Job Opportunities

Come join our team of professionals supporting young children and their families in our community! A commitment to inclusion, learning, collaboration, and persistence as well as a can-do attitude, sense of humor, and ability to build responsive relationships are essential.

Current job openings

  • Operations Coordinator (full-time)
  • Early Interventionist/Developmental Educator (part-time or full-time)
  • Afternoon Assistant Teacher (part-time, 12:00-5:00)
  • Family Support Worker
  • 1:1 Preschool Aide
  • Substitute Teacher

Benefits package for full-time employees (30+ hours)

  • Paid Holidays & Time Off
  • Retirement plan match
  • Professional Development
  • Tuition discount for staff members’ children
  • Supplemental health, vision, dental and life insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Contribution towards Health Insurance premium
  • Vision Insurance
  • Short-term disability, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment
  • Dental Insurance
  • Dependent Life Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (depending on health insurance plan)

Operations Coordinator

Looking for a job with lots of variety in a fast-paced, lively environment? The Operations Coordinator provides comprehensive support and leadership to the Winston Prouty Center’s community. This role manages a diverse array of responsibilities including but not limited to managing front office communications; performing administrative tasks; event planning; technology support; supporting the Executive Director and Administration; management, coordination, and execution of special projects; and fostering an environment rooted in collaboration, learning, inclusion, and persistence.

General Responsibilities

  • Coordinate special events by initiating team meetings, performing assigned duties, and organizing timetables.
  • Coordinate and manage an array of special projects including but not limited to staff-wide team-building exercises and marketing, promotional, and/or fundraising campaigns.
  • Oversee WPC’s main office incoming telephone line and voicemail inbox, field questions, provide information, and forward inquiries appropriately.
  • Assist clients and campus guests with inquiries and connect them to appropriate resources or staff.
  • Manage incoming and outgoing mail and deliveries.
  • Manage and order office supplies within the budget and assist each department as needed.
  • Manage and order Early Learning Center supplies and groceries.
  • Center WPC’s core values in all messaging and communications.
  • Performs other duties as the Executive Director and Administration may deem necessary.

Qualifications include excellent customer service, ability to problem-solve, strong written and verbal communication skills, comfort with technology and software, flexibility, positivity and being generally unflappable.

This position is full-time (40 hours). Rolling interviews will be scheduled as applications are received.

Please send resume and salary requirements to: Sarah DiNicola, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, sarah@winstonprouty.org


Family Supportive Housing Coordinator

The Winston Prouty Center is seeking a case manager in our Family Support department helping families who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness secure and maintain stable housing.

The Family Supportive Housing Coordinator will support access to housing for families experiencing homelessness and support families in their housing by providing case management, housing support services and service coordination that will:

  • Address the root causes which led to the family becoming homeless.
  • Encourage positive, non-judgmental, trauma-informed communication and engagement.
  • Build resiliency in parents and children.
  • Increase financial empowerment.
  • Help the family remain stably housed.

Case management services for families living in supportive housing can help children thrive by helping parents nurture and support their children and assisting the whole family to increase stability. The case manager works to engage and partner with family members, meeting them at their home or in the community to assess their strengths and needs, set goals and coordinate services, which may be provided directly by the supportive housing program or another community-based organization. Supportive housing case managers are hired, trained, supervised and supported to:

  • Assist family members in defining and achieving goals, including meeting obligations of tenancy to maintain their home and reducing risk of harm to themselves and others
  • Assist families in increasing financial security by accessing, maintaining or improving employment and/or benefits
  • Provide, either directly or by referral to other agencies, planned and crisis response services to meet the needs of all family members including concrete supports, interventions to reduce stress, mitigate trauma histories and provide for optimal child and youth development
  • Help parents strengthen their resilience and knowledge of parenting and child/youth development
  • Facilitate strengthening family social connections through groups and activities and linkages to community opportunities, including the development of family councils, tenant or a program participants’ group and other community-building activities
  • Help parents and youth develop leadership and other skills by taking on roles within the housing structure and/or larger community (tenant, block or neighborhood associations) or elsewhere in the community (parent councils within early childhood centers and schools, youth groups, coaching) T
  • Teach/coach family members to develop communication and self-advocacy skills

Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related field required, and two years’ experience working in the field.

Position opened until filled. Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume and names of three references to:
Kathy Hallock, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, kathy@winstonprouty.org


Consultation and Behavior Support Specialist

The Winston Prouty Center is seeking a Consultation and Behavior Support Specialist for our Children’s Integrated Services (CIS) team. This person partners with families and early learning programs to support children in developing positive behavior and social-emotional skills and to help create environments necessary for learning those skills.

The Consultation and Behavior Support Specialist is a member of the CIS Early Childhood Family Mental Health (ECFMH) Team, which includes clinicians from HCRS who are part of Children’s Integrated Services (CIS). This team works with families and children up to age 6 as well as early learning programs to support social emotional development. Services include direct work with children and families at home and school and coaching for individual classrooms and programs around implementing the Pyramid Model approach.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a member of the ECFMH Team, which includes Winston Prouty Center Programs, the supervisory unions and the early childhood community programs.
  • Attend and participate in Staff, Core and Regional Advisory Team meetings, other training and meetings as required, as representative of the WPC and CIS programs.
  • Provide consultation and behavior support services to children and families in the child’s natural setting.
  • Provide support to teachers and child care providers working directly with children on One Plan goals.
  • Work with early educators and administrators in coordinating and delivering services to families.
  • Model family-centered practice.
  • Provide data on children and families as determined by federal and state guidelines, including Medicaid billing.
  • Participate in outreach and education activities community agencies, programs and organizations, to facilitate the referral process and to develop collaborative relationships with community resources.
  • Attend statewide support and training meetings of Children’s Integrated Services.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in early childhood education, social work, counseling, psychology or related field required
  • Two year’s experience working in the field
  • Knowledge of the Pyramid Model/Early Multi-Tiered Systems of Support preferred, training available.

Position opened until filled. Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume and names of three references to:
Kathy Hallock, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, kathy@winstonprouty.org


Early Interventionist/Developmental Educator

Do you like working with children birth to age 3 and their families, supporting child development at home and in the community? Do you enjoy collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of health, early childhood mental health, education, and social service professionals to build families’ capacity to support their child? If so, consider joining our Early Intervention (EI) team! You might be a special educator, an SLP, OT or PT, an early childhood teacher, or even a nurse – people come to EI from many different disciplines. Combine your understanding of child development with your relationship-building skills to help create environments that support a child’s optimal development.

A Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required. Part-time or full-time is possible. Pay commensurate with experience.

Click here for more details about this position.

Position opened until filled. Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume and names of three references to:
Kathy Hallock, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, kathy@winstonprouty.org


Afternoon Assistant Teacher

Come join our award-winning, high quality early learning program! We are seeking joyful and energetic professionals to join our team. A commitment to inclusion, learning, collaboration, and persistence as well as the ability to reflect, and to be responsive and respectful in building relationships is essential. Knowledge of, and experience with emergent curriculum is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • In conjunction with the teaching team, plan and implement a Reggio-inspired emergent curriculum that promotes children’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development and learning
  • Provide children with developmentally appropriate guidance that promotes children’s self-regulation, self-esteem and positive, respectful relationships with others
  • In conjunction with the teaching team, create and maintain an environment that supports children’s learning and safe, independent exploration
  • Develop positive relationships with families and encouraging parent involvement
  • Learn alongside the children, developing his or her own knowledge

Qualifications:

  • A high school diploma
  • Must have taken (or be willing to take within a year of employment) either the Fundamentals in Early Childhood Education (from CCV) or a 3 credit college level class in child development.  
  • Experience with young children required

Founded in 1969, the Winston Prouty Center provides inclusive education and support to promote the success of children and families. Our 5-STAR Early Learning Center (ELC) is licensed to serve 55 children ages 6 weeks – 5 years. The ELC is an inclusive program influenced by a range of research in the field including the work being done in Reggio Emilia, the work of Magda Gerber/Emmi Pickler/RIE, Early MTSS, CSEFEL Pyramid Model, and Brazelton Touchpoints.

The schedule is Monday-Friday, 12:00-5:00pm. This is a part-time position with the opportunity for additional hours to make a full-time position. Salary depending on position and qualifications.

Please send cover letter and resume to: Honor Woodrow, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, honor@winstonprouty.org


Family Support Worker

The Winston Prouty Center is seeking a case manager on our Family Support team, which includes Children’s Integrated Services, Family Supportive Housing and Supervised Visitation. Work consists of all aspects of family support, including help identifying and implementing goals around employment, financial stability, health, and parenting. This position will work with all different types of families including those who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness secure and maintain stable housing.

Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or related field preferred, comparable experience considered.

Position open until filled. Please send resume and salary requirements to: Kathy Hallock, The Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Brattleboro, VT 05301, kathy@winstonprouty.org


1:1 Preschool Aide

The aid will work as part of our preschool team as we support the full inclusion of all children. Our goal is to provide support and scaffolding within the classroom environment so that the child can build connections with peers and trusting relationships with adults. Our program’s approach is relationship-based, with a focus on helping children develop the abilities to initiate and sustain interaction with others in meaningful ways, form friendships, and resolve conflict with increasing independence and confidence.

This position is a chance to support one of our preschool children in building skills, following routines, and connecting with peers throughout the day.

Requirements

  • Experience with young children
  • High school diploma
  • Must have completed or be willing to complete Fundamentals or a 3-credit early childhood education college-level class within the first year

This is a part-time morning position with the opportunity for additional hours to make a full-time position.


Substitute Teacher

Part-time, per diem position

The Substitute Teacher will be instructed by Lead Teachers and the Early Learning Center leadership as to specific job responsibilities and classroom assignment.  The person should be familiar with the classroom, its schedule and routines, as well as with the individual children any special needs they may have.  The Substitute will support other classroom teaching staff with all aspects of the curriculum and activities.

The Early Learning Center operates on principles which recognize each child’s unique personality, abilities, and needs, and which seek to build the child’s self-esteem and social skills in a nurturing environment.  Each member of the teaching staff is expected to support the inclusion of all children in classrooms with their peers.

Qualifications and Attributes:

  • Familiarity with regulations pertaining to child care;
  • Experience working with young children in a child care or preschool setting;
  • Responsiveness to the intellectual, emotional, and social needs of children;
  • Ability to work with groups of young children;
  • Flexibility necessary to work as a team member;
  • Enthusiasm and sense of humor;
  • Commitment to internal and external client service;
  • Friendly, helpful and cooperative attitude.

To apply, send a resume to Honor Woodrow, honor@winstonprouty.org