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Careers
Positions/Responsibilities
It takes a whole agency to “raise children and families.” Lots of people with lots of responsibilities, each impacting the futures of our clients. Within Child Inc, there are two basic career categories:
Those with direct interaction with children and families:
- Teaching staff (Teachers, Teacher Aides, Center Educational Coordinators) assure daily growth and development of individual children in classroom settings.
- Food Service staff (Center Nutrition Coordinators, Food Service Assts.) provide appropriate nutrition and nutrition activities to center based children.
- Family Service Workers: determine strengths and needs of families and help them work toward goals.
- Mental Health/Disability staff: maximize developmental potential of children with special needs.
- Visiting Teachers: work with parents in their homes to enhance parents-as-teachers role.
Those who indirectly support child and family development:
- Social Services: work with families on strategies to strengthen relationships and fulfill aspirations.
- Parent Involvement: work with parents to encourage involvement to enhance child’s development.
- Health: medical and dental screening, intervention and prevention strategies for life-long health and fitness.
- Eligibility, Record keeping, Logistics, Fiscal, Maintenance: work “behind the scenes” to assure reliability of Child Inc and its ability to develop children and families.
Benefits
Child Inc offers benefits that help staff have security for the present and the future. Benefits of working at Child Inc include:
- Salary based on position, educational level and experience.
- Employer-paid insurance: medical, dental, life and long-term disability.
- Optional employee-paid insurance
at group rates: vision coverage, additional life and short-term disability. - Education/training opportunities: financial assistance for formal and informal learning; professional development
- Generous paid holiday schedule: comparable to public school calendar.
- Annual and sick leave accrual of one day/month of each.
- Summer Placement Program: opportunities for employment when majority of program is in hiatus
- Pension: employer-paid retirement and shared-contribution 401K plans.
