Assists in the day-to-day operations of the Early Childhood Center (ECC), promoting each child’s physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development in a warm and nurturing environment. Responsibilities include providing required classroom coverage, ensuring policies and programs are adhered to, orienting new families, ensuring overall quality and safety of Center is maintained, supervising Center in Director’s absence.
Responsibility
• Assist in maintaining a 5 Star rating in the QRIS rating system.• Ensure State of Michigan Childcare Licensing rules are met at all times.
• Maintain records for all staff and enrolled children.
• Schedule Early Childhood Center staff; provide adequate classroom coverage to maintain quality programming at all times.
• Step-in and teach in classroom as required to maintain licensing ratios and quality instruction.
• Review and approve end-of-day student reports.
• Coordinate, review and publish monthly Early Childhood Center Newsletter.
• Prepare agenda for Staff Meeting with Director.
• Assist in arranging public relations activities involving the Early Childhood Center including Earth Day planting, Baldwin House activities, Open Houses, etc.
• Assist in planning and leading Center events, parent training, and educational programs for staff and parents.
• Support Director in establishing and sustaining a sense of community through parent and staff involvement.
• Assist Director in ensuring Center grounds, classrooms, and office area are clean, attractive, inviting, and within licensing regulations.
• Assist Director with follow-up of all phone messages, scheduling and conducting of new families for tours.
• Keep Director regularly informed of issues regarding the ECC.
• Assume Director’s responsibilities in the Director’s absence.
• Perform related duties as assigned.
Physical Demands: Job occasionally requires standing, sitting, stooping, bending and lifting (over 35 pounds) children.
Competitive Benefits: Including medical, dental, short-term disability, life, paid vacation and sick time, 401(K) retirement plan with match, and generous number of paid holidays.
Qualifications
• Must be at least 21 years of age with a High School Diploma or GED.• Must have one of the following licensing credentials: a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education or Child Development; a Bachelor’s degree or higher in a child-related field including 18 credit hours of ECE or Child Development; an Associate’s degree in ECE or Childhood Development including 18 credit hours of ECE or Child Development; or a Child Development Associate credential with 18 credit hours of ECE or Child Development.
• Three years of teaching and supervisory experience in an education based childcare setting is preferred.
• Experience with High Scope Curriculum and QRIS rating system preferred.
• Sensitive, warm and nurturing individual who is able to relate well to both children and adults.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organization and planning skills.
• Self-Starter.
• Ability to perform numerous tasks simultaneously and meet required deadlines.
• Ability to keep the necessary proprietary information confidential.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite preferred. Ability to learn internal software programs.
• Ability to define problems and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Ability to deal with abstract as well as with concrete problematic people/children and situations such as dissatisfied and irate parents and children.
Work Schedule
• Work schedule varies Monday through Friday between the hours of 7am – 6pm; depending on needs of the center. Sometimes works more than eight hours a day.• May work some evenings and weekends in order to attend/conduct meetings and attend other related activities.