Center Manager - Lindale ( Hiring Incentive

Location: Houston EHS, TX

Job :989

# of Openings:1

Job Title:

Early Head Start
Center Manager

Category:
Exempt

Program:
Urban Strategies Early Head Start

Work Schedule:

Five days per week/Full Time (40 hours per week) /12 months per year

Reports to:

Director, Early Head Start

Urban Strategies tools, connects, and resources grassroots organizations to serve children and families in need. Our highly qualified team has a passionate commitment to bring about real change within our country’s most vulnerable communities. Our desire is to see individuals, families, and communities realize their fullest potential by achieving these goals:

• Keeping children safe and secure
• Building nurturing and stable families
• Improving school readiness
• Fostering effective parenting
• Developing social and emotional competence
• Advancing research-based practices

By reaching these goals, Urban Strategies is meeting its mission to develop strong healthy families, advance the school readiness of children, build engaged communities, and make a difference in vulnerable communities.

Responsible for three major functions in the administration of the Early Head Start Program. The first major responsibility involves the implementation and supervision of all aspects of the operation of the center. The second major responsibility involves collaboration with the EHS Director, the Program Managers, the teachers, and center staff to assure compliance with Head Start Program Performance Standards and the Texas Child Care licensing requirements in the operation of the center.

The third major responsibility is the implementation of the human resources policies and procedures as applicable to center staff. In all major functions a systems approach is desired.

• Establish and sustain collaborative and supportive partnership with the host church, the pastor, and the church staff.
• Lead the planning, implementing, and monitoring the goals, objectives, and expected outcomes of the Early Head Start Program.
• Plan the collection, analysis, and use of data regarding goals, objectives, and expected outcomes and implements continuous improvement strategies.
• Continuously document progress in the achievement of goals, objectives, and expected outcomes and provides a report to the EHS Director.
• Responsible for meeting full enrollment in the program option being implemented.
• Assure that the center is fully equipped with all furniture, materials, and supplies.
• Supervise and evaluate all center staff.
• Conduct daily observations of classrooms, offices, kitchen, and playground.
• Responsible for the implementation of the CACFP program, monitoring the daily meal service, documentation, and reporting.
• Assure compliance with daily staff-child ratios and daily attendance.
• Assure the health, safety, cleanliness, and sanitation of indoor and outdoor learning environments.
• Provide training to center staff in all areas of operations of the center.
• Lead the implementation of parent engagement activities in the center to include parent meetings, open house, parent/teacher conferences, home visits, and any meetings and communications with parents regarding referrals and child needs.
• In collaboration with the EHS Director and HR Director, implements personnel policies and procedures inclusive of background checks and hiring, evaluation, compensation, and termination procedures, standards of conduct, staff qualifications and competency requirements, staff health and wellness, and the recruitment and training of volunteers.
• Assist in the development of (1) an employee handbook that summarizes all personnel policies and procedures and (2) a parent handbook that summarizes policies and procedures for the operation of the center and communication procedures.
• In collaboration with the EHS Director develops a training and professional development plan for all center staff, regardless of their program option, that adheres to the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
• Supports the EHS Director in conducting employee orientation inclusive of compensation, benefits, hours of work, expectations, annual calendar, etc.
• Maintains strict…