ECEAP Early Learning Coach (Yakima)

Position Title:            ECEAP Early Learning Coach

Salary Range:           $25.00 - $30.00 per hour. 

Status:                       10 Months Non-Exempt (Hourly Management)                

Reports to:                ECEAP Early learning Specialist   

 

Position Summary:

The Early Learning Coach will work as part of a team of early childhood educators in the ECEAP program.  The Early Learning Coach will provide guidance, coaching, and training to ECEAP staff and support ongoing continuous quality improvements.  Ensuring all work is done in accordance with the ECEAP Performance Standard, USDA requirements, state licensing requirements, and agency policies and procedures.

Benefits:

• Medical/Dental/ Vision Plans
• Sick Leave (5 hours per payroll)
• Annual Leave (4 hours per payroll)
• Paid Holidays
• Seedling Scholarship Available
• Employee Assistance Program
• Basic Life Insurance
• 403 B(Employer match after 1 year or 1,000 hours)
• Short/Long Term Disability Insurance

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and be placed on a Professional Development Plan to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education within five years from the date of hire.
• A minimum of two years working with young children in a group setting.
• Prior experience as an early learning coach, consultant, mentor, or trainer.
• Ability to work with minimal direction from a supervisor.
• Ability to effectively manage change and prioritize multiple demands.
• Willingness and ability to travel alone to all EPIC ECEAP sites, conferences, and meetings outside of EPIC’s service area.
• Valid Washington State Driver’s License & Auto Insurance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA in Early Childhood Education or related field.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Perform Practice-Based Coaching – shared goal setting, focused observation, feedback, and reflection- with ECEAP teaching staff
2. Create and monitor classroom quality improvement plans
3. Complete formal & informal classroom observations, including scheduled & unscheduled observations, and ECERS-3 classroom assessments in each ECEAP classroom, observing for compliance to licensing standards, ECEAP Performance Standards, and quality teaching practices.
4. Participate in Early Achievers webinars, trainings, and meetings
5. In coordination with the ECEAP Content Team, plan, conduct, and evaluate staff training.
6. Support teaching staff in utilizing Curriculums to fidelity. Review lesson plans.
7. Ensure classrooms are fully stocked with supplies and materials at all times.
8. Regularly monitor child observations in Teaching Strategies GOLD to ensure compliance with standards and checkpoint timelines.
9. Ensure that EPIC’s ECEAP classrooms are operating at a high level of quality at all times so that children’s welfare, safety, and school readiness are of primary focus.
10. Provide teaching staff with ongoing feedback, modeling, and coaching towards high-quality teaching practices.
11. Provide and receive feedback utilizing principles of honesty, encouragement, and respect.
12. Ensure that proper reporting procedures, tracking, and documentation for Child Abuse and Neglect are followed as required by agency policy, state law, and ECEAP requirements. This includes instances of unprofessional behavior, child abuse and neglect, failure to supervise, and other policy violations involving staff.
13. Establish and maintain a positive, trusting, supportive relationship with teaching staff.
14. Effective communication, problem solving, planning, cooperation, and follow-through with teaching staff through frequent meetings, written communication, and other means.
15. Work together with parents and teaching staff to foster positive self-identity in all children and families.
16. Provide training to all teaching staff related to ongoing child assessment and its connection to teaching and learning.
17. Assist teaching staff in finding solutions for issues and selecting strategies for the situations.
18. Be committed to applying EPIC’s Core values to daily work by maintaining professionalism, accountability, consistency with program standards, and promptly reporting observed concerns through appropriate channels and following our Speak Up, Speak Out guidelines.
19. Perform classroom and other duties as a priority, when needed.

Conditions of Employment:

1. Before employment, complete a pre-employment drug screen Tb skin test by an EPIC approved healthcare provider at no cost to the employee.
2. Pre-employment basic physical by an EPIC healthcare provider (obtain within (30) days of employment and no cost to the employee).
3. Must pass an initial and periodic background check through the Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF).
4. Provide proof of MMR vaccination and/ or resistance to Measles, Mumps & Rubella.
5. Current Food Handlers card (obtain the training within 30 days of employment).
6. Current First Aid/CPR card (obtain within thirty 30 days of employment).
7. Complete Childcare Basics 30 hours STARS training within 3 months of hire
8. Meet the minimum education requirements within the timeframe as stated in the performance standards.
9. Complete Child Abuse and Neglect training and all other mandated training.
10. CEO Approval.

EPIC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

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Posted on January 09, 2026

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The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required for this position at the time the job is posted. This is not intended to serve as an all-inclusive list. EPIC retains the right to add or change the duties on this position at any time.

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