Job Posted: Nov. 7, 2023
Our Preschool Assistant Director brings warmth, patience, and understanding to the center daily, encouraging children to learn and grow. They are committed to making our preschool successful and know that creating meaningful relationships with children, families, and their team plays a crucial role in that success. The Preschool Assistant Director is responsible for providing a safe environment. Daily check-ins with families entering the building. Prepping and delivering snacks, and assisting the Preschool Director with daily responsibilities.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities

• Cooperate with the Preschool Director in implementing all policies, procedures, and directives governing the operation of the Preschool.
• Establish and maintain a developmentally appropriate environment that supports the growth and development of all preschool children.
• Assist teacher with planning and conducting appropriate daily activities for children developmentally.
• Maintain regular and accurate attendance records.
• Observe, record, and report significant individual and group behavior.
• Be responsible for written communication to parents, through emails, newsletters, and Procare messaging.
• Establish a safe and healthy nurturing environment for children.
• Supervise children by sight and sound at all times.
• Display teaching excellence for other staff; role model; share professional and technical information.
• Establish/follow feeding schedules and procedures for infants and others as needed.
• Maintain a clean, attractive, well-ordered classroom.
• Plan a program as required by the Illinois Dept. of Children and Family Services licensing standards.
• Keep parents and administration adequately informed of progress or deficiencies.
• Follow the Matthew 18 principle in dealing with students, parents, and administration.
• Attend and participate in scheduled devotionals, in-service, faculty, and parent meetings.
• Know the procedures for dealing with issues of an emergency nature.

Key Competencies

• Be in whole-hearted agreement with the school’s Statement of Faith,
• Be a "born-again" Christian who knows the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior (John 3:3, 1 Peter 1:23).
• Be a Christian role model in attitude, speech, and action toward others. This includes being committed to God’s Biblical standards for sexual conduct.
• Faithfully attend and financially support a local church whose fundamental beliefs agree with the Statement of Faith of this school (Hebrews 10:25).
• Have the spiritual maturity, academic ability, and personal leadership qualities to “train up a child in the way he should go.”
• Self-motivation
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• High work standards
• Problem-solving skills
• Decision making
• Learning orientation
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative

Education and Experience

• Associate degree in Early Childhood Education or Development and at least 21 semester hours in Early Childhood Education OR
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and at least 12 semester hours in Early Childhood Education AND either a Gateways to Opportunity Level I Illinois Director Credential or 3 semester hours of college credit or 3 points of credential-approved training in administration, leadership, or management.
• Minimum of 2 years of Early Childhood experience, as documented in three written references.

Relationships
The number of people supervised: Lead Teachers, Assistants, Receptionists, and floaters.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and walk throughout the facility; Must be able to talk, hear and have sufficient vision to allow for active supervision and interaction with students. The employee is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must lift, hold and/or move up to 45 pounds.
Benefits:

• Health/Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short-term Disability
• Long-term Disability
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• School Tuition
• Phone Allowance
• Participating in FSA
• Pet Discount Plan
• Aflac
• LegalShield & IDShield