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To ensure a successful interim management experience for the children and the families in the communities we serve, we want to hire the best staff. We have openings throughout the country based on where we are needed. Please review our list below and if we are in your community, we hope you find a position that fits into your career path because Head Start has so much to offer!

P.S. CDI HS cares about the health of our staff and families and has implemented measures as recommended by the CDC to maintain a safe and healthy work place.

Furthermore, after checking out our website, if you have a career-related inquiry, please contact us at: cdi@cdiheadstart.org

JOBS: Fluvanna, Louisa, Albemarle and Nelson Counties, VA HS/EHS

Teacher Preschool at Greer Center

Location: 190 Lambs Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22901              Apply For this Job      Aplicar en español

Pay Period: Biweekly
Salary Range: $ 23.02- $ 25.68
Weeks per Year: 42
Hours Per Week: 40

Teacher Preschool

Pay Rate: $1,841.60 AA, $2,054.40 BA Bi-Weekly

Benefits:

• Paid Vacation time and Sick Leave
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance coverage available first day of employment (for full time employees)
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Spring Break and Winter Break
• Qualifying employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Perkins Loan Forgiveness programs.
• Paid trainings
• Employee Assistance Program
• $35,000 term AD&D life insurance at no cost to employee (for full time employees)

Teacher Preschool

This position serves as the lead worker in a classroom of Head Start children by planning, implementing, and supervising all classroom activities. This position works with typically developing children and children with disabilities. Because this position is one part of a large system of services provided to children and families, this position also serves as a social service referral person and shares responsibility for parent involvement in the program. The position of Teacher works in tandem with the rest of the parts of the system as an integrated team to support the goals of the program. The position may be reassigned to various classrooms/centers as deemed necessary for program operations. The position may serve as “site director” for child care licensing purposes. 

Current minimum qualification is one of the following:

1. An associate degree in a field related to Early Childhood Education or Elementary Education and coursework* equivalent to a major relating to Early Childhood Education;
2. A baccalaureate or advanced degree in any field and coursework* equivalent to a major relating to Early Childhood Education or Elementary Education; or
3. A baccalaureate degree in any field and has been admitted into the Teach For America program, passed a rigorous early childhood content exam, such as the Praxis II, participated in a Teach For America summer training institute that includes teaching preschool children, and is receiving ongoing professional development and support from Teach For America’s professional staff; or
4. Be enrolled in an associate or bachelor degree program in early childhood education (or related degree as defined in # 4 or # 5 above) immediately upon hire (within 30 days of hire) and be able to obtain the degree within three years after the initial date of hire into the Teacher position and have an approved waiver in effect. If a program is going with option 4 with the waiver, it must be noted that the classroom in which this individual is being placed must have at least one staff member with a CDA or State Awarded certificate that meets or exceeds the training required for the CDA during the time this Teacher position is earning an associates or bachelor’s degree. When using this waiver option, the pay scale must be adapted to show an AA waiver for new staff being hired (at a lower level than newly hired staff with an AA degree).  When the staff member completes the AA degree they would move to the AA pay level. 

*Coursework equivalent to a major related to Early Childhood Education includes but is not limited to the following: 

A. Teaching Credentials: licensure or certification by the state for Pre-K teachers recognized by the local school district or state education agency as qualifying teachers to teach pre-school children in that school district or state.  This typically requires a bachelor’s degree plus licensure or certification.  OR 

B. *Coursework: Eighteen (18) credit hours specifically in pre-kindergarten, child development, or early childhood. These can include curriculum, health, classroom management, children’s literature, and other topics, but they must include content specifically relating to children younger than six years old. Typically, the title of the course or the course description will use words such as: “young child,” “pre-kindergarten,” “preschool,” “toddler,” “infant,” or other such language.

Interested? To find out more, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/FLANVAApply

CDI Head Start is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or any other legally protected status.