Assistant Center Manager (Early Childhood Ed Center)

Easter Seals North Georgia; Clarkston (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Easter Seals North Georgia seeks an Assistant Center Manager in Clarkston, GA to support daily center operations and ensure delivery of developmentally appropriate programs. You will mentor teaching staff, monitor curriculum and safety, and coordinate with center leadership to meet Head Start standards.

In this role you will participate in staff meetings, engage with families at monthly meetings, and help maintain records and compliance across programs, while supporting a positive learning

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education or related field.
• Experience in Head Start or related early childhood programs; equivalency considered in some cases.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach teaching staff and supervise curriculum implementation.
• Provide training and feedback based on daily observations.
• Articulate Easter Seals North Georgia's mission and values.
• Ensure excellent attendance and punctuality.
• Attend and participate in staff, center, and parent meetings.
• Greet, enroll, and tour visitors when the Center Manager is absent.
• Monitor curriculum, classroom management, health and safety, and records.
• Assist with record keeping, reporting, and use of technology systems.
• Develop corrective action plans for non-compliance.
• Participate in mandatory trainings and required hours.

Skills

Mentoring staff

Training & feedback

Staff communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related area

Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related field

Job description

Job Details: Job Location: Clarkston - Clarkston, GA 30021, Assistant Center Manager

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Assistant Center Manager works in conjunction with the Center Manager to carry out the blended Early Childhood Development Programs utilizing Head Start Performance Standards and NAEYC guidelines as best practice by serving as a mentor and coach for teaching staff. In the absence of the Center Manager, the Assistant Center Manager assumes the responsibilities of Manager as appropriate.

SUMMARY:

Under the direction of the Center Manager assists in managing the daily operations of the center-based program ensuring that all services are delivered in a comprehensive, coordinated, cost effective manner.

Behavior Standard – 50% of Position

• Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along with customers, clients, co-workers, and management.

Fundamental: Day to Day Activities

• Serves as a mentor and coach for teaching staff
• Ensures the teaching staff implements the established curriculum and providing training and feedback to the teaching staff as it relates to developmentally appropriate practices by engaging in documented, on-going, daily observations
• Assists in the articulation and understanding of the visions, mission and values of Easter Seals North Georgia

Attendance Standard

• Maintains excellent punctuality and attendance

Communications/Public Relations

• Participates in regular meeting with the Center staff to review policy, procedures and their implementation
• Participates in monthly assistant manager meetings and staff meetings to ensure the coordination of services and to ensure that there is regular communication.
• Participates in monthly Parent Meetings, assisting in the facilitation of these meetings and assisting parents in establishing and achieving program goals as well as committee goals.
• Greets, enrolls, and tours visitors at the center in absence of the Center Manager

Monitoring

• Monitors implementation of established curriculum, classroom management, health and safety, and record keeping.

Record Keeping

• Assists in the implementation of record keeping, reporting and monitoring reporting systems as it relates to the Child Care Program’s Policies And Procedures, Child Health, Nutrition and Safety Policy And Procedures and Family and Community Partnerships.
• Utilizes and monitors technology systems appropriately

Compliance

• Recommends and develops corrective action plans for all non-compliance issues specifically related to but not limited to the implementation of curriculum, classroom management, health and safety, and record-keeping.

Learning and Growth

• Participates in all mandatory Easter Seals trainings to include pre-service, in-service and other educational programs and trainings
• Completes the minimum number of training hours required by Bright From The Start, Georgia Pre-K and Head Start

Physical Requirements

• The ability to stand for sustained periods of time.
• The ability to sit for sustained periods of time.
• The ability to walk for sustained periods of time including responding quickly to safety concerns
• The ability to use hands and fingers to feel, operate a computer, and perform picking, pinching and whole hand or arm handling tasks.
• The ability to climb stairs.
• The ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, sit on the floor, or crawl as needed when working with small children on their level.
• The ability to reach, extending arms in any direction.
• The ability to push or pull objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
• The ability to lift and carry a child up to age 5
• The ability to talk in order to accurately exchange information.
• The ability to hear in order to accurately exchange information.
• The ability to see clearly in order to maintain child safety and supervision, use a computer, and for extensive reading and writing.
• The ability to work in both indoor conditions and outdoor conditions.
• The ability to assist children as needed while on a moving bus.

OTHER DUTIES:

Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education & Experience:

Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related area and a minimum of one (1) year
experience in the area of Early Childhood Education OR an Associate’s Degree in the field of Early Childhood
Education or related field.

NOTE: Human Resources may perform an equivalency on a case by case basis considering education and/or experience.