Center Director

Location: Indianapolis

Job Summary:

This position serves as a Center Director for the Head Start program. The Center Director serves as the operational lead for the center, ensuring compliance with all program policies/procedures and Head Start, licensing or other regulations.

The Center Director ensures integrated service delivery and improvement in the children’s literacy, numeracy, language, cognitive, fine / gross motor skills; promotes parental involvement and participation in Head Start classrooms and in training opportunities.

Essential

Job Duties:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to carry out each essential duty in a satisfactory manner. The job specifications listed below are representative of the education and experience as well as the knowledge, skill, and/or ability (KSAs) required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities:

Ensure full implementation of all aspects of the Head Start program’s early learning system, policies/procedures, and tools with the goal of supporting all children to achieve School Readiness Goals.

Coordinate with Family Advocates to ensure full implementation of family services and parent involvement.

Supervise and manage the center staff to ensure completion of all human resources activities, and ensure compliance with relevant policies and procedures.

Serve as operational lead for the center, ensuring compliance with all program policies/procedures and Head Start, licensing, or other regulations

Authorizes purchases of instructional and teaching materials. Reviews and monitors facility budget.

Implement all monitoring systems required by Family Development Services, Head Start, child care licensing CACFP, or other agencies, including daily visual checks of indoor & outdoor safety. Monthly or quarterly completion of health & safety monitoring tool Ensures that facilities, materials, and equipment are safe, appropriate, match the identified curriculum and are conducive to learning and reflect on the different ages and stages of development of each child, including children with disabilities.

Conduct and/or supervise monthly safety checks of all facilities.

Educational Quality:

Ensure that teachers integrate goals from Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for children with disabilities (in consultation with the Special Needs Coordinator and/or Assistant Mental Health Coordinator).Ensure the completion of all required child screenings and assessments, including 30 and 90-day requirements for new children and quarterly progress assessments for all children.

Oversee required training of new hires (in conjunction with education & HR leads)
Support teachers in understanding child outcomes data and using it to improve practice.

Responsible for recruitment of children/families for center capacity.

Ensure parents are integrally involved in developing the program’s curriculum and approach to child development and education

Assist teaching staff in developing a system offering parents opportunities for enhancing and increasing their child observation skills.

Conducts daily, weekly, and monthly formal and informal observations in each classroom.

Participate in team meetings, home visits, and community events as needed.

Participate in annual program self-assessment

Provide ongoing coaching and feedback to teaching staff to support them in successfully fulfilling all aspects of their role, including but not limited to effective practices in the following:

CLASS Teacher-Child Interactions Learning Environments Curriculum Child  Assessment Meeting All Children’s Needs Working with Families Professional Growth and Collaboration Work with teachers to implement program curriculum with fidelity.

Work with teachers to implement child assessment systems reliably, including understanding child outcomes data and using them to plan and individualize.

Communication & Service Coordination Actively Lead and participate in the Head Start community, including staff meetings, mandated training, committee meetings, and other program-wide functions as needed, including some evening activities.

Ensure children’s individual…