Senior Family Engagement Advocate

Are you a socially conscious, dedicated individual who is committed to building a better future for children, families, and their communities? If so, join us as we support early childhood education programs across the country to create positive outcomes for the children and families served.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
* Promotes family environments that enhance children's development by engaging families as
partners in their children's healthy development and school readiness.
* Engages families in individualized, in-home, and group experiences to enhance parent/child
interactions that research shows foster school readiness through consistent family routines,
positive guidance, discipline, experience-rich home environments, and literacy activities.
* Develops effective communication and collaborative strategies with teaching teams to encourage
family engagement in home learning activities, including individualizing activities based on family
interests and children's developmental status.
* Utilizes in-classroom time and home visits to build a deeper understanding of the relationship
between children's development and their home environments; as well as to model and coach
families in positive parent/child interactions.
* Works in conjunction with Center staff and families to plan and conduct a wide variety of family
engagement activities that provide opportunities for families to support one another.
* Works toward Closing the Achievement Gap workshop series, activities, and campaigns that
promote children's school readiness.
* Participates in outreach, recruitment, and attendance follow-up activities to engage families in
* our program; and to motivate their active participation.
* Engages in collaborative partnership building with families of children receiving center-based
(Early) Head Start services.

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* Utilizes family self-assessment information to assist families with self-identified goals to enhance
self-sufficiency in areas such as education, employment, housing, and access to community
resources.
* Identifies and accesses services and resources responsive to family interests and goals and
follows up with parents to ensure that services meet their expectations and needs.
* Analyzes self-sufficiency data and utilizes data/results to plan and coordinate a variety of parent
cohort groups that support one another to achieve self-sufficiency goals.
* Individualizes family engagement and relationship-building to be appropriate to families' cultural
context, as well as respectful of family circumstances.
* Coordinates or refers families to opportunities for continuing education, employment training, and
other employment services through formal or informal networking in the community.
* Conducts group and center-based workshops and activities designed to build social capital and
create a welcoming program community committed to family engagement in children's learning
and development.
* Plans and attends Monthly Family Engagement Network Meetings.
* Builds relationships that will enhance communication and collaboration among internal and
external stakeholders; works side by side with health, early learning, and disabilities and other
members of the family engagement team to support families to be fully engaged in all aspects of
our program.
* Cultivates family leadership and supports their advocacy efforts through participation in program
governance bodies such as the delegate Policy Committee and grantee Policy Council, as well as
neighborhood and community-based advisory groups.
* Establishes and maintains working relationships with community partners to strengthen access to
resources and training identified as priority goal areas by families.
* Effectively manages workload and ensures accurate record-keeping and documentation;
maintains accurate electronic and hard copy records and case notes to support positive child and
family outcomes.
* Documents efforts to assist families to identify their strengths, needs, and self-sufficiency goals
through completion of Family Self-Assessment, Family Partnership Agreement, and case notes.
* Records, monitors, and follows up on referrals for support services for reporting requirements;
submits reports as needed and requested, such as monthly summary tracking reports, etc.
* Supports onboarding of new staff; assists current employees in understanding and implementing
policies and procedures.
* Works with the Support Center on pilots and short-term initiatives.
* Maintains all advocate responsibilities.
* Represents Acelero Learning WI at community coalitions, boards, or meetings through active
participation and engagement.
* Participates in assigned meetings, events, and training as required.
Non-Essential Duties:
* Performs all other duties (or functions) as assigned.

Why Acelero Learning or Shine Early Learning?
- Ability to make an impact in the lives of the children, families, and partners we serve
- Career growth and professional development opportunities
- Supportive working environment
- Average of 5 weeks of paid time off during 1st year of employment
- Comprehensive benefits, including 401K matching and 100% vesting program

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse and healthy work place.