<p>About the role:</p> <p>The Data and Evaluation Associate plays a crucial role in supporting early childhood education programs through meticulous data collection, data presentations, and authentic assessment support. This position involves scheduling and conducting various data collection activities, including child assessments, classroom observations, and participant interviews. The Associate ensures the confidentiality of all data collected and performs clerical tasks such as data entry and quality checks. Additionally, the role includes providing administrative support, creating reports, assisting with data visualization, and disseminating findings. The Associate also monitors child development data, supports accurate data collection, and collaborates with educational managers and coaches to implement quality improvement strategies.</p> <p>Who we are:</p> <p>Clayton Early Learning is a leading nonprofit dedicated to advancing early childhood education and improving family outcomes through high-quality programming, comprehensive research and evaluation, and community-driven initiatives. We directly serve over 500 children annually through our school, home-based programs, and community sites, while our external coaching, professional development, policy and advocacy, and quality assessment teams impact hundreds more educators and families across the state and nationally. As a proud member of the Educare Learning Network, we are deeply committed to the whole-child, whole-family approach, with high quality early childhood education as the foundation of our work. Our unique location on a 20-acre historic campus in Denver provides many opportunities to serve our families beyond the classroom and school walls.</p> <p>We know that our future rests in the hands of the youngest generation and that the experiences of inclusion and belonging they have in early childhood make a lasting impression that remains well into their adult lives. Our team of almost 200 dedicated professionals works in a supportive environment of collaboration, innovation, and personal growth. The atmosphere is not just about work; it's about building a community where individuals are valued, supported, and empowered to reach their fullest potential. At Clayton, we believe that a great place to work isn't just about the job but the people who create success together.</p> <p>What we want you to do:</p> <p>Data Collection</p> <ul> <li>Schedule data collection activities (e.g. participant recruitment and study consent, child assessments, and classroom observations) with instructional teams in early childcare settings. </li><li>Participate in data collection activities, including administering norm-referenced, standardized child assessments and participant interviews (including face-to-face interviews, focus groups, telephone, and other technology assisted interviews.) </li><li>Conduct CLASS observations in classrooms at Educare Denver and in the Denver area. </li><li>Collect parent and staff survey data, which may involve preparing interviews, in-person visits to drop off and collect surveys, and telephone follow-up. </li><li>Meticulously adheres to policies to protect the confidentiality of human subjects participating in evaluation studies. </li><li>Complete all necessary paperwork related to data collection (including scoring of assessments) and perform other clerical tasks, such as data entry, as required by the research. Provide quality checks on data collected and entered. </li><li>Occasionally within-state travel is required to complete data collection. </li><li>Obtain informed consent from research participants; ensure participants fully understand the study's purpose and procedures and secure their voluntary agreement to participate in compliance with ethical guidelines and regulatory requirements </li><li>Data SHARING </li><li>Provides general administrative support to the program team such as creating reports, assisting with analyses and data visualization, drafting correspondence, and other special projects. </li><li>Assists with the training and troubleshooting of employees and provides on demand training. </li><li>Creates and disseminates relevant information to all department staff. </li><li>Present data during meetings, trainings and conferences for early childhood professionals; attend meetings, workshops and conferences related to educational evaluations matters. </li><li>Assist with dissemination of findings from projects conducted by the team, including analyzing data, conducting literature reviews, writing dissemination reports, and presenting. </li><li>Demonstrate responsible professional behavior by participating effectively within and across Clayton's departments and teams. </li><li>Authentic Assessment support </li><li>Monitor child development data collected through authentic assessment by teachers using TS GOLD. </li><li>Provide support to ensure authentic assessment data is being collected accurately. </li><li>Assist with the training and troubleshooting of TS GOLD. </li><li>Create and disseminate relevant information about child authentic assessment data to all relevant staff </li><li>Partner with data coaches and educational managers to implement quality improvement strategies </li></ul> <p>What you must have:</p> <ul> <li>Education: [Bachelor's degree e.g., bachelor's degree in early childhood education, Child Development, Psychology, Social work, or a related field preferred] </li><li>Experience: 1 year minimum- two years preferred. </li><li>Background Check: Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, including CBI/FBI fingerprinting. MVR and a national sex offender registry check </li></ul> <p>The perks:</p> <ul> <li>16+ paid company holidays </li><li>Accrued vacation time, starting at 10 days per year up to 30 days per year, based on years of service </li><li>Paid sick time </li><li>Medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage </li><li>Life, AD&D insurance </li><li>Mental health support through our medical coverage and our employee assistance program (EAP) </li><li>Long-term disability coverage </li><li>401(k) with 5% employer match after 1 year of employment </li><li>FSA plans </li><li>College 529 investment plans </li><li>Identify theft and protection plans </li></ul> <p>Compensation:</p> <ul> <li>$22.00-$25.00/hour </li></ul> <p>Clayton's Core Values:</p> <p>At Clayton Early Learning, we believe that our core values help to drive actions and create habits that allow our belief in the unlimited potential of young children to become a reality. We seek candidates who demonstrate our core values and are motivated by a values-driven environment.</p> <ul> <li>Collaboration builds trust and relationships and brings new ideas, skills, and knowledge to help us do better work. </li><li>Community fosters belonging, resiliency, stability, and strength. We are committed to creating a caring, trauma-informed, professional community at Clayton and to being a positive member of the many communities we partner with and serve. </li><li>Fun reduces stress, keeps us motivated, builds connections, and models for our children the joy that can come with learning and working together. </li><li>Growth allows us to develop as professionals and to provide the best services we can to the children, families, and educators we serve. </li><li>Stewardship enables us to have the greatest impact we can with the resources we have. </li></ul> <p>Clayton Early Learning is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis of physical or mental disability, race, creed, color, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, marriage to a co-worker, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, legal off-duty conduct, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.</p>