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Catholic Charities of Onondaga County

Early Learning Specialist

Catholic Charities of Onondaga County

Recruitment began on

Expires on

Oct. 22, 2026

Join our ParentChild+ team as an Early Learning Specialist

Where you’ll partner directly with families of young children to build a strong foundation for lifelong learning. Through home visits, relationship-building, and hands-on coaching, you’ll help parents become their child’s first and most important teacher while supporting school readiness, language development, and positive family engagement.

This is more than a home visiting role. It’s an opportunity to empower families, celebrate diverse cultures, and help children thrive during the most critical years of development.

What You’ll Do

  • Build meaningful, long-term relationships with families of children ages 18 months to 4 years.
  • Conduct engaging home visits that model simple, effective ways parents can promote learning through books, play, and everyday interactions.
  • Inspire a love of learning by providing books and educational materials that help families create enriching home learning environments.
  • Support children’s language, cognitive, and social-emotional development while promoting school readiness.
  • Use a strengths-based approach that recognizes and builds upon each family’s unique abilities and experiences.
  • Serve families from diverse backgrounds, including immigrant and under-resourced communities, with culturally responsive practices.
  • Help connect families to community resources and supports when needed.
  • Participate in outreach, recruitment, training, and team collaboration to expand the program’s impact.

Who You Are

  • Passionate about early childhood development and the belief that every child deserves a strong start.
  • Energized by building trusting relationships with families and supporting parents in their role as educators.
  • Comfortable working independently while remaining connected to a collaborative team.
  • Committed to equity, inclusion, cultural humility, and strengths-based family engagement.
  • A strong communicator who can relate to people from diverse cultural, educational, and economic backgrounds.
  • Organized, dependable, and able to maintain accurate documentation and program records.

This is a part-time position at 20 Hours a Week. Pay is $18.50 Per hour.

Why This Work Matters

As an Early Learning Specialist, you’ll help families build confidence, strengthen parent-child relationships, and create early learning experiences that can have a lasting impact for years to come.

If you believe every family has strengths to build upon and every child deserves the opportunity to thrive, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful difference, one family at a time.


Meet the Team

Beth Ricca

Beth Ricca, ’94M

Executive Director for Career Development

Jeffrey Mass, ’04, ’17M

Director for Employer Engagement

Harry Termyna, ’19, ’21M

Assistant Director of Career Development;
Adjunct

Rosie Chisolm

Coordinator for Career Engagement

Contact

Phone (732) 571-3471

Email: careerdevelopment@monmouth.edu

Rebecca Stafford Student Center, First Floor.
400 Cedar Avenue
West Long Branch, NJ 07726-1898

Hours

  • Monday 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Tuesday 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Wednesday 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Thursday 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  • Friday 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.