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Little Stars Daycare Center
Orion Associates
Join our team as the Director of our Little Stars Child Care Center in Golden Valley, MN!
Position: Child Care Director
Location: Golden Valley, MN
Schedule: Monday-Friday daytime hours. The Director may need to flex their hours based on needs of their program. This position involves teaching for a large portion of the day. Office tasks will be done typically 2 hours a day.
Wage: $23.00 per hour including full-time benefits and paid time off
Benefits and Perks:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- 401K Plan with employer matching after 1 year
- Paid Training and Monthly Lunch-and-Learns
- MERSC MN Employee Discounts
- Supplement insurance options
About Little Stars
Little Stars Daycare Center provides a safe, caring atmosphere for children, while providing for their physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. Our teachers and staff operate as a little community and have the ability to create meaningful and close relationships with the children and parents. We are located in Golden Valley at our Meridian and Orion Service’s Corporate Office. Little Stars is licensed for 10 infants and toddlers combined and 10 preschoolers. We typically have 4-5 infants attending and 4-5 toddlers per day. Our daycare provides quality care and education for our employees’ children and residents of Golden Valley, MN. Our employees work through Meridian, Orion or Zenith Services.
About the Director position:
- Provide leadership to a small team of teacher’s and staff. Interview, hire and train staff. Audit and tracking of annual training requirements and staff meetings/team builders monthly.
- Oversight of curriculum and programming. Coordination of conferences with families.
- Oversight of Little Stars’ facility. Conducting walk throughs, ordering supplies and groceries.
- Following and tracking of budget.
- Completion of weekly enrollment and working with the finance department on any issues with billings.
- Marketing of openings and completion of tours. Completion of enrollment packets.
- Communication with families.
- Following through on licensing requirements and Parent Aware requirements.
- Filing, auditing of children’s books and staff books
- Creating and filling the monthly staffing schedule.
Our mission is to provide a comprehensive infant, toddler and preschool curriculum based on best practices and research on early brain development and learning. As we provide an enriched, stimulating environment, filled with child-initiated learning experiences, children are offered the opportunity to learn and develop the skills, attitudes and knowledge necessary to becoming independent, productive individuals.
Requirements:
- Have at least 1,040 hours of paid or unpaid staff supervision experience; and
- Have at least nine quarter credits or 90 hours earned in any combination of accredited courses in staff supervision, human relations, and child development.
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Be a graduate of high school or hold an equivalent diploma attained though successful completion of the commissioner of education-selected high school equivalency test.
- Meet qualification of a teacher specified in part 9503.0032.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English communication
- Passion for working with children and building relationships with families
- For specifics, see the childcare rule, Minn. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/9503.0031/
We believe in hiring people from a diverse background that makes our organization stronger. Orion Associates (parent company) is an equal opportunity employer.
If interested, please apply online at our https://www.orionassoc.net/careers/
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