Program Administrator/ Education Director

About the role

Cardinal McCloskey Community Services (CMCS) is a not‑for‑profit social service agency serving abused and neglected children, at‑risk families, adults with developmental disabilities, and children in Head Start programs. The Program Administrator works cooperatively with the Assistant Program Administrator to oversee all administrative duties that contribute to the successful operation of the early childhood center.

Responsibilities

• Effectively plan the day-to-day operations of the
• When applicable work in collaboration with Assistant Program Administrator.
• Demonstrate leadership qualities and sound judgment to provide oversight of all program activities, and ensure they are reflective of the needs of the population being served and best practices as outlined by governing and regulatory bodies.
• Create and maintain a professional relationship with staff, students and families.
• Establish and maintain a positive center environment; successfully engage staff, ensure knowledge of all job roles and responsibilities of each staff member as it relates to the program as a whole.
• Provide adequate supervision of staff through daily check-ins and regularly scheduled monthly meetings.
• Maintaining a program that meets the physical, intellectual and social emotional needs of all students.
• Ensure staff acquire the understanding and skills needed to effectively maintain a high quality services for the children and families, through ongoing trainings and professional development opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the Assistant Program Administrator to maintain high quality standards for children and families through monitoring of child files, both in Child Plus and in physical files.
• Review and provide feedback on progress of staff's lesson plans and study plans (when applicable), to ensure compliance with the policies and procedures of the Early Childhood Education Division as well as city, state, and federal standards and regulations.
• Submit all Disabilities and Educational reports in a timely fashion to the appropriate staff.
• Monitor the completion of educational home visits, anecdotal observations, lesson plans, long/short term goals, progress reports, student's portfolios, and all educational items for student and utilizes information for program planning and individualizing.
• Create and meet with the School Readiness Goals committee biannually to develop School Readiness Goals.
• Conduct classroom observations of teaching practices; provide feedback to teaching staff of observations on a quarterly basis for experienced staff and monthly for newly hired and stud plan teachers.
• Participate in Practice Based Coaching through the use of the CLASS
• Meet with educational staff after each CLASS observation with feedback and suggestions for improvement.
• Follow up on all ECERS.
• Be present for all DOE
• Address all concerns immediately and follow up with DOE staff, and senior management.
• Assign the task of opening the site, final walk through to ensure that all staff have left the building safely and closing the site to a staff member and follow up daily that this completed.
• Maintain and update ASPIRE website information, if necessary.
• Ensure maintenance of Vendor Portal for DOE UPK programming.
• Conduct daily walk through of classrooms, (Active Supervision Observation Form).
• When appropriate, plan, develop, and implement in-service training for the staff for current developments in ECE.
• Schedule classroom educational trips with the approval of senior management.
• Requisition and monitor the supplies necessary for the operation of the program.
• Monitor and track all educational staff credentials; maintain updated staff files.
• Conduct monthly meetings with educational staff and maintain communication with Social Services team.
• Provide oversight of parent and staff meetings.
• Oversee and input all required information into ECED identified data system in a timely manner.
• Participate in the planning, coordination, evaluation and implementation of the overall Head/ Early Start program as well share in the executive responsibility of the overall direction of Head/Early Start.
• Assist