Childcare Manager- Excel Center Muncie

This is a full-time Monday-Friday position and the salary range is $17-$19/hr. including full benefits (below):

The Young Learners Childcare Center (YLCC) is designed to provide free, temporary, short-term childcare for the students of the Excel Center until regular childcare is located. The YLCC is available when students are studying on-site or are in class, and will serve children up to age 12.

The Young Learners Childcare Manager ensures the safe and caring management of all the children entrusted to the center, as well as the part-time staff, and other qualified participants. Duties involve hiring, training, coaching, and assisting with monitoring children in the center, setting schedules, and developing learning opportunities for the children while in our care. Keeps parents informed of policies and procedures at the center as well as provides effective resolution for any conflicts that should arise.

Example Duties and Activities

• Creates curriculum, lesson plans, schedules, planned outings, and field trips.

• Steps in to facilitate hands-on interactive learning experiences working with students directly as needed.

• Completes daily safety audits to ensure health and safety compliance guidelines. Creates and maintains a task list to achieve timely completion of audit items.

• Oversees the registration of students.

• Tracks, documents, and ensures accuracy of center's files: student attendance, snack usage, budget, ages, families served, etc.

• Orders and maintains all supplies for location.

• Maintains regular communication with parents regarding services, enrollment, scheduling or routine changes, and special events for the children. Creates a monthly newsletter for parents.

• Coaches parents on how to create learning opportunities at home.

• Participates in regular Excel Center team meetings.

• Ensures all staff members have appropriate tools to effectively perform their duties, including updated training manuals, reference guides, and best practices procedures. Provides in-service training for team members in areas such as new policies, procedures, and regulations.

• Evaluates the performance of staff members and recommends indicated action.

• Tracks attendant's documents, attendance, and training.

• Develops personal professional/performance goals and action plans to reach goals. Reflects on prior goals and makes adjustments to professional practice and goals.

• Works directly with the school director to develop and implement school-wide goals around graduation outcomes, enrollment needs, student achievement, retention, etc.

• Sets and maintains a high-performance culture for staff and students.

• Participates in student recruitment, enrollment, and outreach efforts.

Required Competencies

• Degree and Credential Requirements - High school diploma or GED required. Continuing education in child development, early childhood education, or related field is highly preferred. Child/infant CPR certified or willing to obtain.

• Industry Expertise - Has worked in a childcare setting, ideally in a supervisory role.

• Coaching - Provides timely guidance and effective feedback to empower others to strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to improve instruction.

• Customer Focus - Has the ability to see, comprehend and relate with students and parents in an impartial, unbiased yet effective, and balanced manner; builds and maintains customer satisfaction with the services offered by the organization; provides excellent service to internal and external customers.

• Technical Knowledge - Has working knowledge of G Suite, MS Office, and the internet.

• Organizational Aptitude - Plans and attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing multiple tasks in an organized and timely fashion.

• Conflict Resolution - Anticipates, diffuses, and resolves disagreements, confrontations, tensions, and complaints in a practical and constructive manner in order to achieve results.

• Adaptability - Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.

Other Requirements

• Hard to Very Hard Physical Work - Is able to spend time in excess of 8 hours sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, and crouching. Has the ability to move and lift up to 40 pounds.

• Minimum of 18 years of age

• Background Screening - The YLCC cares for some of our most vulnerable populations, children. As a result, all candidates must pass a pre-employment background check.

Benefits: Full-time employees may participate in a comprehensive benefits program that includes:

• Continuing education and leadership development

• Comprehensive health plan

• Pay continuance during school break periods (spring, summer and fall)

• Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays

• Life, dental and vision insurance

• Short- and long-term disability plans

• Nationally recognized preventive health and wellness program

• Section 125 pre-tax health spending account, dependent care spending account and premiums

• Retirement plan with generous company % match

Goodwill Education Initiatives

Goodwill strongly believes it is essential to raise education attainment levels in Indiana. Not only are the lifetime earnings of high school graduates significantly higher than those of dropouts, children of high school graduates are 50% less likely to drop out of high school than the children of dropouts are. Goodwill provides opportunities for adults (The Excel Center) and youth (Indianapolis Metropolitan High School).

The Excel Center Model

The Excel Center is operated by Goodwill Education Initiatives, Inc., a not-for-profit organization formed by Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana.

Recognizing that nearly a half million working-age Hoosiers lack a high school diploma, Goodwill opened The Excel Center for adults in 2010. The Excel Center is a tuition-free public high school for adults offering an Indiana Core 40 high school diploma.

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