Executive Director

Bethlehem Lutheran Preschool

Position Status: Full Time

Hours: Full time with flex time

Location: Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Salary: $40,000 - $55,000

Benefits:

• Merit bonus
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Additional compensation for health insurance available upon request
• Professional development assistance
• Employee discount
• Weekly disability plan

Bethlehem Lutheran Preschool is looking for an enthusiastic and qualified professional to fill the executive director position at our established and respected faith-based preschool. We believe children deserve a nurturing, safe and happy environment which promotes their natural curiosity, play and desire to learn. By teaching and modeling faith-based ideals, we want children to develop spiritually as well as physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually.

Job Description:

Business and Administrative Leadership:

• Prepare and present financial, staffing, enrollment, and competitive tuition rate reports to the Preschool Board of Directors.
• Post tuition payments, bank deposits, and oversee vendor payments.
• Oversee employee payroll, audits for workers compensation, VPK programs and School Readiness programs.
• Creating and working with a budget.
• Maintain proper children and teacher documentation.
• Supervise the daily programs, schedules, staff, and always maintain proper adult-child, staff credential and room size ratios.
• Ensure educational standards are being met in each classroom.
• Oversee staff professional development.
• Be available for Department of Child and Family Services inspections and attend their town hall meetings.
• Work with the Early Learning Coalition of Duval to contract and report information for VPK, School Readiness, Guiding Stars and attend their town hall meetings.

Spiritual Leadership:

• Promote an environment in which God’s love in Christ is shared with students, teachers, staff, parents, and all who participate in the school community.
• Lead by example and uphold the Christian values of Bethlehem Lutheran Church as outlined in our statement of faith.
• Relate positively with the church’s pastors and be an advocate for a healthy, joyful relationship between the school and church.

Job Requirements

Interpersonal Requirements:

• Excellent organizational skills: this position requires a significant amount of both digital and physical paperwork and tracking.
• Patience, compassion and respect: patience, love and respect towards children, parents, teachers, church members, and visitors to our campus is crucial to this position.
• Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills.
• Reasonable Accessibility to parents, teachers, and pastors balancing different timelines.

Other Requirements:

• Capable of engaging in the physical activities’ incidental to the job (regularly able to stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, etc.)
• Able to move quickly to respond to children’s needs and to ensure safety.
• Able to lift and move children and equipment, (35 lbs.) as necessary to facilitate the execution of classroom activity and care for children.

Candidates must pass a background screening and have verifiable job references.

Preferred but not Necessary Experience:

• 2 years’ experience in a Director role, especially as a Florida Preschool Director.
• VPK Director Certifications. Not necessary to begin with but necessary to attain. Guidance will be provided if needed.
• Advance working knowledge of ProCare, Word, Excel, and QuickBooks.

Additional Notes: Bethlehem Lutheran Church and Preschool is a part of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and will consider “issuing a formal call” to employees after an initial introduction period, should the candidate be a rostered church worker of the LCMS desiring a call.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Choose your own hours
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends

Ability to Relocate:

• Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person