Assistant Childcare Center Director

United States·PeabodyFull Timeexecutive

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Magical Beginnings is currently looking for an Assistant Director to join the leadership team for our center in South Peabody. As a part of the center leadership team, you are responsible for ensuring your center is operating safely, efficiently, successfully, and profitably.

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OtherChildcare Center Director

Magical Beginnings is currently looking for an Assistant Director to join the leadership team for our center in South Peabody.

As a part of the center leadership team, you are responsible for ensuring your center is operating safely, efficiently, successfully, and profitably. We want every staff member and teacher to feel truly appreciated and motivated by the positive environment we’ve worked hard to create. Your role is central to keeping things running smoothly, both day-to-day and over the long term. You'll be entrusted with overseeing many important aspects of the center’s operation, including enrollment, teacher retention, organizing events, managing daily tasks, ensuring we have the right supplies, and keeping the center clean and inviting.

The Assistant Director plays a key role in creating and refining the center’s culture by supporting teachers in the development of an innovative, hands-on, curriculum designed for the children in your care and building an environment where the children, families and staff thrive. The ability to lead by example is an important aspect of this position. The ability to work a flexible schedule over the course of five (5) days is required.

A minimum of an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or other degree with relevant experience or training

EEC Director II Certification, active maintenance of annual continuing education requirements, current First Aid and CPR Certificate, and updated State Registry required

A complete mastery of licensure regulations, including preparing for all licensing visits, communicating with licensors, and adapting to licensing changes

Minimum of 2-4 years experience in a leadership position in an early childhood education setting

Oversee all center operations, ensuring that they follow state regulations and Magical Beginnings Learning Center’s mission, goals, and handbooks. Provide excellent customer service, exceeding customer expectations

Ensure and implement all child-to-teacher state-mandated ratio compliances

Ensure and enforce all state-mandated safety and education regulations

Ensure and implement all company policies and procedures per employee and family handbooks.

Convey and display mastery of licensure regulations, including the ability to prepare a school for licensure visits, communicate with licensors, and adapt to changing regulations

Ensure all staff and child files always meet compliance

Ensure monthly fire drills are completed

Schedule school staff within budgeted payroll guidelines, ensuring that licensure guidelines and company quality standards are met and maintained

Guide our teaching team to excellence.

Engage in active listening with staff to build relationships, understand individuals' goals and interests, take the initiative to assist in achieving those goals, and create a cohesive team effort with cooperative relationships.

Ensure the implementation of a developmental and multicultural curriculum that fosters the progression of skills and social development in all children.

Review each classroom’s daily program schedule to ensure that it reflects the progression of skill development between classrooms. Monitor the implementation of the curriculum as planned

Help guide staff in assessing growth and recording weekly growth as observations in Teacher Strategies Gold.

Conduct monthly staff meetings, one-on-one meetings with all staff, and parent meetings as needed