Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
SUMMARY
The Assistant Director is responsible for assisting the Center Director in ensuring an educational, caring, and safe child development program to meet the developmental needs of children served by the Center for Transforming Lives. The Assistant Director is responsible for managing and supervising the staff, program, and day-to-day operations of the Child Development Center in the absence of the Center Director.
RESPONSIBILITIES
● Contributes to providing quality service in whatever capacity is required in accordance with skills and training.
● Assists the Center Director in ensuring that the Child Development Center is operating in compliance with agency policies and procedures, state licensing standards, and other regulatory entities.
● Assists the Center Director in ensuring enrollment goals are met.
● Ensures families and children are referred and/or connected to community resources as appropriate
● Supports implementation of developmentally appropriate curriculum.
● Supports child screening and child assessment process. Ensures children are referred to community resources as necessary.
● Ensures staffing patterns throughout the center meet Child Care Licensing Minimum Standards for classroom ratios.
● Is available and accessible to parents/guardians daily and responds professionally to parent/guardian concerns.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
● Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development, Early Childhood Education or related field required.
● Minimum of three years of classroom or management experience in an early childhood setting.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
● Knowledge of Child Care Licensing Minimum Standards and Head Start Performance Standards.
● Maintains awareness of trends and best practices and is proactive in continually acquiring knowledge in fields related to children and families, poverty and homelessness, and early childhood development and education.
● Knowledge of Windows operating system and Office products, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, or ability to learn them independently and to use them.
● Ability to learn and use any other software programs needed in the operations of Center for Transforming Lives programs, including, but not limited to, any center management data collection and reporting system (Pro Care and Child Plus).
Compensation: $55,000.00 - $62,000.00 per year
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more than 115 years, the Center for Transforming Lives has provided services for low-income women and children. Founded in 1907 as the YWCA® of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, early programs in the 1930s included housing, an employment bureau and childcare for working mothers. In 2015, the organization changed its name to the Center for Transforming Lives to articulate its longstanding mission more clearly.
Today, Center for Transforming Lives partners with single mothers and their children so they can thrive. To disrupt the cycle of poverty, Center for Transforming Lives applies a two-generation framework of essential services that stabilize families and education services that helps them thrive financially and emotionally.
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