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Family & Community Services Director (Hybrid)

CT Office of Early Childhood

The State of Connecticut, Office of Early Childhood (OEC), is currently accepting applications for a Family and Community Services Director, within its Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), program.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
  • Visit our new State Employee Benefits Overview page!
  • Professional growth and development opportunities
  • A healthy work/life balance to all employees
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
  • Full Time, 40 hours per week
  • First Shift
  • Monday through Friday
  • Hybrid/telework opportunity available
  • Location: 450 Columbus Blvd, Hartford, CT
THE ROLE
As a Family and Community Services Director, you will have the opportunity to:
  • Help lead the agency efforts to leverage funds from the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) to support families and children with high quality child care
  • Manage the responsibilities of the federal CCDF program, including programmatic and fiscal reporting, ensuring federal compliance, and implementing a state-wide child care subsidy system
  • Direct state-wide initiatives related to quality improvement for child care programs and the child care workforce.
  • Partner with agency leaders overseeing state funded programs, head start, and quality initiatives to build a cohesive early childhood system
  • Oversee staff working on the CCDF funded projects to ensure contract compliance, program fidelity, program quality
  • Oversee large state contracts with agency partners
ABOUT US
The Office of Early Childhood is the lead agency for early childhood services for the state’s youngest children; including early care and education, home visiting, developmental support, and program and provider development and is currently recruiting for a Family and Community Services Director. 
  
Our agency’s mission is to support all young children by ensuring that early childhood policy, funding and services strengthen the critical role families, providers, educators, and communities play in a child’s life. We believe in ensuring all children are safe, healthy, learning and thriving, and having a strong team is critical to us successfully achieving these goals.  
 
Our mission and vision serve as the guideposts for the development of policies and programs and also ensure that we work to actively and purposefully dismantle racism and advance equity for all individuals throughout the early childhood system and the professional selected to fill this role must align with, believe in and promote this mission and vision.   

View full description & apply here. Close Date: 11/14/2025 11:59:00 PM

Additional Info

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Function : Development, Administrative

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