ECEAP Family Engagement & Health Supervisor

What You'll Do

Key Areas of Responsibility

Family Engagement Leadership

• Provide leadership for ECEAP family engagement practices that support meaningful partnerships between families and the program.
• Develop systems that ensure families are welcomed, valued, and actively involved in their child's learning and development.
• Support staff in building trusting, respectful relationships with families through strengths-based and culturally responsive approaches.
• Oversee family partnership processes, including goal setting, progress monitoring, and documentation.
• Promote opportunities for parent leadership, participation, and decision-making.
• Ensure family engagement practices reflect families’ cultures, strengths, priorities, and lived experiences.

Mobility Mentoring® and Family Goal Support

• Support implementation of Mobility Mentoring® practices as a framework for partnering with families toward self-identified goals.
• Coach and support staff in using intentional conversations, goal planning, and strengths-based strategies with families.
• Ensure family support approaches recognize the impact of systemic barriers while supporting families in identifying pathways toward stability and opportunity.
• Support staff in connecting families with resources related to housing, employment, education, financial stability, transportation, health care, and other identified priorities.
• Monitor family outcomes and use data to strengthen services and supports.
• Encourage family goal-setting practices that honor family choice, voice, and readiness.

Health Services Leadership

• Provide oversight and support for ECEAP health service systems, including screenings, documentation, referrals, and follow-up.
• Supervise Health staff and support effective coordination of child health requirements.
• Ensure families receive support accessing medical, dental, behavioral health, developmental, and nutrition resources.
• Collaborate with community health providers and partners.
• Review health data and identify opportunities for improvement.

Supervision and Staff Development

• Provide reflective supervision, coaching, and professional development support to Family Support and Health Specialists through regular individual supervision, team meetings, observation, feedback, and follow-up.
• Establish clear expectations for quality service delivery, timely documentation, family follow-up, collaboration with classrooms, and compliance with ECEAP standards and agency procedures.
• Lead staff with consistency, fairness, and respect while addressing performance concerns directly, documenting expectations, monitoring progress, and supporting improvement when needed.
• Promote collaboration, communication, and shared responsibility across education, family support, health, disabilities, nutrition, mental health, and administrative teams.
• Support staff in integrating family engagement and health practices into children’s classroom experiences and child-focused planning.
• Develop team goals, monitor progress, review service data, and use supervision to support continuous improvement.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, evaluation, retention, and corrective action processes in partnership with program leadership and human resources when appropriate.
• Foster a positive professional team culture grounded in respect, equity, accountability, confidentiality, reflective practice, and continuous learning.

Positive Professional Expectations and Team Accountability

• Model positive, professional, and solution-focused communication with staff, families, community partners, and program leadership.
• Set the tone for a collaborative team environment where staff are expected to communicate respectfully, follow through on commitments, and work across roles to support children and families.
• Hold team members accountable for meeting job expectations, maintaining professional boundaries, completing assigned tasks, and following agency policies and ECEAP requirements.
• Address concerns promptly and constructively, using coaching, clear direction, documentation, and follow-up to support staff growth and program quality.
• Encourage shared problem-solving while ensuring decisions are aligned with program standards, family-centered practice, and agency expectations.
• Demonstrate dependability, ethical practice, confidentiality, and professionalism in all supervisory and program responsibilities.

Integration with Classroom and Comprehensive Services

• Promote an integrated ECEAP model where family engagement, health, and education are connected.
• Collaborate with education leaders to ensure comprehensive services support children’s classroom experiences.
• Support Family Support Specialists in maintaining meaningful relationships with children and participating in classroom activities.
• Encourage communication and collaboration between teaching staff, family support staff, health staff, and community partners.
• Participate in child-focused planning and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Ensure families experience consistency and connection across all areas of the program.

Community Partnerships

• Develop and maintain partnerships with community organizations, schools, health providers, and social service agencies.
• Strengthen referral systems and community resource networks.
• Represent the ECEAP program in community collaborations.
• Identify emerging family and community needs and support program responses.
• Promote partnerships that increase access to resources and opportunities for children and families.

Data, Compliance, and Continuous Quality Improvement

• Ensure compliance with Washington State ECEAP Performance Standards, Head Start requirements when applicable, and agency policies.
• Monitor family engagement, health services, documentation, and outcomes.
• Use data to identify strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support program self-assessment and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Prepare reports, recommendations, and updates for program leadership.

Ensure staff maintain accurate and timely documentation.

Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Human Services, Social Work, Family Studies, Public Health, or related field.
• Experience working with children and families in early learning, family support, health, or human services settings.
• Experience supervising staff and supporting professional growth.
• Knowledge of family engagement, child development, and comprehensive early childhood services.
• Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Must meet all DCYF and ECEAP health, safety, and training requirements, including:

Negative TB test

Infant/Child CPR & First Aid

Food Handler’s Permit

DCYF Portable Background Check

Required immunizations

Valid Washington State driver’s license required.

Preferred

• Experience working in ECEAP, Head Start, or another comprehensive early learning program.
• Knowledge of Washington State ECEAP Performance Standards.
• Experience with Mobility Mentoring®, coaching models, or family goal-setting frameworks.
• Experience supervising family support and/or health services staff.
• Experience with reflective supervision and continuous quality improvement.
• Bilingual or multilingual skills.

Core Competencies

• Family Engagement Leadership
• Relationship-Based Practice
• Strengths-Based Coaching
• Mobility Mentoring® Practices
• Staff Supervision, Coaching, and Accountability
• Positive Professional Leadership
• Comprehensive Services Coordination
• Health Services Oversight
• Cultural Responsiveness
• Collaboration and Team Building
• Data-Informed Decision Making
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Clear Communication and Follow-Through

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid Leave
• Sick Leave
• Retirement Plan
• Flexible Schedule
• Health insurance (80% employer paid,) dental and vision are provided starting the 1st day of the month following hire. Employer paid retirement plan, paid sick, vacation, and holidays provided.

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