Program Specialist at Evanston KinderCare

About the role

The Program Specialist role at KinderCare Learning Companies involves developing and leading programs based on the company's world-class curriculum in classrooms. This position requires strong communication skills, customer service abilities, and the ability to mentor and train teachers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the curriculum is implemented effectively and teachers can explain its content and how children learn from it.
• Spending 75% of your time in the classroom, engaging with children and providing guidance to teachers.
• Partnering with parents to provide the best care and education for their children.
• Training, motivating, and leading staff members.
• Assisting center management with teacher interviews and hiring processes.
• Supporting the center's success by collaborating with staff and leadership to achieve goals related to enrollment, accreditation, and operational objectives.

Requirements

• Ability to build relationships with families and coworkers and create an environment that fosters play and discovery.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Approved State Trainer (preferred).
• NAEYC/NAC, and state licensing knowledge (preferred).
• Meet state-specific guidelines for the role.
• Physically able to use a computer with basic proficiency, lift a minimum of 40 pounds, and work indoors or outdoors.
• Able to assume postures in low levels to allow physical and visual contact with children, see and hear well enough to keep children safe, and engage in physical activity with children.
• Read, write, understand, and speak English to communicate with children and their parents in English.

Qualifications

• Ability to build relationships with families and coworkers and create a dynamic environment where play and discovery go hand-in-hand.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Approved State Trainer (preferred).
• NAEYC/NAC, and state licensing knowledge (preferred).
• Meet state specific guidelines for the role.
• Physically able to use a computer with basic proficiency, lift a minimum of 40 pounds, and work indoors or outdoors.
• Able to assume postures in low levels to allow physical and visual contact with children, see and hear well enough to keep children safe, and engage in physical activity with children.
• Read, write, understand, and speak English to communicate with children and their parents in English.

Skills

• Ability to build relationships with families and coworkers and create a dynamic environment where play and discovery go hand-in-hand.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Approved State Trainer (preferred).
• NAEYC/NAC, and state licensing knowledge (preferred).
• Meet state specific guidelines for the role.
• Physically able to use a computer with basic proficiency, lift a minimum of 40 pounds, and work indoors or outdoors.
• Able to assume postures in low levels to allow physical and visual contact with children, see and hear well enough to keep children safe, and engage in physical activity with children.
• Read, write, understand, and speak English to communicate with children and their parents in English.

Benefits

• Discounted child care benefits.
• Breathing easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feeling supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feeling great and thriving with access to health and wellness programs, paid time off, and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• And much more.

Pay

Range of pay: $20.01 - $25.25 hourly. In the state of Minnesota, there is an additional $3.00 per hour premium on all classroom hours worked, funded through the Minnesota Great Start Grant Compensation Support Program.

Schedule

Not specified in the job posting.