EHS CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP SPECIALIST

Help build a stronger start for Colorado's youngest learners

Every child deserves a high-quality early start — and the providers who deliver that care deserve a partner who makes it sustainable. As a CCP Specialist at Early Learning Ventures, you'll be that partner. Working hands-on with two to four child care sites, you'll coach leaders, grow great teachers, engage families, and bring comprehensive Early Head Start services to infants and toddlers in high-need communities. If you're energized by the idea of strengthening whole programs — not just one classroom at a time — this role was built for you.

About Early Learning Ventures

Early Learning Ventures (ELV) is a nonprofit on a mission to expand access to high-quality Early Care and Education. Through a unique shared-services model and a cost-effective online business platform, we take the back-office burden off providers so they can stay financially stable, save time and money, and focus on what matters most: caring for more children, better.

Through an Early Head Start–Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCP) grant, ELV and its collaborators deliver best-in-class, comprehensive early childhood services to eligible children across six Colorado counties — leveraging our model to stretch every resource in support of infant and toddler development.

Your impact

You'll serve as the bridge between ELV program management and your assigned CCP sites — part coach, part compliance guide, part community connector. Your work spans five areas of development: Leadership, Professional, Business, Family Engagement, and Community. Day to day, that means showing up on-site, building trusting relationships, solving real problems, and helping good programs become great ones.

What you'll do

Develop strong site leaders

• Provide on-site technical assistance, coaching, and support around center management, operations, human resources, and business development.
• Guide site leaders through a continuous improvement process to reach full compliance with the federal Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) and standards set by licensing, health, fire, and other regulatory agencies.
• Lead assigned sites through targeted quality improvement projects.

Grow great teachers

• Implement a teacher and director professional development program, including coordinating and delivering training, coaching, and the teacher credentialing process.
• Deliver Practice-Based Coaching for EHS teachers through individualized coaching plans — supporting an evidence-based infant/toddler curriculum, ongoing authentic assessment, and classroom observations that pinpoint teacher, classroom, and PD needs.
• Ensure adherence to EHS service plans guiding early childhood development, health and safety, and effective classroom management.

Partner with families

• Offer a family development program aligned with HSPPS and the Parent, Family and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework that supports families' progress toward self-reliance.
• Build a comprehensive family engagement program — parent curriculum, home visits, parent-teacher conferences, intentional engagement events, and county-based policy council participation.
• Facilitate the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) system per HSPPS and program policy, and maintain accurate data within the management system.

Strengthen communities and comprehensive services

• Develop, revise, and oversee program policies and procedures — including annual service plans and monitoring processes — and participate in the Health Services Advisory Committee (HSAC).
• Coordinate comprehensive health services with community providers, including a range of health screenings, and ensure compliance with EHS plans covering health, safety, nutrition, and disabilities services.
• Support the development and tracking of contracts and MOUs that enable countywide Early Head Start services.
• Represent ELV positively and professionally, building relationships with local agencies and connecting those resources to programs and families.

Keep everything on track

• Document and maintain required records and reports — continuous improvement checkpoints, child health and development data, PD and coaching plans, case notes, referrals and follow-up, and monthly reports — in the Alliance CORE database.
• Execute a monitoring and reporting structure with child care partners that ensures full HSPPS compliance and meets the needs of enrolled families.
• Take on other duties as assigned as the program grows.

What you bring

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Social Welfare, Public Administration, or a related human services field (preferred).

Experience & knowledge

• Minimum 2 years in human services, including at least 1 year in an early childhood environment.
• Experience working with children and families from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Early Childhood Development theory and practice.
• Proven leadership ability — facilitating relationships with ECE programs, community partners, and parents.
• Working knowledge of case management, community engagement, continuous improvement, change management, and/or practice-based coaching.

Credentials & skills

• Current Colorado Coaching Credential — or willingness to pursue it and certify on other relevant coaching tools.
• Bilingual English/Spanish (preferred).
• Strong customer service skills and the ability to partner effectively with both organizations and individuals.
• Comfort with technology — or the willingness to learn — including Alliance CORE, remote meetings, and Microsoft Office & Teams.

Travel & requirements

• Local in-county travel up to 60%; out-of-county travel up to 10%.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required.

What Does Early Learning Ventures Have to Offer You?

Excellent benefits (medical, dental, & vision)

Company-paid life insurance

Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Insurance

401(k) with company match

Company-Paid Employee assistance programs

Paid vacation days

Paid personal days

Paid holidays

Sick Days