Director of Child Care Center

Title: Center Director

Reports to: Executive Director of Operations

Job Purpose:

Responsible for running day to day operations, coaching and mentoring staff, assisting parents and children through their experience at the center, and ensuring that the center offers the premier child development experience that is educational and affordable.

Tasks:

• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities and policies, and students' behavioral or learning problems;
• Prepare and maintain attendance, activity, planning, accounting, or personnel reports and records for officials and agencies, or direct preparation and maintenance activities;
• Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies, procedures, and programs to carry them out;
• Monitor students' progress, and provide students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems;
• Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment;
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff, and recommend personnel actions for programs and services;
• Direct and coordinate activities of teachers;
• Plan, direct, and monitor instructional methods and content of educational, vocational, or student activity programs;
• Review and interpret government codes, and develop procedures to meet codes and to ensure facility safety, security, and maintenance;
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of program schedules and descriptions, to estimate staffing and facility requirements;
• Review and evaluate new and current programs to determine their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with state, local, and federal regulations, and recommend any necessary modifications;
• Answer interest forms, conduct routine follow up with parents;
• Guiding Parent Tours;
• Distributing and collecting necessary family paperwork and documentation ensuring the Center and all staff are compliant by law;
• Enroll children in ProCare;
• Set Parents up with Website access;
• Establish family files;
• Deliver necessary classroom paperwork;
• Conduct and or setting up new family orientation;
• Un-enroll families through the withdrawal process;
• Conduct exit interview and filing paperwork;
• File ACH Debit Payment form with Accounting, scan to corporate office;
• Provide Accounting with updates;
• Manage family vacation process;
• Manage family schedule changes;
• Manage Waiting Lists;
• Must be able to attend work as required.

HUMAN RESOURCES:

• Posting positions;
• Active recruiting;
• Screening;
• Setting up interviews;
• Interviewing;
• Selection;
• Communication with candidates;
• Employee files;
• Enrolls employees in benefits when appropriate;
• Conducts new employee orientation;
• Reference checks;
• Promotions;
• Career Development;
• Training;
• Orientation (delivery).

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT:

• Establish expectations for new hires;
• Supervise Orientation Process;
• Issue, collect, and file necessary paperwork and documentation ensuring the Center and all staff are compliant for state audits;
• Conduct reviews quarterly for Lead Teachers;
• Supervise Lead Teacher Reviews for Assistants and Opening/Closing Teachers;
• Conduct classroom observation and fill out evaluations form – on every other week basis;
• Conduct Staff Meetings monthly;
• Conduct interviews;
• Manage conflict resolution;
• Manage staff scheduling;
• Manage Parent Teacher Conference process;
• Ensure center follows State Guidelines specific to Staff Records, Family Records, and Center Operations;
• Oversee curriculum management processes- Ensure usage/consistency and ordering;
• Conduct research and develop for new and innovative curriculum;
• Support teachers in writing and delivering evaluations of enrolled children;
• Oversee Food and Nutrition- Confirm Menu meets USDA guidelines, Post menus on website and front bulletin board, ensure we are Peanut Free, Budget for Groceries, USDA Food Program;
• Manage Attendance and Forecasting;
• Supplies;
• Oversee teacher to student classroom ratios following established guidelines always.

FACILITIES:

• Manage center equipment and supply process;
• Establish supply budget;
• Ensure effective/efficient facility utilization;
• Ensure Safe, Clean, Organized Physical Appearance;
• Manage Cleaning Process;
• Establish and manage a maintenance notification process;
• Conduct Fire Alarms Drills;
• Conduct Tornado Drills;
• Manage Smoke Detectors testing process;
• All other duties and responsibilities as determined by Center Management.

Work Activities:

• Developing and Building Teams;
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems - resolve problems in educational settings;
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - conduct or attend staff meetings;
• Coordinating the Work and Activities of Other - direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff;
• Performing Administrative Activities - oversee site-based school management, maintain educational records, reports, or files, prepare educational reports;
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public;
• Getting Information;
• Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with others;
• Documenting/Recording Information;
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - maintain relationships with agency personnel or community organizations;
• Physical demands - Frequently stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; regularly talk or hear; Occasional outdoor weather conditions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 21 years of age;
• Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent;
• Have at least two years’ experience as a childcare teacher OR center director in a licensed child care center or other approved setting;
• Completed one of the following training requirements:
• Four non-credit department approved courses in early childhood education or its equivalent AND within 3 years of assuming the position. Up to two courses in Child Care Administrator may be used to meet the early childhood education requirements, if taken prior to beginning to work as the center director OR;
• Four courses for credit in early childhood education from an institution of higher education and within 3 years of assuming the position. Up to two courses in the Child Care Administrator Credential may be used to meet the early childhood education requirement, if taken prior to beginning to work as a center director OR;
• An associate degree in early childhood education or child care from an institution of higher education OR;
• A bachelor degree in early childhood education from an institution of higher education or a license from the State department of public instruction to act as a kindergarten, pre-kindergarten or early childhood (regular or special education) teacher.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in early childhood education from an institution of higher education;
• Two years’ experience as a Center Director in a licensed child care center.

Skills:

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents;
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times;
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience;
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively;
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.

Social Skills:

• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do;
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions;
• Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior;
• Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences;
• Instructing - Teaching others how to do something;
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design;
• Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job;
• Equipment Maintenance - Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed;
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it;
• Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

System Skills:

• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one;
• Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

Resource Management Skills:

• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others;
• Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures;
• Management of Material Resources - Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work;
• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Desktop Computer Skills:

• Databases - Using a computer application to manage large amounts of information, including creating and editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information;
• Internet - Using a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations;
• Navigation - Using scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest;
• Presentations - Navigating the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail (e-mail);
• Spreadsheets - Using a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.

Tools:

• Desktop computers;
• Digital cameras;
• Emergency medical services first aid kits;
• Notebook computers;
• Personal computers.

Technology:

• Internet browser software - Web browser software;
• Spreadsheet software - Microsoft Excel;
• Word processing software - Microsoft Word.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $44,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $44,000