Childcare Director - Preschool

Job Description

Job Description

Are you energetic, compassionate and caring? Join our team providing leadership to our Early Learning Child Care Center with a growing enrollment!

JOB DESCRIPTION

• This position supports the work of the Y, a leading nonprofit charitable organization committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. The Early Learning Center Director at the Malden YMCA oversees the development and operations of the childcare program, while ensuring the program meets its intended goals.
• This is a hands-on leadership position responsible for creating a safe, welcoming, inclusive, and high-quality early learning environment while managing the people, programs, operations, enrollment, licensing, and resources necessary for the Center's success. They provide a quality experience for children ages 2.9 to 5 years of age and their guardians that focuses on the YMCA values: caring, honest, respect and responsibility. Program capacity is 70 children.
  
  ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Early Learning Center, ensuring a safe, nurturing, inclusive, engaging, and developmentally appropriate environment for every child.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and continuously improve an early childhood curriculum that supports children's social-emotional, cognitive, physical, language, and creative development.
• Ensure teachers conduct ongoing developmental observations and assessments and use the information to individualize learning experiences and support each child's development.
• Monitor classroom quality through regular observation, coaching, feedback, and direct involvement with children and staff.
• Maintain an environment that recognizes individual needs, abilities, cultures, family backgrounds, and diverse learning styles.
• Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, train, schedule, supervise, coach, recognize, and evaluate teachers and program staff.
• Ensure appropriate staffing patterns are maintained and that staff qualifications, assignments, ratios, and supervision practices comply with current EEC requirements.
• Conduct regular staff meetings and provide ongoing coaching and professional development.
• Maintain required EEC records, policies, plans, inspections, documentation, and program information and ensure readiness for licensing visits and renewals.
• Ensure required emergency, health, safety, medication, incident-reporting, child protection, and evacuation procedures are consistently followed.
• Ensure staff maintain required credentials, background checks, health and safety training, and other documentation.
• Serve as a primary point of contact with EEC and coordinate licensing visits, corrective actions, documentation, and follow-up as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 21 years of age.
• EEC Certified Director I or II
• Associate's Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Elementary Education, Human Services or related field.
• At least 3 years of relevant early childhood education, childcare, youth development or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience supervising, coaching, training and developing childcare staff.
• Ability to successfully pass all background checks and screenings as required by the YMCA and EEC.
• Certified or ability to be certified in CPR, First Aid, AED, child abuse prevention training and other required trainings within established timeframes.

BENEFITS

• Paid vacation, holidays, sick time
• Free YMCA Family membership
• Paid training
• 8% Retirement when you reach the eligibility requirements
• Medical/Dental/Life insurance available