Careers
Current Openings
Family Support Specialist – Parents as Teachers
Under the direct supervision of the Parent Educator Supervisor, the Parent Educator provides parent education, developmental information, and family support to parents through personal home visits to promote the healthy development of children from pregnancy to kindergarten. Parent Educators utilize the nationally recognized “Parents as Teachers†curriculum to deliver quality home-based early childhood education, developmentally age-appropriate resources and effective child – parent interaction techniques.
Technical Assistance Specialist/Early Childhood Coach
The Technical Assistance Specialist provides services and support to individuals in targeted communities who are interested in and have the ability to become licensed family child care providers, as part of the state-wide initiatives Growing Opportunities in Family Child Care. Services are focused on the startup of quality family child care programs. The Technical Assistant Specialist is a collaborative partner with community agencies identifies as collaborators in this work.
Healthy Families America (HFA) Data Specialist
The Healthy Families America (HFA) Program Assistant plays a dual role in providing comprehensive support and resource coordination to families participating in the HFA program, as well as managing administrative duties, data management, referral coordination, and material/supply management. This position involves developing family support plans, linking families to community resources, promoting positive parent-child interactions, completing the validated Family Resilience and Opportunities for Growth (FROG) Scale with families, tracking referral progress, and managing data systems to ensure efficient program operations.
Support Group Coordinator
This position is accountable for the day-to-day implementation of parent support, family engagement, and children’s programming across Maryland. This position also serves as the Lead Coordinator and Technical Assistance provider for Maryland’s Chapter of the Circle of Parents® National. This work is defined by the parameters of Circle of Parents® National support group standards as well as the agency’s strategic plan. The work requires staff supervision and the development and maintenance of program sites and affiliations statewide.
Program Supervisor, Parents As Teachers
This position is responsible for ensuring the provision of quality home visiting services to families in accordance with the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model. The role involves maintaining program fidelity through strengths-based professional supervision of direct service staff, facilitating home visits, and coordinating group events for participating families as needed.
Director, Community Based Services
This role is responsible for providing leadership and direction to agency programs, with a focus on facilitating their growth and optimizing the quality of services offered to families. Strategic collaboration with like-minded agencies to form alliances is a key component of this position, as is promoting the vision of the Leadership Board and Executive Director. Working closely with middle management staff, the incumbent will develop effective strategic goals annually. Additionally, the position will oversee the administration, implementation, and evaluation of community-based services. These services include but are not limited to the Kids Care Plus childcare program, The Sheppard Training Institute, the Family Education department, the 24-hour call line, and the Community Engagement department.
Director, Family Intervention Services
Provide direction and oversight to agency programs, ensuring that they continue to grow and improve in their service to families. This role is required to develop strategic alliances with like-minded organizations, promote the vision of the Leadership Board and Executive Director, and work collaboratively with middle management to establish effective strategic goals annually. Additionally, this role will provide general oversight of administrative, clinical, and evaluation services for family-based interventions, including but not limited to the Healthy Families home visiting program, Family Connects Maryland home visiting program, Circle of Parent support groups, Parents as Teachers home visiting program, and other models as assigned. The incumbent will assume leadership responsibilities with accrediting organizations and design an annual review of program outcomes to ensure a high standard of performance and to prioritize the continuous improvement of services provided to families.
The Family Tree is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Family Tree is dedicated to the protection and nurturance of children and families and, as such, judgement of individuals on the basis of personal characteristics is inconsistent with our mission. The Family Tree is committeed to the laws and intent of Equal Employment Opportunity in hiring and promotion. We recruit, hire, train, pay, promote, discipline and terminate our employees without regard to age, disability, economic status, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, race, color, religion, creed, sexual preferece, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information or any other impermissible factor, in accordance with applicable laws. In providing services to our clients and working with volunteers, The Family Tree treats all ppeople fairly and without regard to age, disability, economic status, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or genetic information.
Benefits
The Family Tree offers competitive salaries, as well as excellent benefits such as:
Health Insurance
- All full-time employees or part-time employees who work 24 or more hours a week and their dependents are eligible to participate in the health insurance benefits.
- Employees are eligible for enrollment on the first day of the month following their hire date.
- CareFirst Blue Choice HMO HRA
- CareFirst Preferred Dental 4
- CareFirst Vision Option 3
Life Insurance
- Employees working at least 20 hours per week, automatically receive, at no cost, basic life and AD insurance in an amount equal to $25,000
Holidays
- 14 Paid Holidays per year for full time and eligible part-time employees
Vacations
- During the first two years of employment, employees earn 10 days per year for full-time employees, 5 days for part-time.
- Two years to four years of employment, 15 days per year for full-time employees and 7.5 per year for part-time.
- Four years to fourteen years, 20 days per year for full-time employees and 10 for part-time.
- Fifteen years and each year thereafter, 25 days per year for full-time employees.
Sick Leave
- 10 day per year for full-time Employees
- 5.71 days per year for part-time employees
Personal Leave
- Up to 4 days (28 hours) given to allow for employees to attend to important personal business during working hours for full-time employees and 2 personal days for part-time employees.
Bereavement Leave
- 5 days with pay per occurrence for a death of immediate family of a full-time employee.
- 2.5 days with pay per occurrence for a death of immediate family of a part-time employees
Jury Duty
- All full-time regular employees who are required to report for jury duty will receive their regular rate of pay for ten (10) working days.
Retirement BenefitsThe Family Tree offers all employees the option of deferring a portion of their salary, pre-tax, to plan for their retirement. Employees are eligible to participate after their introductory period (first 90 days). This is not an employer contributory plan.For more information, please contact:
Human Resources Manager
Phone: 410-889-2300 ext. 1197
Fax: 410-637-8385