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Position Posting Date:  July 1, 2014

Position Summary: The bookkeeper position handles and documents daily financial transactions and creates data that can be used for financial reports from that information. Financial transactions include posting information to accounting software from such source documents as invoices to customers, cash receipts, and supplier invoices. The bookkeeper also reconciles accounts to ensure their accuracy as well as helping managers and supervisors understand and manage their budgets.

Work Location: Day Care Center and Pre-School, Coop City, Bronx NY, 10461

Hours: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Reporting: Position reports to Education Director of Day Care Center / Pre-School and Executive Director of overall Agency.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. Monitor, purchase and maintain supplies and equipment as authorized by management
2. Tag and monitor fixed assets
3. Issue invoices to customers and assure they are paid in a timely manner
4. Take all reasonable discounts on supplier invoices
5. Ensure that receivables are collected promptly
6. Record cash receipts and make bank deposits
7. Conduct a monthly reconciliation of every bank account
8. Maintain the petty cash fund
9. Provide financial data to external accounting services provider for financial reports
10. Assemble information for external auditors for the annual audit
11. Maintain an orderly accounting filing system
12. Help directors and supervisors maintain the annual >budget against actual expenses.
13. Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to responsible managers
14. Comply with reporting requirements together with external accounting services providers
15. Provide clerical and administrative support to management as requested
16. Maintains historical records by filing documents.
17. Comply with legal requirements and advise management on needed actions.
18. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

REQUIRED Qualifications:

• Associate's Degree or greater in bookkeeping, accounting or business administration
• Knowledge of bookkeeping and generally accepted accounting principles
• Three (3) years experience working with bookkeeping.

DESIRED Qualifications: Working knowledge of Non-Profit Fund Accounting, especially with City and State regulated agencies.

Skills: Data Entry Skills, excellent numeracy, Attention to Detail, Confidentiality, Thoroughness, Dealing with Complexity and multiple projects and priorities, simultaneously

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Position Posting Date: July 12, 2013

The MSC provides active assistance to persons with developmental disabilities such as Autism spectrum disorders, Down’s Syndrome, intellectual disability, Cerebral Palsy, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, ADHD, hearing loss, learning disability, vision impairment and other developmental delays. The MSC helps their clients as they navigate community and service systems in pursuit of the necessary and desired services and supports that will assist them in achieving or maintaining their personal goals and outcomes.

An MSC helps their clients access necessary supports and services including medical, social, educational, psychosocial, employment, habilitation, rehabilitation, financial, residential, and legal services, as available, and in accordance with the person’s needs and valued outcomes, as expressed in the client’s Individualized Service Plan (ISP).

The work of the MSC is designed to help their individual clients strive for the highest quality of life. The focus of MSC is on assisting each person to achieve his or her unique desires, goals and outcomes, relative to the individual‘s informed choices. This includes but is not limited to: choice of home; meaningful work and/or community activities; social and leisure activities; meaningful relationships and access to services /supports that promote optimal health.

The core responsibility areas of the MSC include:

• Assessment
• Development, Implementation and Maintenance of Service Plans (i.e., care planning)
• Linkages and Referrals
• Monitoring and Follow-up
• Service Documentation

Duties of the Medicaid Service Coordinator:
The Medicaid Service Coordinator is responsible for:

1. Receiving and processing applications for service coordination for new clients with developmental disabilities.
2. Creating an ISP (Individualized Service Plan) / life style outcomes for each client in their caseload.
   1. Developing the individual’s life plan based on their needs and desires, following a Person Centered Planning process.
   2. Collaborating with appropriate family members, friends, agency staff, and others in the community who are related to the client’s goals / outcomes
   3. Developing specific tasks to help realize client outcomes, following up on details and reporting results at regular meetings.
   4. Conducting face-to-face contacts, and additional telephone contacts, with clients to ensure planned activities are occurring.
   5. Assessing safety and other potential service needs.
   6. Listening carefully to what people and families are saying.
   7. Recognizing and addressing health and safety issues.
   8. Facilitating meetings.
   9. Communicating (verbally and in-writing) with individuals, families, advocates and providers.
3. Advocating
   1. Protecting and upholding the consumer’s rights
   2. Ensuring the individual’s living environment is safe.
   3. Developing a network of community based contacts and resources both traditional OPWDD funded and other, in support of the clients in their case load.
   4. Linking individual clients to supports and services that enable them to work towards their goals / outcomes.
   5. Helping to manange crisis situations
4. Record Keeping
   1. Documenting ongoing comprehensive and personal knowledge of the person in order to develop the most effective person-centered quality services.
   2. Keeping accurate and current records on service coordination activities and other services provided to the client
   3. Substantiating and successfully submitting accurate monthly billing for service coordination activities.
5. Travel to client homes and/or Provider or Regulatory Agencies
   1. Bus, train or private vehicle travel to client residences or agency within our service area can, on average, constitute 20 to 30 % of the work week.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• An Associate or Bachelor Degree in any one of the following human services fields, from an accredited college or university:
  • Social Work, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Health, Nursing, Medicine, Rehabilitation Counseling, Therapeutic Recreation, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Pathology, Audiology, Music Therapy, Special Education. OR
• A Registered Nurse (RN) degree in nursing. OR
• A completed Associate‘s Degree, in other than health and human services, AND a minimum of 20 college credits in health or human services courses. OR
• Enrolled in a Bachelor‘s Degree program, with a minimum of 60 credits completed toward a bachelor‘s degree, in a field other than health or human services, AND a minimum of 20 college credits in health or human services courses.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• One (1) year experience working with a developmentally disabled population. OR
• One (1) year experience as a Service Coordinator Case Manager

The minimum experience requirement does not have to be met if an applicant has a master‘s degree in a health or human services field.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
These include, but are not limited to:

• Bilingual, Fluent in Spanish and English: read, write, and speak.
• Excellent interpersonal, conflict resolution and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Excellent self organizational skills and time management, with the ability to complete multiple tasks within deadlines.
• Negotiating and resolving conflicts.
• Computer skills, including Word processing, email, calendar management, spreadsheet creation.
• Working knowledge of how to access community resources.

HIRING IS SUBJECT TO:

• Review of Resume completeness including education, experience and skills
• Verification of Three recommendation letters
• Completion of employment application
• Successful completion of interview
• Successful check of Staff Exclusion List (SEL) in Justice Center of OPWDD
• Successful Check of the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment (SCR)
• Fingerprint Clearance of Criminal Record from the NY State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities - OPWDD

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Position Posting Date: July 12, 2013
Location: Learning Ladder Daycare Center, Bronx, New York
Position: Teacher Assistant (Pre-School Daycare Program)
Job Description: Assist the group teacher in an early childhood center.
Teacher Assistant Tasks/Responsibilities (Performs other related duties as required)

• Assist teacher in providing group instruction to children 2 .9 - 5 years of age, at the daycare center. Be able to follow an educational curriculum
• Assist in developing activities and lessons to enhance child’s language, social, and cognitive skills
• Provide documentation of daily activities / notes
• C0-develop and co-teach educational materials and lessons as directed by the Lead Teacher
• Follow operational standards of the daycare center
• Attend meetings and trainings
• Contact and interact with parents
• Support and work as a team with the Lead Teacher

Education and Experience Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Early Childhood Education college credits preferred
• At least one year of experience working in a child care setting
• Experience working with children with special needs preferred but not required
  

Skill Requirements:

• Customer Service skills
• Team building skills
• The ability to multitask and take on different roles
• Leadership Skills
• Child activity development Skills preferred
• Basic Familiarity with concepts and practices of Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices (DAP), Differentiated Instruction and Creative Curriculum preferred but not required

Hiring is subject to:

• Review of Resume completeness including education, experience and skills
• Verification of Three recommendation letters
• Completion of employment application
• Completion of interview and classroom observation
• Fingerprint Clearance from the NYC Department of Investigation
• NY Statewide Central Register Clearance
• Child Abuse and Maltreatment Certification (online training upon hiring)
• Recent Physical (within one year) including immunization record
• Infectious Disease Control Certification (online training upon hiring)

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Position Posting Date:  July 15, 2013
Location:  Learning Ladder Daycare Center, Bronx, New York
Position: Substitute Teacher / Teacher Assistant  (Pre-School Daycare Program)
Job Description: Performs duties of a teacher or teacher assistant to provide continuity of day-to-day responsibilities with students during the absence of the regular teacher or teacher assistant.
Note:
Substitute employees are employed on an as needed, on-call, day-to-day basis and are not guaranteed work on a regular basis. There are no benefits associated with substitute employment
Substitute Teacher (Performs other related duties as required)

• Provides instruction, as needed,  according to plans as prepared by the regular classroom teacher and manages. Or helps to manage as the case may require, classroom behavior and environment.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the appropriate supervisor or administrator
• Uses appropriate judgment to act in the best interests of students at all times
• Maintains a classroom environment which promotes active learning
• Maintains daily classroom routine, including distributing and collecting supplies, keeping attendance records, setting up meals, etc.
• Attends mandatory meetings and trainings
• Adheres to Learning Ladder Day Care Center policies and procedures
• Uses appropriate judgment to act in the best interest of students at all times
• Works with students to help reinforce learning objectives

Education and Experience Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Early Childhood Education college credits preferred
• At least one year of experience working in a child care setting
• Experience working with children with special needs preferred

Skill Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Team work skills
• The ability to multitask and take on different roles
• Leadership Skills
• Customer Service skills in interactions with parents and guardians
• Child activity development Skills preferred
• Basic Familiarity with concepts and practices of Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices (DAP), Differentiated Instruction and Creative Curriculum preferred but not required

Hiring is subject to:

• Review of Resume completeness including education, experience and skills
• Verification of Three recommendation letters
• Completion of employment application
• Completion of interview and classroom observation
• Fingerprint Clearance from the Department of Investigation
• Statewide Central Register Clearance
• Child Abuse and Maltreatment Certification (online training)
• Recent Physical (within one year) including immunization record
• Infectious Disease Control Certification (online training)

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