Early Childhood Care and Development Educator - Zahle

ROLE PURPOSE:
The Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Educator will provide children (from 3 to 6 years old) with activities designed to promote their social emotional, physical, cognitive and linguistic growth and prepare them for primary education. 

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

 Reports to: Education Assistant.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

- Encouraging participation of all children without discrimination, i.e. regardless of gender, ethnicity, language, culture, religion or learning ability.

- Ensuring that children feel comfortable, safe and respected.

- Ensuring that the environment of the classroom promotes learning through the physical arrangements, and use of clear expectations, predictable procedures, and daily routines.

- Managing effectively the classroom and using child-centred, active teaching approaches, including appropriate positive discipline strategies to manage children’s behaviour.

- Establishing clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicates those objectives to children.

 Teaching the national curriculum and using SCI approaches.

- Implementing learning modules in Arabic and French/English which involve speaking, listening, writing, phonological awareness and reading.

- Organizing and leading activities designed to promote physical, mental and social development of children, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, indoor and outdoor activities and field trips.

- Observing and evaluating children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health, using SCI assessment tools and keeps records of children learning outcomes.

- Using learning outcomes to monitor students’ progress towards curricula objectives. Teacher uses this to address the needs of his/her students and to inform his/her supervisor.

- Identifying children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and follows SCI safe and identification mechanism.

- Participating in SCI capacity building initiatives, attending monthly team meetings and engaging in peer-to-peer coaching where applicable.

- Facilitating positive parenting sessions for caregivers and conducting monthly meetings with caregivers to follow up on students’ progress.

- Complying with SCI policies and practices with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

- Demonstrating non-discriminatory working practices and encourages this in others.

- Liaising with SCI staff on internal issues. This includes attendance at meetings organized by SCI and to cooperate with SCI’s monitoring, providing information or reports if requested.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

- University teaching degree, preferably in pre-school teaching.

- Bi-lingual fluency in Arabic and English/French.

- Minimum 2 years of teaching experience with preference in early childhood teaching.

COMPETENCIES:

Delivering results: Takes personal responsibility and holds others accountable for delivering ambitious goals for children, continually improving their learning outcomes.

Working effectively with others: Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspective, knows when to lead and when to follow. 

Communication with impact: Communicates clearly and confidently to engage and influence, promotes dialogue and insures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.

Applying technical and professional expertise: Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards, promotes and shares best practices within and outside the organization.