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Early Head Start - Floater

Part-time

Action for a Better Community, Inc.

Rochester, NYPart-time$23–30K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$23–30K/yr
Location
Rochester, NY
Schedule
Part-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Security clearanceValid Driver's License

Job overview

The Early Head Start Floater aids at Head Start centers in caring for young children. The role includes implementing performance-standard goals and objectives and helping provide a safe, healthy environment that is developmentally, linguistically, and culturally appropriate. It requires the ability to monitor, guide, and care for young children, along with classroom physical capability and a high school diploma or GED.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Child MonitoringChild GuidanceChild CareAttention to DetailOrganizationReadingOral CommunicationInfant and Toddler CarePhysical Stamina

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GEDValid Driver's LicenseReliable TransportationBiannual Physical ExamJustice Center and OCFS Clearance

Full job description

JOB VACANCY

Program: Head Start

Location : To be determined

Position: Early Head Start - Floater

Hours: 30 hours/week, 52 weeks/year

Salary Range: $23,400- $29,985

Sa lary Grade: 13

Summary of Responsibilities:

To aid at Head Start centers in caring for young children, including implementing goals and objectives of performance standards and helping to provide a safe, healthy environment that is developmentally, linguistically and culturally appropriate.

Qualifications/Education and Experience:

  • Requires the ability to monitor, provide guidance to, and care for young children.

  • Requires attention to detail; and good organizational, reading, and oral communication skills.

  • Requires the health and physical capability to work in a typical classroom environment, including sanitizing duties, lifting children, weighing up to 40 lbs., reaching, climbing, bending and sitting on the floor with children; also going outdoors with children.

  • High School Diploma or GED.

  • Prior experience is not mandatory; however, some prior background in working with infants and toddlers is desirable.

  • Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and have access to reliable transportation.

  • Must be able to pass the biannual physical exam.

  • All employees of ABC Early Childhood Services Division must receive and maintain a full clearance from the Justice Center of New York and the Office of Children and Family Services that allows them unsupervised contact with children. Any prospective or current employee who has an indication of child abuse maltreatment or neglect, or who cannot be left unsupervised with children, will not be hired or retained .

  • This position is subject to the collective bargaining agreement

The above description covers the principal functions of the job. It is not intended to be a complete listing of all the miscellaneous incidental or substantially similar duties, which may be assigned during normal or emergency operations.

Please Forward Resumes/Applications to:

Human Resources Department

Action for a Better Community, Inc.

400 West Ave

Rochester, New York 14611

Email: [email protected]

Fax: 585-797-1505

(585) 325-5116

Deadline for Resumes and Applications: Open Until Filled

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How this job compares

Set against the 1,579 open Early Childhood Educator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$23–30K/yr
  • New York median$47–53K/yr21 salary ranges
  • US median$49–55K/yr69 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $27K, is 45% below the New York median midpoint ($48K) — in the lowest quarter of Early Childhood Educator salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 191 open Early Childhood Educator jobs in New York and 1,579 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Early Childhood Educator postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (561 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 621 of the 1,579 open Early Childhood Educator jobs (39%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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