Program Director

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be responsible for the overall programmatic and operational responsibility for the administration and supervision of the Sandpiper staff and program.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

• Develop a strategic plan that addresses programmatic priorities, available resources, and timeline for implementation.
• Utilize and regularly update professionally accepted assessment tools and evaluates program performance and effectiveness.
• Provide training to staff on program evaluation methodology – how to interpret, organize, and present data to support sound making decision making.
• Develop program policies and procedures relating to staff (including new hires), family engagement, financial management, health and safety, risk management, etc. to promote vision, mission, and education goals.
• Work collaboratively with teaching staff and families to integrate their feedback into the program’s vision, mission, and philosophy.
• Review expenses regularly to identify ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency resulting in net savings on approved budgets.
• Maintain working relationships with the licensing representatives and agency partners – RI Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), RI Department of Health (RIDOH), RI Department of Human Services (RIDHS), and the RI Department of Education (RIDE).
• Maintain childcare space to ensure a safe environment that meets early childhood education standards and all regulatory agency requirements.
• Implement all standards necessary to ensure a clean, safe, and healthy environment; requires staff to enforce all safety policies and procedures.
  
  

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

• Master’s degree in early childhood education, Child Development or related field required.
• Minimum or 5 years’ experience in a childcare setting with at least 1 of those years in a supervisory position required; knowledge of Child Development and RI Early Learning Evidence Base Curriculum and RI Early Learning and Development Standards (RIELDS) required.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking, and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Leadership.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
  
  

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

Requirements

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
  
  

Affirmative Action

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.