Career Opportunity

9770 (TPV) - Quality Assurance Program Assistant, Dept. of Early Childhood

Recruitment: REF43614K

Published: August 07, 2024

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About:

Application Opening: August 8, 2024
Application Deadline: August 28, 2024
Compensation Range: $75,998-$92,456
Appointment: Full-Time, TPV- Temporary Provisional

Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional (TPV), limited to no more than 3 years in duration. This temporary position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process. Provisional employees must successfully compete in a civil service examination process and be reachable on an eligible list to be considered for permanent civil service appointment: a) successfully completed the examination process; b) is on the eligible list; c) is reachable on the eligible list; and d) is performing competently and effectively in the department.

About the San Francisco Department of Early Childhood
The Department of Early Childhood (DEC) is a City and County of San Francisco Department dedicated to our young children's healthy development. As the City’s largest funder of early childhood, DEC is committed to creating a system that ensures every child can thrive and learn. We provide public investment, expertise, and leadership to put resources into the hands of those who care for our City’s youngest children. 

DEC results from merging two existing city departments, First 5 and the Office of Early Care and Education. Both First 5 and OECE have long histories of supporting young children and families in San Francisco through early care and education innovations, family support services, and programs to support children’s healthy development. They merged to expand their capacity and funding and to integrate the City’s early childhood services better.

Racial Equity Commitment 
The Department of Early Childhood condemns all forms of racism, sexism, homo/biphobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination. It affirms that all people– including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color – have a right to be in our City and have a right to safe and affordable housing, neighborhoods free from pollution and violence, opportunities for educational advancement and wealth creation, healthy births, early childhoods with abundant opportunities to thrive free from the toxic effects of racism, and access to essential services such as parks, transportation, health care, and child care. The Department of Early Childhood is committed to the principles of racial equity and continues to implement new strategies to ensure that every child can learn and thrive.

Role description

The Early Learning Division administers core department strategies that advance opportunities in support of teacher preparation and compensation, enhance program quality, and improve early care and education affordability and access; and collaborates closely with the other DEC divisions to form a cross-sector approach that ensures universal developmental screening that promotes access to health and mental health services for children and their families; and that families have opportunities for social and professional connections, linkage to resources, and information on parenting and child development.

The Early Learning Division is building a high-quality early care and education system that improves equitable access to high-quality, affordable early care and education for all children from birth to five years of age to provide the best start in life and enter kindergarten ready to succeed and focuses on:

• Developing and supporting opportunities that achieve continuous eligibility for families and continuity of care for children ages birth to five.
• Using a racial equity framework that creates the conditions that will ensure school readiness experiences.
• Ensures that quality and assessment systems are responsive to the diverse needs of ECE programs and the children they serve.
• Embracing culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate environments across a mixed delivery system.
• Support policies and strategies that enhance coherence and alignment for Universal PreK (UPK).

Under the supervision of the 9774 Program Quality Assurance Officer, the 9770 Program Assistant is responsible for various administrative and programmatic support to the Early Learning Division's Quality Improvement team. The Program Assistant will support the Program Quality Assurance Officer with grant-management tasks, assist funded programs, and maintain positive community relations. 

Examples of essential functions of this position include:

• Attend various community meetings, events, and training as assigned; assist with planning logistics before, during, and after; and provide technical support as needed.
• Provide program information and support services to funded programs and other groups, organizations, and individuals as assigned, including organizing site visits to grant-funded programs.
• Provide administrative and logistical support for procurement, contracting, fiscal, and grant monitoring activities and staff as assigned.
• Support informational, communication, and outreach activities to expand grantee and community engagement and access to community services as assigned.
• Process, compile, and track materials and documents; maintain accurate data and information.
• Perform data entry and validation in various data and information systems departments.
• Manage and maintain information in written and electronic formats.
• As needed or assigned, participate and support multi-stakeholder community engagement; act as back-up for administrative staff and other Department of Early Childhood administrative duties; assist members of the public; assist with audit and public information requests.
• Participates in site visits.
• May occasionally work evenings and weekends, and travel regionally and nationally.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

How to qualify

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

1. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university AND one (1) years of administrative/professional experience in community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice, or elections related work; OR

2. Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university with a major in one of the following fields: public or business administration, urban planning, government, social work, education, finance or criminal justice.

SUBSTITUTION
Verifiable administrative/professional experience involving community development, housing and/or housing development, workforce development, finance, education, social work, children/youth work, criminal justice, and/or elections related work may substitute for the educational requirement in Minimum Qualification #1 on a year-for-year basis.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bilingual Chinese, Spanish, or African American Vernacular English (AAVE) preferred, but not required.
• Experienced in early care and education, child development systems, early care and education quality standards, public-school systems, and/or other UPK systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of early care and education practices and policies.
• Degree in early education or related field

What else should I know?

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application. 

Note: Falsifying one's education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training, and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. 

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility or disqualification. 

Verification: Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at How to Verify Education Requirements.

After application submission, candidates deemed qualified must complete all subsequent steps to advance in the selection process.

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco: 

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY
Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process.

1. Visit Careers with Purpose | City and County of San Francisco (sf.gov)
2. Type "9770" into the "Search by class or keyword" field.
3. Click the link to open the Job Announcement.
4. Select the “Apply Now” button and follow instructions on the screen.

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the analyst Lynn Tran at lynn.tran@sfgov.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.