Come share your ideas, your expertise and talents with others at our monthly meetings. If you have a little free time and would like to give back, consider taking on a position with Dakota County Family Child Care Association. We are professional family child care providers, just like you, who work together for our child care profession. We encourage you to apply for one of the various openings listed below. Contact any board member to answer questions you may have in making this decision. Training is provided.
You must be a legally licensed provider in Dakota County and have been a Tier I member (licensed provider) of DCFCCA for at least six months of the previous year. All candidates running for a board position shall not have any pending negative licensing actions or have had any substantiated complaints within the last five years. All positions are 2 year terms.
Elections to be held online from Monday, May 5th until Friday May 9th.
President: Do you like working with others? Are you ready to lead the Association and its members? Duties include carrying out the objectives and purposes of the association appointing all committee chairs calling Special Meetings presiding at all Special Meetings and Executive Board Meetings. Please note: You must have served on the DCFCCA Executive Board in the past 5 years.
Training Coordinator: Do you have good communication skills? Would you like to choose training topics and hire trainers for DCFCCA's area meetings? Duties include reserving facilities for trainings communicating all training information to the Executive Board following training protocol for all training issues communicating all training details to the Newsletter Coordinator and Website Coordinator.
Website Coordinator: Do you enjoy working on a computer? Do you have good computer skills? Duties include maintaining the association website updating the Provider Directory submitting all invoices to be paid for hosting, domain names and all other website services maintaining all Association email accounts and contact information.
Mentor Facilitator: Would you like to assist new providers entering the family child care field? Do you enjoy networking with fellow providers? Duties include serving as support person to all Mentors presenting concerns and requests of the mentors and mentees to the Executive Board.
Membership Coordinator: Do you enjoy data entry? Are you familiar with the programs WORD or EXCEL, or willing to learn? Duties include maintaining an updated and accurate record of membership and distribute to Executive Board and Area Coordinators as needed process all memberships monthly attend Association events to process memberships as needed.
Application deadline is April 25, 2025. All eligible members are encouraged to apply online. If you have any questions, please email elections@dcfcca.org.
