Center Manager

Location:

Salisbury, NC, 28081 Reports To: Director of Center Operations

Schedule: Full-time

Pay: 21.00 per hour

The Center Manager coordinates all center-related activities and oversees day-to-day operations for the facility (center). Additionally, The Center Manager is responsible for supervising, mentoring, coaching and training of center staff in order to ensure services are provided in a positive, nurturing environment for children, and maintains a quality environment with attention to health and safety prevention measures. This role also functions as liaison and information conduit between the main office leadership, staff and community collaborates.

The Center Manager serves as an advocate for children, families and communities and is responsible for implementing the HS Performance Standards, NC Child Care Rules/Regulations, and the local, state and agencies policies and procedures. Also responsible for ensuring centers display a culture of safety and positive reinforcement with continuity of care to include active supervision strategies. Support center staff with encouraging parent family community engagement in all aspects of the program.

• Provides day to day leadership and works to ensure a high performance, child and family centered environment, which supports achievement of the school readiness goals and Parent Family Community Engagement outcomes.
• Responsible for ensuring center maintains compliance with HS Performance Standards, licensing requirements, health, safety and fire regulations.
• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of a safe, clean, healthy and productive work environment; performs mandated inspections of center, learning environment and playground and make necessary corrective actions.
• Provides modeling, coaching and mentoring for all areas of child development to staff, volunteers and families.
• Responsible for ensuring that staff/child ratio is maintained and adequate supervision in the learning environment; playground, bus and field trips.
• Responsible for creating a positive center environment by effectively communicating with staff and parents, and being a positive role model.
• Communicates center activities by disseminating a monthly center calendar for staff and parents.
• Responds to telephone calls and parent visits regarding a wide variety of child and family challenges; proactively addresses potential parent, community, and staff concerns.
• Review and work in collaboration with the Teaching teams in the implementation of weekly lesson plans to make sure they are developmentally appropriate, individualized, and culturally sensitive.
• Conduct monthly formal teacher-child observations and monthly informal observations of the teaching teams and provide feedback. Submit observations documentation to Education Manager, monthly.
• Conducts daily monitoring of each learning environment and throughout the center (indoors & outdoors).
• Works in collaboration with Education component to train staff on curriculum, on-going assessment and the CLASS system.
• Responsible for ensuring timely completion of child observations screening and assessments and incorporation of IEP and/or IFSP goals into lessons.
• Responsible for ensuring that referrals and documentation for children with potential disabilities and/or behavioral concerns are submitted to the Disabilities/Mental Health team within the week of occurrence
• Work in collaboration with Human Resource and Director of Center Operations in the hiring process for center staff.
• Responsible for planning and conducting required monthly staff meetings and parent trainings.
• Responsible for scheduling and conducting monthly meeting with Family Development Specialist.
• Responsible for reporting and submitting monthly attendance analysis to PFCE Coordinator.
• Responsible for submitting monthly reports (i.e. In-Kind, attendance analysis, center snap shots, CACFP, training documentation, staff meeting agenda/minutes, etc.) accurately and by 5th of each month.
• Responsible for facilitating monthly parent center committee meetings.
• Responsible for conducting probationary, annual performance evaluations and…