Center Director

• at the Walnut Ridge Early Child Development Center
• Date Posted:
  May 20, 2026

Summary:

Directs all activities of the Head Start, Early Head Start, CCDF, or ABC facility and ensures that all regulations, policies and procedures pertaining to BRAD Head Start/Early Head Start or ABC are followed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. (Other duties may be assigned.)

• Responsible to ensure teachers provide planning and implementation of learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their literacy, phonemic, and print awareness, their understanding and use of language, their understanding and use of increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, their appreciation of books, their understanding of early math and early science, their problem-solving abilities, and their approaches to learning.
• Responsible for ensuring teachers establish and maintain a safe and healthy learning environment.
• Responsible for ensuring teachers support the social and emotional development of children.
• Responsible for ensuring teachers encourage the involvement of the families of the children in a Head Start program and support the development of relationships between children and their families.
• Monitors, reviews, and evaluates facility activities to ensure conformance to state and local regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring preparation of referral packet and submission of complete packet to Child Development Manager within five working days from date of screening.
• Oversees the election of parent committee officers.
• Works with the parent committee president to schedule parent meetings to take place monthly.
• Works with a parent committee representative to develop a monthly newsletter for parents.
• Approves and initial all in-kind and submits to central office by the 5 th of each month.
• Enters absentees into the agency’s child and family database system by the timelines that are set by the data systems administrator.
• Approves Request for College Course forms for subordinates before sending them to the central office for final approval.
• Attends Management Team Meetings and provides input into program improvement and planning.
• Works with all center staff to ensure the environment is safe and healthy for children and staff.
• Monitors the classrooms regularly, but not less than weekly to ensure that schedules are followed and activities are being carried out as planned, and that all staff are performing to their greatest potential following rules and regulations of the BRAD Child Development Programs.
• Monitor transition rosters and email to Health and Safety Manager each Friday.
• Monitors all health services to ensure compliance with all Head Start Program Performance Regulations and BRAD Head Start Program Implementation Plan with consultation from Health and Safety Manager as needed.
• Monitors the documentation of fire safety inspections, and State Health Dept. to ensure that they are current.
• Keeps current First Aid/CPR cards for all staff and sends copies to the central office.
• Apply for grants when funds are made available with the assistance of the appropriate office staff.
• Conducts staff meetings in the center to keep all staff informed and up to date on current events in the program. Documentation of meetings is submitted to the supervisor with signatures of all attendees. Have all memos/relevant emails signed by the center staff and attached to staff meeting minutes.
• Conducts 45 & 90 day evaluations on all new employees as assigned.
• Conducts annual performance evaluations on all assigned employees after their first year of employment.
• Submits inventory report to central office each year by April 15 th.
• Complete Health and Safety Checklist monthly.
• Submit Maintenance Request Form to Child Development Manager as repairs are needed in center and on playgrounds. Emergency repairs should be submitted immediately.
• Name a person to be in charge of the center when the Center Director is not present.
• Answers all incoming phone calls into the center taking messages for classroom staff so not to interrupt the…