Naples Park Early Childhood Education Manager

Grace Place puts faith into action, providing pathways out of poverty by educating children and families.

The Grace Place Early Learning Center at Naples Park Elementary Manager in cooperation with the Director provides strategic and operational leadership for a full-day, full-year early childhood program serving approximately 90 children ages 1- to 4-years-old. The Manager is responsible for ensuring high-quality educational programming, regulatory compliance, strong family partnerships, financial sustainability, and effective staff leadership. This role oversees daily operations, enrollment and tuition management, staffing, curriculum quality, and data-driven program improvement to ensure a safe, nurturing, and financially sustainable program that meets the needs of working families.

The Manager will work directly with the Director to ensure alignment of early childhood educational programming.

Manage the creation of a developmentally appropriate classroom environment and facilitate the identification and selection of differentiated instructional resources and methods to meet ECE student’s individual needs. Establish and oversee the implementation of curriculum for all children’s classes. Work in collaboration with outside agencies to provide additional support to the curriculum for all children’s classes. Oversee the NAC accreditation completion and ongoing compliance.

Serve as a Grace Place ambassador and works collaboratively with the local school district, business, and community-based agencies to increase access of resources and services to families. Manages program budgets and provides reports of program outcome measures.

Supervise and support the ECE teachers and the ECE support teachers to ensure that they are effectively fulfilling their responsibilities. Provide effective ongoing coaching to supervised-staff in appropriate strategies and model these strategies in the classrooms.

Maintain a safe, clean, and developmentally appropriate facility. Oversee daily operations, including enrollment, attendance tracking, and staff scheduling. Ensure compliance with DCF and accreditation standards.

Welcome and effectively manage volunteer involvement in all aspects of the early childhood education program. This includes but is not limited to the provision of an initial orientation, ongoing training, classroom placement, daily scheduling, and retention. Provide effective on-going coaching in appropriate strategies and model these strategies in the classrooms. Collaborate with the Volunteer and Community Engagement Coordinator to ensure adequate volunteers are recruited and appropriately placed.

Communicate regularly with parents to build a high level of trust with our families. Create a system for communicating with parents the results of student screenings and assessments to ensure that parents can support their child t with parents of children that have developmental concerns and guide them through evaluation process following up with them to ensure their child gets the support they need.

Maintain high visibility and a hands-on presence with staff, students, volunteers, and parents in all aspects of the program.

Develop and lead and/or identify ongoing professional development opportunities for early childhood education staff. Manage program staff to ensure the timely completion of…