Community Bridges envisions a thriving community where every person has the opportunity to unleash their full potential. Our family of ten programs delivers essential services, provides equitable access to resources, and advocates for health and dignity across every stage of life.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
Under the general supervision of the Program Director, provides technical, educational, interpretive, advocacy, and office support in all functions of the Child and Adult Care Food Program; performs related work as required.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Case Management and Regulatory Compliance:
- Contacts assigned licensed day care homes/centers to explain program requirements and parameters.
- Responsible for independently managing a caseload of licensed day care homes/centers.
- Visits day care sites of program participants and monitors their activities on a periodic basis to ensure compliance with program requirements.
- Instructs program participants on any revised rules and procedures.
- Drives a motor vehicle to conduct monthly home visits.
Nutrition and Technical Education:
- Advises and instructs Child Care providers in child nutrition matters
- Provides technical assistance to daycare providers with the Minute Menu System program.
- Develops child nutrition educational materials and conducts educational workshops and presentations.
- Assists with advocacy and related activities as assigned; stays current with child nutrition legislation and news; assists with setting program goals and objectives.
General Program and Administrative Support:
- Maintains accurate records, reviews reports submitted by day care providers, reconciles discrepancies, and uses the Minute Menu computer program to generate monthly reports required by funding sources.
- As needed and able, translates necessary CACFP documents and regulations.
Professional Conduct:
- Uses initiative and independent judgment to work cooperatively with others and independently schedules and organizes own work, makes appointments for site visits, and meets critical deadlines for preparing records and submitting reports.
- Required to be bilingual to accommodate Spanish speaking providers and families.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with other agency staff, day care providers, representatives of funding and community organizations, and the public.
- Communicates effectively and respectfully with people from different racial, ethnic and cultural groups and from different backgrounds and lifestyles; demonstrates a knowledge of and sensitivity to their needs.
Job descriptions are intended to be illustrative only; they are not designed to be restrictive or to define each and every assigned duty and responsibility. In an organization of this nature, each employee is expected to perform such duties as necessary to fulfill the stated goals of the agency.