Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

Three Early Childhood Careers that appeal to me are as follows:

Early Childhood Education (ECE) Specialist

Program: Health, Education, and Social Programs

Early Education Services, Pennsylvania

Job duties for this position is designed to support Head Start and Early Head Start programs to ensure high quality Head Start and Early Head Start services in accordance with federal regulations that promote healthy development, encompassing the developmental domains of physical development and health, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, language and literacy, and cognition and general knowledge to ensure children’s future success.

Qualifications for this program include: Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education or Child Development; at least 5+ years of demonstrated experience in the field of early childhood education; 5+ years of experience offering training and technical assistance within early care and education and the ability to maintain up to date knowledge of current child development practices and research based early childhood quality methods and approaches.

Director of Early Childhood

Kingsley Montessori School, Boston, Massachusetts

Job duties for The Director of Early Childhood includes: overseeing all areas of education at the Fairfield campus and serves. With the support of an administrative assistant, the director will supervise all classroom teachers and after-school teachers.

Qualifications include: A minimum of a Masters degree, ideally in Education or Child Development; At least 5 years of teaching and supervision experience; A thorough understanding of, respect for, and ideally certification in Montessori education; A thorough grasp of childhood development, including elements of special education skills.

TRAINING AND CURRICULUM SPECIALIST –

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Navy Child and Youth Programs, NAS Fort Worth JRB.

Job duties for the Training and Curriculum Specialist includes: Provides training that is appropriate for and tailored to the age group of the children and youth with whom the employees and providers work. The trainer maintains training records. Provides support for staff in preparation for inspections. In the absence of CDC Director, may assume responsibilities of the CDC Director and performs duties and responsibilities of the position.

Qualifications that a trainer must have include the following: A 4-year degree in Youth Development, Child Development or related field, which can include recreation, youth recreation, physical education, elementary education, secondary education, early childhood education, psychology, social work; Home economics with an emphasis in Human Development, or other degrees as appropriate; at least 3 years fulltime experience working with children.

Why these positions?

These three positions appeal to me because they include any of the job duties that I enjoy, which involve training and mentoring other ECE professionals.  I have actually applied for positions with each of these titles and will continue to do so. I think out of the three, the one that is most dear to my heart is the training and curriculum specialist.  I am still currently seeking this position and believe that I will be successful soon.