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MISSION

Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the work to establish and implement an early childhood workforce system to ensure funding, standards and competencies, career development resources, qualifications and credentials, professional development (training and strengths-based coaching), and program quality assurance and improvement for individuals who work with young children throughout New York. Housed at the City University of New York, the Institute is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to the early childhood workforce across New York State.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

QUALITYstarsNY is New York State’s voluntary 5-Star early childhood quality rating and improvement system. Since its inception, QUALITYstarsNY has focused its evidence-based practices to ensure that young children in participating programs have access to excellence and families can trust the level of quality in the program they choose. Assessment, coaching, professional development, and a wide range of resources are made available to each site, enabling QUALITYstarsNY to support early childhood programs to earn higher star ratings.

Reporting to the Coaching Manager, the Program Quality Coach provides coaching for a caseload of early childhood programs, and collaborates with Quality Improvement Specialists to set and accomplish performance-based goals that align with the program’s Quality Improvement Plan. This role works in an assigned region(s), visiting program sites to support leaders, providers, and/or classroom staff in implementing strategies and practices that enhance child development, learning, and family engagement. The Program Quality Coach collaborates with Quality Improvement Specialists, Regional Quality Improvement Coordinators, Institute coaching teams, and central office staff.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Coaching 

• Deliver on-site coaching to program leaders and/or classroom staff/providers
• Build collaborative partnerships with Quality Improvement Specialists and early childhood leaders and educators participating in QUALITYstarsNY
• Meet regularly with Quality Improvement Specialists to ensure alignment of program-improvement efforts
• In collaboration with coachees, develop and maintain coaching action plans that promote program quality
• Represent the Institute and/or QUALITYstarsNY at local and regional events and conferences
• Uphold standards of ethics, professionalism, and cultural competence

Data Management 

• Log data pertaining to coaching visits in a timely manner
• Use coaching data to monitor progress toward coaching goals and objectives

Communication

• Prepare updates for supervision meetings
• Schedule site visits and coaching sessions
• Craft coaching session follow-up emails

Collaboration with Coaching Team

• Participate in communities of practice with QUALITYstarsNY and Institute coaching teams
• Contribute to program planning
• Contribute to resource library