Early Childhood Center Director

**Now offering a $1,000 sign-on bonus!**

Job Description

Director

Job Summary:

Effectively operates and manages all aspects of a child care center, including human resources, customer relations, marketing, educational programs, financial responsibility, and physical facility. Promotes positive image of the program within the community and on social media and establishes strong working relationships with state licensing authorities, local and county health departments, and other regulatory agencies.

$1000 sign-on bonus for experienced candidates.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

General:

• Ensures center compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations.
• Implements health and safety standards; ensures that appropriate supervision of children and safe transportation practices are used daily.
• Completes all required paperwork and record keeping on a timely basis and maintains same in an organized, up-to-date manner and is readily accessible upon request. This includes all program files such as student, employee, health, and safety files.
• Keeps owners apprised in a timely manner of all critical areas of responsibilities, including serious student accidents, employee issues and significant events.
• Attends weekly meetings with company owner.
• Keeps owner up to date regarding daily tasks and any issues that may have arose during the course of the day by sending a detailed and thorough email at the end of each day.
• Must have open availability.

Customer Service:

• Develops and actively maintains positive communication with parents.
• Recognizes parent concerns, evaluates course of action and responds appropriately to needs of parents.
• Communicates parent concerns to owner and other staff members as needed.
• Responsible for keeping their center at full capacity; determines reasons for loss enrollment and addresses problem areas contributing to loss enrollment. Sends monthly report to owner.

Educational Program:

• Ensures that Creative Curriculum is being appropriately implemented throughout the program and meets state requirements for each age group.
• Works to ensure that the staff is effectively trained on curriculum and established early childhood principles.
• Works to get program to the highest level with licensing and maintains this standard once its met.

Financial Responsibilities:

• Ensures that computer-related record keeping requirements are met, to include tracking monetary transactions with customers and vendors. Approves invoices and provides all necessary paperwork to owner for payment and audit purposes.
• Properly fills out the required form for all receipts as well as maintaining the monthly credit card receipt tracking spreadsheet. The spreadsheet must be emailed on the 1stof each month for the previous month.
• Ensures that all receipts are properly labeled with the center’s location and the name of the staff person who purchased the items.
• Ensures that accounts receivable is closely managed; takes appropriate action with non-paying accounts.
• Maintains accurate financial accounting of program operations, protects program’s monetary assets. Ensures program supplies and equipment are inventoried and appropriately maintained.

Human Resources:

• Recruits, selects and properly trains qualified staff. Develops staff through program growth and guidance plans. Maintains professional working relationships with program staff.
• Anticipates staffing needs, prepares and posts weekly staffing schedule and modifies it according to daily student counts in each classroom. Ensures that state and local regulations are met at all times.
• Counsels staff regarding performance issues via employee handbook and policies and procedures for corrective action.
• Evaluates staff on a yearly basis with a written performance review, and at other times as needed; recommends merit raises for staff within program guidelines.

Marketing:

• Responds and follows up on enrollment inquiries. Gives prospective customers tours of the program and detailed information about the program’s educational philosophy and classroom teachers. Ensures that program Assistant Director is properly trained on marketing the program in Directors’ absence.
• Works to develop marketing strategies to increase capacity utilization; utilizes community-based marketing techniques and other appropriate marketing methods.

Physical Facility:

• Maintains building, equipment, and grounds to ensure a safe environment that meets program and licensing safety standards.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and healthy environment through scheduled cleaning and frequent safety checks.
• Coordinates equipment and facility repairs; ensures timely completion of repairs to minimize any risk of injury to others and to remain in compliance with NYSOCFS.

Reporting Relationships:

• The Director reports to the owner. All program staff report to the Director.

Qualifications:

• The director must meet or exceed state licensing requirements for age, education, and experience. A Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education or related field with at least 9 credits directly related to Early Childhood Education.
• The Director must be willing and able to work in any classroom as needed to meet the programs needs.
• The Director must maintain a minimum number of continuing education hours each year.
• Must have at least 2 years experience as a childcare Director.

Physical Requirements:

• Shoveling and salting walkways during winter months.
• Trash removal.
• Traveling from ALIL site to site.
• Traveling via car, bus, train, or plane for conferences or continuing education opportunities.
• Traveling to the store to pick up items that may be needed for your center.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $49,920.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Childcare
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $49,920 - $60,000