Early Learning & School Age Program Assistant Manager

Position Summary

Hope House Colorado is hiring an Assistant Manager for our Early Learning & School Age Program. The Early Learning & School Age Assistant Manager (ELAM) will assist the Director of Early Childhood Education (DECE) with implementation and oversight of all programs within the Early Learning and School Age Programs, including Clubhouse activities and covering assigned duties when the Director of Early Childhood Education is offsite.

The ELAM will be responsible for maintaining a warm, welcoming, loving, and educational environment while ensuring the team is providing responsive care to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, implementing activities that provide children with opportunities to practice developmental milestones. Responsible for assisting the DECE with administrative duties, tracking data as it pertains to annual goals and grants, and training and mentoring of volunteers and teachers.

The ELAM will also provide direct leadership and management to the Early Learning Teachers, volunteers and external partnership providers.

• for training and direct management and supervision of Early Learning Teachers, Volunteers and Early Intervention Specialists and various external partnerships.
• Assisting with administrative duties such as maintaining the program handbook, tracking data and satisfying grant reporting requirements.
• Helping teen moms obtain licensed childcare and building and maintaining community partnerships.
• Working in partnership with the DECE and ELC Administration to support continuity of care between the EL&SA program and the Early Learning Center.
• Promoting Hope House Colorado’s Core Values throughout the organization and external relationships.

• Planning and implementing Early Learning and School age programming, and providing and overseeing daily classroom coverage, following best practices and Colorado licensing standards.
• Scheduling of Early Learning Teachers, volunteers and partners to ensure adequate staffing to maintain classroom ratios.

• Collaborating with the Early Learning team and teen moms to implement classroom strategies and activities that empower teen moms and their children, improving child outcomes.

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Human Development and Family Studies, or similarly related field. (Required)
• You have Early Childhood Education experience in a classroom setting serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. (Required)
• You have excellent leadership and communication skills, and can work well within a team and high stress situations. (Required)
• You are able to work at our Arvada location, with availability between 8am-5pm Monday-Friday and one evening each week 12-8 pm. (Required)
• You are Director qualified (Large Center Director Qualification Preferred) or are in the process of obtaining this credential. (Desired)
• You have experience working with at-risk children, teenage moms, or similar at-risk population. (Desired)

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility, and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor, and even a little bit of silliness each day!

$55,/year

• Health Benefits:
  
  Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA:
  Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee’s annual salary.
• Vacation:
  Upon hire, employees earn 6 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays: HHC observes eleven (11) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees…