Head Start/Early Head Start Coaching Manager

A little about us… Kidango (kidango.org) is an early learning nonprofit committed to setting every child on a path to thrive in kindergarten and in life. We believe that all children can reach their full potential if they and their families have access to the right opportunities and resources. As the largest child care provider in the San Francisco Bay Area, we provide thousands of children, especially those from low-income families, with safe, healthy, nurturing environments and relationships. Through our policy work, we aim to take our expertise beyond the children and families that we serve, and drive change in early childhood education at the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to make sure all children have the social, emotional, and academic skills they need to learn, grow and realize their potential.

About The Role

The Head Start/Early Head Start Coaching Manager, under the direction of the Head Start Director of Education Services, will lead Kidango’s team of coaches. The Coaching Manager will assist the Head Start Director of Education Services in co-creating a vision for the purpose and function of coaching at Kidango, a clear model for coaching at Kidango, and ensure its successful implementation and ongoing fidelity. They will ensure coaches receive onboarding, ongoing training, and master coaching. They will ensure Regional Directors are trained at the master coach level and all Center Directors are trained as coaches. They will ensure coaching happens on a consistent basis in all Kidango classrooms as defined in the vision and model. The Coaching Manager will work closely with the Regional Director team, the Professional Learning team, the Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation team, and the Early Intervention and Inclusion Supports team.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Supervises team of coaches, including weekly individual and team reflective supervision meetings, supporting coaches' ongoing growth and professional development, and ensuring coaches are accountable for meeting job expectations and providing excellent coaching support to teachers.
• Assist in co-creating a vision for the purpose and function of coaching at Kidango, co-design a clear model for coaching at Kidango, and ensure its successful implementation and ongoing fidelity.
• Support coaches in establishing collaborative coaching relationships with teachers, including focused classroom observation, reflection and feedback, goal setting, and active planning.
• Honors and exemplifies Kidango’s organizational values and values for children.
• Work closely with Regional Directors, Center Directors, and the Professional Learning team to create and provide onsite classroom-based coaching, training, and technical assistance to meet the overall needs of the classroom and individual children, and support the continuous quality improvement process.
• Work closely with the Support Services team to ensure coaching is aligned with Kidango’s whole-child, whole-family interdisciplinary model of human development.
• Support data collection efforts to document teachers’ growth and gauge coaching effectiveness and teacher professional development using our data system, ChildPlus.
• Onboarding coaches as needed
• Attends weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly team meetings
• Provide training for coaches and teachers on Kidango’s coaching model.
• Complete assigned professional development trainings.
• Maintain confidentiality of children, families, and staff.
• Provide an excellent customer experience for all staff, families, and partners.
• Advocate on behalf of all children, families 

 Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; preferred degree in Early Childhood Education, School Psychology,
• Educational Psychology, Special Education, Speech & Language, Elementary Education,
• Required minimum of 5 years work experience in early learning, including at least 2 years working with children 3-5 in a Head Start setting, at least 1 year working with children 0-3 in an Early Head Start setting.
• Experience with ITERS/ECERS, CSEFEL, PITC, Infant/Toddler/Preschool CLASS – reliable observer preferred.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in providing coaching for early learning