Child Care Center Teacher

Position: Child Care Center Teacher (0080234T)
Description

Title:

Child Care Center Teacher

Position Number: 0080234T

Hiring Unit: OFC OF VP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS, STUDENT CO-CURRICULAR SUCCESS, CHILDREN'S CENTER

Location:

UH at Manoa

Date Posted: 01/26/26

Closing Date:
Continuous;
Review of applications will begin on February 11, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled.

Band: A

Salary :salary schedules and placement information

Additional Salary Information:
Commensurate with education and experience

Full Time/Part Time:
Full-time

Month: 11-month

Temporary/Permanent:
Temporary

Funding:
General funds

Duties and Responsibilities (
* denotes essential functions)

1.
* Maintains a high standard of professional and ethical conduct that complies with all established university and center policies.

2.
* Provides supervision, care, education, protection, and engagement at all times with a group of young children that complies with current licensing and accreditation standards, and established center policies.

3.
* Maintains all daily childcare routines (e.g., diapering, handwashing, transitions) and all established center procedures in a caring, hygienic manner consistent with appropriate child development principles.

4.
* Adjusts communication approach and messaging to support a language-, cultural-, and ability-diverse community that includes administrators, colleagues, children and their families.

5.
* Collaborates with families to develop individual care and learning plans for each child that presents developmentally appropriate challenges to promote the individual physical, intellectual, emotional and social wellbeing and growth within the context of that child's life.

6.
* Establishes and maintains positive, collaborative relationships with families that encourages sharing of concerns, and celebrates their child's accomplishments.

7.
* Establishes and maintains positive, collaborative, professional, mutually respectful relationships with colleagues at all times.

8.
* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of the UHMCC Universal Teaching Practices, and constantly adjusts forms of assistance to meet the needs of individual children in a community of learners with varied backgrounds.

9.
* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of the Braided Curriculum and its application within a community of learners with varied backgrounds, and connects activities to build a variety of complex skills and concepts.

10.
* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of child development and its appropriate application in various assessments of learning and development, and appropriately communicates assessment findings to families to develop supportive strategies as part of the child's individualized care and learning plans.

11.
* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of developmentally appropriate classroom design in support of a community of learners with varied backgrounds that includes colleagues, children and their families.

12.Ensures that families regularly receive adequate and meaningful information about their child's experiences and growth over time through daily contacts, semi-annual parent conferences, individualized child portfolios, and written communication.

13.Supports family engagement by providing opportunities for families to participate in classroom activities; provides transitional space for children and families to enter and leave the classroom; provides family networking activities and other types of activities that enhance the care and learning experience for both the child and their family.

14.Documents curriculum experiences in the classroom environment and on weekly newsletters to families and staff.

15.Plans and implements appropriately detailed unit plans that adequately describe key activities that progressively develop specific learning objectives.

16.Provides care and comfort to young children as needed, which may require lifting and carrying children of up to 50 pounds in weight intermittently throughout the day.

17.Maintains outdoor learning spaces, and additional spaces and materials shared with other classrooms, in a manner that is safe, reasonably clean and orderly, developmentally appropriate to all children engaged in the space, and aesthetically pleasing.

18.Actively…