Purpose and Function:

Provide oversight to the Regional Lead Child Care Resource and Referral agencyserving a 7-county territory of Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, and Sampson counties.  to ensure statewide and regional project goals and outcomes are accomplished.  This commitment includes but not limited to CCR&R Core Services, Birth-Three Quality Initiative, Family Child Care Project, Promoting Healthy Social Behaviors, School-age and Quality Enhancements in childcare settings projects. 

Essential Duties:

• Leads, plans, promotes and supervises these program areas to ensure effective service delivery and compliance with funding contracts: 

• Technical assistance & professional development for Region 4child care providers 
• Consumer education and referrals, a 7-county parent referral service  
• Regional Healthy Social Behaviors project  

• Regional Birth-Three Quality Initiative 
• Child Care Professional Conference

• Develops budgets for CCR&R Council-funded activities 
• Reviews and executes Council funded contracts that are provided
• Coordinate and convene regular regional collaboration meetings, once per quarter preferably
• Ensures all projects adhere to statewide core services and special initiatives delivery protocols and expectations.
• Ensures quality data collection, analysis, and reporting on CCR&R activities. 
• Analyzes childcare availability and quality and conduct related public awareness activities.
• Provides direct services as needed including referral calls for Child Care Search, assist with Core Services trainings, and planning of professional development events.  
• Promotes high quality training and technical assistance for childcare in Region 4 by fostering collaboration among Smart Start-funded child care related activities and with other organizations that serve child care providers.
• Approves expenditures in accordance with approved budgets for funded activities.
• Seeks and writes grants to various public and private funders for support of enhanced services. 
• Supervises 5-10 employees, including approval of timesheets, monitoring of leave usage and balances, and approval and monitoring of service-related travel expenses.
• The Director of Region 4 CCR&R will oversee the Family Child Care Consultant position.
• Develops and implements communication and outreach activities necessary to ensure public awareness of overall agency and specific CCR&R Services as well as enhanced community/childcare related services. 
• Collaborates with other entities providing CCR&R, child, and family services in the Region 4 service delivery area.
• Oversees all provider, parent, and technical assistance data entry to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Coordinates filing of the annual training plan and application for the training approval with NC DCDEE. 
• Conduct meetings with regional stakeholders as required and when needed.
• Oversee scheduling and delivery of regional professional development to meet contract deliverables and outcomes.
• Attends supervisory meetings with statewide program managers and special initiatives specialists as scheduled.

• Attends and participates in CCR&R Council Communities of Practice and at least one CCR&R Council Workgroup.
• Provides documentation for fiscal and programmatic monitoring of federal and state contracts.
• Advocates on a local, state, and federal level for quality childcare and other support services for families and children.
• Collaborates with the regional business communities to assess employer and employee childcare needs and assists them in developing solutions related to childcare issues and concerns.  
• Travels as needed to attend and provide professional development opportunities, trainings, presentations, etc.
• Other duties as required by program funding contracts or as needed.