Early Birds Bilingual Program Specialist

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Early Birds Bilingual Program Specialist is responsible for planning, coordination and implementation of the Early Birds parent/care-giver education curriculum. The Early Birds Bilingual Program Specialist recruits and stewards partnerships and provides partners with support to implement programs and maximize family impact. This role also assists with public awareness, communication and marketing efforts and works closely with Early Birds program team to plan, implement and evaluate program.

All Sunbeam employees and volunteers are expected to be sensitive to our clients’cultural and socioeconomic characteristics, reflectSunbeam Family Servicescore values and to performat Sunbeam’sstandards of excellence at all times.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Promote and contribute to a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills to engage with those of other cultures, beliefs, abilities, and experiences.
• Demonstrate capacity for providing developmentally sensitive, evidence based, culturally sensitive, hope centered, and trauma informed services.
• Organize program information and ensure it can be easily accessed by team and partners.
• Coordinate program materials and STEAM kit packing.
• Assist with ensuring appropriate inventory management, including database management as needed.
• Contribute to program invoicing.
• Assist with program evaluation, including data collection and entry.
• Coordinate training sessions and meetings for instructors and coordinators.
• Provide technical assistance to program coordinators, including program planning, scheduling of classes, class registration, data collection, and delivery of materials for instructors and families.
• Maintain and communicate class schedule.
• Help to recruit instructors.
• Provide Early Bird classes, as needed to ensure program implementation.
• Provide ongoing communication and participate in problem-solving with program partners and team.
• Evaluate processes regularly to ensure program quality and integrity.
• Effectively and accurately communicate in Spanish including translating conversations with families, school administration, and community partners.
• Assist with creation of bilingual English and Spanish program-related materials.
• Provide translation, both written and oral, as needed in English and Spanish.
• Help collect program stories from partners and families for various audiences
• Seek opportunities to promote programming and build relationships with other community partners.
• Help secure and steward partners to assist with linking families to needed community resources.
• Travel locally as required in the performance of responsibilities.
• Perform other appropriate and related responsibilities as assigned by supervisor or Executive Team member.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

WORKING CONDITIONS

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to frequently communicate with staff and others, and must be able to exchange accurate information when doing so. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time and occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office equipment, attend meetings, etc. Must be able to detect, discern, distinguish, observe, inspect and compare. Occasionally must be able to move needed materials weighing up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment

The employee will work in an office environment, may work in close quarters with other staff. Performance of duties in a remote work environment may be approved by the Chief Executive Officer All remote work is subject to Sunbeam policies and procedures including but not limited to remote work policies and expectations.

Other

The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. The qualifications, physical demands, and work environment described herein are representative of those an employee will encounter and must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel or candidate and may be subject to change at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Sunbeam Family Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are committed to fair and equal in all its employment practices for persons without regard to race, ethnicity, color, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, disability or degree thereof, national origin, domestic/marital status, political affiliation or opinion, veteran status, HIV status, AIDS status, genetic information, and any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.