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Job description
Child Care Initiatives Educational & Curriculum Manager
The Educational & Curriculum Manager delivers individualized, in-home coaching to family child care providers pursuing CDA credentialing and NAFCC accreditation, and owns the network's curriculum — selecting, adapting, delivering, and continuously improving it based on real outcomes data. This role combines deep early childhood education and coaching expertise with direct knowledge of family child care as a business and a practice, and requires genuine comfort building relationships in providers' homes with a bilingual, largely immigrant population. The value of this role is relational as much as instructional: knowing each provider, showing up consistently, and turning training and curriculum into something a provider actually completes.
Key Responsibilities
Individualized Coaching
Deliver 1:1 coaching using the Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) model — shared goal-setting, in-home observation, reflection and feedback — to the network's accreditation-track providers
Manage a coaching caseload and schedule directly, prioritizing across providers based on where they are in the accreditation timeline
Accreditation Support & Knowledge of Family Child Care
Guide providers through the CDA credential and NAFCC accreditation process from start to finish, grounded in real knowledge of how a family child care business actually operates
Provide hands-on help with the actual enrollment and registration steps, including sitting with a provider through a college registration portal
Design and deliver a six-session, NAFCC-aligned bilingual training series: Relationships, The Environment, Developmental Learning Activities, Safety & Health, Professional Practices, and Business Practices
Anchor each session to evidence a provider can use directly in a CDA portfolio or NAFCC self-study
Own and maintain the network's curriculum resources
Adapt and translate curriculum materials for bilingual delivery, ensuring content is linguistically and culturally appropriate for the population served
Evaluate curriculum effectiveness using program outcomes data
Keep curriculum current with evolving CDA and NAFCC standards, updating materials as accreditation requirements change
Serve as the network's curriculum resource for any future facilitators of group learning content, so quality and consistency don't depend on one person's institutional memory
Data Management & Documentation
Log coaching contacts, sessions, and observations in the network's data platform as part of the coaching cycle itself
Document each Practice-Based Coaching cycle (goal, observation, feedback) so a provider's progress is trackable over time
Track each provider's CDA/NAFCC milestone progress in the system so it feeds directly into program-wide reporting
Administer and record brief post-visit and post-session feedback consistently — incomplete data quietly undermines the whole outcomes framework
Encourage and record developmental screening completion as a routine part of coaching visits
External Relationships
Coordinate directly with partner organizations on bilingual co-facilitation and shared training content
Use plain-language materials, teach-back techniques, and native-language-first instruction suited to adult learners with a wide range of formal education
Treat lived caregiving experience as a resource to build on
Experience and Education
Required
Degree or credential in early childhood education or child development specifically
Demonstrated educational coaching experience with adult learners, ideally in an early childhood or home-visiting context
Experience developing, adapting, or evaluating curriculum for adult learners
Substantive knowledge of family child care specifically — licensing, business operations, day-to-day practice
Comfortable doing sustained, hands-on work in providers' homes
Preferred
Direct familiarity with CDA and/or NAFCC standards
Experience with Practice-Based Coaching or a comparable evidence-based coaching model
Experience working with bilingual and first-generation populations navigating formal credentialing systems
Statements in this Job Description are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed. They are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.
Salary Range: $60,000 to $68,000
United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut includes an excellent benefits package and flexible working arrangements:
Health Insurance – medical, dental, and vision
Life Insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and related coverage
United Way is an equal-opportunity employer and seeks to hire staff members who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. All positions are filled without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, employment status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If much of this job describes you, please apply. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet all qualifications. We recognize this and encourage those with relevant skills and experience to apply.
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Worksite address
danbury, CT, 06813, US
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