Department Contact: Zaira Falliner, 575-571-5198, zfalline@nmsu.edu
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 https://careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/search for additional information.
Position Details
Position Title: 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: $59,965.78
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.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
Associate's Degree + 8 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree + 6 years of relevant experience. Master's 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:
Working Conditions and Physical Effort
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.