Child Development Specialist / Program Assistant

• Child Development – Strong understanding of developmental, social-emotional, adaptive, behavioral, and learning needs of children.

• Family-Centered Practice – Ability to respectfully engage families and incorporate lived experience, strengths, priorities, and barriers into program planning.

• FASD and Trauma-Informed Practice – Knowledge of FASD-informed, trauma-informed, developmental, behavioral, and relationship-based approaches.

• Program Planning – Ability to translate child-development concepts into practical program, environmental, training, referral, and workflow recommendations.

• Data and Documentation – Ability to gather, organize, summarize, and accurately document stakeholder feedback, project data, decisions, action items, and planning materials.

• Partnership Coordination – Ability to work collaboratively with childcare, education, disability, behavioral-health, therapy, child-welfare, family-support, and community partners.

• Organization and Technology – Ability to manage multiple assignments and use standard office technology, shared documents, spreadsheets, virtual meeting platforms, and data-tracking tools.

• Confidentiality and Professional Judgment – Ability to safeguard child, family, employee, partner, and grant information and exercise sound professional judgment.

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• Support the Therapeutic Programs Coordinator in carrying out the approved RHTP planning workplan and organizing project activities, deadlines, meetings, records, and deliverables.

• Assist with needs and gap analysis by gathering and organizing local information, stakeholder feedback, family perspectives, referral patterns, and service-access barriers.

• Participate in and help coordinate family listening sessions, partner meetings, focus groups, and community planning activities; document themes, decisions, action items, and follow-up needs.

• Provide child-development expertise to the design of therapeutic childcare and after-school models, including developmental supports, therapeutic play, social-emotional development, adaptive skills, individualized learning strategies, and family-centered practices.

• Help develop participant pathways, referral processes, intake concepts, care-coordination workflows, daily program concepts, documentation tools, and roles and responsibilities for a future implementation phase.

• Support research and organization of childcare licensing, SDS Day Habilitation, staffing qualification, documentation, training, and program-readiness requirements under the direction of project leadership and consultants.

• Assist with development of the workforce competency framework and future training plan, including trauma-informed care, FASD-informed practice, behavioral supports, Conscious Discipline/FASCETS concepts, child development, safety, and family engagement as appropriate to the final model.

• Support development and organization of draft policies, procedures, forms, checklists, workflow diagrams, training materials, and implementation-readiness documents.

• Coordinate logistics and follow-up with project partners, consultants, therapists, behavioral-health providers, ABA specialists, childcare resources, disability-service partners, and other stakeholders.

• Assist with evaluation planning by organizing baseline information, proposed outcomes, measures, data sources, data-collection responsibilities, and future reporting tools.

• Support sustainability and implementation planning by gathering information related to service demand, referral sources, staffing needs, training costs, program resources, and potential reimbursement or funding pathways.

• Assist with planning-only facility feasibility by documenting functional needs related to accessibility, child development, sensory environment, safety, and program flow; no construction or renovation is performed under this grant.

• Maintain complete and organized project files and assist with grant reporting, presentations, meeting materials, implementation timelines, and the final readiness package.

• Participate in local and in-state planning travel and model-observation activities as assigned and document relevant practices and lessons for future program design.

• Ensure assigned work remains within the approved planning scope and does not include grant-funded direct clinical or direct service delivery.

• Flexibility to adapt to grant deadlines, family and stakeholder schedules, consultation activities, and agency priorities; occasional work outside normal hours may be required.

• Other related duties as assigned within the approved position and grant scope.

• Maintain practices, methods, operations, and processes reasonably necessary to provide a safe and healthful working environment.

• Maintain health and safety requirements in accordance with agency policy and procedures.

• Position is subject to applicable agency background screening and other employment requirements based on assigned duties.

• Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education, child development, special education, psychology, social work, human services, or a closely related field preferred; an associate degree with substantial directly related experience may be considered.

• Experience working with or supporting children with developmental delays, disabilities, FASD, behavioral health needs, trauma histories, or other complex support needs.

• Knowledge of child development and family-centered practice and ability to work collaboratively with families and multidisciplinary teams.

• Experience in Part C Early Intervention, early childhood special education, therapeutic childcare, developmental services, behavioral supports, or family navigation preferred.

• Knowledge of trauma-informed care, FASD-informed practice, Conscious Discipline, FASCETS, or similar developmental/behavioral approaches preferred.

• Experience assisting with program development, quality improvement, grant projects, data collection, training development, or policy/procedure development preferred.

• Valid driver’s license and ability to meet FCS driving requirements when driving for agency business.

• This is a time-limited, grant-funded position through June 30, 2027, subject to continued grant funding, approved scope, and organizational need.

Pay: $28.85 - $31.73 per hour Expected hours: 40.0 per week

• Dental insurance

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person