Childcare Specialist

Indiana University Northwest; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Indiana University Indianapolis Center for Young Children seeks a dedicated educator to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities for children enrolled, including physical needs, classroom participation, goal writing, and lesson planning, in a nurturing, play-based setting.

The role emphasizes ongoing assessment of each child, parental meetings, maintaining a safe, clean classroom, supervising staff, attending professional development, and fulfilling licensing requirements while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education or a related field.
• Some experience in childcare preferred.
• Indiana teaching license preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plans and implements developmentally appropriate activities for children enrolled.
• Assesses children's individual needs and tracks progress with parental meetings and routine assessments.
• Maintains a safe, clean, and orderly classroom while meeting licensing standards.
• Attends staff meetings and participates in ongoing professional development.
• Supervises and evaluates classroom assistants and aides; documents performance issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned by childcare leaders.

Skills

Professionalism

Time management

Quality commitment

Flexibility

Lifelong learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in education

Job description

Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI) Center for Young Children partners with families to provide a nurturing, play-based learning environment that fosters social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. The Center strives to be the standard for quality center-based childcare.

Job Summary

• Plans and implements developmentally appropriate activities for children enrolled. This includes physical needs, classroom activity participation, goal writing, lesson plans, preparation, etc.
• Assesses children's individual needs, tracks, and records progress through parental meetings, developmental goal-setting, and routine assessment.
• Maintains the classroom in a safe, clean, and orderly environment through maintaining licensing standards as set forth by the state and supervising children during free play, naps, learning, and outdoor time.
• Attends staff meetings and participates in ongoing professional development.
• Supervises and evaluates classroom assistants and aids. This includes observing and documenting job performance and potential disciplinary and performance issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned by childcare leaders.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree in education or a related field.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Preferred

• Some experience in childcare or a related field.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Preferred

• Indiana teaching license.

SKILLS

Required

• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.

Working Conditions / Demands

This role regularly requires the ability to effectively communicate. This role frequently requires the ability to handle equipment. This role frequently requires the ability to remain stationary and ascend/descend ladders/stairs. This role requires the ability to move objects weighing up to 40 pounds. The role requires the ability to detect items in close proximity as well as far away; discern between colors; detect objects in peripheral space of self; discern items in detail; and to have good depth perception. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Work Location

This is an in-person position.

Advertised Salary

Starting salary $43,284.96 per year

Work Hours

Monday through Friday

Benefits Overview

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events

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