Child Care Center Director

BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

The center director is responsible for the general supervision and management of the entire child care center. As the director, this person will directly supervise the assistant directors, head teachers, and administrative staff. This person will also interact with parents, and be responsible for maintaining a culturally humble, high quality, family-oriented climate throughout the center. The center director will be expected to have a keen understanding of the Regio Emilia approach and will be responsible for facilitating and overseeing curriculum through this inspiration.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain positive, open communication, with all staff, children and families affiliated with the child care center.
• Make sure every classroom maintains high quality family-oriented educational experience consistent with inspiration from the Reggio Emilia. The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others.
• Keep the center in compliance with all New York state regulations.
• Maintain enrollment, schedule and provide tours for prospective families.
• Direct the recruitment, hiring and orientation of all new staff.
• Evaluate and coach development of staff through classroom observation.
• Work with Child Care Council and other organizations to ensure that all staff receives their required training.

• Must meet NYS OCFS qualifications for a Center Director.
• Demonstrate knowledge of NY state child care regulations.
• Strong employee relations and employee development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organizational skills, and an outgoing personality.

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Experience with payroll systems and human resource procedures.
• Ability to learn new software applications quickly.
• Ability to multi-task and demonstrated focus on attention to detail.
• Experience with the Regio Emilia inspired curriculum.