Early Childhood - Assistant Director

Summary

Job Description

We are looking for a positive, energetic, and creative individual to join our talented staff. Our preferred candidate would need to have strong organizational, administrative, and communication skills and be eager to start immediately on a path of shared learning. The ideal candidate will have a friendly, smiling, and easy-going personality while also being very perceptive, responsible, and disciplined. A customer-oriented approach is essential. Must meet basic requirements of local child care regulatory agency.

Duties

• Monitor all classrooms/facility (adhere to proper state codes)
• Assist Director with planning, managing, and marketing
• Maintain center paperwork: staff files updated to DCF standards, in-service hours, monthly events
• Implements policies and programs
• Supervise teachers - provide mentoring
• Tour the facility when needed it
• Helping when hiring - interviewing staff
• Provide new hiring training
• Monitoring staff to ensure they are accurately performing
• Monitors daily license ratios

Requirements

Required Experience and Skills:

• Previous experience as an Assistant Director is preferred.
• Early childhood classroom teaching experience (Desirable).
• Strong communication and people skills.
• Good organizational and multi-tasking abilities.
• Must be a team player, able to adapt to continuously changing, fast-paced environment.
• Have a love for children and a strong desire to make a difference.

Required Education/Certifications:

• AA Degree or Higher in Early Childhood Education preferred
• 45 Hours and CDA required
• Director Credential preferred
• CPR and First Aid required

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Employee discount
• Professional development assistance
• Holidays paid
• Monday to Friday
• Schedule 9:30 am to 6:30 pm

We are a partner with T.E.A.C.H. Florida Program, and sharing tuition costs and expenses creates buy-in and a commitment to succeed from all sides of the program.

"T.E.A.C.H. is an acronym for Teacher Education And Compensation Helps. The program provides scholarships to early learning and afterschool teachers, directors, family child care home educators, and child care facility owners working towards their Florida Staff Credential, Director Credential, National CDA Assessment, credential renewals, or Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in early childhood education. A major goal of T.E.A.C.H. is that it links professional development, increased compensation, and commitment for the Florida early care and education workforce to remain in the field."