Education and Disabilities Manager

Department Contact:Zaira Falliner

Internal or External Search:External - Open to all applicants

Advertising Summary:The College of Health Education and Social Transformation has a job opening for a with the Dona Ana Head Start program. Visit the NMSU website for additional information.

PositionTitle: Education and Disabilities Manager

College/Division: College of Hlth Educ & Soc Trans

Department: 350450-DONA ANA HEADSTART PGM

Location: Las Cruces

Offsite Location (if applicable): Las Cruces Anthony Vado Berino

Target Hourly/Salary Rate: $59965.78

Appointment Full-time Equivalency: 1.0

FLSA Status:Exempt

Bargaining Unit Announcement: This is NOT a bargaining unit position with American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Contingent Upon Funding:Contingent upon external funding

Standard Work Schedule:Standard (M-F 8-5)

If Not a Standard Work Schedule:Some after hours and/or Saturdays may be required for recruiting events

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Coordinates the planning development and implementation of Head Start program and Early Head Start program.
Implements strategic planning including short-term and long-term goals objectives policies and operating procedures to provide comprehensive school readiness early childhood programs in the Dona Ana community.
Collaborates with multiple university departments to provide hands on experiences for NMSU and DACC students in the those programs to improve overall learning.
Collaborates with community agencies to provide training opportunities for parent participants to enrich their parenting and life skills.
Monitors and evaluates operational effectiveness and effects improvement changes.
Designs implements and evaluates organization to effectively accomplish the program goals.
Provides advanced technical leadership and direction to staff and community organizations.
Identifies and solicits mainly state and federal funding sources for programs.
Provides leadership in planning development and implementation of strategies and initiatives for generating program resources.
Oversees the supervision of personnel which includes work allocation training promotion and enforcement of internal procedures and controls and problem resolution.
Finalizes annual grant documents for submitting to funding agencies including comprehensive data analysis integrating program data reports.
Evaluates performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions.
Motivates employees to achieve peak productivity and performance.
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience:
Associates Degree 8 years of relevant experience or a Bachelors degree 6 years of relevant experience. Masters degree or higher preferred.

Equivalent Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:
CLASS Observer Certification (or ability to obtain). Ten or more years of high-quality early childhood teaching experience; Head Start experience preferred.

Experience designing curricula education plans or professional development systems. Bilingual or multilingual skills.

Special Certification/Licensure:

Environment: Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.

Physical Effort: No or very limited physical effort required.

Lifting Requirements: Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 10 pounds or some standing or walking.

Risk: No or very limited exposure to physical risk.