Harmon Learning Center Director

Summary

The Center Director is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and quality of care and education, for all children within the program. They are directly accountable for the overall operational and  management of the program and facility in accordance with legal, licensing, and accreditation standards of best practice. The Center Director ensures that the needs of the students, staff, and the goals of the center are met appropriately.

This position reports to the CalfeeCCC Executive Director.

Duties

• Establish quality vision and institute ongoing program planning and continuous program improvement for the center in collaboration with the CalfeeCCC Executive Director and Board of Directors;
• Provide effective leadership that promotes positive relationships and creates an environment, so all children, families, and personnel have high-quality experiences;
• Create and implement well-functioning policies, procedures, and systems that support program accountability, stable and strong personnel, fiscal soundness, legal compliance, and ethical responsibility;
• Manage adherence to high quality in accordance with the vision, program goals, and with local, state, and national requirements, regulations, and standards of best practice; 
• Use formal and informal assessment approaches to inform decisions and plan curriculum that supports children’s learning and development, to improve teaching practices, to understand community needs, and to drive program improvement;
• Employ and support a teaching and administrative staff that have the qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children’s learning and development and to support families’ diverse needs and interests;
• Ensure the wellbeing of each child in the program through creation and implementation of safety, nutrition, health, and emergency policies and practices;
• Ensure the implementation of a curriculum that is consistent with the program goals for children and that promotes learning and development in physical, social, emotional, language, and cognitive development of all children; 
• Ensure the use of developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches;
• Provide an appropriate and well-maintained indoor and outdoor physical environment that supports program goals and facilitates learning, comfort, health, and safety of those who participate in the program;
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationship with each child’s family; 
• Establish and maintain positive community relationships that support the achievement of program goals and connect families with needed resources;
• Oversee all office functions including budgeting, payroll, accounts payable and receivable, tuition billing and payment, human resources and personnel management (staff supervision) and purchasing;
• Secure and manage grant funding (including but not limited to VA Child Care Subsidy, VPI, Head Start, Early Head Start, Mixed Delivery, and VQB5); and
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor (additional responsibilities could be added with program growth).

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
•  CPR/First Aid, SIDS/Shaken Baby Certified or be willing to obtain. 
• Must meet annual continuing education requirements. 
• State and national criminal and sex offender background check and TB test prior to employment.
• Ability to perform physical labor as needed for position.
• Working knowledge of VDOE licensing requirements and other regulatory entities.

All Site Directors shall be at least 21 years of age and meet ONE OF THE FOLLOWING for licensure requirements:

• A graduate degree in a child-related field such as child development, early childhood or elementary education, nursing, or recreation from a college or university and six (6) months of programmatic experience.
• A bachelor's degree in a child-related field such as elementary education, nursing, or recreation from a college or university and one (1) year of programmatic experience.
• One (1) year of programmatic experience and forty-eight (48) semester hours or seventy-two (72) quarter hours of college credit from a college or university of which twelve (12) semester hours or eighteen (18) quarter hours are in a child-related subject.
• Two (2) years of programmatic experience with one (1) year in a supervisory capacity and one of the following: CDA, AA degree in a child-related field, or a one year early childhood certificate that consists of 30 semester hours.

About Us

CalfeeCCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 2019, with a mission to revitalize the legacy of the historic Calfee Training School, which educated African Americans in Pulaski from 1894-1966. The school faced severe underfunding from Jim Crow segregation and was part of two lawsuits that led to the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision that eventually desegregated schools nationally. The CalfeeCCC is a multipurpose center that will include the CAC, an African American Heritage Center, the Harmon Early Learning Center for childcare, a commercial-grade community kitchen, an event center, and a digital lab that will serve the community's present needs in order to create a stronger future for the community. A 15-member Board of Directors, the majority of whom attended Calfee Training School or are their family members, oversees the work of the CalfeeCCC.