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 Assistant Site Manager is a critical member of the Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child & Family Center team, providing supervision and coaching to teachers in our 3-5 classrooms. As a high quality early childhood education center with NAEYC accreditation and ExceleRate Gold Circle of Quality designation, you’ll be proud to be part of the Schaumburg team, and with our cohesive team style and supportive, high quality supervision, you’ll look forward to coming back each day. As the Assistant Site Manager, you'll provide training, coaching, and reflective supervision to early childhood classroom teaching staff, including Teachers and Master Teachers. In addition, the Assistant Site Manager works closely with other program staff and leaders, develop relationships with parents and families and encourage their involvement in the Early Head Start and Prevention Initiative education programs and provide leadership and guidance to classroom staff in the development, writing, and implementation of daily lesson plans and classroom routings and transitions.

Candidate qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or a Bachelor's in a similar field with at least 30credits of early childhood coursework with a Level 5 Infant Toddler Gateways Credential.
• A minimum of four years’ early childhood education experience (additionally, supervisory experience in an early childhood setting highly desirable).
• A minimum of one year of supervisory experience required (in some circumstance, with approval from the Vice President and Human Resources, internal Master Teacher candidates who do not have management experience may be allowed to apply.)
• Food Sanitation Certification preferred. 

Job details:

• Compensation: Range starts at $60,000, offers are commensurate with experience.
• Benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, 3 weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure); 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here)
• Location: Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child & Family Center (725 East Schaumburg Road Schaumburg, IL 60194) 
• Schedule: Full-time, salaried; center hours are 7:30a-5:30p M-F.
• 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.