Child Care Assistant Director

Overview

Step into a leadership role as a Child Care Assistant Director at Bright Horizons
, where your positive influence and motivational skills will help shape the success of our early childhood center. Support the Center Director with daily operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and in accordance with our high standards and guidelines. From administration and educational programming to mentoring teachers and welcoming new families, your work will make a lasting difference in the lives of children, families, and your team.

• Uphold our mission, culture, and values to ensure an inclusive environment and strong relationships with families, staff, and clients
• Monitor program quality, ensuring children’s learning is documented and visible
• Ensure compliance with licensing and accreditation standards, health and safety protocols, and company policies

Candidates must pass required state and company background checks, and meet state and company minimum education and experience requirements:

• Associate or higher degree in early childhood education, education, or child development related field is required
  ; bachelor’s degree is preferred
• At least two years of leadership experience in high-quality child care, daycare, or preschool settings is required
• Strong understanding of center quality, compliance, health, safety and licensing standards is required
• Florida Care Provider Clearinghouse Background Screening

• Salary:
  We offer competitive salary based upon education and experience between $59-66K Annually
• Salary:
  The annual salary range is between $56,000 - 66,000 annually
• Benefits:
  Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Benefits: 401(k) retirement plan
• Benefits:
  Life insurance
• Benefits:
  Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Benefits:
  Career development for you plus free college degrees for your teachers through the Horizons CDA & Degree Program

This posting is anticipated to remain open until 2/27/2026
.

This leadership role requires work in person in an early education/preschool child care center to provide center supervision, curriculum delivery, business management, and customer and client services per Bright Horizons’ policies, procedures and guidance, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations, and in a manner that will ensure safety of children in Bright Horizons care and the employee.

This role includes a mix of office/computer/phone-based work, in-person supervision of care delivery and employees across the center, family/prospective family interactions, and the ability to temporarily serve as a supervising caregiver for brief periods as needed (e.g., covering breaks or unscheduled absences).

The full set of physical requirements for this role can be reviewed at Bright Horizons careers site. Bright Horizons complies with all laws that require reasonable accommodations for qualifying disabilities and/or pregnancy-related limitations.

Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process, please contact the recruitment helpdesk at  or  Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.