📍 Location: On-Site – Antioch, CA
📅 Schedule: Full-Time | Non-Exempt
💼 Department: Early Childhood Teacher (General)
📈 Reports to: Program Supervisor/ Director
💰 Pay Range: $28.00– $30.00/hour

The base hourly range for this position is $28.00 - $30.00 for employees hired in the Central Valley, CA. The pay range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired within the Central Valley region. Candidates hired in Southern California or Bay Area locations may have higher starting salaries due to cost of living and market data differences. Factors that may be used to determine your actual starting salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, the market data for your work location, and internal comparison to other employees who hold a similar role. 

✨ Make a Meaningful Impact

Aspiranet, a leading California-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting children, youth, and families, is seeking a compassionate and dynamic Father Child Engagement Specialist (FCES) to join our Fatherhood Program in Antioch. In this role, you will conduct outreach, engagement, and enrollment activities with African American/Black fathers who have a pregnant partner, infant, or toddler under the age of one. You’ll facilitate evidence-based parenting classes, host father–child events, and provide case management services designed to strengthen family bonds and create lasting positive impact.

❤️ About Aspiranet

Aspiranet is a mission-driven social services agency with a proud legacy of supporting California communities since 1975. We are committed to ensuring that every child is loved, every family is supported, and every individual has the tools to succeed. Our six divisions span foster care and adoption, transitional aged youth, residential, intensive home-based services, behavioral health, and family and community. Every role at Aspiranet contributes to something greater helping to create a future where opportunity, hope, and healing are within everyone’s reach.

📝 Position Summary

As an Early Child Educator/Teacher at our First 5 Centers in the Family and Community Services program, you will utilize your experience and skills to deliver parent-child curriculum via classroom instruction, workshops, events, and activities for new parents to learn about parenting their young children.  You will also help build their social supports while empowering them to become part of a strong parent community! 

🔍 Key Responsibilities

• Develop family literacy, early learning, and parental education class curriculum and content.
• Prepare for and provide curriculum and activities that are developmentally appropriate for the parent and child.
• Conduct child development screenings.
• Develop and provide pre-k transition programming, including parent-child interactive classes that simulate preschool experiences.
• Teach and deliver parent-child classes.
• Coordinate and facilitate events and workshops.
• Develop event agendas and assist with center calendar development.
• Monitor participant attendance, participate in the evaluation of services, and support center registration.
• Serve as a member of an integrated team of teachers, outreach and engagement workers, and case managers.
• Supports projects, initiatives, and/or specific program functions.
• Complete a monthly report on classes delivered.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

✅ Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• A minimum of 12 Early Childhood Education units completed. (Please indicate on your resume if you completed a minimum of 12 ECE units)
• Two (2) years of experience in family support, in-home, or center based services.
• Meets all state required conditions of employment as set forth by Community Care Licensing for a Licensed Community Care facility; i.e. Fingerprint and Child Abuse Index clearance, TB/Health Physical, valid CDL, and clean driving record.

💻 Work Environment & Schedule

• On-site role in Antioch, CA.
• Full -time, non-exempt position.

🏋️ Physical Demands

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

This position typically operates in a residential care setting. The noise level is generally moderate and remains within OSHA’s established safety levels.

⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunity

Aspiranet is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. We believe a diverse workforce within a culture of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) increases creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and teamwork for the youth and families we serve. Aspiranet is committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive workplace that reflects diverse worldviews, cultures, and lived experiences.

📝 How to Apply

Join us in building brighter futures.

👉 Ready to Apply?
Apply today through our career portal:
www.aspiranet.org/careers

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