Center Director - Temporary

Center Director

The Center Director is responsible for the overall management of the center base program and running of the classrooms at a licensed site. They are designated with California Community Care Licensing as the Center Director on the Licensing 500 form and are responsible for the duties of the Center Director as required by California Community Care Licensing. This is a non-exempt position.

The essential job functions are as follows:

1. Develop a trusting relationship with families of enrolled children and make them the senior partner in helping to improve the quality of life for the entire family.

2. In partnership with families, NCS staff, and involved agencies, make and follow up on referrals and coordinate logistics to insure good communication between family and all involved partners.

3. Plan and implement outreach to ensure full enrollment, strong community support and successful transitions for children and families.

4. Take a lead role in helping parents to: understand the development of their children; grow their parenting skills; ensure their child's safety; and become more involved in their child's education.

5. Conduct parenting education and teach parents to lead parent committee meetings.

6. Demonstrate appropriate response to children and families that have experienced physical & emotional abuse, neglect, violence, substance abuse, and mental health concerns and strive to provide resources that address those issues.

7. Regularly observe and assess children and families in relation to developmentally and culturally appropriate norms and standards. Communicate those observations and their indication of strengths and possible concern to families and make referrals to appropriate support staff.

* For Center Directors at sites with an assigned Family Worker, the above would be done in collaboration with the Family Worker.

1. Provide appropriate materials & create, warm, safe and educationally challenging indoor and outdoor environments for children at all developmental levels.

2. Utilize all NCS required screening and assessment tools and performance standard guidance to address child health, nutrition, and development and provide effective follow-up on information gathered.

3. Implement the NCS chosen curriculum incorporating parent input to ensure individualized learning opportunities for all enrolled children based on ongoing observations, screenings, assessments, and parents' desires.

4. Promote language, literacy, mathematics, science, creative arts, social emotional and physical development, and positive approaches to learning.

5. Create a classroom environment that fosters independence and trust through the use of familiar routines, transitions, and predictable responses to children's needs.

6. Provide positive child guidance and appropriate expectations and effectively respond to challenging behaviors of children.

7. Organize family conferences, participate in child study teams, case conferences, inter-agency conferences, and IEP/IFSP's.

8. Write objective narrative notes, maintain adequate records, and submit timely, complete and readable documentation and required reports.

1. Predict unsafe situations and take precautions; provide child first aid; implement procedures that prevent the spread of infectious diseases; promote oral and physical health; and appropriately respond to emergencies/crises.

2. Effectively supervise, coach, support and train teachers, lead teachers, associate teachers, assistant teachers, special aides, volunteers, and cooks, if applicable.

3. Develop and implement effective classroom management systems…