Broadway Housing Communities is seeking a Family Service Advocate for the Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center and the Sugar Hill Museum Preschool. Both sites deliver a full-day preschool program committed to providing individualized, comprehensive educational services for 3-5 year old children and their families in Harlem. Dorothy Day Early Childhood Center and the Sugar Hill Museum Preschool are part of a comprehensive Education Services Department that includes youth mentoring, education advocacy, adult education, and cultural arts programs.
The Family Service Advocate provides a full range of comprehensive family support services to enrolled children and families and builds partnerships in the local community in accordance with funding source guidelines, Performance Standards, Board of Directors, Policy Council, and Broadway Housing Communities policies and procedures. Responsibilities include:
- Designing, coordinating and providing comprehensive delivery of direct case management, including home visiting in all family service areas, including health, child development, nutrition, and mental health.
- Implementing a formal system of follow up with families on referrals to community agencies, to assure the satisfactory provision of services.
- Coordinating and developing linkages between community agencies to provide better service delivery to families. Serve as an advocate for families within the community.
- Scheduling of parent engagement activities, including the volunteer program and Fathers’ Involvement Initiative.
- Coordinating training for parents, staff and the community in all aspects of family services, as determined by needs assessments, Performance Standards and program goals.
Minimum qualifications include a BA in education or social services; experience working with children and families from diverse cultures; familiarity with early childhood programs; excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, problem solving and interpersonal skills; ability to work well with parents and professional peers; ability to work as a member of a team.
Knowledge of Head Start performance standards and DOH regulations, bilingual (Spanish), computer literacy, Master’s degree a plus. Broadway Housing Communities, Inc (BHC) offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package.
BHC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, height, weight, or disability.
Job Type: Full-time
Required education:
- Bachelor's
- Required experience:
- family service: 3 years
Pay: $45,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person