Professional Development Associate (PDA) - Alaska Statewide

thread assists families in finding affordable, high-quality child care that meets their needs.

We provide professional development, technical assistance, and financial support to early childhood educators and programs to ensure they are preparing children for lifelong success.

By collaborating with communities and businesses, we work to achieve positive outcomes for families and young children through increased access to affordable, high-quality child care.

We undertake research and advocate for child care policies.

This work is guided by our core values of empowerment, access, child care professionalism, children’s rights, and entrepreneurial incubator.

• The Professional Development Associate provides administrative support for thread's statewide Professional Development team at thread.
• Accurately communicate information about thread Professional Development services to customers.
• Provide support to child care programs, early educators, and contract trainers as
• Manage thread's training registrations, evaluations and follow This includes data entry, communicating with attendees, and reporting.
• Produce and disseminate training
• Assist the Professional Development team with word processing, data entry, and payments to early childhood programs and educators.
• Assist in collecting, analyzing and reporting data for grants and other identified
• Manage Professional Development training calendar information and data on the statewide CCR&R
• Assist Professional Development Managers/Directors in collecting, analyzing, and reporting professional development trends using statewide SEED Registry and CCR&R training data and thread's
• Support statewide teams by managing logistics including scheduling meetings, taking meeting notes, managing documentation, booking travel, maintaining the main Professional Development calendar, and reconciling travel budget.
• Coordinate and maintain the Professional Development page and documents on Quip and SharePoint. Manage multiple online platforms for the Professional Development team.