The Associate Executive Director of Child Care is responsible for supporting the Child Care Executive Director in managing the day to day business operations of all School Aged Child Care programs and Early Learning Centers within the assigned region.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Serve as a member of the Childcare Management Team, ensuring delivery of high quality outcomes for children in all childcare programs. Represent the association in the childcare field.
- Create, develop, implement and manage high quality, mission focused programs that meet the needs of the community. Ensure quality program delivery and effective use of resources including staff, volunteers and equipment within established budget.
- Ensure staff excellence in service delivery to assure program retention, satisfaction and growth.
- Manage program operations to meet established financial targets.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory licensing standards including but not limited to DHS, NJ OOL and Keystone STARS as well as all Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA policies and procedures.
- Cultivate relationships with community leaders to ensure program effectiveness and identifying opportunities for programs that meet financial and service objectives.
- Administering program budget, materials, communication, marketing and promotion.
- Provide oversight of all aspects of program registration, promotion, open houses, and communications. Assure clear dissemination of all communication and information to participants and families.
- Monitor submission of required documentation to include daily and weekly rosters, status of registration, weekly statistics, parent newsletters, and all third party payments for all programs.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive staff development plan that has a focus on staff satisfaction and continuous quality improvement. Ensure staffing complies with regulatory requirements. Responsible for ensuring ongoing feedback and disciplinary action to all program staff.
- Plan and conduct appropriate staff trainings in keeping with regulatory requirements and proper credentials.
- Monitor staff schedules, time sheets, and payroll. Accountability for departmental budget relating to staff salaries.
- Inspect program sites regularly for proper supervision, safety, cleanliness and compliance with program requirements.
- Responsible for all internal and external program audits.
- Have knowledge, awareness and understanding of Quality Rating Systems and national accreditation performance standards to improve program quality. Work to attain highest quality ratings for all programs.
- Work with the Building Maintenance Director to ensure facility cleanliness, maintenance of facility equipment and recommend facility improvements.
- Work cooperatively with other program Directors to schedule and run activities in the gym, pool and other spaces throughout the building. Communicate needs and concerns in oral and written form.
- Develop positive relationships with parents, families, and local school administrators including the creation and growth of a Parent Advisory Committee.
- Ensure supervision and management of all program participants at the facility, during transport and on field trips by adhering to YMCA policies and procedures.
- Direct all aspects of safety related to staffing, equipment, environment and behavior. Know and train on the use of incident reports, emergency procedures, stocked first aid kits, etc.
- Hold meetings with core staff to communicate program successes and shortcomings and to develop plans to address the identified needs.
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Ed or BA in Arts Child Development. PA Director’s Credential preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- 5 years’ experience as a Director or 5 years’ experience working with children and adults.
- Experience in staff supervision, committees and in providing leadership to groups.
- Ability to recruit, train, schedule, supervise and motivate staff.
- Experience in developing and monitoring financial projections, budgets and assessment of program effectiveness.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Detail-oriented with problem solving skills. Demonstrated experience setting and managing priorities.
- Exhibit strong leadership skills; possess a passion for member service, building and maintaining a culture of member service excellence
- Acquire and maintain the following certifications:
- CPR Pro/AED/O2 (valid 2 years unless otherwise noted)
- First Aid (valid 2 years unless otherwise noted)
- Requisite Online Trainings (valid 2 years unless otherwise noted)
- First Aid (valid 2 years unless otherwise noted)
- Requisite Online Trainings (valid 2 years unless otherwise noted)
Compensation/Benefits:
Salary: $53,120.00 - $69,410.00
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 21 2018
Active Until:
Sep 21 2018
Hiring Organization:
YMCA of the USA
industry:
Nonprofit