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

  • Administrative Assistant (full-time)
  • Shelter Advocates (per-diem & full-time)
  • Early Interventionist/Developmental Educator (part-time or full-time)
  • 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)

Administrative Assistant

Looking for a job with lots of variety in a fast-paced, lively environment? The Administrative Assistant 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). Pay range is $18-$20/hour. Rolling interviews will be scheduled as applications are received.

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


Shelter Advocates

The Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro is seeking to fill multiple Shelter Advocate positions for their new Emergency Shelter for Families with Young Children.

Shelter Advocates are an essential members of the Winston Prouty Emergency Shelter Team. This team works to support shelter resident families by ensuring a safe, comfortable, healthy, and positive environment. Our service model is responsive with strong customer service and a “can do” attitude as our foundation. We are thoughtful, supportive, creative, and curious. We provide a supportive team environment that encourages growth, trying new things, and asking for help when needed. We also like to have fun!

With values of Inclusion, Learning, Collaboration and Persistence as the core, Winston Prouty provides inclusive education and family support to promote the success of children and families. This program, at a foundational level, will be a safe place for children.

Position Description

Working in harmony with the Shelter Coordinator, Shelter Advocates ensure the safety and well-being of shelter residents on evenings, overnight, weekends, and holidays.

General Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate compliance with all shelter policies and procedures.
  • Support family compliance with all policy and procedures.
  • Maintain a safe, clean, respectful environment for all shelter residents.
  • Communicate problems immediately to the Shelter Coordinator or the Director of Campus Operations.
  • Seek support and guidance in emergency situations, know when to seek emergency services.
  • Model healthy communication and a positive demeanor for all shelter residents.
  • Follow systems for maintaining all program and grant required recordkeeping.

Professional Development

  • Complete and maintain all required program training.
  • Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings and in-service training sessions (some in evening hours).

Reporting, Health and other Requirements and Regulations

  • Serve as mandated reporter to appropriate social service agencies.
  • Provide support for prevention of infectious diseases.
  • Provide support for prevention of pests.
  • Maintain confidentiality as required by the Winston Prouty Center, state and federal regulations.

Required Qualifications

  • Associates degree in human services or a related field preferred.
  • Two or more years of experience working with families with young children who have been homeless or at risk of homelessness
  • Demonstrated ability to establish strong working relationships with program participants, colleagues, and community members.
  • The ability to exercise compassion and professional boundaries in a congregate setting.
  • Good communication skills and a positive attitude.
  • Ability to work both independently and as a team-member.
  • An awareness of how to support families in a trauma-informed environment.

Personal Attributes

  • Reliability
  • Excellent communication skills, including good listening skills
  • Commitment to strengths-based, non-judgmental approach to working with families
  • Ability to respect and harness the power of diversity and inclusion
  • Commitment to collaboration
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Flexibility
  • Commitment to continuous learning and improvement

Open positions are for weekend and awake overnight shifts. Part-time and per-diem positions are available. Salary: $24/hr.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and three professional references to Cori Gauthier, cori@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.

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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


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