Director

Job Summary:
As Director, you will lead and manage the daycare staff. The Director is responsible for providing guidance and support to the staff, children and parents, while cultivating an environment that is safe, secure and well-educated.
Education and Experience:

Degree: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum of 3 years experience
Must adhere to the required Maine licensing or Maine Roads To Qualities requirements
Primary Job Duties:

Creating Curriculum and Programs using the play-based learning method.
Maintain cleanliness of the facility to licensing rules and regulations.
Enroll new students into Brightwheel and track necessary paperwork.
Manage all staff in accordance with our staff handbook, job descriptions and licensing rules and regulations. Includes coaching staff in the moment and verbal and written warnings.
Maintain employees’ schedules and ensure we are in ratio at all times.
Ensure that we are in compliance with all licensing rules within the facility as well as following all procedures from the provider handbook.
Follow up with lead teachers about monthly craft schedules. Give help and guidance as needed. Crafts are age appropriate.
Assist in the process of hiring potential employees. Attending and playing an active role during interviews.
Train new employees and maintain employees records. This includes employees yearly training hours.
Schedule monthly fire drills and one evacuation drill per six months.
Maintain expenses and stay within a given budget. Active role in controlling costs and looking for ways to save money.
Knowledge:

English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, and ratio.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Skills:
Basic Skills
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Social Skills
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help co-workers and customers
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Patience: Ability to work calmly and warmly with co-workers and customers
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Work Environment:
The work environment is in a fast-paced working environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate/loud. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel crouch and crawl, and talk/hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Type: Full-time