JOB DESCRIPTION

Position:  DIRECTOR

Qualifications:

¨      Must meet requirements as stipulated by state licensing departments.

¨      Must have a professional appearance, communication style and exude leadership skills to motivate and energize staff.

¨      Ability to relate positively to young children, parents and staff is essential.

¨      Should have a degree in Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, or degree in related field and at least two years' work experience in a licensed child care facility, kindergarten or early childhood program.

¨      Experience in management, business, and/or public relations would be beneficial.

¨      Must continue accumulating required hours of training as required by state licensing agency and/or the corporate office.

¨      Must be able to lift up to 35 lbs. in connection with the handling of children for the facilitation of programs, child safety, and potential emergency situations.

Responsibilities:

¨      Implements the necessary management responsibilities to ensure maximum enrollment and profit.

¨      Responsible for increasing the income through building enrollment.

¨      Responsible for increasing the profit through increased income and proper cost control.

¨      Selects, hires, and evaluates all staff.

¨      Hires staff meeting qualifications as determined by school owners and, where applicable, for state licensing.

¨      Responsible for new staff orientation, on-boarding and training. 

¨      Evaluates staff on the basis of overall job performance.

¨      Conduct monthly staff meetings to review monthly calendar of events for upcoming month and other topics of interest or concern. 

¨      Work with teachers, as required, on improving their teaching skills, offering suggestions and ideas for improvement.

¨      Oversee classrooms and bulletin boards that they are kept orderly, clean, and appropriate to the season/lessons.

¨      Review activities to ensure classes are conducted properly and professionally

¨      Oversee scheduling of activities, such as music, playground, computer, field trips, special programs, etc.

¨      Weekly lesson plans to be turned in, reviewed and logged.

¨      Ensures that school is properly staffed and that all staff persons perform their duties in a responsible manner.

¨      Become familiar with and see that the school and state licensing requirements are maintained.

¨      Experiment with grouping to produce minimum staff hours and meet the staff expense objectives of the company.

¨      Set up and ensure implementation of strong parent communications.

¨      Monthly newsletters with monthly calendars of past and upcoming events along with individual comments from each instructor.

¨      Attend to all school functions, open houses, etc.

¨      Assist staff on any parental requests for a conference.

¨      Ensure that any discipline of children is in a manner that is firm, but loving.

¨      Evaluate the purchase of food, the preparation and service of all meals and snacks to ensure proper nutritional benefit to the children consistent with meeting budgetary objectives and state licensing standards.

¨      Supervise the formulation of menus to ensure nutritional meals and snacks within the food budget of each center.

¨      Stress portion control.

¨      Stress "no waste" as a budgetary doctrine.

¨      Develop interfacing with all state licensing and other regulatory agencies involved in child care center operations to ensure continued compliance and re-licensing of center.

¨      Be aware of current and past licensing reports.  Check to make sure items marked non-compliance have been corrected and that follow-up letters are sent to confirm correction or completion.

¨      Important to have all files up to date, have a clean, safe building, meet all fire regulations, etc.

¨      Attend workshops, whenever possible, hosted by licensing groups, and encourage staff to do the same.

¨      Properly maintain all financial functions of collecting fees, depositing all monies, recording all accounts, preparing time cards and forwarding data to owners in a timely fashion.

¨      To have general oversight of upkeep and appearance of facility building and grounds.

¨      Be "hospital clean" and always free of clutter and mess.

¨      Have all playgrounds and equipment checked on a regular basis for repairs and/or maintenance.

¨      All materials and supplies stored in a well-organized manner.

Reporting Relationship:

¨      Reports directly to the school owner.