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This position is for the new 26-27 school year effective 7/1/26

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Pace offers a Total Rewards Package to its employees:

• 401k
• Vacation
• Sick pay
• 14 Paid Holidays
• Pet Insurance
• FSA - Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision packages extended to your family as well.
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Opportunity to promote within, just to name a few.

Under general supervision of the Regional Site Director/Site Director, delivers high quality Early Childhood Development services to children enrolled in site programs, including educational, social, physical, nutritional, and psychological development of children under their care. Communicates with parents on their child’s individual progress and maintains records of attendance and educational achievement. Plans lessons, serves meals, and ensures a healthy and safe learning environment for children.

Holds the experience and credentials required for the “Center Director” for California Community Care Licensing (CCLD) requirements, in the absence of the Regional Site Director (RSD) or Site Director (SD).

Responsible for the care and supervision of all enrolled PACE Education center-based children, planning and implementing classroom lessons, conducting meetings and conferences with parents, coordinating activities and events for children and parents, interacting with the public and providing customer service by phone, email and in person, and preparing correspondence, reports, records, and other paperwork required by the early childhood education program.

Establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment and encourage the involvement of families to strengthen the relationships between children, families, and community. Communicate timely and effectively with the Regional Site Director (RSD)/Site Director (SD) as needed throughout the day.

• Ensure the proper care, safety, and supervision of children always while on PACE premises.
• Oversee supervision and management of children in the classroom to ensure a safe, clean, and healthy learning environment.
• Maintain record keeping and reporting systems to ensure accurate information, with timely completion and follow-up.
• Plan and implement developmentally appropriate curriculum and assessment for the classroom.
• Create and modify the daily classroom lesson plans in accordance with established curriculum.
• Provide a healthy and safe physical environment for the children and integrate the parents into the educational program by providing a program that focuses on the parent as the prime educational provider.
• Conduct parent/teacher conferences and home visits twice a year in accordance with Head Start performance standards.
• Provide for the completion of necessary paperwork on the children in the classroom such as attendance reports, observations on individual children in the classroom, enrollment records and reports.
• Ensure the child/adult ratio is met and maintained.
• Conduct safety checks and maintain a safe, clean, care-giving environment, practices good personal hygiene and handwashing, and assures the well‑being and safety of all the children in the environment and sanitize all areas of the classroom, including food preparation and eating area.
• Tend to children’s personal hygiene needs, during routines such as diaper changing, cleaning, feeding, and changing soiled or wet clothes.
• Assist Teaching Staff with teacher-parent conferences and home visits, as needed.
• Prepare and serve meals and snacks (including dishwashing duties).
• Cover rest and meal breaks for Teaching Staff at the site according to the developed break schedule.
• Support classroom teaching staff with various tasks (i.e., typing, printing, photocopying, stepping into a classroom so they can complete a task, etc.) as needed/requested and as available.
• Substitute as needed/required in…