Lead Educator/Program Coordinator (Holway ECC-Rockwell)

Job Description

To provide all children with a warm, nurturing, safe and loving environment where self-concepts are enhanced, independence encouraged and individuality respected. To uphold and support the philosophy of the center at all times. To support and lead team members where needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Offer a program that meets the emotional, physical, intellectual and social needs of both the individual child and the group.
• Interact with the children and encourage their involvement in activities.
• Prepare, with team support, a warm and safe environment that is orderly, clean and appealing and permits the child to grow and to explore.
• Maintain and clean daily set-up, maintenance and clean-up of the environment.
• Support and lead student assistants and other appropriate personnel such as parent volunteers, substitutes and specialists.
• Plan weekly developmentally appropriate curriculum for the classroom, and work together cooperatively as a member of the teaching team.
• Change and enrich the environment regularly.
• Supervise, train and evaluate Lasell students, and work with college supervisors.
• Maintain good communication with parents through parent conferences twice a year and on a daily informal basis.
• Observe, record and report significant individual and group behavior regularly to team members and administration.
• Prepare all reports on children with team members.
• Use appropriate and positive discipline and model methods so that all persons working with children may provide discipline that is consistent and developmentally appropriate and in accord with the center's philosophy and staff handbook.
• Maintain all records and files as appropriate for their class: parents' phone numbers, medication forms, attendance, evaluation reports and emergency numbers.
• Continue to grow within the profession by attending workshops, conferences, taking courses, or through in-service training opportunities.
• Bring new findings back into the classrooms and share it with teaching staff.
• Help with evaluation process, self evaluation process and set professional goals with administration.
• Attend weekly team meeting and monthly staff meetings and other parent programs or conference evenings as scheduled.
• Arrive at the Barn promptly and ready to begin working in the classroom during hired shift.
• Speak with team member and remind her of the center policy and report it to the Director when arriving late.
• Make sure the classroom is safely covered during that time.
• Inform the Director when leaving the building with children, when a child becomes ill in school, when a child has an accident at school, when ordering new equipment or supplies, when needing to take time off, when wishing to refer a parent to outside resources, when wishing to change working hours, and when wishing to inform about any incident that may involve anxiety in staff, parents or children.

Qualifications

• BA or BS in Early Childhood Education or related field required.
• EEC LEAD INFANT/TODDLER and/or PRESCHOOL EDUCATOR certification.
• Experience working with appropriate age children.
• Experience supervising students.

Pay & Schedule

Salary Range: $49,000.00 - $52,000.00 Salary/year

Level Position Type: Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

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