Early Childhood Educator in Kindergarten

Contract Length: 5 years

Number of Vacancies: 3

Student Level:

- Early Childhood
- University Graduate, Director/Principal

School Requirements:

- Education Required: Bachelor
- Minimum Teaching Experience: 1 year of teaching experience
- Major: Early Childhood Education
- Required Certificates:
- Teaching Credential/License- Other Certification- Work Visa Eligibility: United States (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

Additional School Requirements:
**If you can answer the following questions with yes, then this is already a first step in the right direction. To be allowed to work as an educator in Germany, your degree must be also recognized here.**
- Does your degree comply with the EQF requirements of level 6 or above?
- Has the official length of studies been designed for three years at least?

**Other requirements**:

- Excellent communication and reflection skills
- Minimum language level at the start of employment: fluent in German or English
- Minimum language level after one year of employment: fluent in German or English; in addition A2 in German AND English

Job Benefits:
**We offer you an attractive working environment**:

- Transparent compensation system.
- Up to 34 vacation days and a possibility of sabbaticals
- Job ticket | alternatively a mobility allowance.
- Financial support for in-service language courses and other training and development opportunities.
- Company pension plan.
- A lively, multilingual and international working environment with colleagues from all over the world.
- Collaborative work in a multi-professional team, e.g. on the topic of inclusion.
- Peace, creative freedom and digital progress (such as tablets for every employee) to prepare and follow up on the content work.
- A family center with many events and projects beyond the boundaries of the daycare center.
- Financial support for part-time language courses in English and German.
- Professional development opportunities.
- The opportunity to bring your own personality into implementing the daily pedagogical concept.

**Job Description**:
rainbowtrekkers Kita gGmbH is an independent provider of bilingual day care centers in Cologne. We care for 160 children in three facilities in English and German between the ages of 1 and 6. At Rainbowtrekkers we have a so-called "eclectic" approach, i.e. our approach is made up of different pedagogical action concepts from all over the world. We base our pedagogical work on these ideas. A respectful attitude towards the child's personality must be the starting point of all education.
The rainbow stands for the diversity of the children who visit our daycare centers. Trekkers come from the English word for the journey (trekking) and indicate that education is a flowing process - a journey into life on which we accompany the children in our daycare centers.

**We are looking for new colleagues to expand our international team, who**
- who is ready for full-time (40 hrs./week) or part-time
- who create an environment in which children feel safe and secure and in which they can develop optimally
- who respond to children individually, taking into account their respective needs and personalities
- who participate in the planning and implementation of the daily program of appropriate developmental activities according to the rainbowtrekkers curriculum/NRW Bildungsgrundsätze
- who observe, evaluate, and document the social and physical development and behavior of the children
- who conducts the semi-annual parent interviews