Early Learning Manager - Child Development & Family Support (Multiple Openings)

Early Learning Manager - Child Development & Family Support (Multiple Openings)

Salary

$71,737.00 - $107,651.00 Annually

Location

Maywood Park Campus, OR

Job Type

Full-time

Job Number

2026-00047

Division

CDFS

Opening Date

09/17/2026

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Job Summary and Responsibilities/Duties

For best consideration, please submit application materials by October 2, 2026.

• To be considered for this role, please submit a complete application including Employment History, Resume & Cover Letter.

JOB SUMMARY

Under general supervision, manages early learning programs for Head Start and Early Head Start across assigned preschool sites. Leads comprehensive planning for teaching and learning while ensuring classroom curricula and practices meet Head Start Performance Standards and program goals. Analyzes, interprets, and responds to child observation and assessment data to drive decision-making, support each preschool site, and continuously improve student outcomes. Leads professional learning initiatives, engages in cross-agency collaboration with staff serving families, overseeing health, nutrition, facilities, and safety operations. Develops and manages department policies and procedures, assists with strategic initiatives, manages department budgets, and provides direct supervision to staff in support of the College and CDFS vision, mission, and goals.

Essential Duties

• Leads site-level and program-wide planning for teaching and learning, ensuring the alignment of classroom instruction, social-emotional learning, and positive behavioral interventions with Head Start Performance Standards. Provides strategic support and input to the design and continuous improvement of early learning programs. Monitors compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, licensing requirements, and MHCC policies.
• Manages and monitors child observation and assessment systems. Analyzes assessment data to identify trends, evaluate instructional efficacy, drive site-specific decisions, and supervise the implementation of targeted interventions to improve child development outcomes across all preschool sites.
• Designs, leads, and delivers high-quality professional learning and training for staff and parents in early childhood education, assessment, and child development best practices. Promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in staffing, curriculum, center culture, and community engagement. Coordinates continuing education opportunities to ensure staff meet Head Start qualifications.
• Establishes and maintains strong cross-agency collaboration with staff serving families to ensure comprehensive, integrated support for children and families.
• Ensures day-to-day operations meet site health, safety, nutrition, and facilities management needs, and provides support when managers are not available. Provides input into classroom, playground, and facility design and safety feasibility to ensure compliance with state licensing and Head Start regulations.
• Recruits, selects, orients, schedules, and supervises staff. Evaluates staff performance, helps develop professional goals, and provides coaching and ongoing training; rewards and recognizes employees; holds staff accountable and takes disciplinary action, as needed.
• Conducts regular classroom observations across sites, providing structured feedback, coaching, and support to managers and teaching staff.
• Manages day-to-day department budget operations, ensuring spending remains within allocations, and provides input during budget planning.
• Establishes and maintains collaborative working relationships with internal College departments, business partners, community agencies, and educational institutions. Serves as a College representative on local and state early childhood workgroups as appropriate.

Additional Duties

• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Minimum and Desired Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelors or advanced degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, or a related field

Experience/Training:

• Minimum (5) years of experience working with children and families in an early childhood program, including at least two (2) years as a classroom teacher.
• Minimum (3) years of lead or supervisory experience
• Experience using assessment data to drive educational decision-making and improve student outcomes.
• Experience working with diverse backgrounds within the College community, students, and staff; commitment to access and diversity.
• Current driver's license, insurance, and access to reliable transportation during work hours for travel between site locations.

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in early childhood education, educational leadership, or a related field.
• Bilingual skills with oral and written fluency in English and Spanish, Russian, Arabic or another language that meets the community/department's needs
• Supervisory experience in Head Start or Early Head Start programs.

Additional Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in the Oregon Central Background Registry prior to beginning employment, and enrollment must be maintained throughout employment.
• Post-offer fitness for duty evaluation (including TB screening and health appraisal) within 30 days of hire date.
• Must complete required Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care Self-Study Trainings within 30 days of hire

Additional Qualifications and/or Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Skills in:

• Project management, analytics, multi-tasking, and problem-solving
• Strong organizational, human resource, coaching, and interpersonal skills with a team-based approach to leadership
• Motivating, training, developing, and evaluating a high-performing team of site managers and educators
• Building collaboration across departments and maintaining respectful working relationships internally and externally
• Technological proficiency, including Microsoft Windows applications, data management platforms, and assessment systems to gather data, analyze student progress, and generate programmatic reports

Ability to:

• Plan, organize, and direct early learning operations and educational delivery across multiple preschool sites
• ability to anticipate site needs and make data-driven decisions
• Analyze complex assessment and observational data to drive decision-making and continuous quality improvement at each site
• Lead professional development sessions that address adult learning principles and evidence-based teaching strategies
• Oversee site facilities, health protocols, and nutrition operations to ensure safe learning environments
• Work effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders while maintaining high ethics and integrity

Knowledge of:

• Federal, state, and local regulations governing early childhood education and Head Start Performance Standards.
• Adult learning principles, curriculum design, assessment systems, and child development best practices.
• Facility, health, and nutrition standards applicable to early childhood centers.
• Institutional budgeting, accounting processes, and resource allocation.

Working Conditions and Important Information

Job Details

Position: Hiring for multiple vacancies

Employee Group: CDFS Management

Classification: CDFS Management - Range 4

Employment Type: Full-Time (1.0 FTE)

FLSA Status: Exempt (Salaried)

Compensation: $71,737-$107,651 Annually

Schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday

Remote Eligibility: On-Site (Not eligible for remote work)

Working Conditions

Work is typically performed in a normal office and classroom environment while sitting at a computer terminal or conducting site visits. Visual eye strain and repetitive hand/wrist motion for data entry and keyboarding functions. Works assigned schedule and exhibits regular and predictable attendance. As necessary to meet workload demands, works outside of typical schedule, including evening and weekend hours. Work requires travel to multiple off-campus preschool site locations. Work is sometimes performed in an emotional and stressful environment.

Salary Placement

Initial salary placement will be based on years of applicable education, full-time equivalent experience, and other job-related qualifications at the sole discretion of the College and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. Please include all relevant education and full and part-time experience (including unpaid and volunteer experience) in your application that you want the College to review towards potential placement. Hired employees will not have an opportunity to update past experience or appeal initial placement after the time of hire.

The following is a brief description of the benefits offered by Mt. Hood Community, this is intended to be a summary only - any errors or omissions are unintentional. Please refer to benefit booklets, plan documents, college policy and regulations for more detailed information.

COLLEGE PAID BENEFITS

Health Benefit Options

MHCC is a member of the Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB) which administers Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), Long Term Disability (LTD) and Employee Assistance Plan (EAP). The effective date of employer-provided benefits is the beginning of the month after the employee's date of hire at MHCC, unless otherwise indicated. Available medical, dental and vision plans and rates are available. on the MHCC intranet site, under Human Resources/Benefits.

Important Retirement Information:

Make sure you are enrolled in the medical, dental and/or vision plans you want when you retire. Retirement is not considered a Qualified Status Change (QSC) so you cannot add or change plans at the time of retirement.

In order to ensure that a spouse/domestic partner and/or eligible dependent can be covered when you retire you will need to enroll them on MHCCs policy at the open enrollment period prior to your retirement date even though they may be covered under another policy. The College pays the employer portion of the premiums during double coverage periods.

Although the College pays the employer portion of premiums during any double coverage period, double coverage is discouraged other than prior to retirement as it incurs additional expenses to the College.

Coverage for domestic partners is a taxable benefit under IRS guidelines. Appropriate taxes will be deducted from your payroll.

Other College Paid Insurances

• Life Insurance Coverage = 2x's annual salary not to exceed $300,000
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage = 2x's annual salary not to exceed $300,000
• Long Term Disability (LTD)

Approved benefit claims begin after 90-day elimination period. Maximum benefit is 66 2/3 of monthly salary; benefit may be adjusted based on other income received by retirement benefits.

Employer Paid Tax Sheltered Annuity

MHCC contributes $200.00/month to a tax-sheltered annuity (TSA) 403 (b) on behalf of the employee as a benefit. It is up to the employee to establish an account with an approved investment/insurance company.

Public Employees Retirement Plan (PERS)

Consistent with PERS rules, the employee contributes 6% of their gross salary into an Individual Account Program (IAP) with PERS. The contribution is set up automatically. At the time of retirement, based on one of the following programs, a monthly pension benefit is calculated. Please refer the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) website for detailed information on retirement benefits: http://oregon.gov/PERS/

Public Employees Retirement System - Tier One/Tier Two:hired by a PERS employer before August 28, 2003 and have an active account.

Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan - OPSRP: hired on or after August 28, 2003 and do not have active account in the PERS Program.

Tuition Waiver Plan

Full-time employees, their spouses, domestic partners and children through the age of 23 will be entitled to tuition-free enrollment in MHCC courses. Application fee, College Service Fee per term and course fees are the responsibility of the employee.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

MHCC's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is through Canopy which provides services to help people privately resolve problems that may interfere with work, family, and other important areas of life.

The EAP provides FREE (no charge for utilization) and confidential services to employees and their dependents, living at or away from home, and all household members, related or not. MHCC employees, spouses/domestic partner, dependents and their eligible household members have eight (8) free EAP services per new issue, including relationship, family, stress, anxiety, and other common challenges. Employees must get a referral from the EAP for each issue for services to be covered.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Link

Use of MHCC Swimming Pool

Full-time employees and dependents have free access to the MHCC swimming pool during open recreation sessions. Swimming classes through the American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim program are not free under the tuition waiver plan or the swim pass. Employees are responsible to pay for the classes.

Professional Development Funds

As approved by the President, professional development funds are available for management employees. Contact the Director of Human Resources for information on accessing these funds.

Vacation

Scheduling and Use of Vacation Leave

Vacation leave is scheduled in advance with the approval of the employees manager and should be planned cooperatively with the employee. Vacation leave will be scheduled in such a manner as to minimize disruption to the organization. Managers must be reasonable in allowing the use of vacation leave and may not unreasonably deny vacation requests where the result would be the forfeiture of accrued vacation. For purposes of calculation, one normal workday is the equivalent of eight hours of vacation leave for a full-time employee.

Holidays falling within a period of vacation leave will not be counted against vacation leave.

Separation from Employment

Upon separation from employment, an employee will be paid for any accumulated vacation leave. The employee is responsible for repayment of any overuse of accrued vacation leave. The ending date of employment cannot be extended by using vacation. Exceptions to this policy must be approved by Human Resources.

Vacation Accruals

Management and confidential employees with a 1.0 FTE assignment accrue 13.33 hours of vacation per month (20 days per year). Management and confidential employees with assignments of less than 1.0 FTE accrue vacation in proportion to their FTE. Management and confidential employees accrue vacation on a monthly basis, beginning the first calendar month of employment. Vacation accrues on the last day of the month and is available for use the first day of the next month. Vacation leave will not accrue to any employee on leave without pay or suspension with duration of more than 30 days.

Maximum Vacation Leave Accrual Balance

An employee's total balance of accrued vacation may not exceed 320 hours. The hours of vacation leave earned each month will be adjusted to ensure thatthe maximum accrued vacation limit is not exceeded.

Sick Leave

Employees shall have ten (10) days of sick leave placed in their sick leave bank upon beginning employment and shall accrue one (1) day of sick leave per month worked. Yearly accruals will be posted on the first day of each fiscal year. Employees working less than 1.0 FTE in a fiscal year will have sick leave accruals prorated. There will be no limit on the number of days accumulated during an employee's employment. If termination occurs before the end of the fiscal year, sick leave accruals shall also be pro-rated.

Holidays

Employees will be paid for 16 holidays, which are: Juneteenth (June 19th), Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, day before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, the four days between Christmas and New Years, New Years Day, Memorial Day and typically either Martin Luther King Day or President's Day in alignment with represented employee contracts. If a holiday falls on Saturday, Friday will be the holiday. If a holiday falls on Sunday, Monday will be the holiday.

Personal Leave Days

Management employees receive up to 2 days (16 hrs) of personal leave per fiscal year to be used for personal reasons and are not accumulated or paid out upon separation of employment. For non-exempt positions, personal leave can be used in hourly increments at the employee's discretion with prior approval from their immediate supervisor.

Detailed information regarding all management benefits are available in the Management and Confidential Handbook.

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Please select the answer below that best describes your level of education related to the education requirements listed below. Education: Bachelors degree in early childhood education, child development, or a related field OR an equivalent combination of formal education and work experience

• Bachelors degree in early childhood education, child development, or a related field Note: Official college transcripts will be required
• I have obtained the required education with a combination of formal education and/or community based training. Note: Official documentation will be required.
• I believe I have an equivalent combination of formal education and work experience to meet this requirement.
• I do not meet the educational requirements for this role.

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Do you have at least (5) years years of experience working with children and families in an early childhood program, including at least (2) years as a classroom teacher?

• Yes
• No
• i believe I have an equivalent combination of formal education and experience to meet this requirement.

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Do you have at least (3) years of experience working as a Lead or Supervisor?

• Yes
• No

04

Do you have experience using assessment data to drive educational decision-making and improve student outcomes?

• Yes
• No

05

Do you have experience working with diverse populations (students, employees, or community members) in a higher education or similar community environment, along with a demonstrated commitment to promoting access and diversity?

• Yes
• No

06

Do you have a current driver's license, insurance, and access to reliable transportation during work hours for travel between site locations AND at least (3) years of driving history?

• Yes
• No

Required Question

Employer Mt. Hood Community College

Address 26000 SE Stark St.

Gresham, Oregon, 97030

Website https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/mhcc