Data Entry Specialist - Early Childhood Services

Description

Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision : an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities.

As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.

The Data Entry Specialist - Early Childhood Services provides critical data entry and administrative support to the Early Childhood programs at the Mitzi Freidheim Englewood Child & Family Center.

The Data Entry Specialist - Early Childhood Services is responsible for providing receptionist desk coverage, including greeting and directing visitors by telephone or in person, and entering program participant data into the program database.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions :

• Enter participant data into data management systems, Including attendance and medical forms.
• Enter Human Resource and staff data into data management systems.
• Enter professional development information into the Gateways to Opportunity statewide database.
• Prepare and submits monthly and quarterly reports as required.
• Provide reception coverage as needed, Including greeting visitors, responding to Incoming phone calls.

Standard Responsibilities :

• Adhere to all policies and procedures as outlined in the Brightpoint Employee Handbook.
• Collect, review, and utilize data and information on programs and services to inform program / department performance.
• Participate in regular supervision and staff meetings as required by department.
• Attend required trainings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required and Preferred qualifications :

• High school diploma / equivalent required.
• Prior data entry experience preferred.
• Previous experience with Child Plus and / or COPA data software highly desirable.
• Demonstrates organizational skills including the ability to set priorities, handle multiple projects and responsibilities, and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates initiative and the ability to work independently.
• Demonstrates attention to detail.
• Demonstrates intermediate computer skills, including Microsoft Office and Outlook, and develops competency with applicable web-based systems used by the program within the first 90 days of employment.
• Demonstrates respect and acceptance of diverse individuals and communities served by, working in partnership with, or employed by Brightpoint including but not limited to race, gender, ethnicity, social-economic status, and LGBTQIA+ populations.

Job details :

• Compensation : Hourly Range starts at $16 / hr; offers are commensurate with candidate qualifications and experience.
• Benefits : Medical / dental / vision insurance, three scheduled weeks of paid time off each year (Spring, Summer, Winter), and additional flexible paid leave that accrues based on tenure;

11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match, (more benefit details here).

• Location : Mitzi Freidheim Englewood Child & Family Center;1701 West 63rd Street Chicago, IL
• Schedule : Full-time, hourly. Regular business hours with occasional remote flexibility.
• Student Loan Forgiveness : Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Where you work matters.

We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together.

More about who we are here.)

We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations.

If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.

Click here to review our agency’s Blueprint for Impact.

Brightpoint is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. All employment activities are conducted in an equal and equitable fashion.

The Agency prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, veteran status, source of income, and any other legally protected category in the recruitment, selection, hiring, determination of salary level and benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)