facilitator for learning in a home-based program. It is also responsible for teaching parents and caregivers enrolled in the AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program how to create educational toys using the AVANCE Toy-making Manual, in alignment with AVANCE’s Parenting Curriculum. 

Job Responsibilities

• Promote and model the organization’s Core Values in all interactions and activities.

• Actively encourage newly enrolled parents to participate in and remain engaged with program activities.

• Collaborate with parents to develop individualized family plans.

• Foster professional, caring relationships with families based on mutual trust and respect.

• Support parents in understanding child development and how children grow and learn.

• Plan and facilitate child-centered educational activities addressing intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development.

• Provide parents with education on health and nutrition, integrating these topics into program activities.

• Coordinate with staff and parents to support health and nutrition efforts.

• Provide information, referrals, and assistance to parents accessing community resources.

• Support families in problem-solving and overcoming barriers.

• Conduct 30-minute home visits per program participant, ensuring compliance with program requirements.

• Organize at least two group socialization activities per program guidelines.

• Manage an assigned caseload of families.

• Develop and implement home visit plans focused on parents or legal guardians.

• Organize and supervise socialization activities that promote peer interaction through age-appropriate play and learning experiences.

• Conduct activities in various settings such as classrooms, community facilities, homes, or on field trips.

• Encourage parental involvement through observation, volunteering, or participation in children’s activities.

• Ensure compliance with nutritional guidelines by providing appropriate snacks and meals during socialization sessions.

• Prepare materials for toy-making lessons, including creating handouts and gathering supplies.

• Maintain inventory records and a sample exhibit of all AVANCE toys.

• Sew, cut, and prepare materials for toy-making sessions.

• Conduct toy-making sessions and reinforce AVANCE Possibility Sheets.

• Maintain accurate sign-in sheets for toy-making sessions.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

Required:  

• Associate degree in Early Childhood Education or in a related field, or a CDA (Child Development Associate) with at least 18 hours of early childhood development completed.

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or in a related field with at least 18 hours of early childhood development completed.

Work Experience

Required: 

• For EHS a minimum of six months in a licensed childcare facility or in a public/private school or early childhood facility or has completed an early childhood degree program where practicum(s) were required. For PCEP Home Educators a minimum of work experience is not required, AVANCE provides training and support for PCEP.

Preferred: 

• For EHS Home Educators a minimum of one (1) year of experience in a licensed childcare facility or in a public/private school or early childhood facility or has completed an early childhood degree program where practicum(s) were required. 

Additional Skills Required

• First Aid and CPR training.
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office software applications with advanced skills using Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and Adobe Acrobat.
• Spanish fluency helpful for EHS Home Educators. Bilingual (English/Spanish – Oral and Written) for Home Educators assigned to the PCEP Program.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail.
• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including staff, board members, external partners, and donors.
• Emotional maturity.
• Highly resourceful team player, with the ability to be extremely effective independently with the capability of managing numerous simultaneous projects.
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions.
• Strong analytical, presentation, verbal and written communication, problem solving and decision-making skills. 
• Ability to generate, analyze, evaluate, and summarize reports.
• Ability to travel to various training sessions and to assigned caseload homes.
• Must have dependable transportation daily, valid driver’s license, a clean driving record (subject to annual MVR check and policy), current auto liability insurance and be bondable by AVANCE, San Antonio, Inc. 

Disclaimer(s)

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. Nothing in this job description forms or is intended to form a contract of employment. Neither shall the content in this job description be interpreted to conflict with, or to eliminate or modify in any way, the “at will” employment status of AVANCE San Antonio employees. Employment remains on an “at-will” basis.

Travel

50-80% annually on average – mostly local with frequent long distance.

Equipment

Computer, computer software programs and peripherals, resource materials and equipment, copier, fax, and other equipment applicable to the position.  

Working Conditions

Mental and Physical Demands

General office and sedentary. Regularly required to sit; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Use of personal computing equipment. 

Maintain emotional control under stress; work with interruptions and deadlines; walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling, and pushing; occasional: lifting/carrying, pulling/pushing 10-30 pounds. Work evenings and weekends as needed.

Environmental Factors

Occasional exposure to biological hazards (communicable diseases, bacteria, insects, mold, fungi, etc.). Occasional exposure to weather-related conditions when working in the outside environment/neighborhoods and events.