The Child Care Center Director operates and manages all aspects of an early education center, including human resources, customer relations, marketing, educational programs, financial responsibility, and physical facility. Promotes a positive image of the program within the community and establishes strong working relationships with the diocese, state licensing authorities, local and county health departments, and other regulatory agencies.

General

• Ensures the center compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations.
• Implements health and safety standards; ensures that appropriate supervision of children and safe transportation practices are utilized daily.
• Completes and maintains all required paperwork and recordkeeping on a timely basis in an organized manner. This includes all program files
  such as student, employee, health, and safety files.
• Reports promptly all critical areas of responsibilities, including serious student accidents, employee issues, and significant events.
• Develops and maintains a strong working relationship with all state licensing authorities, vendors, and community contacts.

Customer Service

• Develops and actively maintains positive communications with parents.
• Recognizes parent concerns, evaluates course of action, and responds appropriately to parents' needs.
• Communicate parent concerns to leadership, as required.
• Responsible for increasing student enrollment; determines reasons for loss enrollment and addresses problem areas contributing to lost enrollment.

Educational Program

• Ensures curriculum is appropriately implemented throughout the program and meets state requirements for each age group.
• Works to ensure the staff is effectively trained on curriculum and established early childhood principles.

Financial Responsibilities

• Familiar with and able to create a program budget to ensure all resources are effectively managed and within budgetary constraints.
• Creates new budgets each year that best meet the program's needs and goals.
• Ensures financial recordkeeping requirements are met, including tracking monetary transactions with customers and vendors.
• Follows organization's financial policies and procedures following agency regulations.
• Ensures that Accounts Receivable are closely managed; takes appropriate action with non-paying accounts.
• Maintains accurate financial accounting of program operations and protects the program's monetary assets. Ensures program supplies and equipment are inventoried and appropriately maintained.

Human Resources

• Recruits, selects, and properly trains qualified staff. Develops staff through program growth and guidance plans. Maintains professional working relationships with program staff.
• Anticipates staffing needs, prepares and posts weekly staffing schedule and modifies it according to daily student counts in each classroom.
• Ensures that state and local regulations are met at all times.
• Evaluates and develops staff within program guidelines.

Marketing

• Responds to and follows up on enrollment inquiries.
• Provides prospective families tours of the program and detailed information about the program's educational philosophy and classroom teachers.
• Ensures that other program staff is also trained on marketing the program in the director's absence.
• Works to develop marketing strategies to increase capacity utilization; utilizes community-based marketing techniques and other appropriate marketing methods.

Physical Facility

• Maintains building, equipment, and grounds to ensure a safe environment that meets program and licensing safety standards.

Requirements:

• Meet or exceed state licensing requirements for age, education, and experience.
• A Bachelor's or Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education, with at least two years experience in a licensed child care center.
• Child-Care Center Director certificate, preferred.
• Must be willing and able to work in any classroom as needed to meet the programs needs.