Assistant Director

Assistant Director

The assistant director (AD) will work under the direction of the Center Director to serve our students, our staff, parents, guests, and visitors.  We strive for excellence in everything we do.  The AD will demonstrate a passion for people, an ability to communicate clearly, a willingness to learn and grow, and a desire to create a positive, comfortable, and enjoyable work environment while maintaining the highest of standards. 

Our core values are kindness, grace, and a good work/life balance.  We encourage our staff to work hard and play hard.  We have a great schedule and a wonderful staff.   We are seeking a leader not a manager.  Leaders inspire others through their positive approach, willingness to work shoulder to shoulder with staff members in every aspect and understanding our operation does not exist without our staff, students, and families.

The AD will work at both of our schools (approximately 3-5 minutes apart) as needed and rotate regularly with the Director between the two schools.  The AD must have at least one year of classroom experience at a licensed facility and must have a servant leadership mentality.  

Duties:

• Regular, well written Facebook/Instagram and Social media entries and engagement
• Web updates
• Mail- open, sort, trash, file, take actions, follow up, categorize, prioritize.
• Messages - write them down w/date & time, respond (24 hours), remind, and make notes.  Follow up!
• Take the unknown out of the equation - find an answer, solution etc.  Never leave someone without an answer.
• Calendars
• Scheduling
• Track PTO/Absences
• Monitor Lates and Overtime
• Monitor timecards and punches
• Schedule, track, monitor, and remind training and record
• Inspect vehicles monthly
• Register and renew vehicle registration/insurance
• Schedule and monitor maintenance, gas/oil, and repairs of vehicles
• Staff Meetings
• Field trips
• Enrollment
• Staff Management/Engagement
• Client management
• Incident Management
• Know and follow all licensing rules and inform and enforce with staff.  Consistency is key.
• Policy and procedure awareness, training, and enforcement
• Annual licensing review and unannounced inspections management – ongoing adherence.
• Overall school appearance and safety
• Greet & welcome clients, visitors
• Monitor doors and visitors
• Day to day operations: maintain, oversee, review, do, report, and identify
• Implement new objectives, policies
• Look for opportunities: new things, incentives, ability to help a family or staff member, areas for improvement, new policies, adjustment to documents, operations, policies, etc.
• Ordering of supplies/Inventory control
• Coordinate events/activities
• Innovative ideas
• Training and development of staff
• Schedule and manage extra-curricular events, picture days, parties, meetings, etc. 
• Learn the why and why nots of the decisions we make so that you can better run the day-to-day operations.  Ask lots of questions and gain a deep understanding of the business and how it operates.
• Demonstrate a high level of professionalism, work side by side with staff to ensure that they know you are willing to do everything you ask them to do.  Don't shy away from the hard work.  You will not have staff support if they don't think you are willing to work.
• Set the example for both staff, students, and parents.  Be a leader who demonstrates excellence in everything you do!  Don’t be complacent about the little things!

Our goals for our director/assistant directors/leaders:

• Shared values
• Open honest communication 
• Full support of each other
• In depth understanding of the program
• Support of school vision, mission, objectives, policies & procedures, licensing rules etc.
• Support of owners and directors.
• Can do attitude and problem-solving capabilities
• Aware of and ability to clearly communicate your needs, wants, goals, feelings
• Desire to serve others and demonstrate the ability to genuinely care about others.
• A desire to help others achieve, reach their highest potential
• A desire to meet people where they are at, recognize strengths and weaknesses and work to support growth and development in these areas
• Commitment to excellence, professionalism, kindness, education, people and growth