Curriculum and Professional Development Specialist

Are you the Early Childhood Services champion we’ve been looking for?

AWARE is looking for the right person to join the Early Childhood Services team as a Curriculum and Professional Development Specialist.

If you embrace new ideas with a heart full of energy, we invite you to join a caring, compassionate, and fully engaged team that isn’t afraid to get vulnerable with one another. This position has the unique opportunity to work collaboratively and make an impact on the lives of children in Montana.

At AWARE, our strength lies in our culture of care. AWARE’s Unconditional Care Principles inspire the services we provide to each person who comes to us for care and these principles lead how we treat ourselves and our clients; with hope, compassion and focus on the next right step.

When you join the AWARE team, you will become part of an organization that has a rich history (over 45 years!) helping Montanans with mental health and/or developmental disabilities. AWARE strives to provide the highest quality of care, every single day. When you join the AWARE team, you will be joining a team that believes that building on strengths is the key to success, that prides itself in taking on and sticking with the hardest challenges, believes we are agents of change, that everything is normal until proven otherwise, and that families are our most important resource.

Working for our organization means that regardless of your role, we’ll support you so you can support others. AWARE seeks to provide opportunities for employees to grow professionally through its tuition advancement program, professional development opportunities and in-house trainings.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensures consistency and equity of instruction across the district.
• Offers reports and updates to assigned supervisors.
• Provides leadership, collaboration and coordination for curriculum implementation and partnership communications.
• Plan and provide educational information and staff development opportunities to meet the needs of staff, family child care providers, families, and children served.

AWARE empowers its employees to operate under the auspices of AWARE’s Unconditional Care Principles.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES):

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Requires at least two (2) years of employment experience working in curriculum development and/or employment and training programs with a demonstrated knowledge of program planning, early childhood assessment and family systems.
• Requires good oral and written communication skills and an ability to form professional relationships with a diverse group of people.
• Requires computer literacy skills, including the ability to navigate, record, and overall basic computer skills needed for performance-based software as well as an electronic medical records system.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires a BS/BA Degree in Early Curriculum Development, Education or a related field, in addition to direct employment related experience.