Childcare Director of Operations and Enrollment

Kiddie Academy of Collegeville, PA is looking for a full-time Director of Operations and enrollment .The following are the job responsibilities and essential functions:

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE CHILDCARE ADMIN EXPERIENCE.

• The ideal candidate will look at overall operations to the academy. Which will include marketing and enrollment.
• Effectively operates and manages all aspects of a child care school, to include human resources, customer relations, financial systems, quality control and facility management. Enrollment and total quality of the center, Billing and taking care of all financial aspect of the center.
• Provides creative, age-appropriate programs to all children served at the academy.
• Actively develops and maintains positive customer/community relations.
• Enrolls and Maintains high capacity utilization. Manages all resources effectively and within budget. Establishes strong working relationships with state licensing authorities.
• Follows all Kiddie Academy standards.

Essential Functions

• Ensures academy compliance with all federal and state laws.
• Completes all required paperwork and record keeping on a timely basis and maintains same in an organized, up-to-date manner. This includes all academy files: for example, student, personnel, vehicle, driver, health and safety files.
• Plans academy activities and actively participates: for example, staff meetings, training sessions, open houses, planning sessions.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with all state licensing authorities, approved vendors and community contracts.
• Meets all state requirements for the position.
• Develops and maintains professional working relationships with academy staff.
• Recruits, selects and trains qualified employees.
• Ensures that all staff are properly trained and helps develop staff through career growth and guidance.
•  Anticipates staffing needs, prepares and posts weekly staffing schedule, and modifies it accordingly depending upon daily attendance in each classroom.
• Ensures state staffing regulations are met at all times.
• Evaluates staff via written performance summary on a quarterly and yearly basis and at other times as needed; recommends merit raises for staff.
• Counsels staff on performance issues.
• Submits new staff or staffing changes to licensing representative and maintains up-to-date Human Resources files.
• Trains staff to plan and implement creative, developmentally appropriate programs for all children.
• Ensures that quality control programs are sound and meet all state requirements.
• Actively participates in local professional associations: for example, local NAEYC.
• Develops and actively maintains positive communication with parents.

Benefits:

Paid Vacation, Sick Leave, 401K, Secondary Insurance, Employee tuition discount among other benefits.

KA is EEO

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Childcare Management: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: In person