Director of Early Learning & Childcare Programs

Position Summary

The Director of Early Learning Services is responsible for the overall leadership, administration, and operation of the childcare center and campus based Bloom Room program. This position oversees all academic and non academic childcare services, ensuring high quality early learning experiences in a safe, nurturing, and compliant environment. The Director provides strategic direction, supervises staff, manages enrollment and financial processes, ensures regulatory compliance, and collaborates with families, community partners, and leadership to support the organization’s mission.

The role requires a strong balance of educational leadership, operational management, regulatory oversight, and family engagement.

Position Summary

The Director of Early Learning Services is responsible for the overall leadership, administration, and operation of the childcare center and campus based Bloom Room program. This position oversees all academic and non academic childcare services, ensuring high quality early learning experiences in a safe, nurturing, and compliant environment. The Director provides strategic direction, supervises staff, manages enrollment and financial processes, ensures regulatory compliance, and collaborates with families, community partners, and leadership to support the organization’s mission.

The role requires a strong balance of educational leadership, operational management, regulatory oversight, and family engagement.

Essential Job Functions

• Oversee and direct all childcare services related daycare and campus bloom room.
• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, program policies, and address students behavioral or learning concerns.
• Monitor students progress and provide students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems.
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff and recommend personnel actions for programs and services.
• Teach classes,courses or provide direct care to children, as needed.
• Direct and coordinate activities of staff assigned.
• Prepare and maintain attendance, activity, planning, accounting, or personnel reports and records for leadership team as requested.
• Plan, direct, and monitor instructional methods and content of educational, vocational, or student activity programs.
• Review and evaluate new and current programs to determine their efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with state, local, and federal regulations and recommend any necessary modifications.
• Set educational standards and goals and help establish protocols, procedures, and programs to carry them out.
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings and prepare drafts of program schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
• Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision and goals of West Care Foundation.
• Completes all orientation and mandated training activities, including ELearning Courses, within required time frames, and in accordance with the criteria established for this position.
• Ensures timely follow through on all children’s tuition payments and reports any discrepancies in a prompt manner.
• Provides accurate and timely weekly payment information to support precise accounting processes.
• Collaborates with the Early Learning Coordinator to develop outreach strategies and recruit new student enrollment.
• Works toward obtaining childcare accreditation and maintains all required standards to ensure coutinued accreditation.
• Completes all invoicing and reporting required for the Food Program within established deadlines.
• Communicate effectively with all parties involved in the Food Program, including vendors, providers, and the funding agency.
• Maintains accurate and complete files…