Early Head Start – Home Visiting Manager
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Child and Family Services
Somerville, MA
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ID:12246-709
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Full-Time/Regular
Riverside Community Care
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Home Visiting Manager – Early Head Start
Exciting opportunity to join Riverside Community Care as a Home Visiting Manager!
In this vital role, the Early Head Start Home Visiting Manager provides reflective and administrative supervision to Home Visitors (HV), supports their professional growth and high-quality service delivery, ensures fidelity to the home-based program model and Head Start Performance Standards, and collaborates with program leadership to support day-to-day operations.
The Home Visiting Manager also partners with the leadership team to advance continuous quality improvement through data-informed planning, assessment, reporting, evaluation, and decision-making to strengthen program outcomes, services, and policies.
Pay Range: $36.00 – $38.00/hour depending on experience; with an additional $0.96/hour language differential available
Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours – Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on-site
Why You’ll Love Riverside
We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off – all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.
Benefits include:
- Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
- Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
- Twelve paid holidays
- Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
- Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
- Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
- Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
- Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee
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Required Skills
- Fluent in Arabic, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Portuguese, or Spanish preferred
- Has knowledge of early childhood education, developmental milestones, principles of child health, safety, and nutrition; adult learning principles; and family dynamics
- Is able to collaborate, communicate and motivate people
- Has knowledge of community resources and the skills to link families to appropriate agencies and services
- Knowledge of, or interest in, Reggio Emilia teaching approaches preferred
- Access to reliable transportation
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Child Development, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or related field required
- 3-5 years’ experience in supervision preferred
- Prior experience in Head Start, Early Education, Home Visiting, Counseling, Adult Education, Community Organizing or other related field preferred
- Early Head Start/Head Start experience a plus
- Experience with families with very young children and pre-natal women preferred
- Experience with low-income families preferred
- Experience with immigrant population preferred
- Experience with adult learners preferred
Riverside Community Care is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and inclusive organization committed to working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from culturally diverse applicants. We provide equal opportunity for all persons seeking employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic as established by law.