Childcare Manager

Montgomery College; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated childcare administrator to lead a team in providing exceptional early childhood education. This role emphasizes fostering a nurturing environment while managing operations, compliance, and staff development. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree and significant experience in childcare management, ensuring high-quality care for children of employees. Join a vibrant community committed to making a difference in the lives of families, where your leadership can truly impact the future of early education.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of relevant work experience required.
• Strong communication and people management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee childcare operations and ensure quality assurance.
• Manage recruitment, onboarding, and staff orientations.
• Develop communications to support operational improvements.

Skills

Customer Conflict Management

Communication

Operations Planning

People Management

Compliance

Quality Management

Business Results

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization: VUMC Child Care - Admin

Job Summary: Responsible for overseeing childcare personnel, which includes Early Learning Teachers, Early Learning Associates, Administrative Support, DHS Licensing, program operations and program quality.

Department Summary:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Child and Family Centers offer early childhood care and education for the children of VUMC employees. The childcare program serves children, from six weeks old to age five. The centers are licensed by the Tennessee Department of Human Services. The Child and Family Centers provide quality care and education in a safe, nurturing and engaging environment.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree plus five (5) years of relevant work experience.

** It's important that all candidates, internal or external, please upload an updated resume that includes the start and end dates (month & year) of any relevant positions you have held. Your resume should be in a Word or PDF format.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fosters healthy work and learning environment.
• Oversees childcare operations including licensing, quality assurance, facility operations and educational excellence.
• Prioritizes and organizes daily childcare center activities for maximum effectiveness.
• Manages recruitment, onboarding, checking references and conducting staff orientations.
• Develop communications that support operational improvement, workplace culture improvement, policy and procedure.
• Collaborates with ongoing enrollment process.
• Maintains accurate and current HR transactions in HR systems and payroll processing.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Customer Conflict Management (Advanced): Ability to manage conflict, disharmony and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
• Communication (Advanced): Clearly, effectively, and respectfully communicates to employees or customers.
• Operations Planning (Advanced): Anticipates resource needs to meet objectives and implements appropriate processes.
• People Management (Advanced): Interacting, communicating, building relationships and developing employees.
• Compliance (Advanced): Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Quality Management (Intermediate): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.
• Business Results (Intermediate): Ability to achieve business results while focusing on quality, customer satisfaction, and stewardship.
• Leadership (Intermediate): Formulates a vision while motivating & guiding employees promoting engagement.

Core Accountabilities:

• Organizational Impact: Directs activities to achieve operational plans with some near term effect on results of the department/area.
• Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Identifies issues, gathers facts to resolve technical and operational problems.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Applies in-depth knowledge and skills of a professional/technical area and basic management knowledge to manage the work of the team.
• Team Interaction: Leads a complex department with a focus on implementation.

Core Capabilities:

• Supporting Colleagues: Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
• Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.
• Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
• Delivering Excellent Services: Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.
• Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
• Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
• Ensuring High Quality: Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
• Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
• Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
• Managing Resources Effectively: Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
• Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
• Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
• Fostering Innovation: Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
• Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
• Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Position Qualifications:

Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience: 5 years

Education: Bachelor's

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.

About Us

PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO.

Our vision:The world leader in advancing personalized health.

Our mission:personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities.

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We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

At VUMC, we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families. We value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and discovery, and seek to be a place where everyone has the chance to thrive.

We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region.

We employ more than 28,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, and graduate medical education as well as critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fund-raising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many more.

Our growing health system has more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds at:

• Vanderbilt University Hospital
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital
• Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

It’s also home to hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region. We serve our community with many unique and specialized services including the Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center that does the most heart transplants in the world, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, Burn Center and many more.

World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals. Our robust research enterprise consistently ranks among the highest in the country as measured by peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.

We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals, including being nationally ranked in multiple medical specialties for treating the most complex conditions in adults and children by US News and World Report. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the southeast in 2024.

We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.