Definition and Primary Objective:
Provide a safe, nurturing, educational environment for children infant through six years old.

Reporting Relationships:
Reports to: Center Director and Assistant Director Direct reports: none

Primary Responsibilities:

Classroom Management

• Help create and maintain safe and healthy learning environments forchildren with appropriate arrangement of materials, space, and supplies.
• Help manage a classroom of children including transition times thatencourages a child’s learning through discovery, curiosity, creativity, and ahealthy self-concept that leads to school readiness.
• Help implement the quality curriculum in a manner that supports theintellectual, social-emotional, physical and language development of eachchild enrolled in his or her classroom.
• Complete tasks assigned in a timely manner to ensure the smoothoperation of the program.
• Utilize best practices and positive discipline techniques with children.

Internal and External Collaboration

• Be familiar with and abide by Learning Grove’s Vision, Mission, andBeliefs.
• Be familiar with and abide by Learning Grove’s Code of Ethics.
• Uphold all standards and policies set forth by Learning Grove.
• Maintain confidential information about the program, families, children,staff and the agency at all times.
• Maintain and demonstrate professionalism in the workplace and in the

community.

• Show initiative for continued professional growth and skills development.
• Maintain positive relationships with children, families and co-workers.
• Model the attributes of acceptance of diversity, nurturing behavior, cooperation, respect, and responsiveness.
• Maintain a positive attitude and be a team player.

Professional Development

• Responsible for obtaining required training hours and maintaining educational credentials.
• Knowledge of and agreement to abide by state licensing mandates.
• Report for assigned work hours on time and prepared for assigned responsibilities.

Other duties as assigned
Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements:

• Ability to read, speak, and write English
• High School or GED required; CDA preferred
• Prior experience working with young children commensurate to responsibilities
• Six-hour State Approved Orientation for Child Care Providers within 10 days of employment
• Current First Aid/CPR Certification
• Successful clearance of BCI and FBI web checks
• Compliance with Licensing requirement for medical exam
• No physical or mental/emotional limitations that would prevent the implementation of caring for and safe- keeping of infants through school age children

Physical demands:
The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and lift objects of up to 20 pounds

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person