Early Learning Behavior Specialist

Position Summary

Hope House Colorado (HHC) is hiring Early Learning Behavior Specialist referred to internally as the ELC Behavior Specialist. The ELC Behavior Specialist will collaborate with Early Learning Center (ELC) staff and the ELC leadership team to promote healthy social-emotional interactions and provide responsive care for children enrolled in the ELC. The behavior therapist will provide in classroom support working collaboratively with ELC teaching staff to provide individualized support for children as well as provide social-emotional skills-based groups for children to enhance emotional regulation and positive peer interactions. The Behavior Specialist will identify areas of growth and exemplify positive behavior support and techniques to support childrens social emotional development including but not limited to direct teacher support staff training and coaching support of the whole family and developing Positive Behavior Support Plans.

What youll be doing

• Work with and equip diverse teaching teams to build positive relationships with children and their peers facilitating an environment that promotes each childs healthy social and emotional development.
• Identify patterns of behavior of teacher/child interaction through use of data assessments and classroom observation to find areas of growth.
• Work with teaching teams to understand and appropriately respond to childrens emotional needs; including implementing positive research-based techniques that provide positive support to enhance emotional regulation skills to decrease challenging behaviors.
• Collaborate with the ELC leadership team teaching team and families to develop Positive Behavior Support Plans to support a students social emotional needs.
• Collaborate with staff to create warm nurturing Trauma-informed responsive environmental settings.
• Provide in-classroom coaching to teachers around positive behavior support strategies for the classroom and individual kids.
• Provide training to ELC staff around positive behavior supports trauma-informed environments and/or other relevant topics related to classroom management and behavior support for children.
• Work with the treatment team of Early Interventionists and ELC Leadership to support children and families ensuring appropriate plans are implemented to ensure goals/expectations are met in the classroom at home and through transitional placements.
• Promoting Hope House Colorados Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships

We want to hear from you if

• You have extensive working knowledge/training in Trauma Responsive Care as it relates to children ages 1-12 years old and adolescents. (required)
• You have extensive working knowledge/training regarding child development and social emotional milestones (required)
• You have extensive working knowledge/training in Positive Social Emotional Strategies such as the Pyramid Model and Conscious Discipline (required)
• You have experience working with children both individually and in a classroom setting (preferred)
• Bilingual in English and Spanish (preferred)
• Bachelor of Psychology Sociology Education or Special Education for children ages 1-12 years old (preferred).
• You have extensive experience training providing coaching to teachers and families with positive behavioral support techniques (preferred)
• You can pass ELC background checks fingerprinting child abuse & neglect (TRAILS) screening out of state screens if applicable and drug screen (required)

Who we are

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee providing opportunities to pursue individual passions gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity humility and respect for one another in an environment that combines professionalism with fun humor and even a little bit of silliness each day!

Salary Range

$46000-$55500 per year

Benefits

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 24 hours per week or more are eligible for the below benefits

• Health Benefits: Employees may elect medical dental vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA: Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHCs Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employees contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employees annual salary.
• Vacation: Upon hire employees earn 6 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays: HHC observes eleven (11) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees are paid for these holidays according to the nationally recognized observation day for each addition salaried employees are currently gifted either the week of Christmas or the week of New Years off to be scheduled at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Sick Leave: HHC provides eligible employees with Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) and Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) in accordance with the requirements of Colorados Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA).
• Employer Based Childcare: Employer Based Childcare: Employees receive a 30% discount for their child(ren)s child care tuition if they are enrolled in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center.
• Hope House Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! HHC provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness

Job Application Deadline

October 31 2025