Assistant Director of Early Learning Center

Job Title:

Assistant Director of Early Learning Center

Location:

Albany State Rec. Location

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Job

Assistants Director of the ELC's duties include supporting the Director in all roles and responsibilities, inclucing ensuring the ELC has a supervisor at all times during hours of operation. S/He is responsible for co-creating a safe, high-quality environment for children, and must blend administrative, leadership, and child development skills to achieve this. The job requires leadership skills and involves daily responsibilities to maintain a safe and effective learning environment for young children.

Sponsorship is not available for this position.

• Supports the Center Director in managing daily operations, leading staff, and ensuring compliance with state licensing rules. Oversee daily facility operations, assuming full responsibility for center management and decision-making during the Directors absence. Ensure adherence to rules set by Georgia DECAL (Bright from the Start), which governs child-care licensing and health standards.
• Maintain staff schedules and classroom assignments to consistently uphold state-mandated teacher-to-child ratios. Step into kitchen, do laundry, bus driving, and teaching in classrooms when staff shortages happen. Open and/or close the facility and monitor building safety.
• Helps run a safe, clean, and organized learning environment for young children. Understand and be prepared for the various health and safety aspects of a childcare program including water safety, managing medication, controlling communicable diseases, safe sleep practices, travel safety, and emergency procedures.
• Aids an effective childcare program including personnel recruitment/retention, budgeting and marketing, licensing standards, and appropriate social media practices. Help build more effective teams, support reflective supervision, and aid in conflict resolution.
• Update and maintain information for the Quality Rated program requirements and portfolio and aid the director to keep the classrooms accurate by the guidelines of quality rated requirements.
• Ensure every child has an official state-approved immunization certificate (such as Georgia Form 3231 for schools/childcare) and are organized and maintained, ready for immediate review during annual health department inspection. Check lesson plans for curriculum/GELDS alignment, teacher assessment and check lesson plans posted.
• Support and engage families by identifying and connecting families with appropriate resources, incorporating cultural experiences into the classroom, and developing effective communication strategies with families. Act as a bridge between teachers, families, and center leadership. Resolve parent questions or complaints quickly and professionally.
• Lead prospective family tours, boosting facility enrollment and answer any enrollment questions. Maintain detailed and accurate records for student enrollment, medical forms, staff background checks, and attendance logs.
• Incorporate best practices into your early care and education program including the design of a developmentally appropriate classroom, effective curriculum choices, appropriate assessment tools, inclusion of culture and diversity in the classroom, quality initiatives, essential forms for staff and children, and how to connect staff with helpful resources.
• Identify and integrate child development opportunities into the classroom by understanding the social-emotional, cognitive and physical development milestones and brain development functions of young children, learning inclusive preschool classroom practices for children with special needs, and understanding the effect of stress on young children.
• Coaching and mentoring teaching staff, establishing professional development goals, understanding how to recognize and solve ethical dilemmas, learning techniques for stress management, and identifying professional behaviors.
• Assign annual training, leading program orientation, introducing new staff to facility protocols and safety procedures.
• Assist the Director, faculty and staff in event planning, execution and post-event review.

• AAS degree in Child Development or Early Childhood Education.
• 3 years experience in early childhood education. or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Bachelors degree in child development or early childhood education.
• 3
  -5 years experience in…