Center Director

Overview:
The Latin American Community Center has been serving the Latino community of New Castle County with high quality early childhood services for the whole family for many years. With our expansion, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced bilingual Center Director. The ideal candidate will collaborate with the Instructional Coach and Family Service Worker assigned to their center to maintain efficient operations, effective classrooms, supportive relationships with families, and compliance with child care licensing, CACFP, and Head Start guidelines. This position is for our La Fiesta II site which serves only infants and toddlers in a Spanish immersion setting.

Duties:

- Oversees effective center operations by:

• Hiring and training new staff
• Maintaining an effective staff schedule
• Monitoring classroom ratios throughout the day
• Reviewing accident, illness, and behavior reports, communicating with families about reports when necessary, and developing plans to address excessive or serious reports
• Handling staff and parent complaints
• Handling staff disciplinary concerns

- Oversees and maintains center enrollment by:

• Ensuring that the Administrative Assistant handles client phone calls and walk-in clients looking for childcare placement, qualifies families for the Early Head Start (EHS) and the State Funded Early Care and Education Program (SFECEP), completes the enrollment process with families, and maintains child files with all required enrollment paperwork
• Providing center tours to prospective clients
• Maintaining data system with all application and enrollment information
• Maintaining an organized waitlist and using the waitlist to fill vacant slots
• Marketing the center to prospective new families

- Works with the Instructional Coach to facilitate staff development by:

• Holding new hire orientation training with all new staff members and volunteers
• Maintaining staff files with all required documents
• Ensuring staff earn required credentials
• Working with all staff to create and track professional development plans
• Observing classrooms for compliance and quality and providing feedback and follow up
• Completing staff evaluations

- Coordinates child screening and assessment by:

• Serving as the Teaching Strategies Gold administrator for the center to maintain accurate child and staff records in Teaching Strategies Gold
• Ensuring that teachers and/or Family Service Workers share assessment and screening results with families in a sensitive and effective manner
• Ensuring that children who need further evaluation go through the referral and evaluation process
• Ensuring that teachers use screening and assessment data in planning

- Assists with developing, tracks, and course corrects the center budget.

- Maintains a sufficient inventory of supplies and equipment to ensure efficient and effective center operations.

- Maintains compliance with licensing, CACFP, and Head Start by:

• Coordinating monthly fire drills and other emergency drills.
• Completing monthly classroom observations and assessments.
• Working with the Instructional Coach to design training and coaching that responds to classroom observation and assessment data and to deliver annually required training.

- Works with Family Service Worker to maintain regular written communication with families through letters, center Facebook page, classroom Facebook groups, meetings, trainings, and special events.

- Holds regular staff meetings.

- Manages staff timesheets and time off requests.

- Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned by a supervisor

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or related field required, Master's degree preferred
• Minimum 3 years classroom experience and 2 years supervisory experience required
• Delaware Early Childhood Administrator credential required
• Knowledge of child care licensing regulations, CACFP guidelines, and Head Start guidelines
• Bilingual in Spanish/English, with strong written communication skills in both languages.
• In-depth knowledge of Teaching Strategies Gold assessment system.
• Computer literacy (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) required.
• Experience in infant and toddler classrooms required.

This position offers a competitive salary and benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and a chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of students. If you possess the required experience and skills, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Teaching: 3 years (Required)
• supervisory: 2 years (Required)
• infant/toddler teaching: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• both English and Spanish (Required)

License/Certification:

• Delaware Early Childhood Administrator credential (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Wilmington, DE 19805 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Wilmington, DE 19805: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $65,000 - $75,000